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RE: Cygwin32 19.2 update planned
- To: "John A. Turner" <John dot Turner at pobox dot com>
- Subject: RE: Cygwin32 19.2 update planned
- From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:12:18 -0500
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
Replacing gcc with egcs would constitute a major change. Look for it
in B20. Most of the "point" releases have only included changes to
winsup and occasionally newlib.
-----Original Message-----
From: John A. Turner [mailto:John.Turner@pobox.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 1998 3:43 PM
To: noer@cygnus.com
Cc: earnie_boyd@hotmail.com; gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin32 19.2 update planned
Geoffrey Noer writes:
> As people have found out, upgrading to beta 19.1 is *not* a good
idea
> if you want to set the CYGWIN32 environment variable to change any
> defaults.
>
> I am planning to make a 19.2 release that will definitely fix this
> and hopefully a number of other problems that have been reported
> since 19.1. Ideally this will include fixing the readlink() bug
that
> RCS bumps into, NTEA will be turned off unless you want it on,
etc...
> Hopefully a couple of weeks is the timeframe.
and in another msg:
Geoffrey Noer writes:
> Upgrade to egcs. The C++ compiler in b19 is very broken.
>
> http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/egcs.html
Which brings up the question... wait for it... have you considered
releasing 19.2 with egcs?
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