On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 01:38:43PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 07/03/2012 13:34, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> > On 07/03/2012 8:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> On Mar 7 07:54, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >> >>> >> >>> I tried to bootstrap the gcc-4.7 RC and it fails because it expects >> >>> to find<process.h> and the file actually lives in >> >>> <cygwin/process.h> (see >> >>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52513). >> >>> >> >>> I'm asking here because the gcc devs thought this would mean 4.6 is >> >>> broken as well, but I have 4.6.2 running. Did process.h perhaps move >> >>> between 1.7.10 and 1.7.11? I guess configure must be using linker >> >>> rather than preprocessor tests for presence of spawnve, because it >> >>> thinks (correctly) that the function exists. >> >> See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-02/msg00041.html >> >> We moved it back. If you have it in cygwin/process.h, you didn't >> >> update from 1.7.10 to 1.7.11. >> > Ah, I do remember that, now that you mention, but I was running a 1.7.11 >> > snapshot and forgot to upgrade... >> > >> > Thanks for the quick reply, >> > Ryan >> >> Thanks for spotting that Ryan. FTR, I figure it's not worth delaying the >> GCC release to add a fix to support .10, since there were other significant >> problems with it, and anyone who has it should be moving to .11 anyway. >>
Perhaps we could nevertheless find a means to move <process.h> into <cygwin/process.h>, while not breaking GCC compilation during the mean time? A patch to GCC-4.8 to search first for <cygwin/process.h> and <process.h> if not found? And, for Cygwin, cp -p cygwin/process.h process.h? SHTDI. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- 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