Fwd: GCC 4.7.0 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/03/2012 12:30 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Hi, again
>
> gcc-4.7.0 is rapidly approaching.
>
> I am currently trying to locally build rtems4.11 gcc-rpms from the RC
> tarball, having intended to early adopt gcc-4.7.0, as I did with
> previous releases before, but ...
>
> ... this time, preliminary build results are not promissing.
>
> Reported so far:
> * lm32 does not build at all:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52466

> * cross building seems broken in general:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-03/msg00035.html
It's not clear to me what to do about this. SuSE's GCC maintainer says 
installing <target>-gcc-<as,nm,ranlib> is desired, but I so far fail to 
understand what this feature would be useful for.

More astonishingly, somehow this "feature" seems to be disabled in 
RH/Fedora's upcomming gcc-4.7.0. Unfortunately, I haven't yet figured 
out how.


Further preliminary results:

* Bootstrapping m68k ICEs:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52481

* Bootstrapping avr ICEs:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52488

Ralf