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Re: MinGW libstdc++.a [WAS: Re: Has sys/stat.h changed]
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:01:53AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>
> >> >> 4) Is anyone going to checkin a libstdc++.a into winsup/mingw so that I
> >> >> can add this to the distribution?
> >> >
> >> >I'm not ready for a new release of these. Please leave the existing
> >> >distribution.
> >>
> >> But we don't have anything now and people are reporting that Mumit's (old?)
> >> distribution works ok. Couldn't we just use that for the time being just
> >> to quiet the mailing list?
> >>
> >
> >A separate package would be best to distribute this. It could be named
> >mingw-libstdc++.tar.gz. The question I have is how to distribute the
> >source for just the library, it's already distributed with gcc source,
> >correct? So a README saying which package the source can be found would
> >suffice, correct?
>
> Do we really need a special package for one file, with all of the attendant
> problems that would result? Why can't it just be part of the mingw package
> itself?
>
It would be easier for the gcc package itself to do that. The gcc
package already distributes the _G_config.h file in a mingw specific
directory under /usr/include/mingw32. The gcc package could also be
instructed to build and distribute the /usr/lib/mingw/libstdc++.a file.
Earnie.
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