On 2012-05-09 10:05, Jason Moxham wrote:
>    
> So what's the motivation for refusing to build MPIR with gcc-4.3.2?
> 
> The configure script essentially just says "it's broken" without
> specifying how or why.  I have built MPIR with gcc-4.3.2 on a GNU/Linux
> x86_64 system with -march=nocona and built gcc with that MPIR and I had
> no problems at all.
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> gcc-4.3.2 fails MPIR's make check on x64 , I think it's the reuse test , I 
> suppose we should write a proper test so patched gcc's will work , but I'm 
> not at all sure what part of gcc is broken as we can't use the reuse test 
> itself as it needs MPIR to be built first. Note GMP is also broken on 
> gcc-4.3.2

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I did run the testsuite with
gcc-4.3.2 and all tests passed.  So if there really is a problem with
gcc-4.3.2, the testsuite of MPIR-2.4.0 doesn't catch it.

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