From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17605 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2002 23:33:22 -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 17551 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 23:33:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at) (128.130.111.12) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 23:33:17 -0000 Received: from [128.130.111.23] (pulcherrima [128.130.111.23]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB6NXEpN012906; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 00:33:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:50:00 -0000 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Edward Welbourne cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, "" Subject: PATCH for Re: installation instructions; glitchlet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00369.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Edward Welbourne wrote: > http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html Thanks for the feedback! I have just committed the following patch to mainline, so that it will be part of GCC 3.3 (and later). Gerald 2002-12-07 Gerald Pfeifer * doc/install.texi (Configuration): Improve description of cases where `make distclean` may fail; clarify --with-gnu-as; fix grammar. Index: doc/install.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi,v retrieving revision 1.150 diff -u -3 -p -r1.150 install.texi --- doc/install.texi 13 Nov 2002 20:55:02 -0000 1.150 +++ doc/install.texi 6 Dec 2002 23:29:37 -0000 @@ -293,12 +293,12 @@ of @var{srcdir} is unsupported. If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a different target machine, do @samp{make distclean} to delete all files -that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is -@file{Makefile}; if @samp{make distclean} complains that @file{Makefile} -does not exist, it probably means that the directory is already suitably -clean. However, with the recommended method of building in a separate -@var{objdir}, you should simply use a different @var{objdir} for each -target. +that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is @file{Makefile}; +if @samp{make distclean} complains that @file{Makefile} does not exist +or issues a message like ``don't know how to make distclean'' it probably +means that the directory is already suitably clean. However, with the +recommended method of building in a separate @var{objdir}, you should +simply use a different @var{objdir} for each target. Second, when configuring a native system, either @command{cc} or @command{gcc} must be in your path or you must set @env{CC} in @@ -544,8 +544,8 @@ argument, only @option{--enable-shared} @item @anchor{with-gnu-as}--with-gnu-as Specify that the compiler should assume that the assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify -the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if found -assembler is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion will also +the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if the +assembler found is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion may also result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been configured with @option{--with-gnu-as}.) If you have more than one assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option in @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ Microsoft Win32 API thread support. @item --with-cpu=@var{cpu} Specify which cpu variant the compiler should generate code for by default. This is currently -only supported on the some ports, specifically arm, powerpc, and +only supported on some ports, specifically arm, powerpc, and SPARC@. If configure does not recognize the model name (e.g.@: arm700, 603e, or ultrasparc) you provide, please check the configure script for a complete list of supported models.