On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 20:58 +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Toon Moene <t...@moene.org> wrote: > > Steven Bosscher wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Kaveh R. Ghazi <gh...@caip.rutgers.edu> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> If there are no objections, I'll create a patch. > >> > >> Pffff... for those of us who just install the latest-and-greatest > >> fedora/suse/ubuntu/... once and don't change installations for two or > >> three years (stable machine, etc.) it becomes increasingly harder to > >> install all required libraries to build GCC... > > > > But why do you want to work this way (assuming that people who need a stable > > OS don't want to upgrade their compiler on a whim). > > The problem doesn't happen on machines I own or have root access to. > It's only a problem when you try to do gcc development on machines > hosted by 3rd parties (SF compile farm, HP cluster, machines at places > where I work and/or where I try to convince people to use gfortran > instead of e.g. sunf90, etc.).
If you're able to compile and install GCC on a system then my experience is that configuring and installing GMP and MPFR from .tar.gz is hassle free (you must use --disable-shared on both) and does not take very long relative to GCC bootstrap. On the GCC Compile Farm if you look at it GMP and MPFR in /opt/cfarm are not compiled by root :). Sincerely, Laurent
