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On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 21:41:13 Ruud Koolen wrote: |
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> On Sunday 02 February 2014 20:55:04 Francois Bissey wrote: |
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> > On 3/02/2014, at 6:34, Ruud Koolen <redlizard@g.o> wrote: |
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> > >But gcc and friends are specifically designed to be buildable on any |
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> > >ridiculous old system, and the use of other tools hasn't changed between |
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> > > my bootstrap process and the current one. Again, can you elaborate and |
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> > > give a concrete example? |
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> > Ridiculously old systems? AIX will come with gcc 4.2 if you are lucky. I |
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> > never managed to compile a recent gcc with an IBM compiler. |
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> Interesting; this should be possible. I'll see whether I can test this. |
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The gcc page on the subject may be out of date. May be you can bootstrap |
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gcc-4.2 with xlc but I never tried that since I had it already. |
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> > gcc 4.8 has raised the bar significantly in terms of how new your compiler |
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> > needs to be. |
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> That is a very good point. My plans and tests so far were in terms of gcc |
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> 4.7, but gcc 4.8 and later require a C++ compiler to build, which is not |
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> something we want to rely on. Thus, upgrading the bootstrap compiler would |
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> upgrade to 4.7 only and no further, and I don't see a way to change that in |
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> the future. |
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> > In the case of AIX I had to build and use a more recent gcc (4.6.x or |
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> > 4.7.x |
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> > I don’t remember) before being able to gcc 4.8.1. I also manage some SLES |
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> > 11SP1 ppc64 boxes, gcc 4.8.1 will not build with the gcc 4.3.4 that come |
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> > default. I don’t think it even compile with the alternate gcc 4.5 |
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> > toolchain |
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> > they provide. |
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> > François |
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> What about gcc 4.7? |
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gcc-4.7 is not provided by SLES 11SP1 you may be thinking of SP2 or SP3. |
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Francois |