patch for misleading documentation for Installing GCC

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Dietmar Schindler wrote:
> The reader's attention shall be drawn to the fact that specifying just
> target implies that host defaults to target, i. e. that no cross
> compiler is made in the end or even that the make process fails.

Thanks for you patch. I am not a cross-compiler expert, but there were
no objections from anyone, so I'll go ahead and install it early next
week unless someone does voice objections in the meantime.


> Mon Oct 18 09:01:50 METDST 1999  Dietmar Schindler  (schd@mra.man.de)
> 
> 	* configure.html: Corrected configuring a cross compiler.

diff -up OLD/configure.html NEW/configure.html
--- OLD/configure.html	Mon Oct 18 09:59:36 1999
+++ NEW/configure.html	Mon Oct 18 10:42:37 1999
@@ -42,8 +42,12 @@ Otherwise the configuration scripts may 
   recommend you not provide a configure target when configuring a
   native compiler.
 
-  <li> <b>target</b> must be specified when configuring a cross compiler;
+  <li> <b>target</b> must be specified as <tt>--target=</tt><i>target</i>
+  when configuring a cross compiler;
   examples of valid targets would be i960-rtems, m68k-coff, sh-elf, etc.
+
+  <li>Specifying just <i>target</i> instead of <tt>--target=</tt><i>target</i>
+  implies that the host defaults to <i>target</i>.
 </ul>


(Sorry for the delay due to my holidays, Dietmar!)

Gerald
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