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Re: egrep -i haifa INSTALL install.texi
- To: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at (Gerald Pfeifer)
- Subject: Re: egrep -i haifa INSTALL install.texi
- From: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 18:47:21 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: law at cygnus dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
>
> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> >> ...in egcs-971127/gcc only produces matches in install.texi, not a single
> >> one in INSTALL.
> > gcc/INSTALL is basically out of date and depreciated for egcs.
>
> Well, but in that case it should be either completely removed or --
> probably better -- contain a pointer to install.texi:
>
> "This file, which used to contain installation instructions for
> gcc/egcs, has been superseded by install.texi. Please check the
> information there."
>
>
> IMHO, out of all possible scenarios, an out-of-date gcc/INSTALL is surely
> the worst: Once having found INSTALL, most people won't look any further,
> thus using obsolete resp. incomplete information.
>
Here is the patch in gcc2. It is very straight forward to rebuild
INSTALL from install.texi. Why not do it?
H.J.
---
Sun Aug 3 17:27:44 1997 H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
* Makefile.in (INSTALL): Build in $(srcdir).
--- Makefile.in.orig Tue Dec 2 18:43:46 1997
+++ Makefile.in Tue Dec 2 18:44:17 1997
@@ -2011,8 +2011,8 @@
INSTALL: $(srcdir)/install1.texi $(srcdir)/install.texi
- $(MAKEINFO) -D INSTALLONLY --no-header --no-split \
- $(srcdir)/install1.texi -o INSTALL
+ cd $(srcdir); $(MAKEINFO) -D INSTALLONLY --no-header \
+ --no-split install1.texi -o INSTALL
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