egrep -i haifa INSTALL install.texi
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Tue Dec 2 18:18:00 GMT 1997
In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.971202223251.14537A-100000@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.a
t>you write:
> Well, but in that case it should be either completely removed or --
> probably better -- contain a pointer to install.texi:
No, because there is still some useful information in there -- like installing
on VMS for example, or other (mostly old) oddball machines that couldn't
bootstrap gcc directly.
> IMHO, out of all possible scenarios, an out-of-date gcc/INSTALL is surely
> the worst: Once having found INSTALL, most people won't look any further,
> thus using obsolete resp. incomplete information.
They find INSTALL in the toplevel first. For 99% of the folks using egcs
it should be enough.
jeff
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