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To: John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>
cc: "'cygwin'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: Is gcc 2.91.57 good enough to build snapshots? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:16:37 EST."
             <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9904B3F14B AT aa-msg-01 DOT medstat DOT com> 
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:33:43 -0600
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>

John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com> writes:
> I've downloaded and installed the snapshot from 3/16/00.  I'm now trying to
> build from the source.  I saw a post from Chuck Wilson where he recommends
> gcc 2.95.  Is that a requirement for building the latest versions of things?
> I've still got the original gcc from full.exe:

Probably not. It's too old, too buggy, and the newer snapshots require
that you use a compile that supports anonymous structs in C++ (which is
in the recent releases such as Cygwin version of gcc-2.95.2).

Regards,
Mumit


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