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Re: gcc-2.95.3 is released.


Tim,
I may be out of my depth here, but I thought the flat rejection went
like "get the patches into gcc, not into cygwin-gcc because we _already_
have far too many outstanding differences with gcc"

Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Prince" <tprince@computer.org>
To: "Blythe.Stephen" <Stephen.Blythe@IGT.com>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: gcc-2.95.3 is released.


> No; I think David Billinghurst has built it on cygwin, probably
without
> any of the special cygwin features.  Look at the test results page if
> you want to see how well people made it run on cygwin and other
targets.
> I succeeded in making an excellent basic gcc and g77, but the g++
> library apparently remains incompatible with 64-bit alignments, which
> eliminates my interest there.  The maintainers flat out refused to
> accept updates to make gcc-2.95.3 compatible with current cygwin, so
any
> updates you want are up to you.  It should build OK on cygwin B20, if
> you work around the bugs.  David has been doing an excellent job of
> submitting patches to the main line gcc development, so that's
becoming
> a good alternative for cygwin.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Blythe.Stephen" <Stephen.Blythe@IGT.com>
> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 1:37 AM
> Subject: FW: gcc-2.95.3 is released.
>
>
> >
> > Does anyone know if this includes the cygwin patches?  There is no
> mention
> > of it on the announcement page, or of cygwin in the build status
page.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bernd Schmidt [mailto:bernds@cambridge.redhat.com]
> > Sent: 16 March 2001 15:52
> > To: gcc-announce@gcc.gnu.org
> > Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> > Subject: gcc-2.95.3 is released.
> >
> >
> > gcc version 2.95.3 is now available from
> >
> >   ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-2.95.3/
> >
> > A more detailed announcement can be found on
> >
> >   http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.3.html
> >
>
>
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