X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E375C7B.4050802@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:10:03 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GCC version 4.3 on Cygwin ? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 8/1/2011 9:29 PM, Jan Chludzinski wrote: > The latest version of GCC is 4.6. The version used with MinGW is 4.5. > Cygwin uses 4.3. > > Why is Cygwin 3 versions behind? Because our gcc maintainer went missing. We hope Dave is ok, as we have had no word from him. However, in the meantime, we've had another person (Yaakov) volunteer to pick up the slack; the recent release of an updated GMP package were requested by the new volunteer to facilitate the upcoming release of gcc-$newer. Be patient. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple