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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:17:48 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: MinGW libstdc++.a [WAS: Re: Has sys/stat.h changed]
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In-Reply-To: <3A9294F1.639E4A19@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:01:53AM -0500

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:01:53AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> >> 4) Is anyone going to checkin a libstdc++.a into winsup/mingw so that I
>> >>    can add this to the distribution?
>> >
>> >I'm not ready for a new release of these.  Please leave the existing
>> >distribution.
>> 
>> But we don't have anything now and people are reporting that Mumit's (old?)
>> distribution works ok.  Couldn't we just use that for the time being just
>> to quiet the mailing list?
>> 
>
>A separate package would be best to distribute this.  It could be named
>mingw-libstdc++.tar.gz.  The question I have is how to distribute the
>source for just the library, it's already distributed with gcc source,
>correct?  So a README saying which package the source can be found would
>suffice, correct?

Do we really need a special package for one file, with all of the attendant
problems that would result?  Why can't it just be part of the mingw package
itself?

cgf