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: 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

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 ha

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

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 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 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

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 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

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 bo

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: > > 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