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 IMHO, out of all possible scenarios, an out-of-date gcc/INSTALL is surely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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