Re: Build failure on Cygwin

[Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

    >> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:12:06 -0700 From: "Eric Hanchrow"
    >> <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>
    >>
    >> I simply did "cvs co ...", "./configure", "make bootstrap".

    Eli> Thanks for reporting.

    Eli> Is this the first time you try to bootstrap the Cygwin build?

Yes, or at least, the first time in years.

    Eli> If so, please look for relevant entries in PROBLEMS, and make
    Eli> sure you don't trip on any of the Cygwin-related gotchas
    Eli> mentioned there.  In particular, the one with GCC versions.

I did indeed have gcc 3.4.4, which that file mentions doesn't work.
Thanks, that explains the failure.  But it leaves me with two
questions:

* Couldn't "configure" detect the gcc version, and fail if it finds
  that we're using any of those bad gcc versions on Cygwin?  That
  would have saved me and you time.

* Do I need to build gcc 4 myself from source?  It doesn't appear to
  be available from Cygwin's setup program.

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