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Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
> From: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
>
> My thoughts:
>
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > 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.
Yeah, I've had gnu tar installed for so long I forgot. Got it.
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > autogen version ???
>
> Aaah. autogen comes with guile?
>
> > guile version ???
No, but it needs guile. You get them separately.
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > cvs version ???
> > ssh version ???
> >
>
> probably 1.10 or greater for cvs. Ian would know best.
> -eric
I'm wondering if we should recommend openssh? If so, what version?
Thanks,
--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu