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

[Brian Inglis]

On 2025-05-24 12:04, Glenn Strauss via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 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.

> 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

It seems gcc/ld needs lib{iconv,intl}-devel to find lib{iconv2,intl8}.
Does that make sense?

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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