Re: egrep -i haifa INSTALL install.texi

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

  In message <199712011803.KAA26566@atrus.synopsys.com>you write:
  > 
  > > gcc/INSTALL is basically out of date and depreciated for egcs.
  > 
  > OK.  I hope you've planned one snapshot for a debugging pass on the
  > included documentation (that is, it's a bad idea to do a release with
  > documentation that people haven't yet seen).
Yup, it should start spinning in the next hour or so as I go back and
start tweaking the docs included in the release.

It'll also include a small number of critical fixes.


  > I've always built egcs with srcdir = objdir and have not had problems.
  > Is that warning appropriate?  objdir is certainly appropriate for the
  > system administrator who supports multiple Unix flavors, but why do
  > suspect that srcdir == objdir is risky.
We've had trouble with it in the past -- multilibs haven't played well when
srcdir == objdir for example.


  > I recommend that all defaults for options switches be listed;
  > --with-local-prefix, --with-gxx-include-dir are missing theirs.
Thanks.  Done.

  > --with-newlib is not documented; a sentence saying what newlib is would
  > be helpful.
Done.

  > Please document bootstrap-lean:
Thanks.  I used your text.

  > The "make cross" directions are insufficient: the user also must obtain
  > target tools and libraries -- a pointer to the crossgcc FAQ might be
  > helpful here, even if it is somewhat out of date.
Hmmm, I thought I had the link.  I'll go figure out what happened :-)
I suspect they will stay insufficient for a while until we get a better
handle on how to document all the pieces that folks need to build useable
cross tools.

  > test.html:
  > 
  > I suggest putting in the full path to the dejagnu testsuite as visible
  > text, not just a link, so people printing out the directions have it.
Sounds reasonable.  Done.

  > finalinstall.html:
  > 
  > ... where <I>prefix</I> is the value you specified with the --prefix option
  >  to
  > configure (or /usr/local by default).
Thanks.

jeff