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Re: gcc-4 is broken on both cygwin-1.5 and cygwin-1.7
On 24/06/2009 13:09, Eray Ozkural wrote:
It cost me a lot of time but I verified that gcc-4 is malfunctioning
on both versions.
I think I can safely say that gcc-4.3 is working just fine, having used
it to build hundreds of packages, both C and C++.
It's impossible to build boost-1.38 or build-1.39, even if you build
only static libs.
Actually, I think it is boost's fault. They changed something in
boost-jam's implib generation that broke the build, but I haven't had a
chance to track it down yet. 1.37 builds and AFAICS works fine.
I had to use the gcc 4 that I had built myself previously on cygwin-1.5
And I think boost is pretty essential.
Your opinion, I suppose.
Did you patch gcc-4 or something? Whatever it is, I would like an
unpatched version if possible, as a C++ user. Could you make an
alternative package please? It must be that auto-import thingie that's
FUBAR'd.
Of course it is patched; it wouldn't work right on Cygwin if it wasn't
(not that Dave isn't trying to push patches upstream as best possible).
At any rate, C++/boost users attention: don't use cygwin's own gcc-4
package, it's badly broken.
Sigh, maybe I should just ITA 1.37 from Ports so people stop complaining
so much about boost.
Yaakov
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