On Fri, 2019-07-12 at 09:07 -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:01 AM Jerry James <loganje...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm not sure.  In this case, though, i don't think we need
> > it.  I've
> > been building packages in a local mock for the last few days.  I've
> > still got 6 to go, and so far I've only hit 2 issues, neither of
> > them
> > related to MPFR.  Unless something comes up with these last few, I
> > think we need the MPFR 3 and MPC-linked-with-MPFR-3 compatibility
> > packages only to get gcc switched over, then we can discard them
> > and
> > have an entirely MPFR 4 distribution.
> 
> I'm down to these 3 still to go: arm-none-eabi-gcc-cs, avr-gcc, and
> cross-gcc.  Those gcc builds take a long time. :-)  So far the builds
> have gone smoothly.
> 
> > Pavel, are you around?  Some of these packages take a long time to
> > build, but I think if we had, say, a 4 or 5 day window in which the
> > gcc and texlive maintainers agreed not to do any new builds, we
> > could
> > get Fedora switched entirely over to MPFR 4.  We need to start
> > figuring out when that should happen.  We are already past the
> > deadline for system-wide change proposals for Fedora 31, but if we
> > get
> > our ducks in a row, we can perhaps get this into Fedora 32 as soon
> > as
> > that window opens.  (I'm assuming this will be a system-wide change
> > since it affects gcc.)
> 
> Does anyone at RedHat know if Pavel is on vacation?  If not, what is
> the best way to contact him?
> -- 
> Jerry James
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Nice work Jerry!

I remember it being quite difficult to get into contact with Pavel last
time I tried. I eventually had to use the non-responsive maintainer
procedure.

-- 

Dr James Paul Turner
Department of Informatics
University of Sussex

Arpra: Arbitrary-Precision Range Analysis
https://github.com/arpra-project/arpra

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