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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com> wrote:
> NightStrike wrote on 10 September 2008 19:22:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Faylor
>> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:53:45PM -0400, NightStrike wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com> wrote:
>>>>> Well, here it is at last.  Experimental test release of GCC 4 series
>>>>> for Cygwin.  Please be aware that this is highly experimental; anything
>>>>
>>>> I've been building and releasing gcc 4.3 and gcc 4.4 toolchains to
>>>> cross compile from cygwin to Win64 for I guess a year now.  Would you
>>>> (or cygwin in general) be interested in that as another package to
>>>> offer?  (ie, offering the gcc4 cross compiler)
>>>
>>> Assuming it is properly packaged, yes.
>>
>> Can you define that?  I just tar up the toolchain.  I doubt that's
>> what you want :)
>
>  You need to read the package contributors guidelines on
> http://cygwin.com/setup.html
>
>  We could probably find some way to adapt the 4.3.x build to offer different
> variants; cygport makes that kind of stuff fairly easy.

Dave,

I read through that page, and it's a lot of information to take in at
once.  Where should I start?  I have tarballs of toolchains already
that are prefix-independent.  Can I just give you that or something?
At the least, can you walk me through what needs to happen?

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