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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:35:28 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Is gcc 2.91.57 good enough to build snapshots?
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To clarify: I recommended using gcc-2.95 to build *perl*. I've never
tried to build the cygwin dll. Although, gcc-2.95 *may* be required to
build cygwin; I don't know.

--Chuck


John Wiersba wrote:
> 
> I've downloaded and installed the snapshot from 3/16/00.  I'm now trying to
> build from the source.  I saw a post from Chuck Wilson where he recommends
> gcc 2.95.  Is that a requirement for building the latest versions of things?
> I've still got the original gcc from full.exe:
> 
> > gcc -v
> Reading specs from
> d:\opt\cygwin\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin\..\lib\gcc-lib\i586-cygwin32\eg
> cs-2.91.57\specs
> gcc version egcs-2.91.57 19980901 (egcs-1.1 release)
> 
> Thanks,
> John Wiersba
> 
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