GCC 4.7.0 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/03/2012 02:58 PM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Ralf Corsepius
> <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>  wrote:
>> On 03/02/2012 02:44 PM, Richard Guenther 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.
>>
>>
>> Trying to cross-build for sparc-rtems4.11 rpms fails with this:
>>
>> error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
>>    /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-ar
>>    /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-nm
>>    /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-ranlib
>>    /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-ar
>>    /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-nm
>>    /opt/rtems-4.11/bin/sparc-rtems4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-ranlib
>>
>> Are these<target>-gcc-{ar,nm,ranlib} really supposed to be
>> installed? Why? The rationale escapes me.
>>
>> <target>-<target>-gcc-{ar,nm,ranlib} surely is not correct.
>
> Wasn't that fixed? ...
Dunno, I used your tarball ;)

> In any case, please file a bugreport.
Will do so, ASAP.

> Yes, those are supposed to be installed, they are ar/nm/ranlib wrappers
> with linker-plugin support.

Hmm, makes me wonder why RH's/Fedora's gcc-4.7.0 doesn't contain them:

# rpm -qlp g/gcc-4.7.0-0.12.fc17.i686.rpm | grep bin
...
/usr/bin/c89
/usr/bin/c99
/usr/bin/cc
/usr/bin/gcc
/usr/bin/gcov
/usr/bin/i686-redhat-linux-gcc

... and what they are useful for? Is there any documentation to learn 
more about them?

Ralf