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Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:05:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999
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enovack wrote:
> It's just a pain since this used to work on my old laptop, which had a
> previous version of cygwin installed.
Sorry about that. Primarily the goal of cygwin is to provide a linux-like
environment and linux-like behaviour, and from that point of view the ability
to switch the system default compiler was something that was a deficiency
while it was missing. We don't go out of our way to break other usages such
as an external win32 app trying to launch a cygwin app from a non-cygwin
environment, but we can't always make everything compatible with win32 at the
expense of linux compatability. I am surprised you're having problems though,
as with /bin in the windows PATH and invoking the particular compiler by name
it should all "just work". (Yeah... famous last words!)
It might also be possible to use "cygstart" as a wrapper to launch the plain
"gcc" shortcut and even take advantage of the "alternatives" wrapper from
within your applications, although I can't promise.
> Best,
> Eileen
>
>
> Dave Korn-6 wrote:
Hey! I just got .so versioned! :-)
cheers,
DaveK
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