Re: GCC 3.3.6 has been released

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Sun, 29 May 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
> I noticed that on <http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#windows> it
> states:
> 
> "A port of GCC 2.95.2 and 3.x is included with the Cygwin environment."
> 
> However, the Cygwin project had to remove its 2.95 gcc package due to
> brokenness (and lack of maintainer interest in resolving it) quite some
> time ago, so it's probably misleading to state that it's available.

Thanks for the hint (even if it took us some time to process it).

I just installed the following patch for GCC mainline which will cause
the web page to be updated within 24 hours.

  2005-06-26  Gerald Pfeifer  <gerald@pfeifer.com>

	* doc/install.texi (Specific): Do not specify the concrete
	versions of GCC provided by Cygwin.  Simplify the part on
	building on Cygwin.

Once GCC 4.0.1 has been released, I plan to also commit the patch there.

Gerald

Index: doc/install.texi
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.356
diff -u -3 -p -r1.356 install.texi
--- doc/install.texi	6 Jun 2005 19:31:33 -0000	1.356
+++ doc/install.texi	26 Jun 2005 13:37:32 -0000
@@ -3882,14 +3882,11 @@ respects, this target is the same as the
 @end html
 @heading @anchor{windows}Microsoft Windows (32-bit)
 
-A port of GCC 2.95.2 and 3.x is included with the
+Ports of GCC are included with the
 @uref{http://www.cygwin.com/,,Cygwin environment}.
 
-Current (as of early 2001) snapshots of GCC will build under Cygwin
-without modification.
-
-GCC does not currently build with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there
-are no plans to make it do so.
+GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build
+with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.
 
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