X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: GCC 4.1.1 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:52:33 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46817A1E.ADB2C1C4@dessent.net> References: <46817A1E.ADB2C1C4@dessent.net> From: "Frederich, Eric P21322" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l5QKqk4r012889 > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:42 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: GCC 4.1.1 > > "Frederich, Eric P21322" wrote: > > > I'm trying to get gcc on Cygwin to the same version that I > use on Linux > > and Solaris (4.1.1). > > There is no "need" for this, but it would be nice to have > all platforms > > I'm trying to support on the same version. > > I'm really not sure why you're doing this, and especially why > if you're going to > use a 4.x release you're using sucn an old one. If anything, > I'd use the 4.3 > branch, since it contains a lot of things relevant to Cygwin > like a modern > libtool. > > Anyway, the 3.4 packaged version of gcc has a number of local > fixes that aren't > upstream, so if you want a stable compiler then you should > use this one, not a > FSF release. You should know what these issues are and if > they matter to you > before using a version of gcc built yourself. If gcc4 was > stable on Cygwin > there would be packages for it, it's not just a matter of > nobody having time to > build them. > > With that out of the way, it's possible to get -mno-cygwin > working with gcc4 > just fine, it shouldn't take any patches. You'll of course > have to build gcc > again as the MinGW version, and set up some symlinks. See > the postinstall of > the gcc package for details. > > Brian Thanks a bunch. I will use the 3.4 that came with cygwin. It is not worth the hassle to get gcc 4 working if it is not straight forward and will not be stable. Like I said, I'm not doing anything that needs gcc 4 support. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/