On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:47:20AM +0800, JonY wrote: >Hello, > >Can I ask what will be the next version of GCC be in Cygwin? > >I'm working on the mingw-w64 GCC package on Cygwin. Normally, anything >cygwin gets installed to /usr, however, with gcc 4.6, the locales data >clashes. > >Charles suggested installing to /opt/mingw64, this doesn't fit well with >the cygwin model, but no clashes there. This allows mingw-w64 GCC >version to be independent of Cygwin's.
I'd want to check with Corinna on this but I am mildly opposed to putting this in /opt. I don't think it makes sense there. But I haven't been following closely, though. Where does Debian put these packages? cgf