@settitle Installing GCC: Binaries
@end ifset
-@comment $Id: install.texi,v 1.2 2001/05/16 14:57:06 dje Exp $
+@comment $Id: install.texi,v 1.3 2001/05/17 18:12:27 mmitchel Exp $
@c Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c *** Converted to texinfo by Dean Wakerley, dean@wakerley.com
g++ accepts such (illegal) constructs with the option @option{-fpermissive}; it
will assume that any missing type is 'int' (as defined by C89).
-For Solaris 8, t<h3><a name="older"></a>Older systems</h3>\r
-\r
-<p>GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early\r
-1990s) Unix variants. For the most part, support for these systems\r
-has not been deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for\r
-several years and may suffer from bitrot. Support from some systems\r
-has been removed from GCC 3: fx80, ns32-ns-genix, pyramid, tahoe,\r
-gmicro, spur; most of these targets had not been updated since GCC\r
-version 1.</p>\r
-\r
-<p>Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less\r
-problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an\r
-enthusiast wishes to make such a target work again\r
-(including resurrecting any of the targets that never worked with GCC\r
-2, starting from the last CVS version before they were removed),\r
-patches <a href="../contribute.html">following the usual\r
-requirements</a> would be likely to be accepted, since they should not\r
-affect the support for more modern targets.</p>\r
-\r
-<p>Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the\r
-workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the\r
-cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC. In some cases, to\r
-bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may\r
-require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that\r
-system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in\r
-the vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in\r
-the old-releases directory on the <a href="../mirrors.html">GCC mirror\r
-sites</a>. Header bugs may generally be avoided using\r
-<code>fixincludes</code>, but bugs or deficiencies in libraries and\r
-the operating system may still cause problems.</p>\r
-\r
-<p>For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful,\r
-and are available from pub/binutils/old-releases on <a\r
-href="http://sources.redhat.com/mirrors.html">sources.redhat.com\r
-mirror sites</a>.</p>\r
-\r
-<p>Some of the information on specific systems above relates to\r
-such older systems, but much of the information\r
-about GCC on such systems (which may no longer be applicable to\r
-current GCC) is to be found in the GCC texinfo manual.</p>\r
-\r
-<hr>\r
-his is fixed by revision 24 or later of patch 108652
+For Solaris 8, this is fixed by revision 24 or later of patch 108652
(for SPARCs) or 108653 (for Intels).