FAQ conflict

FAQ conflict

[Todd Rinaldo]

Your FAQ at the below URLS conflicts as to which autoconf should be used. one says 2.13 th other says 2.64. 2.65 is currently available.

http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#generated_files

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html

[wwwdocs] PATCH for Re: FAQ conflict

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Thu, 13 May 2010, Todd Rinaldo wrote:
> Your FAQ at the below URLS conflicts as to which autoconf should be 
> used. one says 2.13 th other says 2.64. 2.65 is currently available.
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#generated_files
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html

Thanks for your report, Todd.  You are right, and the FAQ is out of
date whereas the installation documentation is correct.

I am updating FAQ per the patch below, and if you got to 
  http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#generated_files
you will see the new (and shorter) version already which
now directly refers to the installation documentation.

I hope this addresses the issue you have been seeing?

Gerald


Index: faq.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/faq.html,v
retrieving revision 1.209
diff -u -3 -p -r1.209 faq.html
--- faq.html	3 May 2010 13:47:48 -0000	1.209
+++ faq.html	25 May 2010 08:54:05 -0000
@@ -475,19 +475,9 @@ those generated files are out of date an
 </code> script in the contrib subdirectory of GCC, which handles this
 transparently without requiring installation of any additional tools.</p>
 
-
-<p>When building from diffs or SVN or if you modified some sources,
-you may also need to obtain development versions of some GNU tools, as
-the production versions do not necessarily handle all features needed
-to rebuild GCC.</p>
-
-<p>In general, the current versions of these tools from <a
-href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/">ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/</a> will work.
-At present, Autoconf 2.50 is not supported, and you will need to use
-Autoconf 2.13; work is in progress to fix this problem.  Also look at
-<a href="ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/">
-ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/</a> for any special versions
-of packages.</p>
+<p>If you modified some sources or when building from SVN you may also
+need <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html#TOC1">some
+additional tools</a>.</p>
 
 
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