Re: GCC 4.5.1 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave dot org>]

> Richard Guenther wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>>> GMP: include 4.3.2, lib 4.3.2
>>> MPFR: include 3.0.0-p3, lib 3.0.0-p3
>>> MPC: include 0.8.2, lib 0.8.2
>
> fails,
>
> Richard recommends:
>
>> Use GMP from the 4.2.x series and MPFR from the 2.3.x series.  Or do
>> not build these libraries in-tree.
>
> Recently, I was thrown back to Debian Lenny, out of a mistake of my own
> regard 1) (which dates back to 14 February 2009, so over 1.5 years ago).
>
> What I did was downloading:
>
> gmp-4.3.2.tar.bz2
> mpfr-2.4.2.tar.bz2
> mpc-0.8.2.tar.gz
>
> unpack them into their own directories and adding:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 toon toon 15 2010-07-14 15:19 gmp -> ../../gmp-4.3.2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 toon toon 15 2010-07-14 14:51 mpc -> ../../mpc-0.8.2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 toon toon 16 2010-07-14 15:24 mpfr -> ../../mpfr-2.4.2
>
> as those source directories were two levels up from my 'gcc' source
> directory.
>
> That worked (I never got it working with mpfr 3.0.0 and gmp 5.0.x)

> [ You can't imagine the pain working with a 1.5 year old OS ]
>

                Have you seen Solaris 8 ?

[titan]uname -a
SunOS titan 5.8 Generic_127722-03 i86pc i386 i86pc

[titan]cat /etc/release
                       Solaris 8 2/02 s28x_u7wos_08a INTEL
           Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                           Assembled 18 December 2001
[titan]
[titan]psrinfo -v
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 07/23/10 17:46:33
  on-line since 06/15/10 20:44:18.
  The i386 processor operates at 400 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 07/23/10 17:46:33
  on-line since 06/15/10 20:44:22.
  The i386 processor operates at 400 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
[titan]



-- 
Dennis