Re: GCC 5.1.0 in mxe-octave

[JohnD]

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> Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 14:58:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: GCC 5.1.0 in mxe-octave
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> John W. Eaton wrote
> > I updated mxe-octave and noticed that GCC has been updated to 5.1.0.
> > Is this necessary for some bug fixes?  If not, I'd prefer to stay at
> > the previous version for the Octave 4.0.x releases.
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?44998
> 
> gcc 4.9.2 used to work fine until (I think) the change was made on the
host side
> (Linux) to have a combined 32/64 bit cross-gcc to be able to compile nsis
for 64
> bit Octave.
> However it appears that the so produced binaries turned out to be
incompatible
> with the 64-bit only native gcc for the Windows side, leading to
intractable bugs.
> 
> Philip
> 
> 

Well probally needs to go back to 4.9.2 or 4.8.4?
Im sure I had compiled and run it both in 64 and 32 bit mode but its not
doing it now.

As for the question on not changing except for bug releases, so we need a
stable vs dev branch?