From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16818 invoked by alias); 30 Dec 2002 15:05:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 16809 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2002 15:05:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO disaster.jaj.com) (66.93.21.106) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 30 Dec 2002 15:05:56 -0000 Received: (from phil@localhost) by disaster.jaj.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id gBUF5jg31344; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 10:05:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 08:29:00 -0000 From: Phil Edwards To: Nathanael Nerode Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: toplevel doc, first draft Message-ID: <20021230100545.A31236@disaster.jaj.com> References: <20021230115943.GA833@doctormoo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021230115943.GA833@doctormoo>; from neroden@twcny.rr.com on Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:59:43AM -0500 X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg01574.txt.bz2 On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:59:43AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > And information on where to put the > documentation when it's ready is always welcome; etc/configure.texi is soooo > out-of-date I don't know what to make of it. We still have an etc directory? I thought it was killed a while ago. > The Makefile for a subdirectory is expected to provide the usual public > targets: all, install, info, etc. I think there's an official recommended list somewhere in the pesky GNU Coding Standards[tm]. Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002