RE: Cygwin32 19.2 update planned

["Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot org>]

Replacing gcc with egcs would constitute a major change.  Look for it 
in B20.  Most of the "point" releases have only included changes to 
winsup and occasionally newlib.

-----Original Message-----
From: John A. Turner [mailto:John.Turner@pobox.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 1998 3:43 PM
To: noer@cygnus.com
Cc: earnie_boyd@hotmail.com; gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin32 19.2 update planned


Geoffrey Noer writes:
 > As people have found out, upgrading to beta 19.1 is *not* a good 
idea
 > if you want to set the CYGWIN32 environment variable to change any
 > defaults.
 >
 > I am planning to make a 19.2 release that will definitely fix this
 > and hopefully a number of other problems that have been reported
 > since 19.1.  Ideally this will include fixing the readlink() bug 
that
 > RCS bumps into, NTEA will be turned off unless you want it on, 
etc...
 > Hopefully a couple of weeks is the timeframe.

and in another msg:

Geoffrey Noer writes:
 > Upgrade to egcs.  The C++ compiler in b19 is very broken.
 >
 > http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/egcs.html

Which brings up the question... wait for it... have you considered
releasing 19.2 with egcs?

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