Commit 0aa911c5 by Loren J. Rittle Committed by Loren J. Rittle

install.texi (Installing GCC: Configuration): Clarify the only supported ways to configure gcc.

        * doc/install.texi (Installing GCC: Configuration): Clarify
        the only supported ways to configure gcc.

From-SVN: r52335
parent 83248d49
2002-04-15 Loren J. Rittle <ljrittle@acm.org>
* doc/install.texi (Installing GCC: Configuration): Clarify
the only supported ways to configure gcc.
2002-04-15 Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> 2002-04-15 Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
* config.gcc (alpha*-*-gnu*): New target configuration. * config.gcc (alpha*-*-gnu*): New target configuration.
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...@@ -288,12 +288,11 @@ If you obtained the sources via CVS, @var{srcdir} must refer to the top ...@@ -288,12 +288,11 @@ If you obtained the sources via CVS, @var{srcdir} must refer to the top
@file{gcc} directory, the one where the @file{MAINTAINERS} can be found, @file{gcc} directory, the one where the @file{MAINTAINERS} can be found,
and not its @file{gcc} subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail. and not its @file{gcc} subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
First, we @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built into a First, in general, GCC @strong{must} be built into a separate directory
separate directory than the sources which does @strong{not} reside than the sources which does @strong{not} reside within the source tree.
within the source tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building This is how almost all developers build GCC; building where @var{srcdir}
where @var{srcdir} == @var{objdir} should still work, but doesn't == @var{objdir} is completely unsupported; building where @var{objdir}
get extensive testing; building where @var{objdir} is a subdirectory is a subdirectory of @var{srcdir} is completely unsupported.
of @var{srcdir} is unsupported.
If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
different target machine, do @samp{make distclean} to delete all files different target machine, do @samp{make distclean} to delete all files
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