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Re: GCC dependencies (attn David Billinghurst)


On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 19:45 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>   Yaakov, how is this going?  I see you haven't uploaded anything yet.  I'm
> back and able to resume maintainership duties if everyone would like.

That's good news, we were starting to be worried about you.

I was just getting KDE 4.7 out the door while I was waiting for David to
finish the deps.  Here is what I was planning to release:

http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/gcc4

Besides the version update to 4.5.3, there are several changes over the
distro 4.5.0, including:

* Linked against shared (instead of static) libintl.
* Fix shared libgnat installation.
* Fix Java NIO (patch may not be required with recent snapshots).
* Pass --large-address-aware when, and --tsaware only when, linking
EXEs.
* libtool fixup script actually changes .la files.
* Don't install GCC .la files so that the libtool fixup script will be
less needed in the future.
* Revise gcc4-java alternatives usage.

We'll all be glad -- myself included -- for you to resume gcc
development; I have only taken a cursory glance at 4.6.1 (and not even a
glance at gccgo), and I have no idea where trunk is holding.  If you've
got time to package stable branches on top of that, fine, otherwise I
could still handle the packaging side while you focus on development.
Either way, I think we really need a 4.5.3-2 with at least that patchset
out as soon as David can finish updating the deps.

Let me know how you'd like to proceed.


Yaakov



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