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Re: Broken bootstrap on Cygwin
- From: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: FX <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Angelo Graziosi <angelo dot graziosi at alice dot it>, cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 12:07:15 +0100
- Subject: Re: Broken bootstrap on Cygwin
- References: <7EB9F5D3-8C37-410B-99A9-9D27C62A45AE@gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:27 PM, FX <fxcoudert@gmail.com> wrote:
>> GCC maintainers is this OK for your policy?
>
> Personally, I don't think it's a good thing to do: a secondary platform that only supports the latest released version of said platform does not indicate high stability. But it's up to the cygwin maintainers to decide, of course.
>
> However, the fact should be documented on the installation notes (http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-cygwin) and probably on the release notes as well, with something like "The GCC 4.6 series requires Cygwin x.y.z or later".
Indeed. Maybe also document a workaround (if possible), like
"download fenv.h from this link and put it there".
Richard.
> FX
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