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

[NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, NightStrike wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Building gmp/mpfr/mpc in tree fails in the configure-stage1-mpc step
>>>> with the current version of mpfr version 3.1.0, out since last
>>>> October, and mpc, version 0.9, out since Feb of 2011. ?I'm guessing
>>>> the sources moved or something.
>>>>
>>>> For instance, just to get the configure step to pass, I had to change
>>>> the last line of the configure step in the generated Makefile from
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>> ? ? ? ? ? --disable-shared --with-gmp-include=$$r/$(HOST_SUBDIR)/gmp
>>>> --with-gmp-lib=$$r/$(HOST_SUBDIR)/gmp/.libs
>>>> --with-mpfr-include=$$s/mpfr
>>>> --with-mpfr-lib=$$r/$(HOST_SUBDIR)/mpfr/.libs
>>>>
>>>> to this:
>>>>
>>>> ? ? ? ? ? --disable-shared --with-gmp-include=$$r/$(HOST_SUBDIR)/gmp
>>>> --with-gmp-lib=$$r/$(HOST_SUBDIR)/gmp/.libs
>>>> --with-mpfr-include=$$s/mpfr/src
>>>> --with-mpfr-lib=$$r/$(HOST_SUBDIR)/mpfr/.libs
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The key section is adding /src on the end of
>>>> --with-mpfr-include=$$s/mpfr/src
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That gets the build further, but it still doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> This same problem affects 4.6.
>>>
>>> The suggested versions of the packages in doc/install.texi are
>>> older than the ones you tried.
>>>
>>> Feel free to propose a patch for trunk, changing the recommended
>>> versions there.
>>>
>>> Richard.
>>
>> Ok. ?But does that mean that to fix configure, we have to increase the
>> minimum version of mpfr?
>
> seen no major problems thus far. Also, gmp,mpfr,mpc all build fine
> with all tests passed even on a very very old :

Are you building in tree?