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Re: Cygwin32 19.2 update planned (fwd)
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- Subject: Re: Cygwin32 19.2 update planned (fwd)
- From: Ronald Pijnacker <Ronald dot Pijnacker at best dot ms dot philips dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:54:03 +0200 (MET DST)
- Reply-To: Ronald dot Pijnacker at best dot ms dot philips dot com
> Parker, Ron wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Are you speaking officially or is that your guess? I took Geoffrey's
> msg a few days ago (4/20) to mean 19.2 *would* include egcs:
>
> Geoffrey Noer writes (edited - see archives for full msg):
>
> > EGCS is the Experimental GNU Compiler System -- an updated
> > experimental version of gcc. Beta 19's compiler was based on the
> > FSF gcc 2.8 release. Either can be used to compile Cygwin32...
> > Future GNU-Win32 releases will include EGCS instead of gcc 2.8.
I'd like to ask if the EGCS compiler will then also include the
objective-c and Fortran compilers. Personally I am interested in the
objective-c part, and I'd like to save myself the trouble of
recompiling it myself, and having two compilers around (which I have
now...).
Ronald Pijnacker
rhp@iname.com
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