Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

[Andrew Pinski]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Nils Pipenbrinck
<n.pipenbrinck@cubic.org> wrote:
> Cygwin comes with a GCC 3.4.somewhat out of the box. To compile MPFR you
> need a 4.1 compiler.  So you have to double compiling everything. And worse:
> You have to know that you have to do this. There is no information about
> that issue.

Why does MPFR requires 4.1.1?  I have used GCC 3.3 and GCC 4.0.2 to
compile it before.

> Besides that: compiling GCC under cygwin takes *much* longer than under
> linux for example The config script alone (and there are more than one) need
> around 20 minutes.

That is a different issue, it comes down to Windows is not tuned for
launching small programs over and over again.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski