Re: GCC dependencies (attn David Billinghurst)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

Hi Dave, Hi Yaakov,

On Aug 12 11:21, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 16:48 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >   Thanks.  I'm not too sure about not installing the .la files; won't that
> > potentially lead to problems for libtool-using projects at link time?
> 
> No, but that reminded me, the libtool fixup script needs a small tweak
> to adjust.  I just pushed that to Ports git.
> 
> >   I just started a build and test cycle using your updated patches+cygport
> > script; since you have about a million packages to maintain, I may as well
> > take care of releasing this and free you up for other stuff.
> 
> OK.  FHI, last month, I tried sending the following patches upstream:
> 
> top-level: fix config.rpath for cygwin/mingw
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-07/msg01578.html
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-07/msg00181.html
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-07/msg00563.html
> 
> cygwin/mingw: update LIBGCJ_SONAME
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-07/msg01579.html
> 
> libjava: add comment to libtool-version
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2011-q3/msg00023.html
> 
> AFAICS they've gone absolute nowhere.  Maybe you'll have better luck.

here's a minor nit, but that bugs me for a while now.

  $ cc hello.c
  $ ./a.out
  bash: ./a.out: No such file or directory

I would like to see that GCC for Cygwin creates the output file
"a.out.exe", so the result is the same on Unix/Linux and Cygwin:

  $ cc hello.c
  $ ./a.out
  hello, world


Corinna

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