Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: gcc -pg broken after cygwin update?

2022-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Dec 8 16:02, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > Sorry for pressing this, I must be slow today. > > > just won't run correctly anymore on W7/8 > > Won't or may not? Won't Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: gcc -pg broken after cygwin update?

2022-12-08 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
Sorry for pressing this, I must be slow today. > just won't run correctly anymore on W7/8 Won't or may not? Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: gcc -pg broken after cygwin update?

2022-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Dec 8 14:47, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > > for 3.5 (late 2023) we announced the deprecation of Windows 7 and 8 > > since the first 3.3.0 release in October 2021. > > I saw that. It did not look alarming. It basically was like "you'll be on > your own". > > >

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: gcc -pg broken after cygwin update?

2022-12-08 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
> for 3.5 (late 2023) we announced the deprecation of Windows 7 and 8 > since the first 3.3.0 release in October 2021. I saw that. It did not look alarming. It basically was like "you'll be on your own". > Supporting older OSes requires to keep workarounds in the code and Understood. But

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: gcc -pg broken after cygwin update?

2022-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Dec 7 17:59, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > > contains patches dropping W7 and W8 support: > > Hmm... I understood that "dropping support" was not something that > would _require_ newer OS, but that it may not work (or not guaranteed > to work, patches not checked

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: gcc -pg broken after cygwin update?

2022-12-07 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
> contains patches dropping W7 and W8 support: Hmm... I understood that "dropping support" was not something that would _require_ newer OS, but that it may not work (or not guaranteed to work, patches not checked for compatibility, etc) on the older OSes... Are you saying that W7 and W8 would

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: gcc -pg broken after cygwin update?

2022-12-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Dec 7 14:47, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > > provided you run at least Windows 8.1 > > Why would that be a requirement? Test releases are created from the master branch which already bumped version to 3.5.0 and contains patches dropping W7 and W8 support:

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: gcc -pg broken after cygwin update?

2022-12-07 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
> provided you run at least Windows 8.1 Why would that be a requirement? Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: