Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-11-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
MPFR 2.2.1 is now available for download from the MPFR web site: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/ Thanks very much to those who tested the release candidates. The MD5's: 40bf06f8081461d8db7d6f4ad5b9f6bd mpfr-2.2.1.tar.bz2 662bc38c75c9857ebbbc34e3280053cd mpfr-2.2.1.tar.gz 93a2bf9dc66f81caa57c

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-02 Thread Kaveh R. GHAZI
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > MPFR 2.2.1 is now available for download from the MPFR web site: > > http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.1/ > > Thanks very much to those who tested the release candidates. > > The MD5's: > 40bf06f8081461d8db7d6f4ad5b9f6bd mpfr-2.2.1.tar.bz2 > 662bc38c75c9

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-02 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Kaveh, Requiring this is a bit of a nuisance. mpfr requires gmp so I had to go pull and build that only to find: checking if gmp.h version and libgmp version are the same... (4.2.1/4.1.4) no which is a problem because I cannot have /usr/local/lib found before /usr/lib for some things, yet for

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-02 Thread Kaveh R. GHAZI
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Bruce Korb wrote: > Hi Kaveh, > > Requiring this is a bit of a nuisance. mpfr requires gmp so I had to > go pull and build that only to find: > > checking if gmp.h version and libgmp version are the same... > (4.2.1/4.1.4) no > > which is a problem because I cannot have /usr/lo

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-02 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Kaveh, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > > It's not clear from your message whether this is a problem limited to > mpfr-2.2.1, or 2.2.0 had this also. In any case, I think the mpfr > configure process is right to stop you from shooting yourself by using a > mismatched gmp header and library. Here-to-fore

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-02 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > Gerald, would you please copy the mpfr-2-2.1 tarball to the gcc > infrastructure directory and delete 2.2.0 and the cumulative patch from > there? Thanks. http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr-2.2.1.tar.bz2 Sure -- done it is. Gerald PS: I will most p

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-12-02 10:16:31 -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: > Requiring this is a bit of a nuisance. mpfr requires gmp so I had to > go pull and build that only to find: > > checking if gmp.h version and libgmp version are the same... > (4.2.1/4.1.4) no Note that this test was really buggy in MPFR 2.2.0. I f

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-12-02 11:41:48 -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: > Anyway, the whole deal about gmp-config is that mpfr should be doing > the equivalent of --with-gmp=`gmp-config --libdir` so that you > *don't* have the /usr/local headers and the /usr binary. Assuming a gmp-config program is provided, the user can

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-04 Thread Joe Buck
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 12:01:45PM -0500, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > Hi Vincent, thanks for making this release. Since this version of mpfr > fixes important bugs encountered by GCC, I've updated the gcc > documentation and error messages to refer to version 2.2.1. > > I have NOT (yet) updated gcc's

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Kenner
> IMHO, you should *never* update gcc's configure to force the issue. To do > so would be unprecedented. I'm not in favor of this either, but aren't there precedents with either automake, autoconf, or both?

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-04 Thread Joe Buck
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:09:25PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote: > > IMHO, you should *never* update gcc's configure to force the issue. To do > > so would be unprecedented. > > I'm not in favor of this either, but aren't there precedents with either > automake, autoconf, or both? The ordinary us

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-04 Thread DJ Delorie
Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The ordinary user who builds gcc from source does not need *any* > version of automake, autoconf, etc., so any strict requirements that > are imposed on these tools have an impact only on gcc developers. I wish we could have similar requirements for GMP and

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-12-04 15:34:32 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The ordinary user who builds gcc from source does not need *any* > > version of automake, autoconf, etc., so any strict requirements that > > are imposed on these tools have an impact only on gcc developers.

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> > I wish we could have similar requirements for GMP and MPFR, rather > > than requiring the user to pre-install them on pretty much EVERY > > computer. > > Do you mean that gcc should be distributed with GMP and MPFR libraries > in the tarball? (There had been a discussion about including them

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-04 Thread Kaveh R. GHAZI
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Joe Buck wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 12:01:45PM -0500, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > > Hi Vincent, thanks for making this release. Since this version of mpfr > > fixes important bugs encountered by GCC, I've updated the gcc > > documentation and error messages to refer to versi

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-04 Thread Joe Buck
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:32:19PM -0500, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > OTOH, Joe you're arguing we should never require people to upgrade. Well > I think that's unfair to people who rely on gcc to produce correct code. So, should we detect old binutils versions and refuse to build as well? How about o

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-05 Thread Paolo Bonzini
That idea got nixed, but I think it's time to revisit it. Paolo has worked out the kinks in the configury and we should apply his patch and import the gmp/mpfr sources, IMHO. Note that these two issues (my patch, which by the way was started and tested by Nick Clifton, and whether to import

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-05 Thread Diego Novillo
Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote on 12/04/06 21:32: That idea got nixed, but I think it's time to revisit it. Paolo has worked out the kinks in the configury and we should apply his patch and import the gmp/mpfr sources, IMHO. Yes, I vote to include gmp/mpfr in the tree. If gmp/mpfr is still a fluid tar

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-05 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Le Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:12:08AM -0500, Diego Novillo écrivait/wrote: > Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote on 12/04/06 21:32: > >That idea got nixed, but I think it's time to revisit it. Paolo has > >worked out the kinks in the configury and we should apply his patch and > >import the gmp/mpfr sources, IMHO.

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-05 Thread DJ Delorie
Paolo Bonzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That idea got nixed, but I think it's time to revisit it. Paolo has > > worked out the kinks in the configury and we should apply his patch and > > import the gmp/mpfr sources, IMHO. > > Note that these two issues (my patch, which by the way was start

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure to follow Diego and I am a bit concerned about other > potential external libraries. Suppose for example that some GCC code > uses an external library like the Parma Polyedral Library > http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/ (which is very usefu

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-05 Thread Paul Brook
> This all may just be a shakedown problem with MPFR, and maybe it will > stabilize shortly. But it's disturbing that after one undistributed > version became a requirement, we then very shortly stepped up to a new > undistributed version. I think it should be obvious that if we > require an exte

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This all may just be a shakedown problem with MPFR, and maybe it will > > stabilize shortly. But it's disturbing that after one undistributed > > version became a requirement, we then very shortly stepped up to a new > > undistributed version. I think i

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-05 Thread Richard Guenther
On 05 Dec 2006 07:16:04 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This all may just be a shakedown problem with MPFR, and maybe it will > > stabilize shortly. But it's disturbing that after one undistributed > > version became a requirement, w

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Mitchell
Richard Guenther wrote: >> As far as I know both versions are released. What I said was >> "undistributed," by which I mean: the required version of MPFR is not >> on my relatively up to date Fedora system. > > It also missed the openSUSE 10.2 schedule (which has the old version > with all patch

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-06 Thread Kaveh R. GHAZI
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, DJ Delorie wrote: > At the very least, we should be configured so that we *could* have an > in-tree mpfr, should vendors choose to add it. Saving customers the > misery of figuring out how to build and install gmp/mpfr is the type > of value add they'd appreciate. DJ, as a bu

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-06 Thread Kaveh R. GHAZI
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, DJ Delorie wrote: > Paolo Bonzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That idea got nixed, but I think it's time to revisit it. Paolo has > > > worked out the kinks in the configury and we should apply his patch and > > > import the gmp/mpfr sources, IMHO. > > > > Note that thes

Re: Announce: MPFR 2.2.1 is released

2006-12-06 Thread DJ Delorie
> DJ, as a build machinery maintainer, you are authorized to approve > such a patch. Is anything holding you back? You mean, besides politics? The last time such a patch came through, we were in the middle of discussing the various --with-* options. I wanted to let that settle first.