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PATCH for Re: Solaris installation notes
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- Cc: Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org,'Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos' <papadopo at shfj dot cea dot fr>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:10:47 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: PATCH for Re: Solaris installation notes
- References: <NUTMEG0eOtiFUye1gZ900000a7f@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM><010801c47347$602ab3a0$c6999c53@magellan>
Somehow this stalled again, without a final patch.
How about the following?
Gerald
2004-08-06 Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos <papadopo@shfj.cea.fr>
Dave Korn <dk@artimi.com>
* doc/install.texi (Building): Avoid duplicate reference to GNU
make requirement.
(*-*-solaris2*): Do not recommend GNU make any longer. Simplify.
Index: doc/install.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.303
diff -u -3 -p -r1.303 install.texi
--- doc/install.texi 5 Aug 2004 04:55:37 -0000 1.303
+++ doc/install.texi 6 Aug 2004 07:09:25 -0000
@@ -1382,16 +1382,6 @@ Do not try to compile and run a test lib
Now that GCC is configured, you are ready to build the compiler and
runtime libraries.
-We @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built using GNU make;
-other versions may work, then again they might not.
-GNU make is required for compiling GNAT (the Ada compiler) and the Java
-runtime library.
-
-(For example, many broken versions of make will fail if you use the
-recommended setup where @var{objdir} is different from @var{srcdir}.
-Other broken versions may recompile parts of the compiler when
-installing the compiler.)
-
Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a
nonzero status) and be ignored by @command{make}. These failures, which
are often due to files that were not found, are expected, and can safely
@@ -3419,9 +3409,9 @@ install GCC:
% export CONFIG_SHELL
@end smallexample
-and then proceed as described in @uref{build.html,,the build instructions},
-where we strongly recommend using GNU make and specifying an absolute path
-to invoke @var{srcdir}/configure.
+and then proceed as described in @uref{build.html,,the build instructions}.
+In addition we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
+@var{srcdir}/configure.
Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these
are needed to use GCC fully, namely @code{SUNWarc},