From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: Joe Buck Cc: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: egrep -i haifa INSTALL install.texi Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 11:33:00 -0000 Message-id: <29916.881004265@cygnus.com> References: <199712011803.KAA26566@atrus.synopsys.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00058.html In message < 199712011803.KAA26566@atrus.synopsys.com >you write: > > > gcc/INSTALL is basically out of date and depreciated for egcs.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). Yup, it should start spinning in the next hour or so as I go back and start tweaking the docs included in the release. It'll also include a small number of critical fixes. > 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. We've had trouble with it in the past -- multilibs haven't played well when srcdir == objdir for example. > I recommend that all defaults for options switches be listed; > --with-local-prefix, --with-gxx-include-dir are missing theirs. Thanks. Done. > --with-newlib is not documented; a sentence saying what newlib is would > be helpful. Done. > Please document bootstrap-lean: Thanks. I used your text. > 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 helpful here, even if it is somewhat out of date. Hmmm, I thought I had the link. I'll go figure out what happened :-) I suspect they will stay insufficient for a while until we get a better handle on how to document all the pieces that folks need to build useable cross tools. > 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. Sounds reasonable. Done. > finalinstall.html: > > ... where prefix is the value you specified with the --prefix option > to > configure (or /usr/local by default). Thanks. jeff