Please configure GCC with --enable-checking=release to disable very slow extra compiler diagnostic checks

Sat Jul 26 21:40:54 GMT 2025

The latest GCC 13.4 package is not configured with --enable-checking=release
gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/13/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: x86_64-pc-cygwin
Configured with: /mnt/share/packages/gccmake/gcc-13/gcc/gcc.x86_64/src/gcc-13.4.0/configure --srcdir=/mnt/share/packages/gccmake/gcc-13/gcc/gcc.x86_64/src/gcc-13.4.0 --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --docdir=/usr/share/doc/gcc --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/gcc/html -C --build=x86_64-pc-cygwin --host=x86_64-pc-cygwin --target=x86_64-pc-cygwin --without-libiconv-prefix --without-libintl-prefix --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-gcc-major-version-only --enable-shared --enable-shared-libgcc --enable-static --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-bootstrap --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=newlib --with-dwarf2 --with-tune=generic --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,lto,objc,obj-c++,jit --enable-graphite --enable-threads=posix --enable-libatomic --enable-libgomp --enable-libquadmath --enable-libquadmath-support --disable-libssp --enable-libada --disable-symvers --disable-multilib --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --with-cloog-include=/usr/include/cloog-isl --without-libiconv-prefix --without-libintl-prefix --with-system-zlib --enable-linker-build-id --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible --enable-libstdcxx-filesystem-ts
Thread model: posix
Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd
gcc version 13.4.0 (GCC)
On 7/26/2025 2:59 PM, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
> Zartaj Majeed via Cygwin writes:
>> GCC on Cygwin is not configured with --enable-checking=release. This
>> makes the compiler run very slow due to extra diagnostic checks.
>> How about you don't install the absolutely latest test version (from a
> gcc snapshot) and instead chose a released one? The standard compiler
> on Cygwin is gcc 13, not 16
>>> Regards,
> Achim.