GCC maintainer volunteer?

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:59:07 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Exactly.  The question is then, what patches from the 4.5.3 gcc were
> not applied upstream and still make sense today.

I have a copy of the patchset here with a few additions of my own:

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

classpath-0.98-*.patch: patches carried over from my port of GNU
Classpath; these are required.

config-rpath.patch: IIUC can be avoided with
--without-libiconv-prefix --without-libintl-prefix configure flags.

gcc45-ada.diff: switches Cygwin GNAT from a Windows hybrid to pure *NIX
code, and enable shared libgnat.  Last time I tried it, code linked with
the libgnat DLL didn't exit properly, so this may need more work.

gcc45-ehdebug.diff: just some debugging printf()s AFAICS.

gcc45-java-FIONREAD.diff: important fix a bug in NIO; this is a must.

gcc45-libffi.diff: makes FFI lib and header install in GCC dirs instead
of system dirs.  Perhaps this version shouldn't be installed at all
(only the convenience library is actually used in libjava) and ship the
standalone libffi-3.0.11 instead.

gcc45-libstdc.diff: The -no-undefined hunks are required, but the
-bindir flags aren't necessary with cygport.  -Wl,--enable-auto-import
is already the default, but it seems that is insufficient, hence all
the dllimport/dllexport.  Honestly I'm not sure why though.

gcc45-misc-core.diff: not sure what this is for.

gcc45-mnocygwin.diff: obsolete.

gcc45-peflags.diff: link only executables with --tsaware, and also use
--large-address-aware.  This too is a must.

gcc45-sig-unwind.diff: explained therein; may have been upstreamed
already.

gcc45-skiptest.diff: test is ELF-specific.

There is one more patch required from the Fedora Cygwin toolchain:

http://fedora-cygwin.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=fedora-cygwin/cygwin-gcc;a=tree

gcc45-gc-win32-threads.diff: the native gcc4 was last built before
pthread_getaddr_np() was added, so this is a new requirement.

HTH,


Yaakov