From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: egrep -i haifa INSTALL install.texi
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 18:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28196.881101363@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971202223251.14537A-100000@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.971202223251.14537A-100000@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.a
t>you write:
> Well, but in that case it should be either completely removed or --
> probably better -- contain a pointer to install.texi:
No, because there is still some useful information in there -- like installing
on VMS for example, or other (mostly old) oddball machines that couldn't
bootstrap gcc directly.
> IMHO, out of all possible scenarios, an out-of-date gcc/INSTALL is surely
> the worst: Once having found INSTALL, most people won't look any further,
> thus using obsolete resp. incomplete information.
They find INSTALL in the toplevel first. For 99% of the folks using egcs
it should be enough.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-02 18:18 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
1997-12-01 11:33 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-02 16:29 ` Gerald Pfeifer
1997-12-02 18:18 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
1997-12-02 23:24 ` H.J. Lu
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