Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> writes: >> I'd strongly advise against it: in the past we've had serious problems >> with versions newer than advertised in install.texi on some platforms. >> Until we have positive evidence that specific newer versions work on a >> wide range of platforms, we shouldn't suggest to our users that they >> might. Many users tried with the then-current versions in the past, and >> the failures are often quite hard to trace back to this. > > Note that I explicitely added the reference to download_prerequesites > for the case the user wants/needs to build the libraries together > with GCC. That should address this concern, no?
I fear it won't: some people will use it, others just download the latest versions from gmp.org etc. and build them out-of-tree themselves. If we want to recommend newer versions (and no complaint from me there), we should first make sure they work *ourselves* and then again require *those specific versions*, no weasle-wording for anything else, given lots of bad experience in the past. >> For the 4.9 branch, we should leave this as is: the benefit is almost >> certainly not worth the trouble. > > Of course. Though the version referenced from http://gcc.gnu.org/install > is the one from trunk. Unfortunately true. Perhaps we should change that? Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
