Re: [PATCH, www] Mention download_prerequisites in installation docs

[Manish Goregaokar <manish at mozilla dot com>]

I'm a GDB committer and have filed bugs on GCC's bugzilla before;
one of these could be the reason behind me having that account
(I don't know, I don't remember making it :) ). I'll need someone
to push it for me. Your proposed improvement sounds good to me.

Thanks,
-Manish


On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> Hi Manish,
>
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Manish Goregaokar wrote:
>>     * doc/install.texi: Mention download_prerequisites
>
> this is okay (and sorry for the delay, I have unexpectedly
> "disappeared" for the month of July).
>
> One suggestion:
>
>> +install the libraries.  Alternatively, running
>> +@code{contrib/download_prerequisites} from the root directory of the source
>> +tree will fetch these libraries and place them in the appropriate locations
>> +for the build.
>
> How about saying "...the sources for these libraries..." or so,
> such that people don't get to believe we are providing/downloading
> binaries?
>
> I was going to offer to apply the patch for you since you do not
> appear in gcc/MAINTAINERS, but it seems you do have an account on
> gcc.gnu.org after all?  Do you need to update MAINTAINERS still?
>
> Gerald