Re: GCC 4.7.0 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>]

On 03/05/2012 10:12 AM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> > On 03/03/2012 02:58 PM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Ralf Corsepius
> > > <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>   wrote:
> > > > On 03/02/2012 02:44 PM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > > > GCC 4.7.0 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org
> > > > >
> > > > > The first release candidate for GCC 4.7.0 is available from
> > > > >
> > > > >    ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.7.0-RC-20120302
> > > > >
> > > > > and shortly its mirrors.  It has been generated from SVN revision
> > > > > 184777.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have so far bootstrapped and tested the release candidate on
> > > > > x86_64-linux.  Please test it and report any issues to bugzilla.
> > > > >
> > > > > If all goes well, I'd like to release 4.7.0 in about three weeks.
> > > >
> > > > Trying to cross-build for sparc-rtems4.11 rpms fails with this:
> > > >
> > > > error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
> > > >     /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-ar
> > > >     /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-nm
> > > >     /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-ranlib
> > > >     /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-ar
> > > >     /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-nm
> > > >     /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-ranlib
> > > >
> > > > Are these<target>-gcc-{ar,nm,ranlib} really supposed to be
> > > > installed? Why? The rationale escapes me.
> > > >
> > > > <target>-<target>-gcc-{ar,nm,ranlib} surely is not correct.
> > > Wasn't that fixed? ...
> > Dunno, I used your tarball ;)
> >
> > > In any case, please file a bugreport.
> > Will do so, ASAP.
> Btw, if you can help track down what goes wrong with the
> gcc/Makefile.in:install-gcc-ar rule that would be helpful.
> I think the bug I remember was about Go language binaries.
Correct, go had a similar issue until recently 
(http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48410) and C++ also had it 
a while (several years?) ago.

Ralf