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[PATCH] install.texi minimal requirement for mingw (PR bootstrap/30589)


Hi!

As mingw doesn't support fixincludes, it is probably best just document
a new minimal requirement for mingw runtime version.

Ok for trunk?

2007-12-12  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>

	PR bootstrap/30589
	* doc/install.texi: Document that for MinGW only runtime 3.12 and
	later is supported.

--- gcc/doc/install.texi.jj	2007-12-09 17:35:08.000000000 +0100
+++ gcc/doc/install.texi	2007-12-12 12:02:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -4280,6 +4280,10 @@ Ports of GCC are included with the
 GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build
 with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.
 
+For MinGW, GCC will build with and support only MinGW runtime 3.12 and later,
+earlier versions of headers are incompatible with the new default semantics
+of @code{extern inline} in @code{-std=c99} and @code{-std=gnu99} modes.
+
 @html
 <hr />
 @end html

	Jakub


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