I read these two threads out of order. Sorry for the previous rant in "Re: Lost g++ after update".
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > E.g.: > If you want to install g++ you'll need the package `gcc-g++`, this pulls > automatically the backend package which is currently named `gcc' (may be > changed to `gcc-core') and the according MinGW packages. Similar with > `gcc-java' and the others. > I strongly vote *for* the name change if you can figure out how to do it without messing too much up. > Eventually I will add the installation of `gcc-g++' as an requirement to > the basic GCC installation since in previous releases it was one larger > package which includes gcj, g++, g77 and gcc and the actual compilers > and headers and the users are still used to get g++ automatically with > this one huge package. Since I included also the frontends for Ada, > ObjC and Pascal, the package would be really large and we already had > lots of complaints about the size of the old gcc package (mainly since > java was included), so it was separated. > Yeah! I'm glad you are still considering a fix. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
