bootstrap/3236

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:33:36PM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > I agree this is confusing.  It's also inaccurate; the second paragraph
> > is true whether or not you are using CVS.
> 
> The point of referring to CVS is that checking out from CVS will check out 
> into a "gcc" directory rather than a gcc-version directory.

The rest of the explanation still holds, though.

> > # % cd *objdir*
> > # % ../*srcdir*/configure [target] [options]
> > 
> > to emphasize that *objdir* and *srcdir* must be entirely separate.
> 
> Both relative and absolute paths for srcdir ought to work.

Yes, and they do, but the instructions right here tell you 'mkdir
objdir, cd objdir' immediately before that.  I think the use of a
relative path is more consistent with the rest of the instructions.

> > I would send a patch but I do not know where the master copy of this
> > file lives or how to update all of its children.
> 
> gcc/doc/install.texi on mainline (which should probably be merged to the
> branch when the branch reopens), online version generated by
> update_web_docs run from cron.

Thanks.  Will send patch.

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