Re: Shrinking install/specific.html

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Dara Hazeghi wrote:

> install/specific.html has gotten pretty long and
> involved at this point. I'm of the opinion that making
> it shorter, and more targeted at current
> releases/platforms would help this. In particular, I

There is a table of contents so that people can ignore everything not
related to their platform.  So where's the problem in length?  (I actually
think this is the right place to list all target triples and identify what
they mean, even absent any special information about them.)

> think it'd be better if it really had only information
> pertaining to the current release of gcc. Any comments
> on the idea/method? Thanks,

As far as I know, systems for which support has been removed have been
removed from this file.  You could reduce the length a bit by establishing
a general minimum binutils version when GNU binutils is used, adding a
corresponding configure check for it, putting this in the list of
prerequisites, and removing mention of older binutils versions from
specific targets.

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk