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. Yaakov