This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 11:40:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?
- References: <20130221165907.GG28458@calimero.vinschen.de> <20130222010058.10e4790f@YAAKOV04> <512737E5.9010408@gmail.com> <5128DA73.3060105@gmail.com> <5128E437.2000105@cornell.edu> <512968CC.1070506@gmail.com> <51296F45.4060506@cornell.edu> <51297494.8040309@gmail.com> <20130224045543.GA7182@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20130306042924.55468c2b@YAAKOV04>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Mar 6 04:29, Yaakov wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:55:43 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > I'd be happy to get rid of it but don't people still use it? We can't
> > have the gcc4 package overwriting someone's gcc3 if so.
>
> For what exactly? The only messages I have seen about it are those who
> installed 'gcc' thinking it was the current version only to realize
> they needed 'gcc4'. No recent distro still supported 3.4, -mno-cygwin
> has been completely replaced by mingw64-*-gcc, and any software
> included in distributions that doesn't compile OOTB with 4.x will have
> patches available from those distros. I think it's past time to scrap
> 3.4.
FWIW, I agree.
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat