Re: dejagnu version update?

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 18:32:24 +0200
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 May 2017 at 21:08, Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > On May 16, 2017, at 5:16 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:  
> > > The change I care about in 1.5.3  
> >
> > So, we haven't talked much about the version people want most.  If we update, might as well get something that more people care about.  1.5.3 is in ubuntu LTS 16.04 and Fedora 24, so it's been around awhile.  SUSU is said to be using 1.6, in the post 1.4.4 systems.  People stated they want 1.5.2 and 1.5.3, so, I'm inclined to say, let's shoot for 1.5.3 when we do update.
> >
> > As for the machines in the FSF compile farm, nah, tail wagging the dog.  I'd rather just update the requirement, and the owners or users of those machines can install a new dejagnu, if they are using one that is too old and they want to support testing gcc.  
> 
> So.. let me ping that, again, now that another year has passed :)

or another 3 or 4 :)
> 
> PS: Recap: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2012-03/msg00094.html was
> later applied as
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=dejagnu.git;a=commit;h=5481f29161477520c691d525653323b82fa47ad7
> and was part of the dejagnu-1.5.2 release from 2015. Jonathan requires
> 1.5.3 for libstdc++ testing.
(i.e.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=dejagnu.git;a=commit;h=5256bd82343000c76bc0e48139003f90b6184347 )
> The libdirs fix would allow us to remove the 150 occurrences of the
> load_gcc_lib hack, refer to the patch to the fortran list back then.
> AFAIR this is still not fixed: +# BUG: gcc-dg calls
> gcc-set-multilib-library-path but does not load gcc-defs!
> 
> debian-stable (i think 9 ATM), Ubuntu LTS ship versions recent enough
> to contain both fixes. Commercial distros seem to ship fixed versions,
> too.

It seems in May 2020 there was a thread on gcc with about the same
subject: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2020-May/232427.html
where Mike suggests to have approved to bump the required minimum
version to 1.5.3.
So who's in the position to update the
https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html
to s/1.4.4/1.5.3/g && git commit -m 'bump dejagnu required version' ?

Just asking patiently and politely.
I don't want to rush anybody into such a bump :)

But as you may remember, folks routinely run afoul of using too old
versions (without the 5256bd8 multilib prepending for example, recently
someone doing ARM stuff IIRC) so a bump would just be fair IMHO.

Maybe now, for gcc-12, is the time to bump prerequisites to 1.5.3?

thanks and sorry for my impatience (and, once again, the noise).
cheers,