On 23 August 2012 20:03, Klaus Rudolph <lts-rudolph@xxxxxx> wrote: > Andrew Haley schrieb: >> On 08/23/2012 03:55 PM, Klaus Rudolph wrote: >>> The installation with the ./contrib/dowload_prerequisites >>> script works. >> >> OK, thanks. That is the Right Way to do it. We really need to change >> the docs. >> > > Yes, I think this would help :-) > > First a note in the docs for the script '/contrib/dowload_prerequisites' > and second remove the notice '(or later)' for prerequisite lib versions. Later versions *should* work, but if they don't the answer is to use the recommended versions, which is what the docs suggest and what happens if you use contrib/download_prerequisites, as recommended by http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC > Maybe the check in the configure script should check for the correct > version range. It looks to me that the recent versions are not > compatible to the gcc makefile/configure. That's http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50461 - the fix is on the trunk but hasn't been applied to the 4.7 branch
