-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Brian Dessent wrote: > Please don't. gcc isn't special in this regard, it shouldn't receive > any special treatment. bash fails without cygintl-8.dll and I don't > think anyone is proposing to statically link libintl into bash just > because some people seem to find ways to screw up their installations by > not installing libintl8. If there's a problem we need to fix the root > cause, not paper it over.
Agreed. BTW, I noticed that gcc builds with static libintl/libiconv (the standard config.rpath flaw); low priority, but I really don't like static linking unless absolutely necessary. > IMHO, despite the above we should still ship shared libstdc++ even if > it's not the default -- though I would even argue that we should go one > step farther and make it the default and say that if you need to > override operator new you select the static libstdc++. I admit to know very little about C++; how often would this happen? > Otherwise, we just get ourselves into ABI compatibility > hell because every C++ library gets a copy of libstdc++ linked > into it, which means they are tied to the compiler version. > As it is now we are going to have to rebuild all > libstdc++-using code in the distro with the new compiler because up > until now we had no choice but static libstdc++, but by not stopping > this insanity now we only prolong it. Which is the current situation. YA reason I think that gcc-4.3 should be limited to release-2, and that everything should be rebuilt with it for 1.7. > Should work fine. Requires explicit --enable-libgomp though (not > enabled by default.) I've seen a *small* number of packages using it so far, so it would be nice to try. But we'll need autoconf-2.62 as well. Yaakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkjKOCYACgkQpiWmPGlmQSNC1gCgymaPY6yNcOjoy5yxzTEGRBuO aM8An1idh88XN7NuLHmlvVwtM4UiExKY =aUiR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
