Can I safely upgrade gcc/g++

[Matthew Woehlke]

Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> From the "stock" gcc-3.4.4 to the current gcc-4.2.0 from ftp.gnu.org?  Will this break anything in cygwin?

Since 'gcc' is in no way a requirement for a functional Cygwin 
installation, I don't see why not. This assumes* however that you can 
get gcc 4.2.0 to build on Windows :-).

(IIRC 4.1.0 doesn't, and 4.3.0 is looking much more promising... I 
forget how good/bad the situation with 4.2.0 is.)

-- 
Matthew
Ngx iqct zgg dxei zodt gf ngxk iqfrl.


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