Re: Preparing for gcc-4.8.2 release

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Keith Marshall
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 19/08/13 16:33, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > Ping, any input on this?
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >> I'm trying to get ready for gcc-4.8.1 with WSL-4.0 release.  I want to
> >> ensure that gcc less than 4.8.1 uses mingwrt and w32api less than the
> >> 4.0 release.  Will the attached patch accomplish what I want with the
> >> already released GCC?  I've not added 4.8.1 data to it yet, just
> >> getting the file ready in mingw-dist.
>
> Your XML looks okay, but why preclude the use of mingwrt-4.x and
> w32api-4.x with earlier GCC?  I'm using, and indeed am dependent on
> both of them, (or rather on wsl-4.0, to be precise), for mingw-get,
> yet I'm still building with GCC-3.4.5.  This WJFFM.

The released versions will be built with gcc-4.8.1 and we have a
stated ABI change. I could just limit the new releases of gcc,
binutils and dependents to the runtime and API 4.0.  Do you feel that
is enough?

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Earnie
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