Re: "stable" version bootstrapping

2013-04-05 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Which version has currently been picked, and where can such information > reliably (thinking of a permanent weblink) be found? If I were you, I'd use the latest 4.4 compiler. Not only is it the RHEL6 system compiler, but because of some cr

Re: "stable" version bootstrapping

2013-04-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Richard Biener dixit: >in the install instructions (gcc/doc/install.texi) in the >pre-requesites section. Ah yes, I saw that, but… >Currently it reads: ⓐ that’s “curently”, plus it doesn’t specificially say that 3.4 is the “stable” version currently picked, which is one of the reasons I tho

Re: "stable" version bootstrapping

2013-04-04 Thread Richard Biener
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Hi, > > the GCC wiki says: > > “We will periodically pick a stable version of GCC, and require that that > version of GCC be able to build all versions of GCC up to and including > the next stable version. E.g., we may decide that all newer

Re: "stable" version bootstrapping

2013-04-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Tobias Burnus net-b.de> writes: > GCC since 4.8 requires a C++98 compiler, i.e. GCC since 3.4 should be > fine. However, who knows when some C++11 features will start to get Hrm, indeed. > used. Thus, why not using the latest compiler which still builds with C, > i.e. GCC 4.6 or GCC 4.7. (Th

Re: "stable" version bootstrapping

2013-04-04 Thread Tobias Burnus
Thorsten Glaser wrote: “We will periodically pick a stable version of GCC, and require that that version of GCC be able to build all versions of GCC up to and including the next stable version. [...] Which version has currently been picked, and where can such information reliably (thinking of a p

"stable" version bootstrapping

2013-04-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi, the GCC wiki says: “We will periodically pick a stable version of GCC, and require that that version of GCC be able to build all versions of GCC up to and including the next stable version. E.g., we may decide that all newer versions of GCC should be buildable with GCC 4.3.5.” Which version