From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) To: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac dot@(Gerald Pfeifer) Cc: law@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: egrep -i haifa INSTALL install.texi Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 23:24:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00157.html > > On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Jeffrey A Law wrote: > >> ...in egcs-971127/gcc only produces matches in install.texi, not a single > >> one in INSTALL. > > gcc/INSTALL is basically out of date and depreciated for egcs. > > Well, but in that case it should be either completely removed or -- > probably better -- contain a pointer to install.texi: > > "This file, which used to contain installation instructions for > gcc/egcs, has been superseded by install.texi. Please check the > information there." > > > IMHO, out of all possible scenarios, an out-of-date gcc/INSTALL is surely 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. > Here is the patch in gcc2. It is very straight forward to rebuild INSTALL from install.texi. Why not do it? H.J. --- Sun Aug 3 17:27:44 1997 H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu) * Makefile.in (INSTALL): Build in $(srcdir). --- Makefile.in.orig Tue Dec 2 18:43:46 1997 +++ Makefile.in Tue Dec 2 18:44:17 1997 @@ -2011,8 +2011,8 @@ INSTALL: $(srcdir)/install1.texi $(srcdir)/install.texi - $(MAKEINFO) -D INSTALLONLY --no-header --no-split \ - $(srcdir)/install1.texi -o INSTALL + cd $(srcdir); $(MAKEINFO) -D INSTALLONLY --no-header \ + --no-split install1.texi -o INSTALL # # Deletion of files made during compilation. # There are four levels of this: