Re: At last: the bool problem seems to be due to omitted dependency from make check*

[Mike Stump <mstump at apple dot com>]

On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 02:48 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Tim Josling wrote:
>
> > File toplev.c gets recompiled with a different size definition of 
> > bool than
>
> I have previously suggested
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-09/msg00797.html> that we should avoid
> this problem simply by not using the system <stdbool.h>.

I think we should just recommend that developers (they know who they 
are) must use gcc 3.x (or whatever version will work) or later to 
build.  I know, seems obscure and wrong, but sometimes life is too 
short.  I don't like gcc_bool very much, seems a step in the wrong 
direction.  I don't want a dependancy on quickstrap for testing either. 
 So, the question is, would be be so bad if we just recommended 
versions later than X for developers?  Does this actually solve the 
problem?  Certainly the requirement for contrib/update_gcc or autoconf 
2.13 is more obscure and has been a larger headache over the years?