Re: Compiling gcc for cygwin
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:22:46 -0700, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NightStrike wrote: If cygwin ever wants to be able to support newer gcc compilers, something needs to be done in this area. There are several options, That's a quite a misleading statement to make. Everything is fine for a native 4.4 using 3.4 as the bootstrap compiler. That's the whole point of the three stage bootstrap, to eliminate any influence of the bootstrap compiler on the final compiler. The problem only occurs when you build a 4.4 cross using 3.4 because by definition you can't bootstrap a cross. But even then you're fine if you first bootstrap a recent native to use to build the cross. It's really not the end of the world. Brian Indeed. gcc 4.4 works fine. I have the version that comes with gfortran. Is it likley any time soon that gcc4 and gfortran come as a standard cygwin package. Apologies if I missed this. Another Brian. -- Brian Salter-Duke Melbourne, Australia My real address is b_duke(AT)bigpond(DOT)net(DOT)au Use this for reply or followup. Registered Linux user 287938. Cygwin for Linux on PCs. http://www.cygwin.com/ -- 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/
Compiling gcc for cygwin
I figured I would take the liberty of informing anyone from the cygwin community that might not be on the gcc mailing lists. After a recent merge of the tuples branch of gcc to the mainline gcc, gcc stopped being compilable by the 3.4.4 compiler that comes with cygwin. There are two bugs for this: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37086 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37091 They have both been closed as invalid. If cygwin ever wants to be able to support newer gcc compilers, something needs to be done in this area. There are several options, and I am not advocating one over another. I am instead just making sure that the cygwin community is informed of the current state of gcc 4.4. -- 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/
Re: Compiling gcc for cygwin
NightStrike wrote: If cygwin ever wants to be able to support newer gcc compilers, something needs to be done in this area. There are several options, That's a quite a misleading statement to make. Everything is fine for a native 4.4 using 3.4 as the bootstrap compiler. That's the whole point of the three stage bootstrap, to eliminate any influence of the bootstrap compiler on the final compiler. The problem only occurs when you build a 4.4 cross using 3.4 because by definition you can't bootstrap a cross. But even then you're fine if you first bootstrap a recent native to use to build the cross. It's really not the end of the world. Brian -- 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/
