Re: [PATCH]: GMP/MPFR in-tree build instructions [Was: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)]

2008-10-20 Thread Kaveh R. Ghazi
From: Tobias Schlüter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and @option{--with-gmp-include}. Alternatively, +if a GMP source ditribution is found in a subdirectory of you GCC +sources named @file{gmp}, it will be built together with [EMAIL PROTECTED] +Library is not installed in your default

Re: [PATCH]: GMP/MPFR in-tree build instructions [Was: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)]

2008-10-19 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Tobias Schlüter wrote: I'll take care of this, provided Gerald approves the change. Gerald, if you think that copyright is a problem, I'll gladly rephrase it. Thanks for the change, it looks like a good one. You may want to make one or the other adjustment for extra

Re: [PATCH]: GMP/MPFR in-tree build instructions [Was: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)]

2008-10-19 Thread Tobias Schlüter
Gerald Pfeifer wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Tobias Schlüter wrote: I'll take care of this, provided Gerald approves the change. Gerald, if you think that copyright is a problem, I'll gladly rephrase it. Thanks for the change, it looks like a good one. You may want to make one or the other

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Markus Milleder
Adrian Bunk schrieb am 13.10.2008 17:41:15: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:42:08PM +0200, Markus Milleder wrote: snip Is there any reason not to demand 2.3.2 for GCC 4.4 ? Or even the newest MPFR version published before creating the GCC 4.4 release branch (which could be 2.3.3) ? Upgrading

Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:37:13PM +0200, Tobias Schlüter wrote: Markus Milleder wrote: Adrian Bunk schrieb am 13.10.2008 17:41:15: E.g. the next stable release of Debian will likely ship with 2.3.1 . So in this specific case fulfilling a 2.3.1 requirement would be easy, while a 2.3.2

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:23:48PM +0200, Markus Milleder wrote: Adrian Bunk schrieb am 13.10.2008 17:41:15: ... And upgrading from 2.3.1 to let's say 3.0.0 might be a bad choice if the new version contains regressions. That's why I said before branching, this gives a time window to detect

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Nils Pipenbrinck
Markus Milleder wrote: I don't think anybody who tries to build GCC from source will have any problem building MPFR first. Not entirely true: Those of us who use cygwin and want to use the latest GCC have to first compile a non MPFR GCC (e.g. 4.1.x) before they can compile the latest GPFR

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Nils Pipenbrinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not entirely true: Those of us who use cygwin and want to use the latest GCC have to first compile a non MPFR GCC (e.g. 4.1.x) before they can compile the latest GPFR and link GCC to it. I don't really see any issue

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Nils Pipenbrinck
Andrew Pinski wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Nils Pipenbrinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not entirely true: Those of us who use cygwin and want to use the latest GCC have to first compile a non MPFR GCC (e.g. 4.1.x) before they can compile the latest GPFR and link GCC to it.

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Nils Pipenbrinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin comes with a GCC 3.4.somewhat out of the box. To compile MPFR you need a 4.1 compiler. So you have to double compiling everything. And worse: You have to know that you have to do this. There is no information

Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Tobias Schlüter
Markus Milleder wrote: Adrian Bunk schrieb am 13.10.2008 17:41:15: E.g. the next stable release of Debian will likely ship with 2.3.1 . So in this specific case fulfilling a 2.3.1 requirement would be easy, while a 2.3.2 requirement would make it much harder to build gcc 4.4 . Much harder ?

RE: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Korn
Nils Pipenbrinck wrote on 14 October 2008 21:29: Markus Milleder wrote: I don't think anybody who tries to build GCC from source will have any problem building MPFR first. Not entirely true: Those of us who use cygwin and want to use the latest GCC have to first compile a non MPFR GCC

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:23:48PM +0200, Markus Milleder wrote: Much harder ? I don't think anybody who tries to build GCC from source will have any problem building MPFR first. It is certainly an awkward annoyance, especially when you occassionally need to build gcc on many different

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-10-15 04:45:25 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2008-10-14 14:19:22 -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Nils Pipenbrinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin comes with a GCC 3.4.somewhat out of the box. To compile MPFR you need a 4.1 compiler. So you have to

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-10-14 14:19:22 -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Nils Pipenbrinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin comes with a GCC 3.4.somewhat out of the box. To compile MPFR you need a 4.1 compiler. So you have to double compiling everything. And worse: You have to

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Nils Pipenbrinck wrote: Cygwin comes with a GCC 3.4.somewhat out of the box. To compile MPFR you need a 4.1 compiler. So you have to double compiling everything. And I don't know where you get that assertion but it's not true. mpfr built with gcc 3.4 works just fine and passes all tests in

Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-10-07 21:42:30 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: But is there any need to upgrade to 2.3.2 since it would fix a bug gcc ran into? FYI, GCC can be affected by some bugs in MPFR 2.3.0, amongst the bugs listed on http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.3.0/#fixed. I think that the bugs in question are: *

Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-13 Thread Markus Milleder
Vincent Lefevre schrieb am 13.10.2008 16:16:38: On 2008-10-07 21:42:30 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: But is there any need to upgrade to 2.3.2 since it would fix a bug gcc ran into? FYI, GCC can be affected by some bugs in MPFR 2.3.0, amongst the bugs snip bug list All these bugs were fixed

Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:42:08PM +0200, Markus Milleder wrote: Vincent Lefevre schrieb am 13.10.2008 16:16:38: On 2008-10-07 21:42:30 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: But is there any need to upgrade to 2.3.2 since it would fix a bug gcc ran into? FYI, GCC can be affected by some bugs in

Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:10:04PM -0700, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote: From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 09:33:48PM -0400, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: Since we're in stage3, I'm raising the issue of the MPFR version we require for GCC, just as in last year's stage3 for gcc-4.3:

Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-06 Thread Kaveh R. Ghazi
From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 09:33:48PM -0400, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: Since we're in stage3, I'm raising the issue of the MPFR version we require for GCC, just as in last year's stage3 for gcc-4.3: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-12/msg00298.html I'd like to

Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-06 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 16:10 -0700, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote: The last time this came up, the consensus was that we should not hard fail the configure script even if the user would then be missing some mpfr bugfix in the latest/greatest release. That's why we have the minimum/recommended

Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-06 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Ben Elliston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 16:10 -0700, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote: The last time this came up, the consensus was that we should not hard fail the configure script even if the user would then be missing some mpfr bugfix in the