Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Eric Christopher]

My thoughts:

> ------------------------------------------------------
> GNU binutils version ???
> 
> Necessary in some circumstances, optional in others.  See the
> host/target specific instructions for your platform for the exact
> requirements.
> 

This is good. I think we can either link or add information for target
specific features that require specific binutils versions
(explicit-relocs for alpha and mips come to mind, or tls, or...)

> ------------------------------------------------------
> gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
> bzip2 version ??? (or later)
> 
> Necessary to uncompress gcc tar files when source code is obtained via
> FTP mirror sites.
> 

gnu tar required? I seem to remember some deal with uncompressing gnu
tar archives with solaris tar not working.


> ------------------------------------------------------
> autogen version ???

Aaah. autogen comes with guile?

> guile version ???
> 
> Necessary when modifying fixinc/inclhack.def or fixinc/*.tpl to
> regenerate fixinc/fixincl.x.

> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> cvs version ???
> ssh version ???
> 

probably 1.10 or greater for cvs. Ian would know best.


-eric

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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>