On 14 December 2010 05:30, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > (Btw., I failed in trying to compile some older versions of GCC with > newer ones, e.g. 4.0.x with 4.3.3, 4.4.3 and 4.5.1.)
> -Leif At one point one could build gcc with a C compiler. Then it became necessary to use gcc to build gcc. Now as you say, you sometimes need specific versions of gcc. Since Sage is supposed to build with gcc >= 4.0.1, I've tried to build 4.0.1 on Solaris SPARC to test this, but it actually failed, as I was unable to build gcc 4.0..1 (I can't recall what versions of gcc I used when attempting such a build). GCC is a useful compiler, but it would be useful if one only needed a C compiler in order to compile it. I don't believe the compilers from Sun ((Oracle), HP or IBM can build recent version of gcc. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
