On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:57 -0800, Geoffrey Keating wrote: > Hi Kaveh, > > 1. Is this intentional?
Yes, do you read any of the mailing lists? > > 2. Is it supposed to apply to the host, the target, or both? HOST. > > 3. If it's intentional, what is the list of platforms that you > intended to prevent building, that is, platforms which GCC used to > support but on which GMP or MPFR does not build? NONE, except for i686-darwin but that is not Kaveh's fault, see below. > > 4. Are you aware that the GMP home page says > > [2006-05-04] GMP does not build on MacInteltosh machines. No fix > planned for GMP 4.x. > > and indeed it does not appear to build correctly when configured on > my MacBook Pro? Make GMP build with the C sources only, they should have C sources and if they don't, then it is a bug with them. > > 5. Are you aware that the GMP home page says > > Note that we chose not to work around all new GCC bugs in this > release. Never forget to do make check after building the library > to make likely it was not miscompiled! > > and therefore this library needs to be part of the bootstrap, not > built separately? Read the mailing list, it has already been mentioned there why. > 6. The regression tester does actually have GMP installed, but it is, > not in /usr/local. Should this code be searching for GMP and mpfr in > more places if it is not found? > > Because of the severe nature of this problem (everything doesn't > build, multiple hosts affected), I'd like you to consider backing out > this patch until the problems are fixed. I'll work on a patch which > just disables the check for Darwin. You cannot because the build will be broken with or without the check for GMP/MPRF because the middle-end uses it already. Do you read the mailing list? -- Pinski
