"James R. Phillips" wrote:

> This situation as regards gcc and octave is admittedly awkward, but I see no
> simple remedy as a package maintainer.  It would be nice if gcc 3.4 were fixed
> - but I can't make that happen.  It would be nice if cygwin supported multiple
> simultaneous gcc installs - but I can't make that happen either.  Nor can I
> easily turn off the default selection of gcc for upgrading whenever setup.exe
> is run.  All in all, the situation is annoying, but one learns to live with 
> it.

Well, there is a patch in PR24196 against 3.4 which fixes the problem. 
It looks like the logical solution would be to include that patch in
Cygwin's gcc.  Gerrit?

Brian

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