Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/09/12/05:37:41
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> Please don't. gcc isn't special in this regard, it shouldn't receive
> any special treatment. bash fails without cygintl-8.dll and I don't
> think anyone is proposing to statically link libintl into bash just
> because some people seem to find ways to screw up their installations by
> not installing libintl8. If there's a problem we need to fix the root
> cause, not paper it over.
Agreed. BTW, I noticed that gcc builds with static libintl/libiconv
(the standard config.rpath flaw); low priority, but I really don't like
static linking unless absolutely necessary.
> IMHO, despite the above we should still ship shared libstdc++ even if
> it's not the default -- though I would even argue that we should go one
> step farther and make it the default and say that if you need to
> override operator new you select the static libstdc++.
I admit to know very little about C++; how often would this happen?
> Otherwise, we just get ourselves into ABI compatibility
> hell because every C++ library gets a copy of libstdc++ linked
> into it, which means they are tied to the compiler version.
> As it is now we are going to have to rebuild all
> libstdc++-using code in the distro with the new compiler because up
> until now we had no choice but static libstdc++, but by not stopping
> this insanity now we only prolong it.
Which is the current situation. YA reason I think that gcc-4.3 should
be limited to release-2, and that everything should be rebuilt with it
for 1.7.
> Should work fine. Requires explicit --enable-libgomp though (not
> enabled by default.)
I've seen a *small* number of packages using it so far, so it would be
nice to try. But we'll need autoconf-2.62 as well.
Yaakov
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