Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2012-02-12 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 12 February 2012 23:43, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >>> My 2c - I heartily recommend this patch. >> Thanks. I'm a bit surprised noone else has commented - I hoped this >> would be a no-brainer, or at least get some constructive feedback for >> further impr

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2012-02-12 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> My 2c - I heartily recommend this patch. > Thanks. I'm a bit surprised noone else has commented - I hoped this > would be a no-brainer, or at least get some constructive feedback for > further improvement. One reason surely is that the diffs for chang

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2012-02-12 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >* doc/install.texi (Prerequisites): Suggest building GMP, MPFR and >MPC as part of GCC before describing configuring with --with-gmp etc. >(Installing GCC: Configuration): State that --with-gmp etc. aren't >needed if source

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2012-02-04 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 31 January 2012 15:13, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> Can we at least recommend using the OS vendors versions of the >> libraries in case they match our minimum (not recommended) version >> requirements?  Is our in-tree build support robust enough against >> newer/older OS vendor installed copies? >

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2012-01-31 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 30 January 2012 09:52, Richard Guenther wrote: > If we discourage from separately installing these libraries, who will do > the required in-tree-bootstrap testing before a release on the Hosts > we care for? My patch doesn't actually discourage it (although my new wiki page does, as it's meant

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2012-01-30 Thread Richard Guenther
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Quentin Neill wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Jonathan Wakely > wrote: >> On 20 January 2012 23:08, Quentin Neill  wrote: >>> >>> My 2c - I heartily recommend this patch. >> >> Thanks. I'm a bit surprised noone else has commented - I hoped this >> would

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2012-01-27 Thread Quentin Neill
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 20 January 2012 23:08, Quentin Neill  wrote: >> >> My 2c - I heartily recommend this patch. > > Thanks. I'm a bit surprised noone else has commented - I hoped this > would be a no-brainer, or at least get some constructive feedback for >

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2012-01-20 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 20 January 2012 23:08, Quentin Neill wrote: > > My 2c - I heartily recommend this patch. Thanks. I'm a bit surprised noone else has commented - I hoped this would be a no-brainer, or at least get some constructive feedback for further improvement. > May I suggest updating > /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/h

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2012-01-20 Thread Quentin Neill
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > Ping. > > I think this is a useful improvement to the docs and could prevent the > most commonly-encountered bootstrap failure for inexpert users > building GCC. > > OK for trunk? > > > On 30 December 2011 13:29, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2012-01-05 Thread Jonathan Wakely
Ping. I think this is a useful improvement to the docs and could prevent the most commonly-encountered bootstrap failure for inexpert users building GCC. OK for trunk? On 30 December 2011 13:29, Jonathan Wakely wrote: On 22 December 2011 00:23, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > The most frequently asked

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2011-12-30 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 22 December 2011 00:23, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > The most frequently asked question on gcc-help, and a frequently > reported "bug" in bugzilla, is > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FAQ#configure_suffix > > It is almost always caused by installing libgmp.so etc. in a > non-standard location and not using

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2011-12-22 Thread Jonathan Wakely
Here's the new wiki page I've started: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2011-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 22 December 2011 00:36, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > >> It is almost always caused by installing libgmp.so etc. in a >> non-standard location and not using ldconfig, DT_RUNPATH, >> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or some other method to tell the dynamic linker how >> t

Re: adjust installation docs to discourage installing GMP, MPFR and MPC separately

2011-12-21 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > It is almost always caused by installing libgmp.so etc. in a > non-standard location and not using ldconfig, DT_RUNPATH, > $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or some other method to tell the dynamic linker how > to find them. The current installation docs mention --wit