Re: Problems with upstream versions of gmp, mpfr, and mpc [Was: Bug in Build System of gcc-4.5.1? Cannot Find libmpc.so.2]

2010-08-28 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:43, NightStrike wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Eric Botcazou wrote: >>> I'm very sceptical about "or any later version" instructions when >>> building the gcc prerequisites.  In practice this can never be certain >>> to work, because the upstream maintainers

Re: Problems with upstream versions of gmp, mpfr, and mpc [Was: Bug in Build System of gcc-4.5.1? Cannot Find libmpc.so.2]

2010-08-28 Thread NightStrike
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Eric Botcazou wrote: >> I'm very sceptical about "or any later version" instructions when >> building the gcc prerequisites.  In practice this can never be certain >> to work, because the upstream maintainers of these tools can change >> them in ways that break gc

Re: Problems with upstream versions of gmp, mpfr, and mpc [Was: Bug in Build System of gcc-4.5.1? Cannot Find libmpc.so.2]

2010-08-28 Thread Eric Botcazou
> I'm very sceptical about "or any later version" instructions when > building the gcc prerequisites. In practice this can never be certain > to work, because the upstream maintainers of these tools can change > them in ways that break gcc. Indeed, on the SPARC we seem to have problems (miscompil

Problems with upstream versions of gmp, mpfr, and mpc [Was: Bug in Build System of gcc-4.5.1? Cannot Find libmpc.so.2]

2010-08-28 Thread Andrew Haley
[ Redirect to gcc. This is a dev issue. ] On 08/27/2010 10:39 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:17, Andrew Haley wrote: >>> However, just running download_prerequisites is, IMVHO, the only sane way >>> to do it. > > That's the solution I used, and I got a good build--thanks fo