GCC 4.7.0 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[Richard Guenther]

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
> >
> > Â ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.7.0-RC-20120302
> >
> > and shortly its mirrors. Â It has been generated from SVN revision 184777.
> >
> > I have so far bootstrapped and tested the release candidate on
> > x86_64-linux. Â 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.