Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Kaveh R. Ghazi]

 > From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
 > 
 > On Thu, 29 May 2003, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
 > > At the GCC BOF where topics relating to process and maintenence were
 > > discussed, one of the issues was tools (and acceptable versions) that
 > > are necessary for building and/or modifying GCC.
 > 
 > Excellent.
 > 
 > > ------------------------------------------------------
 > > gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
 > > bzip2 version ??? (or later)
 > 
 > bzip 1.0 and 1.0.1 would be sufficient, but bzip2 1.0.2 solved security
 > issues and other bugs and is widely deployed, so I'd specify that.
 > 
 > Though, in fact, given that these two programs will need to remain compatible
 > by design, do we really need to specify versions?
 > 
 > > Necessary to uncompress gcc tar files when source code is obtained via
 > > FTP mirror sites.
 > 
 > s/gcc/GCC/

Thanks, I made the above changes.


 > > ------------------------------------------------------
 > > expect version ???
 > > tcl version ???
 > > dejagnu version ???
 > >
 > > Necessary to run the GCC testsuite.
 > 
 > Please put this information into doc/install.texi (or update the one
 > already there, respectively) only, to avoid duplication which will
 > lead to inconsistency in the long term.
 > Gerald

OK.  Where in install.texi should it put it?

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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu