From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26466 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2005 02:41:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 26438 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jul 2005 02:40:55 -0000 Received: from yosemite.airs.com (HELO yosemite.airs.com) (205.217.158.180) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with SMTP; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:40:55 +0000 Received: (qmail 21992 invoked by uid 10); 28 Jul 2005 02:40:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 13919 invoked by uid 500); 28 Jul 2005 02:40:46 -0000 To: paul.leopardi@unsw.edu.au Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GCC 4.0.1 testsuite uses installed g++ instead of newly bootstrapped g++ References: <200507231923.31418.leopardi@bigpond.net.au> <200507281204.29797.leopardi@bigpond.net.au> <200507281214.48991.leopardi@bigpond.net.au> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:41:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200507281214.48991.leopardi@bigpond.net.au> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg01161.txt.bz2 "Paul C. Leopardi" writes: > I checked http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html > Under "Tools/packages necessary for modifying GCC" it has > > autogen version 5.5.4 (or later) > > My fault, but... I'm just testing my bootstrap and am not intending to modify > gcc, so I didn't pay attention to this section. Especially since the boostrap > of gcc and g++ seemed to go OK this time. I now see that many of the other > packages listed are also prerequsites for testing gcc and not only > prerequisties for modifying gcc. > > Maybe the heading should say: > > "Tools/packages necessary for testing or modifying GCC" > > to save newbies like me from hours and hours of pain and frustration? No, autogen is generally not required to test the compiler. That isn't the problem you are encountering. Ian