On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:01 AM Jerry James <loganje...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure.  In this case, though, i don't think we need it.  I've
> been building packages in a local mock for the last few days.  I've
> still got 6 to go, and so far I've only hit 2 issues, neither of them
> related to MPFR.  Unless something comes up with these last few, I
> think we need the MPFR 3 and MPC-linked-with-MPFR-3 compatibility
> packages only to get gcc switched over, then we can discard them and
> have an entirely MPFR 4 distribution.

I'm down to these 3 still to go: arm-none-eabi-gcc-cs, avr-gcc, and
cross-gcc.  Those gcc builds take a long time. :-)  So far the builds
have gone smoothly.

> Pavel, are you around?  Some of these packages take a long time to
> build, but I think if we had, say, a 4 or 5 day window in which the
> gcc and texlive maintainers agreed not to do any new builds, we could
> get Fedora switched entirely over to MPFR 4.  We need to start
> figuring out when that should happen.  We are already past the
> deadline for system-wide change proposals for Fedora 31, but if we get
> our ducks in a row, we can perhaps get this into Fedora 32 as soon as
> that window opens.  (I'm assuming this will be a system-wide change
> since it affects gcc.)

Does anyone at RedHat know if Pavel is on vacation?  If not, what is
the best way to contact him?
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/
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