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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 21:10:30 -0500
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: gcc4-core packaging bug
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On 2013-11-01 15:44, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Andrey Repin writes:
>>> The package gcc4-core provides a compatibility symlink for programs that
>>> expect the old gcc naming scheme (like Perl).  The link however is just
>>> "gcc4", while Devel::CheckLib for instance looks for "gcc4.exe".
>>
>> Report that to the maintainer of Devel::CheckLib
>> It SHOULD NOT check for .exe suffix under cygwin.
>
> Yes it should, since it does not need to know about the .exe magic
> Cygwin performs.  Besides, it gets that information from %Config, which
> in turn comes from Cygwin's own Perl.  Once the compatibility link is
> named gcc-4.exe, the .exe magic ensures that both checking for an
> executable named gcc-4 and gcc-4.exe will succeed, so that's the right
> thing to do and not patching whatever number of Perl modules and/or
> other build scripts.

Actually, the RIGHT thing to do is to have Perl (updated to 5.14.4 and) 
built without the CC=gcc-4 hack.


Yaakov


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