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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New experimental package: gcc4-4.3.0-1
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:17:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New experimental package: gcc4-4.3.0-1
- References: <announce.001001c91336$91e70d10$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
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Dave Korn wrote:
> Well, here it is at last. Experimental test release of GCC 4 series
> for Cygwin. Please be aware that this is highly experimental; anything
> built with it is not guaranteed to be forwardly-compatible with the
> eventual full release. ABI details may change; compiler packaging may
> change. The first stable release may come from 4.3.2 or from 4.4 series,
> depending on which seems most production ready after testing.
First, many thanks for your hard work on gcc4.
I'll admit I know very little about gcc internally, so perhaps you could
enlighten me on a few points.
> libgmp3, libmpfr1 - These may become statically linked in a future
> version.
Why bother?
> ./gcc4-4.3.0-1-cygport.local gcc4-4.3.0-1 all
> unfortunately I've used a forked cygport script while
> testing this. the stable release will rely only
> on the official cygport release.
Are there any patches that you still need in cygport for gcc4?
> ./gcc4-java-4.3.0-1.tar.bz2
This seems to be incomplete; just gcj, no gij or libgcj.
> ./gcc4-runtime-4.3.0-1.tar.bz2
In debian, this package is called libgcc1 for most arches. I would
suggest a similar naming, but I see the DLL isn't versioned; why not?
> - Shared libgcc
> (selectable by --shared-libgcc/--static-libgcc flag)
What's the story with shared libgfortran3/libobjc2/libstdc++6?
Also, is OpenMP available? Is it being worked on?
Yaakov
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