[csw-users] Outdated packages e.g. GCC 4.3 instead of 4.6 - reason? ; Suggestion new packages?

[Maciej Bliziński]

2011/7/29 Paul Lanken <lanken.paul at gmail.com>:
> blastwave has 4.6.1 I think .. at least that is what the GCC site says

I looked at their new catalog (bwstack), but couldn't find the gcc
packages. There was libgcc, but not the compiler itself.  libgcc is at
4.5.1.

http://bwstag.initworks.com/bwstag/i386/5.10/catalog

I took a stab at gcc-4.6.1 and got the following error:

configure: error: Building GCC requires GMP 4.2+, MPFR 2.3.1+ and MPC 0.8.0+.

I believe we have GMP 4.2.2 and MPFR 3.2.1 in the catalog.  However, I
found this bit of code in the GCC config.log:

#if GCC_GMP_VERSION < GCC_GMP_VERSION_NUM(4,3,2)

...so it really checks for GMP version 4.3.2 or higher. We also don't
have MPC, and MPC requires the same version of GMP: 4.3.2 or higher.
We'll need to build it first.  If I make any progress, I'll submit
my code changes to the repository.

Maciej