RFC: cutting 4.9.0 on 24 September

[Jerry Needell]

I am "trying" to test the 4-9 branch, but I am having trouble building 
some of the tools.
In particular, gcc-4.3.2 complained ta\hat it needed mpfr so I built 
mpfr and added a link to it in the gcc-4.3.2 source tree.
It then configured, but the build fails with:

Checking multilib configuration for libgcc...
mkdir -p -- sparc-rtems/libgcc
Configuring in sparc-rtems/libgcc
configure: creating cache ./config.cache
checking for --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for gawk... gawk
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... sparc-unknown-rtems
checking for sparc-rtems-ar... sparc-rtems-ar
checking for sparc-rtems-lipo... sparc-rtems-lipo
checking for sparc-rtems-nm... /home/needell/leon/rtems/b-gcc/./gcc/nm
checking for sparc-rtems-ranlib... sparc-rtems-ranlib
checking for sparc-rtems-strip... sparc-rtems-strip
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for sparc-rtems-gcc... 
/home/needell/leon/rtems/b-gcc/./gcc/xgcc 
-B/home/needell/leon/rtems/b-gcc/./gcc/ -B/opt/rtems/sparc-rtems/bin/ 
-B/opt/rtems/sparc-rtems/lib/ -isystem /opt/rtems/sparc-rtems/include 
-isystem /opt/rtems/sparc-rtems/sys-include
checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: cannot compute 
suffix of object files: cannot compile
See `config.log' for more details.
make[1]: *** [configure-target-libgcc] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/needell/leon/rtems/b-gcc'
make: *** [all] Error 2




Any suggestions of what is going on?
Would someone alo please comment on the proper way to build and install 
mpfr as part of the tool chain.


Thanks ,
Jerry


Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Unless something shows up broken between now and
> then, I want to cut 4.9.0 next Wednesday.  Please
> test and report.
>
> So far everything looks good.
>
>