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Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New experimental package: gcc4-4.3.0-1
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:35:21 +0100
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NightStrike wrote on 10 September 2008 19:22:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Faylor
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:53:45PM -0400, NightStrike wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com> wrote:
>>>> Well, here it is at last.  Experimental test release of GCC 4 series
>>>> for Cygwin.  Please be aware that this is highly experimental; anything
>>> 
>>> I've been building and releasing gcc 4.3 and gcc 4.4 toolchains to
>>> cross compile from cygwin to Win64 for I guess a year now.  Would you
>>> (or cygwin in general) be interested in that as another package to
>>> offer?  (ie, offering the gcc4 cross compiler)
>> 
>> Assuming it is properly packaged, yes.
> 
> Can you define that?  I just tar up the toolchain.  I doubt that's
> what you want :)

  You need to read the package contributors guidelines on 
http://cygwin.com/setup.html

  We could probably find some way to adapt the 4.3.x build to offer different
variants; cygport makes that kind of stuff fairly easy.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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