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Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 29 May 2003 10:51:53 -0700
- Subject: Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
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- References: <200305291727.NAA06347@caip.rutgers.edu>
My thoughts:
> ------------------------------------------------------
> GNU binutils version ???
>
> Necessary in some circumstances, optional in others. See the
> host/target specific instructions for your platform for the exact
> requirements.
>
This is good. I think we can either link or add information for target
specific features that require specific binutils versions
(explicit-relocs for alpha and mips come to mind, or tls, or...)
> ------------------------------------------------------
> gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
> bzip2 version ??? (or later)
>
> Necessary to uncompress gcc tar files when source code is obtained via
> FTP mirror sites.
>
gnu tar required? I seem to remember some deal with uncompressing gnu
tar archives with solaris tar not working.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> autogen version ???
Aaah. autogen comes with guile?
> guile version ???
>
> Necessary when modifying fixinc/inclhack.def or fixinc/*.tpl to
> regenerate fixinc/fixincl.x.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> cvs version ???
> ssh version ???
>
probably 1.10 or greater for cvs. Ian would know best.
-eric
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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>