Hi, On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 01:05:29PM +0100, Carlos Rivera wrote: > I have tried with Ubuntu Maverick which has the same upstream tarball > (mingw32_4.2.1.dfsg.orig.tar.gz) but a different patch > (mingw32_4.2.1.dfsg-2ubuntu1.diff.gz). > The compiler works there so I took their patch and diffed it with the > ubuntu squeeze patch.
Which part of "this doesn't actually fix the problem" was unclear in the initial discussion of this report? All that you (and apparently ubuntu) have done here is to turn an immediate and obvious compile time failure, into a deferred, and probably quite obscure and difficult to trace, runtime failure. > And installed the resulting .deb, it worked. If by 'worked' you mean it compiled "an empty exception.cc file", per your earlier report, then sure. But you could have saved yourself some time and work and just given it an empty libgcc_s to link to as well, for much the same result. You haven't actually done anything to *implement* the missing parts of the exception handling that are actually needed for this to actually work, with actual exceptions, in all actually legal code. So indeed, I quite agree that this has still not been fixed. But I don't agree that hiding this from users is an appropriate response; that's just going to get _their_ users upset with them, when their applications fail out of no real fault of their own. Because of a problem we knew about. That's not how Debian is supposed to work. Does that make sense? Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
