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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:09:52PM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote:
>It cost me a lot of time but I verified that gcc-4 is malfunctioning
>on both versions.
>
>It's impossible to build boost-1.38 or build-1.39, even if you build
>only static libs.
>
>I had to use the gcc 4 that I had built myself previously on cygwin-1.5
>
>And I think boost is pretty essential.
>
>Did you patch gcc-4 or something? Whatever it is, I would like an
>unpatched version if possible, as a C++ user. Could you make an
>alternative package please? It must be that auto-import thingie that's
>FUBAR'd.
>
>At any rate, C++/boost users attention: don't use cygwin's own gcc-4
>package, it's badly broken.

The person who maintains gcc/g++ is ready, willing, and able to fix
problems.  This content free report does not give him anything to work
with, however.

You have to do a much better job of reporting the problem if you truly
want a solution and don't just want to complain.
--
Christopher Faylor
Cygwin Co-Project Leader

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