Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] [Mingw-users] MinGW GCC 4.7.0 released

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 29/06/12 12:03, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> > 2) A new '-2' release of the existing version, with the following patch
> > applied:
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/mingw/tlssup.c.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.5&cvsroot=src
> >
> > 3) A new release from CVS.
> >
> > My personal preference is 3, followed by 2, then 1.
> 
> Agreed, I will focus on creating a new mingwrt release based on CVS.
> I'll also do a sweep of the bug reports, patches, etc. prior to making
> the release.  I should hopefully have it out in about a week.

I'm still inclined to favour (2), as an interim step; remember that (3)
will break ABI for any pre-compiled clients depending on dirent.[ch], so
the next build from CVS should be at version 4.0, and not 3.21.

The prime motivation for the ABI break, (besides fixing several POSIX
non-conformances), was to support the new glob(3) API, which isn't yet
in CVS, but can be found at http://tinyurl.com/cgkckca

This will be a prerequisite to fixing aspect (2) of bug #3482704, (see
http://tinyurl.com/clhlmu3), per http://tinyurl.com/cykazyx

It would be kind of nice to include this glob(3) implementation, and its
associated start-up code hooks, into an upcoming mingwrt-4.0, but Eli
has raised some further concerns: http://tinyurl.com/bncxwpn

I've been too busy, with day-job issues, to follow up on this, but I do
think we need some further discussion before jumping in with an ABI
breaking release, especially if there's a possibility we may want to
break it again in the foreseeable future.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.