From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 75076 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2015 12:18:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 75067 invoked by uid 89); 10 Sep 2015 12:18:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wi0-f179.google.com Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com (HELO mail-wi0-f179.google.com) (209.85.212.179) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:18:21 +0000 Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so20835347wic.0 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:18:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.180.23.162 with SMTP id n2mr5796403wif.8.1441887498135; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.21.188.129] ([149.6.156.42]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id hk5sm2110481wjb.6.2015.09.10.05.18.17 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: GCC 4.8 & cygwin32 vs. cygwin64 packages and installers To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <55F16830.9090506@parasoft.com> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <55F17503.10209@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:18:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55F16830.9090506@parasoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-q3/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2 On 10/09/2015 13:23, Tomasz Pona wrote: > Hello All, > > I've been writing the Cygwin list ages ago, so welcome again. wrong mailing list. You should use for this question cygwin "at" cygwin "dot" com > > For many years since my last visit I haven't bumped into any Cygwin > problem I couldn't cope with myself, so many thanks to all Cygwin devels > for your good job. > But now I run into a real problem with GNU GCC packages availability and > how they're presented in the installer. > > My GCC availablity problem: > I need to work with GCC 4.8, but it isn't available anymore for > download. I uderstand obviousness of the versions succession, but the > upgrade to 4.9 was done only recently and the choice is between 4.9.2 > and 4.9.3. I'd say this isn't significant version change. It'd be nice > to have a choice at least between 4.8 and 4.9 and great to be able to > work with several versions (since ~4.6) at once. As cygwin is a rolling distri, maintaing multi compilers will be very demanding. > > My installer package presentation problem: > I noticed the GCC 4.8 is still available as "cygwin64-gcc-" under > "setup-x86" and as "cygwin32-gcc" under "setup-x86_64". > But I can't take any advantage of this, because: > - these packages land in separate cygwin/cygwin64 folders, like the'd be > installed using the other installer > - "setup-x86" has no "cygwin32-gcc-" > - "setup-x86_64" has no "cygwin64-gcc-" > Why GCC 4.8 isn't available as a default package when it is as > "cygwin32-gcc-"/"cygwin64-gcc-"? cygwin32-gcc is a cross compiler from X86_64 to i686 cygwin64-gcc is a cross compiler from i686 to x86_64 gcc is the standard compiler available in both arch X86_64 and i686 > > Maybe you could just loosen the package presentation/availability rules > in your installers? > > > Thanks in advance for any response, > Tomasz Pona