Re: [Monotone-devel] nvm.lua-5.2 failing on mingw

[Ludovic Brenta]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta <address@hidden> 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.