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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/05/2012 08:41 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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

arm-rtems* fails with this:
...
*** Configuration arm-unknown-rtems4.11 is obsolete.
*** Specify --enable-obsolete to build it anyway.
*** Support will be REMOVED in the next major release of GCC,
*** unless a maintainer comes forward.
...

... I am speechless about this jerkery :(

Ralf