On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 18:32:24 +0200 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2017 at 21:08, Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > On May 16, 2017, at 5:16 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > The change I care about in 1.5.3 > > > > So, we haven't talked much about the version people want most. If we > > update, might as well get something that more people care about. 1.5.3 is > > in ubuntu LTS 16.04 and Fedora 24, so it's been around awhile. SUSU is > > said to be using 1.6, in the post 1.4.4 systems. People stated they want > > 1.5.2 and 1.5.3, so, I'm inclined to say, let's shoot for 1.5.3 when we do > > update. > > > > As for the machines in the FSF compile farm, nah, tail wagging the dog. > > I'd rather just update the requirement, and the owners or users of those > > machines can install a new dejagnu, if they are using one that is too old > > and they want to support testing gcc. > > So.. let me ping that, again, now that another year has passed :) or another 3 or 4 :) > > PS: Recap: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2012-03/msg00094.html was > later applied as > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=dejagnu.git;a=commit;h=5481f29161477520c691d525653323b82fa47ad7 > and was part of the dejagnu-1.5.2 release from 2015. Jonathan requires > 1.5.3 for libstdc++ testing. (i.e. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=dejagnu.git;a=commit;h=5256bd82343000c76bc0e48139003f90b6184347 ) > The libdirs fix would allow us to remove the 150 occurrences of the > load_gcc_lib hack, refer to the patch to the fortran list back then. > AFAIR this is still not fixed: +# BUG: gcc-dg calls > gcc-set-multilib-library-path but does not load gcc-defs! > > debian-stable (i think 9 ATM), Ubuntu LTS ship versions recent enough > to contain both fixes. Commercial distros seem to ship fixed versions, > too. It seems in May 2020 there was a thread on gcc with about the same subject: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2020-May/232427.html where Mike suggests to have approved to bump the required minimum version to 1.5.3. So who's in the position to update the https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html to s/1.4.4/1.5.3/g && git commit -m 'bump dejagnu required version' ? Just asking patiently and politely. I don't want to rush anybody into such a bump :) But as you may remember, folks routinely run afoul of using too old versions (without the 5256bd8 multilib prepending for example, recently someone doing ARM stuff IIRC) so a bump would just be fair IMHO. Maybe now, for gcc-12, is the time to bump prerequisites to 1.5.3? thanks and sorry for my impatience (and, once again, the noise). cheers,
