On 10/26/07, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/26/07, Andrew MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Richard Guenther wrote: > >> > On 10/26/07, Andrew MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> > > > > > ... when we think it's ready. It doesn't help anyone to declare victory > > and release 4.3.0 when it still miscompiles the kernel (not that I know > > if it does). Warm fuzzyness for PMs put aside. > > At the risk of annoying you Red Hat Linux guys ( and Linux people in general > ) you may be surprised to hear that there are problems for UNIX(tm) users > out there. Now I have tried and failed to get a successful bootstrap build > of GCC 4.2.2 on Solaris 8 ( Sparc or x86 ) and on Solaris 10. When I look at > the Build status page I see no one has posted a result there for GCC 4.2.2 : > > Please see : http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/buildstat.html > > I was able to get a decent build with GCC 4.2.1 however : > > And see : http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2007-08/msg00318.html > > Exact same machine with exact same environment can not build GCC 4.2.2. > > Now then, you seem to be discussing GCC 4.3 when GCC 4.2.x still does not > build correctly on a highly standards compliant UNIX platform. Am I reading > this correctly ?
Yes. This is because the interest in 4.2.x is much lower than in 4.3.0 right now. > If not .. then please educate me if you can. I would like > to at least see GCC 4.2.2 bootstrap out of the box before flailing forwards > to GCC 4.3.x. Patches welcome. Certainly there are targets that are less maintained (and tested) than the *-linux targets. But without infinite resources we cannot do anything about this. Thus, in the case of Solaris - talk to Sun. Richard.
