Re: "stable" version bootstrapping

2013-04-05 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Which version has currently been picked, and where can such information > reliably (thinking of a permanent weblink) be found? If I were you, I'd use the latest 4.4 compiler. Not only is it the RHEL6 system compiler, but because of some cr

Re: "stable" version bootstrapping

2013-04-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Richard Biener dixit: >in the install instructions (gcc/doc/install.texi) in the >pre-requesites section. Ah yes, I saw that, but… >Currently it reads: ⓐ that’s “curently”, plus it doesn’t specificially say that 3.4 is the “stable” version currently picked, which is one of the reasons I tho

Re: "stable" version bootstrapping

2013-04-04 Thread Richard Biener
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Hi, > > the GCC wiki says: > > “We will periodically pick a stable version of GCC, and require that that > version of GCC be able to build all versions of GCC up to and including > the next stable version. E.g., we may decide that all newer

Re: "stable" version bootstrapping

2013-04-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Tobias Burnus net-b.de> writes: > GCC since 4.8 requires a C++98 compiler, i.e. GCC since 3.4 should be > fine. However, who knows when some C++11 features will start to get Hrm, indeed. > used. Thus, why not using the latest compiler which still builds with C, > i.e. GCC 4.6 or GCC 4.7. (Th

Re: "stable" version bootstrapping

2013-04-04 Thread Tobias Burnus
Thorsten Glaser wrote: “We will periodically pick a stable version of GCC, and require that that version of GCC be able to build all versions of GCC up to and including the next stable version. [...] Which version has currently been picked, and where can such information reliably (thinking of a p