From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7801 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2011 12:41:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 7786 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Aug 2011 12:41:01 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_BG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yw0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-yw0-f43.google.com) (209.85.213.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:40:38 +0000 Received: by yws29 with SMTP id 29so2379269yws.2 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:40:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.148.12 with SMTP id v12mr1918381ybd.89.1313152837495; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:40:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (S0106000cf16f58b1.wp.shawcable.net [174.5.115.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k8sm3266117yhm.59.2011.08.12.05.40.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:40:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: GCC dependencies (attn David Billinghurst) From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" To: cygwin-apps Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:41:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1313150949.7828.18.camel@YAAKOV04> References: <1311736317.5672.85.camel@YAAKOV04> <4E41804B.9060806@gmail.com> <1313150949.7828.18.camel@YAAKOV04> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1313152852.7828.40.camel@YAAKOV04> Mime-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-08/txt/msg00141.txt.bz2 On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 07:09 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 19:45 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > > Yaakov, how is this going? I see you haven't uploaded anything yet. I'm > > back and able to resume maintainership duties if everyone would like. > > That's good news, we were starting to be worried about you. > > I was just getting KDE 4.7 out the door while I was waiting for David to > finish the deps. Here is what I was planning to release: > > http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/gcc4 > > Besides the version update to 4.5.3, there are several changes over the > distro 4.5.0, including: > > * Linked against shared (instead of static) libintl. > * Fix shared libgnat installation. > * Fix Java NIO (patch may not be required with recent snapshots). > * Pass --large-address-aware when, and --tsaware only when, linking > EXEs. > * libtool fixup script actually changes .la files. > * Don't install GCC .la files so that the libtool fixup script will be > less needed in the future. > * Revise gcc4-java alternatives usage. > > We'll all be glad -- myself included -- for you to resume gcc > development; I have only taken a cursory glance at 4.6.1 (and not even a > glance at gccgo), and I have no idea where trunk is holding. If you've > got time to package stable branches on top of that, fine, otherwise I > could still handle the packaging side while you focus on development. > Either way, I think we really need a 4.5.3-2 with at least that patchset > out as soon as David can finish updating the deps. > > Let me know how you'd like to proceed. BTW, for those interested, I'm already working on updating the Fedora Cygwin toolchain to match the recent binutils/gdb releases and add the --large-address-aware patch, along with restoring cygwin-gcc-java for F15. Yaakov