Broken bootstrap on Cygwin

[Richard Guenther]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:27 PM, FX <fxcoudert@gmail.com> wrote:
>> GCC maintainers is this OK for your policy?
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> 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.
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> 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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