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Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:01:53AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> > >> >> 4) Is anyone going to checkin a libstdc++.a into winsup/mingw so that I > >> >> can add this to the distribution? > >> > > >> >I'm not ready for a new release of these. Please leave the existing > >> >distribution. > >> > >> But we don't have anything now and people are reporting that Mumit's (old?) > >> distribution works ok. Couldn't we just use that for the time being just > >> to quiet the mailing list? > >> > > > >A separate package would be best to distribute this. It could be named > >mingw-libstdc++.tar.gz. The question I have is how to distribute the > >source for just the library, it's already distributed with gcc source, > >correct? So a README saying which package the source can be found would > >suffice, correct? > > Do we really need a special package for one file, with all of the attendant > problems that would result? Why can't it just be part of the mingw package > itself? > It would be easier for the gcc package itself to do that. The gcc package already distributes the _G_config.h file in a mingw specific directory under /usr/include/mingw32. The gcc package could also be instructed to build and distribute the /usr/lib/mingw/libstdc++.a file. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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