From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: egcs@cygnus.com Cc: Craig Burley , sichen@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de, law@cygnus.com Subject: PATCH: htdocs/install/configure.html Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 06:52:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <199804161538.LAA23802@melange.gnu.org> X-SW-Source: 1998-05/msg00240.html On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Craig Burley wrote: >> This seems to indicate that you have your object direct _within_ the >> egcs sourcetree. Please try the same with an object tree that does not >> reside there. > [...] > 3. Document that the situation must not occur. > > 4. Don't cope with it at all, just tell people who complain that > they screwed up. > > I think we all agree that egcs (and gcc?) are at Level 4 right now and > that it's at least fairly easy to move up to Level 3 With this patch, we are at least at Level 3... In addition to that enhancement I have also removed the reference to release 1.0.1 twice. As a matter of fact, Jeff started to add a case distincation for --enable-haifa yesterday, so this is probably the way to go... Gerald --- configure.html.orig Thu May 7 13:19:12 1998 +++ configure.html Thu May 7 15:39:02 1998 @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -Configuring egcs-1.0.1 +Configuring egcs -

Configuring egcs-1.0.1

+

Configuring egcs

Like most GNU software, egcs must be configured before it can be built. This document attempts to describe the recommended configuration procedure @@ -13,10 +13,12 @@ for both native and cross targets. egcs; we use objdir to refer to the toplevel build/object directory for egcs. -

First, we highly recommend that egcs be built into a separate -directory than the sources. This is how we generally build egcs; building -where srcdir == objdir should still work, but doesn't get -extensive testing. +

First, we highly recommend that egcs be built into a +separate directory than the sources which does not reside +within the source tree. This is how we generally build egcs; building +where srcdir == objdir should still work, but doesn't +get extensive testing; building where objdir is a subdirectory +of srcdir is unsupported.

Second, when configuring a native system, either "cc" must be in your path or you must set CC in your environment before running configure. @@ -120,7 +122,7 @@ that each --with option has a c

-Last modified on May 6, 1998. +Last modified on May 7, 1998.