From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <28196.881101363@cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971202223251.14537A-100000@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00127.html

  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 IMHO, out of all possible scenarios, an out-of-date gcc/INSTALL is surely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