gcc4: next release

JonY jon_y@users.sourceforge.net
Tue Jul 13 07:46:00 GMT 2010


On 7/9/2010 01:09, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 07/07/2010 02:47, JonY wrote:
>
>> I'm working on the mingw-w64 GCC package on Cygwin. Normally, anything
>> cygwin gets installed to /usr, however, with gcc 4.6, the locales data
>> clashes.
>
>> Yaakov suggested installing to /usr, but there are some problems with it.
>>
>> This makes GCC look in /usr/mingw regardless of what the toolchain
>> target is (anything matching mingw*), bad idea if we want a gcc 4
>> mingw.org cross toolchain later. It can be fixed, but I'm not too sure
>> how yet.
>
>    Hmm, does this even happen when it is being built as a cross- rather than
> native- compiler?  That would be a GCC bug if so; cross-compilers are meant
> not to look in the standard system directories as if they were native, see the
> docs for LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR, SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIR, STANDARD_INCLUDE_DIR and
> INCLUDE_DEFAULTS(*) for full details.
>

Well, cross GCC looks in /sysroot/mingw if that is what you mean.

>> Locale data is also conflicting.
>
>    So can't it just go in $prefix/$target/share instead of $prefix/share after
> a bit of fiddling with configure options?
>

It could.



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