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Re: [RFC] ready for cygport to default to gcc4?
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Charles Wilson wrote:
> gcc4 is still an *experimental* release:
>
> We shouldn't default to using it until the gcc maintainer is confident
> enough in it to promote it officially. I know it's a bit of a
> chicken/egg problem, but there you go.
1) A few maintainers have already started using gcc4 for their packages.
While I thought that doing so with 4.3.2-1 on 1.5 was a bit premature,
not so now.
2) How should Dave be able to stabilize gcc4 if nobody is testing it?
Same goes for cygwin-1.7 for that matter, and I think I've been doing my
part testing both.
Bottom line, we need to look at what the distro should like when
cygwin-1.7 goes stable, and set a direction.
> (Besides, IIRC there is still an existing problem with g++, and
> overriding operator new/delete. This would be a problem for xerces.)
Perhaps Dave could update us on the progress toward stabilizing gcc4?
Yaakov
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