From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: law@cygnus.com
Cc: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: egrep -i haifa INSTALL install.texi
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 11:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199712011803.KAA26566@atrus.synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9313.880945105@hurl.cygnus.com>
> gcc/INSTALL is basically out of date and depreciated for egcs.
OK. I hope you've planned one snapshot for a debugging pass on the
included documentation (that is, it's a bad idea to do a release with
documentation that people haven't yet seen).
> http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/install/index.html
On the directions:
configure.html:
I've always built egcs with srcdir = objdir and have not had problems.
Is that warning appropriate? objdir is certainly appropriate for the
system administrator who supports multiple Unix flavors, but why do
suspect that srcdir == objdir is risky.
I recommend that all defaults for options switches be listed;
--with-local-prefix, --with-gxx-include-dir are missing theirs.
--with-newlib is not documented; a sentence saying what newlib is would
be helpful.
build.html:
Please document bootstrap-lean:
If you are short on disk space, you might consider "make bootstrap-lean"
instead. This is identical to "make bootstrap" except that object files
from the stage 1 and stage 2 of the 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler
are deleted as soon as they are no longer needed.
The "make cross" directions are insufficient: the user also must obtain
target tools and libraries -- a pointer to the crossgcc FAQ might be
helpful here, even if it is somewhat out of date.
test.html:
I suggest putting in the full path to the dejagnu testsuite as visible
text, not just a link, so people printing out the directions have it.
finalinstall.html:
... where <I>prefix</I> is the value you specified with the --prefix option to
configure (or /usr/local by default).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-01 11:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-11-29 13:40 Gerald Pfeifer
1997-11-30 18:55 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-01 11:32 ` Joe Buck [this message]
1997-12-01 11:33 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-02 16:29 ` Gerald Pfeifer
1997-12-02 18:18 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-02 23:24 ` H.J. Lu
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