Re: nvm.lua-5.2 failing on mingw

Ludovic Brenta <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stephen Leake wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Stephen Leake wrote:
>>> So apparently g++ 4.6.2 has problems with exceptions on Mingw.
>>> Cygwin is
>>> still at 4.5.3; I don't think Debian is at 4.6 yet. So perhaps this
>>> is
>>> not surprising.
>>
>> Yes, Debian (unstable) is at 4.6 and even transitioning to 4.7 now.
>> Debian
>> stable is 15 months old and at 4.4.
>
> So the release plan for Debian is to have 4.7?

Yes but that came as a slight surprise and is causing a stir[1,2].

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/05/msg00175.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2012/05/msg00075.html

> I guess mtn has been tested with unstable recently, so the C++ 
> exception
> bug appears to be specific to MinGW.

I built monotone 1.0-6 yesterday night with g++-4.7 and 
libbotan1.10-dev
with no problems.  All the tests passed.  I'll wait 3 days for 1.0-5 to
reach testing before I upload, though.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.
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