From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30129 invoked by alias); 13 Aug 2011 14:12:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 30092 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Aug 2011 14:11:43 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:11:27 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 698ED2C00BA; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:11:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:12:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GCC dependencies (attn David Billinghurst) Message-ID: <20110813141124.GE4098@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <1311736317.5672.85.camel@YAAKOV04> <4E41804B.9060806@gmail.com> <1313150949.7828.18.camel@YAAKOV04> <1313152852.7828.40.camel@YAAKOV04> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1313152852.7828.40.camel@YAAKOV04> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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/msg00158.txt.bz2 Hi Yaakov, On Aug 12 07:40, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > 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. There's a small glitch in the cross toolchain: $ i686-pc-cygwin-gcc foo.c -o foo $ ls foo* foo foo.c Since foo is a Cygwin executable, shouldn't gcc append .exe? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat