Upgrading cloog to 0.18.1 for {,cross-}{gcc,binutils}

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Dec 10 13:35:09 UTC 2014


On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 01:31:45PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > What do binutils need cloog/isl for btw?
> 
> I'm not sure, but in binutils/configure, I see:
> 
> 	with_cloog
> 	with_isl
> 	with_isl_include
> 	with_isl_lib
> 	enable_isl_version_check
> 	with_cloog_include
> 	with_cloog_lib
> 	enable_cloog_version_check

The toplevel configure is shared with gcc.  That doesn't mean anything
built in binutils actually uses it.

> It's possible it doesn't actually use cloog:
> 
> 	warthog2>grep -rl cloog *
> 	ChangeLog
> 	config/ChangeLog
> 	config/cloog.m4
> 	config/isl.m4
> 	configure
> 	configure.ac
> 	Makefile.def
> 	Makefile.in
> 	Makefile.tpl
> 
> 'isl' turns up a lot more (it matches things like 'islower'), but excluding
> most obvious false positives shows that isl probably isn't actually used
> either.

BTW, cloog 0.18.3 has been released 2 days ago, perhaps it is usable with
latest 4.8.x/4.9.x.  Note GCC 5.x will only need isl and not cloog.

	Jakub


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