building GCC - please check method, and results so far over multiple platforms

[Toebs Douglass]

On 10/04/17 13:39, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 10 April 2017 at 10:41, Toebs Douglass  wrote:

>> Aren't they missing out on improvements in those libraries, by doing so?
> 
> GCC doesn't use everything in those libraries so most improvements in
> them are not relevant to GCC. The things it uses are known to work
> fine. If GCC starts using a new feature from one of those libraries,
> or something it uses turns out to have a bug, the required version
> will be updated appropriately.

That makes sense of the situation.  Thankyou for explaining.