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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:22:46 -0700, Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net> wrote:
> NightStrike wrote:
>
>> If cygwin ever wants to be able to support newer gcc compilers,
>> something needs to be done in this area.  There are several options,
>
> That's a quite a misleading statement to make.  Everything is fine for a
> native 4.4 using 3.4 as the bootstrap compiler.  That's the whole point
> of the three stage bootstrap, to eliminate any influence of the
> bootstrap compiler on the final compiler.  The problem only occurs when
> you build a 4.4 cross using 3.4 because by definition you can't
> bootstrap a cross.  But even then you're fine if you first bootstrap a
> recent native to use to build the cross.  It's really not the end of the
> world.
>
> Brian

Indeed. gcc 4.4 works fine. I have the version that comes with gfortran. 

Is it likley any time soon that gcc4 and gfortran come as a standard
cygwin package. Apologies if I missed this. 

Another Brian.


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