[RFC] ready for cygport to default to gcc4?

[Charles Wilson]

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> Are maintainers ready for cygport-0.9 (for 1.7 only) to default to gcc4?

No.

gcc4 is still an *experimental* release:

"[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: experimental package: gcc4-4.3.2-2"
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00378.html

We shouldn't default to using it until the gcc maintainer is confident
enough in it to promote it officially. I know it's a bit of a
chicken/egg problem, but there you go.

(Besides, IIRC there is still an existing problem with g++, and
overriding operator new/delete. This would be a problem for xerces.)

--
Chuck