Fedora 34 Change: MinGW environment and toolchain update (System-Wide Change proposal)

[Ben Cotton]

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F34MingwEnvToolchainUpdate

== Summary ==
Update the MinGW base environment and toolchain to the latest upstream
stable releases.

== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:smani|Sandro Mani]]
* Email: manisandro(a)gmail.com


== Detailed Description ==

The following packages will be updated

* mingw-gcc to version 11.x
* mingw-w64-tools to version 8.x
* mingw-winpthreads to version 8.x
* mingw-crt to version 8.x
* mingw-headers to version 8.x
* mingw-binutils to version 2.36
* mingw-gdb to version 10.x

== Benefit to Fedora ==

Ship the latest available MinGW environment and GNU toolchain.

== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
The above mentioned packages will be updated. Build failures following
the mass rebuild will be inspected.

* Other developers:

* Release engineering: Impact check [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/9903]
* Release engineering: Mass rebuild requested
* Policies and guidelines: No policies need to be changed

== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
No impact

== How To Test ==
Update the system once the updated packages land, look out for new
build failures etc.

== User Experience ==
The features of the newest MinGW environment and GNU Toolchain will be
available to the users.

== Dependencies ==
None

== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism: Revert to older versions of environment /
toolchain, mass rebuild mingw packages again
* Contingency deadline: Before release
* Blocks release? Yes
* Blocks product? No

== Release Notes ==
Fedora 34 comes with the mingw-w64-8 environment, mingw-gcc-11,
mingw-gdb-10' and mingw-binutils 2.36.

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[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 03:19:16PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F34MingwEnvToolchainUpdate
>  
>  == Summary ==
>  Update the MinGW base environment and toolchain to the latest upstream
>  stable releases.
>  
>  == Owner ==
>  * Name: [[User:smani|Sandro Mani]]
>  * Email: manisandro(a)gmail.com
>  
>  
>  == Detailed Description ==
>  
>  The following packages will be updated
>  
>  * mingw-gcc to version 11.x
>  * mingw-w64-tools to version 8.x
>  * mingw-winpthreads to version 8.x
>  * mingw-crt to version 8.x
>  * mingw-headers to version 8.x
>  * mingw-binutils to version 2.36
>  * mingw-gdb to version 10.x 
This would be great, thanks Sandro.

Rich.

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