On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 19:36 +0000, Dave Korn wrote: > Laurent GUERBY wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 18:59 +0000, Dave Korn wrote: > >> Laurent GUERBY wrote: > >> > >>> I'm not sure 3.4 will work for trunk > >> I was just entirely unable to get 3.4.4 to bootstrap a 4.3.2 compiler. I > >> used 4.3.0 and it worked. I forget what I used to build the 4.3.0 with in > >> the > >> first place. I think the documentation needs updating to say you'll need > >> to > >> use an early/intermediate 4.x version to bootstrap your way past the > >> 3.x/4.x > >> boundary, but I couldn't say exactly where the break lies. > > > > Was this on cygwin or Linux? > > Cygwin. Would that be likely to make a difference?
Depending on the error it could make a difference. The oldest system I have access to is Ubuntu 5.10 which I believe came with 4.0 GCC default and optional 3.4 GCC packages (the system is offline right now so I rely on memory, I'll confirm when it comes back online). Laurent
