From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 60012 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2017 16:05:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 60000 invoked by uid 89); 4 Dec 2017 16:05:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=sale, 5x, H*UA:58.0, H*r:Unknown X-HELO: blaine.gmane.org Received: from Unknown (HELO blaine.gmane.org) (195.159.176.226) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 16:05:14 +0000 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eLtEs-0002E0-2k for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 17:05:02 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Hans Horn Subject: Re: gcc / gfortran 5.x Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 16:05:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <87y3mrv3q6.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/58.0 In-Reply-To: <87y3mrv3q6.fsf@Rainer.invalid> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 Thanks to all the lead me the way. Using cygwin's time machine I was able to build a working cygwin enviroment with gcc/gfortran at version 5.40. (http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2017/09/05/224214/) On 11/27/2017 12:58 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Hans Horn writes: >> I noticed that cywgin's gcc/gfortran has moved whole sale to gcc 6.4. >> How can I get the latest release of the 5.x branch (32 and 64bit) >> back? > > Use the Cygwin Time Machine, some other post had the link. > >> I'm trying to build a legacy suite of programs that I know builds >> under 5.x, but fails miserably under 6.4. > > Been there, done that. In general, trying to freeze the compilation > environment is a losing proposition and it's better to fix up the > sources instead. > > > Regards, > Achim. > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple