From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6344 invoked by alias); 18 Feb 2004 14:21:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 6117 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2004 14:21:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net) (203.16.214.181) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 2004 14:21:12 -0000 Received: from HAPPYCOMPUTER (ppp114-90.lns1.syd3.internode.on.net [150.101.114.90]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1IEKowo038000; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:51:06 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <200402181421.i1IEKowo038000@smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net> From: "Gareth Pearce" To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?'Mikael_=C5sberg'?=" , Subject: RE: Built GCC 3.3.3 on Cygwin, should I use it? Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:33:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00899.txt.bz2 >=20 > I've tried to rebuild a number of programs I have written using GCC 3.3.3 > and > every single one of them seem to work as they should. Many of them are > Win32 > GUI programs (written in C++), some are programs using posix functions. >=20 > So my question is: What problems can I expect if continue to use GCC > 3.3.3? Other then dealing with non-standard install locations (probably leading to the c++ issue you had), and probably missing cygwin-specific features there shouldn=92t be any 'problems'. An example of something likely to be missing is -mno-cygwin. > Should I go back to GCC 3.3.1 or is it fine to continue to use the later > version? Any other drawbacks of this upgrade? Any benefits? If someone > would > shed some light on this I would be grateful. Given you have installed in a separate location it is not like you have any problems here, you can use the installed gcc 3.3.1 when you need it - and your own built 3.3.3 when you need that. You haven=92t 'upgraded' as such just installed a newer version as well. But given that you don=92t know why you've installed it, perhaps you just shouldn=92t bother with it. 3.3.3 is mostly a bug fix release relative to 3.3.1 - go visit gcc.gnu.org to find out what bug fixes have occurred. Now if you haven=92t experienced the bugs, then there is probably no point for = you to have a custom build and you should just wait for whenever the cygwin gcc maintainer updates the cygwin gcc distribution. However if a bit of research finds that 3.3.3 has something you want then by all means, use it - we're not going to stop you. ... Well okay, I'm not going to stop you. Gareth -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/