GCC 4.7.0 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/05/2012 10:12 AM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> 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.
> Btw, if you can help track down what goes wrong with the
> gcc/Makefile.in:install-gcc-ar rule that would be helpful.
> I think the bug I remember was about Go language binaries.
Correct, go had a similar issue until recently 
(http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48410) and C++ also had it 
a while (several years?) ago.

Ralf