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[Mingw-users] GCC 3.4.5 binaries with Vista fix available

First of all: my apologies for dropping off the face of the earth! Back in January, I volunteered to upload new GCC 3.4.5 binaries that work correctly on Windows Vista; Unexpected Circumstances (TM) intervened and forced me to take a short break. I'm now picking up where I left off, however...
 
...And uploading the promised packages. Look for tarballs with "-vista" appended in the gcc-3.4.5 release of the GCC Version 3 package on the SF download page. (They are being uploaded as I type this.) In addition to the six language packages, there are two other files pertinent to this release: gcc-3.4.5-vista-build.sh, which is the script I used to build GCC, and gcc-3.4.5-vista_diffs.tar.gz, which contains a diff of gcc/version.c (necessitated by a change to the version string).
 
This release incorporates a grand total of three changes from the previous version. First, -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS was added to CFLAGS for the build process. This fixes the problem of GCC drivers thinking they couldn't find the compiler executables in Vista because access() in the Vista runtime doesn't like the X_OK flag. Second (in order to reflect the former change), the version string was updated to read (mingw-vista special). Third, the info/dir files have been omitted from the packages -- you can now safely extract to your final destination without overwriting your dir entries.
 
If you encounter bugs of any sort while using this release, you should first search the mingw-users mailing list archives to see whether the issue has already been dealt with. If the problem is in fact unique to this release (for example, a packaging bug or an unforeseen consequence of the single important change I made), please post full details -- the bug's symptoms and steps to reproduce it -- to the mingw-users mailing list.
 
-John E.
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