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improve OpenServer install doc
- To: egcs-patches at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: improve OpenServer install doc
- From: Robert Lipe <robertl at sco dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:07:47 -0500
It seems like I've doced this before...
Gerald, is there a "style guide" on how to specify things like
configure flags in this file? Should we use <code> or "flags"
or `flags' or something else? There's currently a hodgepodge..
Committed.
Index: specific.html
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RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/wwwdocs/htdocs/install/specific.html,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -p -r1.22 specific.html
--- specific.html 1999/01/21 09:29:03 1.22
+++ specific.html 1999/04/09 15:04:37
@@ -10,12 +10,24 @@ You will need binutils-2.9.1.0.15 or new
<p><b>i?86-*-sco3.2v5*</b><br>
-The native SCO assembler that is provided with the OS at no charge
+If you are building languages other than C, you must follow the instructions
+about invoking `make bootstrap' because the native OpenServer
+compiler will build a `cc1plus' that will not correctly parse many
+valid C++ programs including those in libgcc.a. You must do a `make
+bootstrap' if you are building with the native compiler.
+
+If you choose to configure with `--enable-shared' you should also
+specificy `--with-gnu-as --disable-multilib' even if you are not
+using the GNU assembler. In doing so you will give up the ability
+to generate COFF executables as described below. This combination
+of flags is necessary to suppress negative interactions with multilibing.
+
+<p>The native SCO assembler that is provided with the OS at no charge
is normally required. If, however, you must be able to use the GNU
-assembler you may configure this package @samp{--with-gnu-as}. You must
-use a recent version of GNU binutils; version 2.9.1 seems to work well.
+assembler you may configure this package using the flag `--with-gnu-as'.
+You must use a recent version of GNU binutils; version 2.9.1 seems to work well.
If you select this option, you will be unable to reliably build COFF
-images. In general, the "--with-gnu-as" option isn't as well tested as
+images. In general, the `--with-gnu-as' option isn't as well tested as
the native assembler.
<p>Unlike various prereleases of GCC, that used '-belf' and defaulted to