On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> wrote: >> I'm very sceptical about "or any later version" instructions when >> building the gcc prerequisites. In practice this can never be certain >> to work, because the upstream maintainers of these tools can change >> them in ways that break gcc. > > Indeed, on the SPARC we seem to have problems (miscompilations: fortran/45277, > target/45363, c/45407) with any newer versions of GMP/MPFR/MPC. So I'm going > to add a blurb to the platform-specific instructions about that.
Wouldn't it be worthwhile to push fixes upstream? Granted, doing so for GMP is a Herculean task, but it's important to make sure that dependencies stay working, even past the minimum requirement version.
