Re: Debugging gcc 4.9 build failure

On 31/07/14 20:47, John E. / TDM wrote:
> On 7/31/2014 1:30 PM, David Gressett wrote:
>> The gcc 4.9.1 build fails in the same place as the 4.9.0
>> build did; I have abandoned 4.9.0 and will
>> concentrate on 4.9.1.
>>
>> The problem occurs when building the Ada runtime library.
>> The offender is gcc/ada/adaint.c, which fails to compile because the definitions
>>
>> #define UNICODE
>> #define _UNICODE
>>
>> in the dependent include file mingw32.h seem to have no
>> effect.
> 
> (A followup to my previous reply to this message)
> 
> What versions of mingwrt and w32api are you using? I have found all 
> 4.0.x releases up to this point to be problematic, and am still using 
> mingwrt-3.20-2 and w32api-3.17-2.

That's surely prudent advice.  Earnie has abandoned his so-called WSL-4
-- hopefully temporarily, due to day-job overload -- in a dreadfully
messed-up state.  I have lost count of the number of regression tickets
I have personally filed, without so much as even an acknowledgement from
Earnie, and I certainly have not been alone in this.

I've made my own start, on attempting to repair the issues, but my
progress is slow.  The damage is so bad that I've decided that I will
not repair it, without a complete rewrite of Makefile.in; until I've
done that, I will not even begin to address lower level issues.

It is distressing, but I fear that WSL-4 simply is not fit for purpose,
in its presently released state.  For serious development work, I agree
that mingwrt-3.20-2 and w32api-3.17-2 may be a better choice.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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