Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Re: GCC 3.3 Snapshots and mingw-local changes

[Christopher F. <cg...@re...>]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:01:48AM +0100, Danny Smith wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ranjit Mathew" <rm...@vs...>
>To: "MinGW Developers" <min...@li...>
>Sent: Sunday, 13 October 2002 08:18
>Subject: [MinGW-dvlpr] Re: GCC 3.3 Snapshots and mingw-local changes
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>> BTW, I'd like point out that I did see Danny's message on
>> the same subject in the list archives, but GeoCrawler seems
>> to have stripped off the patchset. At least from that
>> message it seems that nothing much has changed.
>>
>> However, I was looking for a slightly long term solution.
>> Maybe we can also maintain a weekly diff snapshot at SF
>> for the GCC sources...not that there are hordes of developers
>> trying to compile MinGW from sources, but still.
>>
>> Ranjit.
>>
>The long term solution is to get mingw and cygwin patches into mainline
>CVS.

I plan on pursuing that as soon as gcc 3.2 goes live in cygwin-land.
That will happen as soon as cygwin 1.3.13 appears, since there are some
header file changes needed for full functioning.

>Nothing much has changed. Java is easier now , at least when bult in
>cygwin environment.

I had to make some surprising changes to get java cross-compiling from
linux to cygwin.  I doubt that the changes would be accepted.  Otherwise,
I think it builds ok.

There is the dwarf2 exception problem.  I guess I'm going to have to
revert to sjlj exceptions.

cgf