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

[Tobias Grosser <tobias at grosser dot es>]

On 03/02/2012 08:40 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > > > If all goes well, I'd like to release 4.7.0 in about three weeks.
> > >
> > > I'll drop it on Solaris. Give it a push. Do we realy really need that
> > > ppl/cloog stuff? I have never seen it build and pass any tests, ever,
> > > even once, on Solaris with or without Sun Studio compilers or GCC or
> > > prayer and geek magic under a full moon.  Seriously.
> >
> > Given that PPL is a C++ library, you need to build it with g++ since
> > Studio CC and g++ aren't ABI-compatible.
> >
> > That said, I'm using them in my Solaris GCC bootstraps, although it
> > admittedly took some effort to build initially and using it requires you
> > to jump through hoops to get the configure options right.  I agree that
> > this is an incredible mess right now.
>
> I found it too be entirely too much work to be trusted and considered
> stable long term. So therefore I generally kick ppl/cloog to the curb
> and focus on core c,c++ gfortan and ada with objc thrown in without
> the ppl/cloog bits at all. I have been very happy with my results and
> the recent 4.6.3 RC was the most clean and pure results I have seen
> to date, on Solaris 8 old Sparc no less :
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2012-02/msg02786.html

Hi Dennis,

I am planning to update graphite to a newer version of CLooG, which does 
not rely on PPL (but uses isl, a plain c library).

Is the C++ issue the only problem on solaris or are there further 
problems with CLooG? It would be good to know or test this in advance. 
Unfortunately I do not have any solaris machine and there is also none 
on the compile farm. Would you mind testing cloog 0.17 [1] and reporting 
if 'make check' succeeds.

Thanks a lot
Tobi

[1] 
http://www.bastoul.net/cloog/pages/download/count.php3?url=./cloog-0.17.0.tar.gz