Re: gub3 build failure

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Op vrijdag 12-12-2008 om 06:18 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Graham
Percival:

> Problem building the netpbm package.  gcc doesn't seem to
> recognize the "-flax-vector-conversions" option,

What happens if you remove that option?  It would be nice if this
option is only needed for gccs that are so new that they are
too strict with vector conversions?  We could then add some
code like in 

   gub/specs/librestrict.py


>  but doens't gub
> download gcc itself to avoid specific-version compiler problems?

Yes, but not for target/tools/*.  Using a gub-compiled gcc there
could be more robust, but would be a lot of work still, esp.
bootstrapping this could be tricky.  We still use all kinds
of dependencies (glibc, zlib, whatnot from /usr to build tools/).

Jan.

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