In trying to build GMP with zorro's GCC 3.3.6 build many checks
failed. This was due to the compiler! Turns out Keith Scroggins
already built gcc 4.0.1 and packaged it into an rpm (this will
surely be useful for my efforts),
http://www.radix.net/~kws/mint/old/
<http://www.radix.net/%7Ekws/mint/old/>. His gcc compiles gmp and
after adjusting stacksize of the tests, they all pass! So I can
move on to packaging gmp and moving on :)
Interesting thing is it crashes also with gcc 2.95 (and I mean really
*crashes*), I didn't go deeper, I just wanted to try to compile newest
gcc 4.3 when I was at work (under aranym + easymint) -- a lot of
problems here, be prepared. GMP is only start of all problems with the
compilation :) It seems compile newest gcc is getting harder and
harder with our old native 2.95 version.
Btw don't you think it would be wiser to use some tested gcc (i.e.
that 2.95 or Vincent's cross compiled 4.3) to make such important
things like semi-official packages? Keith's and Zorro's gcc can be
full of bugs since they appeared many months before Vincent's attempt
and as we know, Vincent fixed a *lot* of stuff there.