On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:37:13PM +0200, Tobias Schlüter wrote: > Markus Milleder wrote: >> Adrian Bunk schrieb am 13.10.2008 17:41:15: >>> E.g. the next stable release of Debian will likely ship with 2.3.1 . >>> So in this specific case fulfilling a 2.3.1 requirement would be easy, >>> while a 2.3.2 requirement would make it much harder to build gcc 4.4 . >>> >> Much harder ? >> >> I don't think anybody who tries to build GCC from source will have any >> problem building MPFR first. > > They don't even need to do this, as mpfr can be built in-tree. It then > also won't interfere with a system-wide mpfr. > >> I can see how a distribution will probably want to have at least the >> MPFR version GCC demands, which would force an MPFR upgrade to >> accompany a GCC 4.4 package. >> >>> And upgrading from 2.3.1 to let's say 3.0.0 might be a bad choice if >>> the new version contains regressions. > > This is moot because for the reason given above, these hypothetical > regressions are restricted to gcc if the person building gcc is careful.
"careful" = uses an undocumented trick ? Or where at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/ is this documented? > Cheers, > - Tobi cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
