Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Preparation of release 2.8

[Volker Grabsch]

Tony Theodore <address@hidden> schrieb:
> 10.6 looks like it may be a long exercise. Apple have updated their
> compiler toolchain and it breaks a few things, without an easy way to
> drop back to the old versions.

Thanks for your investigation. If it is too much work, let's just
drop a note in the docs and wait for Apple to do their homework.

> First was binutils, and a --disable-werror allows it to continue.
> Now it's failing at gcc, log is attached. Apparently the new ld
> doesn't behave like a gnu ld, and the workarounds I've seen aren't
> very clean.

In other words, this isn't exactly a win32 cross compiling problem,
but a general problem that MacOS 10.6 is unable to compile a GCC.
Did I understand that correctly?

Just to be sure, it would be great if you could try to compile
a vanilla GCC (and maybe Binutils) on that system. Just grab their
sources from:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.19.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.4.0/gcc-4.4.0.tar.bz2

and do a plain "./configure && make".

If that also fails, we know that it's certainly Apple's fault
and currently can't do anything about it.

If that succeeds, the incompatibility might be introduced by
the MinGW project or by TDM. In that case, we could try to
switch from TDM-GCC to MinGW-GCC, or make an even bigger jump
to mingw-w64: http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/

> I'll keep looking at it, but wouldn't let it hold up the release.

I fully agree. It's the same with TDM-GCC 4.4.1 - let drop a note
in the docs and wait for Apple (or TDM or GNU) to do their homework.
Let's hope they fix it in one of their next releases.

However, your test with vanilla Binutils/GCC is still useful for
the docs of release 2.8.


Greets,

    Volker

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