Re: New `gnucc.info' doc patch for gcc 2.95

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <19990701161629.26568.qmail@deer>you write:
  > Ah, okay.  I was under the impression 2.95 would introduce a bunch
  > of multilib targets to users of gcc, g++, etc., compared to 2.8.0,
  > but that was a *very* vague impression!
Nope.  We've been  multilibbing for years.  What we've added is multilib
support for the fortran, chill & objc runtime libraries.

  > Okay.  I'm a bit surprised (concerned?) that, form what I could tell
  > using grep, there's no building of a `-mieee' variant of libraries
  > for Alphas, which was one of the things g77/Alpha users needed for
  > some codes.
Quite possible.

  > Presumably they can fairly easily configure and build their gcc/g77
  > compiler with such a multilib, but I don't offhand know how.  If you
  > have a quick recipe for that, let me know, maybe I could put it into
  > the docs somewhere suitable (perhaps in the new overview doc), and/or
  > up on my g77 web page.
There is no recipe for adding new multilibs.  You have to hack on the config
files.
jeffv