Heads-Up: Pending update of the system compiler to gcc-13

[Glenn Strauss]

On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 07:09:48PM +0200, ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 
> Gcc version 13.4 is expected to get released in about four to six weeks
> and that will be the trigger for Cygwin to update from gcc-12 soon
> after.  As gcc-13 has been available as a test version based on the
> weekly snapshots on Cygwin continually since September 2023 I plan to
> only have a brief gap between the test release and switching it to
> current.
> 
> As things stand I will include the locale patches from Takashi Yano for
> libstdc++, which in their current form will make libiconv-devel a new
> requirement for the gcc-core package as it's going to be part of the
> compiler driver specification.  While I'd like to avoid that and limit
> this requirement to g++ / libstadc++, it's light enough to not hold up
> the update over this issue (after all on other systems that's part of
> the system libc anyway).  But if anyboday has a suggestion on how to
> resolve this, please come forward.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Achim.

Back in Feb 2024, I reported that gcc package appears to have added
a dependency on libintl-devel [1].  In that thread, Brian noted the
dependency was libintl8 and libiconv2 [2] (instead of libintl-devel).

[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-February/255517.html
[2] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-February/255528.html

Cheers, Glenn