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: 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: 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

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