Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:48:20 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: gerald@freebsd.org, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port lang/gcc45 - not sure how to interpret GCC developers' advice Message-ID: <20101115184820.GL1517@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20101115105450.GA27736@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20101115105450.GA27736@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Anton Shterenlikht wrote this message on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:54 +0000: > On sparc64 -current r212302 I'm having trouble > building port lang/gcc45. > > Before I go any further, let me just check if anybody > on this list has built gcc45 successfully? > > Here's my GCC bug submission: > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46086 > > I just can't understand what the GCC folks tell me to do. > > They referred me to this page: > http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#sparc-x-x > > and apparently to this paragraph: > > *quote* > Newer versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), > the MPFR library and the MPC library are known to be > miscompiled by earlier versions of GCC on these platforms. > We therefore recommend the use of the exact versions of > these libraries listed as minimal versions in the prerequisites. > *end quote* > > The prerequisites link lists: > > GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) version 4.3.2 (or later) > MPFR Library version 2.4.2 (or later) > > I've installed: > > gmp-5.0.1 > gmp-ecm-6.3 > mpfr-3.0.0 > > So do they mean to say that I should downgrade to GMP 4.3.2 and > MPFR 2.4.2? Yes, I believe that they do. I think the important phrase is: exact versions of these libraries listed as minimal versions which isn't very clear, but saying use the minimal version listed on the page... They probably had someone try w/ 4.3.3 and wonder why it wasn't working so they added the exact verbage... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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