Re: web/7603: Incorrect flag specified in page

Re: web/7603: Incorrect flag specified in page

[aj]

Synopsis: Incorrect flag specified in page

Responsible-Changed-From-To: gerald->aj
Responsible-Changed-By: aj
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Aug 15 10:29:29 2002
Responsible-Changed-Why:
    Taking it.
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: aj
State-Changed-When: Thu Aug 15 10:29:29 2002
State-Changed-Why:
    Made the suggested change and reformatted page slightly.

http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&pr=7603

Re: web/7603: Incorrect flag specified in page

[Andreas Jaeger]

The following reply was made to PR web/7603; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
To: rchiang@nvidia.com
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: web/7603: Incorrect flag specified in page
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:27:44 +0200

 rchiang@nvidia.com writes:
 
 >>Number:         7603
 >>Category:       web
 >>Synopsis:       Incorrect flag specified in page
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    gerald
 >>State:          open
 >>Class:          doc-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   net
 >>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 15 09:36:00 PDT 2002
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     rchiang@nvidia.com
 >>Release:        GCC 3.2
 >>Organization:
 >>Environment:
 >
 >>Description:
 > The web page at
 >
 >     http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.2/c++-abi.html
 >
 > Specifies that "-enable-shared" should be set.  The correct flag should be "--enable-shared".
 
 fixed with the appended patch which I committed as obvious.
 
 thanks,
 Andreas
 
 Index: htdocs/gcc-3.2/c++-abi.html
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-3.2/c++-abi.html,v
 retrieving revision 1.2
 diff -u -p -r1.2 c++-abi.html
 --- htdocs/gcc-3.2/c++-abi.html	9 Aug 2002 13:41:17 -0000	1.2
 +++ htdocs/gcc-3.2/c++-abi.html	15 Aug 2002 17:27:31 -0000
 @@ -22,16 +22,16 @@
      the guidelines given here for GNU/Linux systems.</p>
  
     <h2>Configuring GCC</h2>
 -    
 +
      <p>Configure GCC with this options:</p>
      <pre>
        --enable-__cxa_atexit
      </pre>
 -    
 +
      <p>GCC is configured by default on GNU/Linux systems also with
      these two flags, do not change them to any other value:</p>
      <pre>
 -      --enable-threads=posix -enable-shared 
 +      --enable-threads=posix --enable-shared
      </pre>
      <p>If you do not use these options, your files generated by GCC
      will not be fully ABI compatible.</p>
 @@ -55,14 +55,14 @@
     this order:</p>
      <ol>
        <li>New binutils version</li>
 -      <li>New glibc version</li>
 +      <li>New glibc version (on GNU/Linux systems only)</li>
        <li>GCC 3.2</li>
      </ol>
      <p>Especially, if you update binutils, you should rebuild glibc so
      that glibc can take advantage of some new options of binutils.</p>
  
      <h2>Caveat</h2>
 -    
 +
      <p>Since GCC now implements a written ABI that is also implemented
      by other compiler vendors, it might be that we encounter different
      interpretations of the ABI by the vendors, bugs in the ABI or bugs
 
 -- 
  Andreas Jaeger
   SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
    private aj@arthur.inka.de
     http://www.suse.de/~aj

web/7603: Incorrect flag specified in page

[rchiang]

>Number:         7603
>Category:       web
>Synopsis:       Incorrect flag specified in page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gerald
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 15 09:36:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     rchiang@nvidia.com
>Release:        GCC 3.2
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:
The web page at

    http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.2/c++-abi.html

Specifies that "-enable-shared" should be set.  The correct flag should be "--enable-shared".
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: