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Re: egcs-971201: Installation instructions nits
- To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand at sleipnir dot valparaiso dot cl>
- Subject: Re: egcs-971201: Installation instructions nits
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 22:15:01 -0800
- cc: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199712030346.AAA26775@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>you write:
> INDEX:
> "Then check the FAQ to see..." Which FAQ is this? Where can it be found?
The joys of trying to convert HTML into suitable plaintext....
> Sounds strange to me... Perhaps better to say something like "Specify the
> toplevel installation directory. This is the recommended way to install the
> tools into a directory other than the default. The toplevel installation
> directory defaults to /usr/local. Note that on some systems (notably
> Linux) the compiler would probably be installed into /usr, which has to be
> specified here"
I've done something pretty close to this -- we don't want the Linux line, adn
we certainly don't want to ever advocate installing something into a "system"
directory.
> * --enable-shared: Which libraries are built shared? BTW, this could be
> misunderstood as enabling/disabling the building of shared libraries with
> the resulting compiler.
Thanks. I've specified the libraries this effects (just libstdc++)
> * --enable-multilib: Again, which libraries are built as multilibs?
> Again, might be misunderstood as enabling/disabling building other libs as
> multilibs.
Similarly, except that it effects all the target libraries.
> FINALINSTALL:
> This file mentions srcdirconfig.guess, which I simply can't find anywhere ;
:-)
Thanks for the feedback!
jeff