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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:38:43 +0000
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On 07/03/2012 13:34, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 07/03/2012 8:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Mar  7 07:54, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I tried to bootstrap the gcc-4.7 RC and it fails because it expects
>>> to find<process.h>  and the file actually lives in
>>> <cygwin/process.h>  (see
>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52513).
>>>
>>> I'm asking here because the gcc devs thought this would mean 4.6 is
>>> broken as well, but I have 4.6.2 running. Did process.h perhaps move
>>> between 1.7.10 and 1.7.11? I guess configure must be using linker
>>> rather than preprocessor tests for presence of spawnve, because it
>>> thinks (correctly) that the function exists.
>> See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-02/msg00041.html
>> We moved it back.  If you have it in cygwin/process.h, you didn't
>> update from 1.7.10 to 1.7.11.
> Ah, I do remember that, now that you mention, but I was running a 1.7.11
> snapshot and forgot to upgrade...
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply,
> Ryan

  Thanks for spotting that Ryan.  FTR, I figure it's not worth delaying the
GCC release to add a fix to support .10, since there were other significant
problems with it, and anyone who has it should be moving to .11 anyway.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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