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Re: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]
> From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
>
> On Thu, 29 May 2003, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> > At the GCC BOF where topics relating to process and maintenence were
> > discussed, one of the issues was tools (and acceptable versions) that
> > are necessary for building and/or modifying GCC.
>
> Excellent.
>
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
> > bzip2 version ??? (or later)
>
> bzip 1.0 and 1.0.1 would be sufficient, but bzip2 1.0.2 solved security
> issues and other bugs and is widely deployed, so I'd specify that.
>
> Though, in fact, given that these two programs will need to remain compatible
> by design, do we really need to specify versions?
>
> > Necessary to uncompress gcc tar files when source code is obtained via
> > FTP mirror sites.
>
> s/gcc/GCC/
Thanks, I made the above changes.
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > expect version ???
> > tcl version ???
> > dejagnu version ???
> >
> > Necessary to run the GCC testsuite.
>
> Please put this information into doc/install.texi (or update the one
> already there, respectively) only, to avoid duplication which will
> lead to inconsistency in the long term.
> Gerald
OK. Where in install.texi should it put it?
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Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu