Which compiler version should we use to compile Cadence Compilers

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 9 April 2018 at 20:29, Rogerio de Souza Moraes wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I goal is to discuss if we should use the compiler available in the build machine (for example, in RHEL 6.5 it is GCC v4.4.7) or if we should use the previous version of Cadence GCC (for example v4.8.3).
>
> Currently, we use the lastest officially supported Cadence GCC version.
>
> But we are using the configuration parameter “enable-bootstrap”, which steps are described below, I think we could use the compiler available in the build machine.

When you do a bootstrap the final result is built by the new GCC. It
doesn't matter which version you start with, the final result will be
the same.