> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:29:36PM -0400, Piyush Kumar wrote: > >Have u already built the pre-release! Or has someone else? If yes, is > >there some directions on what needs to be done! Where should I goto to > >look at this kind of stuff in the future. Any ideas! > > I have no plans on building gcc 3.0.2, currently. I'm the gcc maintainer, > although I have asked a few times for volunteers to take this over. >
Maybe someday I'm good enough to take over this! For now I'm struggling to just use the snapshots :) > >I didnt find any one talking about the GCC 3.0.2 pre-release in the > >cygwin mailing list, so asked it in the gcc mailing list. I will post > >my questions to the cygwin mailing list from now on. > > It's a safe bet that I will never go to the effort of building a *pre* > release. That would just be a lot of work for no real gain. If/when > gcc 3.x becomes the official cygwin release, I'll probably base it > on an official gcc release. > If u released a gcc that didnt work well on Cygwin, I'm sure I would be one of the first people to complain ;) > Ok. I have a reason. The reason is that it is cruicial that we have a > known stable/good version of gcc for our applications. Releasing a > version of gcc with code generation bugs would be catastrophic. There > is a higher probability that a real gcc release would be stable than > some random prelease or CVS release. Now that I started compiling stuff myself, after waiting for so long for gcc 3.0.1 on the mirror sites...I realize that its not a bad idea to wait a bit more and get something that works. :) --Piyush -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
