Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/09/05/19:49:22
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:52:32PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >I know why you did this, however, I don't like it. This is not the
> >place for this file. It should be a separate package controlled by
> >setup.ini.
>
> I'm not quite done yet but I thought that we'd previously agreed to
> make this part of mingw some day.
>
> If we make it a separate package then we'll always be saying "Did you
> install mingw-gcc-extra?" in the cygwin mailing list.
>
Just like any other package that has dependencies.
> In the mingw world, they just have to download mingw-runtime, gcc, and
> binutils, right? I'd like to keep the packages the same even if I have
> to juggle the internals around a little bit.
>
But, I'll have to juggle the updates between MinGW and Cygwin versions.
I'm not willing to maintain to differing versions and libstdc++.a isn't
needed in the MinGW CVS.
> I can add stuff to the mingw distribution more easily than I can to the
> gcc, so it made sense to me to add this to mingw.
>
But then I've got to juggle the other changes.
> If we made this a separate package the package depencency code wouldn't
> even help in this case since nothing would depend on it. It just wouldn't
> be installed.
>
You could make gcc depend on it.
Earnie.
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