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Re: [Fwd: winsup/mingw libstdc++.a]


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:52:32PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >I know why you did this, however, I don't like it.  This is not the
> >place for this file.  It should be a separate package controlled by
> >setup.ini.
> 
> I'm not quite done yet but I thought that we'd previously agreed to
> make this part of mingw some day.
> 
> If we make it a separate package then we'll always be saying "Did you
> install mingw-gcc-extra?" in the cygwin mailing list.
> 

Just like any other package that has dependencies.

> In the mingw world, they just have to download mingw-runtime, gcc, and
> binutils, right?  I'd like to keep the packages the same even if I have
> to juggle the internals around a little bit.
> 

But, I'll have to juggle the updates between MinGW and Cygwin versions. 
I'm not willing to maintain to differing versions and libstdc++.a isn't
needed in the MinGW CVS.

> I can add stuff to the mingw distribution more easily than I can to the
> gcc, so it made sense to me to add this to mingw.
> 

But then I've got to juggle the other changes.

> If we made this a separate package the package depencency code wouldn't
> even help in this case since nothing would depend on it.  It just wouldn't
> be installed.
> 

You could make gcc depend on it.

Earnie.

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