From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hamza.pair.com (hamza.pair.com [209.68.5.143]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3BA83858C50 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2023 14:47:13 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org C3BA83858C50 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=pfeifer.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pfeifer.com Received: from hamza.pair.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hamza.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5C133E6B; Sat, 22 Apr 2023 10:47:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from naga.localdomain (188-23-4-228.adsl.highway.telekom.at [188.23.4.228]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by hamza.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5558033E6E; Sat, 22 Apr 2023 10:47:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:47:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Rainer Orth cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Richard Biener , Jakub Jelinek Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Update install.texi for GCC 13 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <829d5148-34dc-0b2d-b190-d8392232954b@pfeifer.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: mailmunge 3.11 on 209.68.5.143 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,RCVD_IN_BARRACUDACENTRAL,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On Fri, 21 Apr 2023, Rainer Orth wrote: > * We used a mixture of Solaris 2 and Solaris references. Since Solaris > 1/SunOS 4 is ancient history by now, consistently use Solaris > everywhere. Likewise, explicit references to Solaris 11 can go in > many places since Solaris 11.3 and 11.4 is all GCC supports. Thanks for going through this - this is great. (I had a look recently and wanted to raise that we have some older cruft that looked like it could go.) > Will commit to trunk soon. Ok for the gcc-13 branch, too? Yes, please. There's only a few suggestions/recommendations: "on Solaris" (without "a")-@uref{https://www.opencsw.org/,,OpenCSW} +@uref{https://www.opencsw.org/,,OpenCSW}. However, the packages there +are mostly outdated or actually harmful on Solaris 11.3 and 11.4. @end itemize Would it make sense to simple drop this, then? In the following two cases +@file{/usr/gnu/bin/as}), are known to work. The current version, from +GNU binutils 2.40, is known to work as well. Recent versions of the and +works, as does the latest version, from GNU binutils 2.40. However, it how about saying "The version from GNU binutil 2.40" and "as does the version from GNU binutils 2.50", respectively? "current" and "latest" are fleeting concepts. +Solaris @command{ld}, it is recommended to configure with Can we make this active form, i.e., "we recommend"? Or simply omit the "it is recommended to" part. Both are shorter and clearer; personally I recommend to latter. +library or the MPC library on a Solaris, the canonical "on Solaris" (without "a") Thank you, Gerald