On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Geoffrey Keating wrote: > > One more thing, I initially went down the road of including the GMP/ > > MPFR > > sources in the gcc tree and building them as part of the bootstrap > > process. But the consensus was not to do that: > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-10/msg00167.html > > I think the problem is that Mark also said > > > I do think we should do is provide a known-good version (whether > > via a tag in some version control system, or via a tarball) of > > these libraries so that people can easily get versions that work. > > and this is the part that didn't work; it's not good enough to think > that a good version might exist, you need to know what it actually > is, because knowing what it is might change your opinion on whether > it's good...
Well, the correct versions were documented in http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html Copies of the correct sources were put in: ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/ Where it broke down for you seems to be in the installation instructions that accompany the tarballs. But I don't have any control over those, the GMP/MPFR maintainers do. Do we have a GCC FAQ somewhere? Maybe we can add GMP/MPFR build problems and solutions there. You can add your experiences to that collection. I'm sorry you've had trouble, hopefully all this is a one-time thing that doesn't cause too much grief for everyone. Then we can all get back to making GCC better. :-) --Kaveh -- Kaveh R. Ghazi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
