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Re: MinGW libstdc++.a [WAS: Re: Has sys/stat.h changed]
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:01:53AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> >> 4) Is anyone going to checkin a libstdc++.a into winsup/mingw so that I
>> >> can add this to the distribution?
>> >
>> >I'm not ready for a new release of these. Please leave the existing
>> >distribution.
>>
>> But we don't have anything now and people are reporting that Mumit's (old?)
>> distribution works ok. Couldn't we just use that for the time being just
>> to quiet the mailing list?
>>
>
>A separate package would be best to distribute this. It could be named
>mingw-libstdc++.tar.gz. The question I have is how to distribute the
>source for just the library, it's already distributed with gcc source,
>correct? So a README saying which package the source can be found would
>suffice, correct?
Do we really need a special package for one file, with all of the attendant
problems that would result? Why can't it just be part of the mingw package
itself?
cgf