[Bug target/14344] [3.3.3 Regression] MinGW Bootstrap Failure

["gdr at integrable-solutions dot net" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From gdr at integrable-solutions dot net  2004-02-29 20:04 -------
Subject: Re:  [3.3.3 Regression] MinGW Bootstrap Failure

"stl at caltech dot edu" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| > The immediate conclusion I can draw is that there is no active maintainers
| > for the MinGW port.
| 
| From what I understand, people do actively maintain MinGW (one person you 
| didn't mention is Danny Smith, who released the 3.3.3 MinGW patch
| set and has been active in my 3.4 bootstrap failure bug, PR12974),
| but the critical thing that they don't do is bootstrap MinGW
| routinely on MSYS, as I do.  Instead they use Cygwin.

OK. The people I mentioned were those listed in $GCC/MAINTAINERS file.
Danny Smith is listed in the write-after-approval section with no
particular mention of his focus -- I could not have figured out he
maintains mingw.

Anyway, if he does actively main MinGW (and that is good news) I would
suggest he announces so on gcc@gcc.gnu.org so that the SC can
officially appoint him.

You reported that he produced a 3.3.3 MinGW patch set, then presumably
he was able to bootstrap?

| Perhaps you could help figure out when and where cygming.h, which
| 3.3.3 seems to want, disappeared from the 3.3 branch.  I looked at
| the CVS web interface,  which didn't say anything about cygming.h
| being removed. 

I don't think that file did disappear in gcc-3.3-branch time frame.
Rather it *appeared* in gcc-3.4.x with

2003-03-21  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
        [...]
        * config/i386/cygming.h: New file, containing definitions
        common to mingw32 and cygwin.


What I do not understand though, is why it is referenced in the build
process of gcc-3_3. 

-- Gaby


 


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