Dead link http://gcc.gnu.org/install/build.html on http://gcc.gnu.org/install/

Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org
Wed Feb 22 07:30:00 GMT 2006


There's a requirement to not use footnotes in install.texi, apparently. 
  Also, I did not know about install.texi2html so I added a note on it.

Ok to install?

Paolo

2006-02-22  Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>

	* install.texi: Add notes on install.texi2html.
	(Building in parallel): Do not use footnotes.

Index: install.texi
===================================================================
--- install.texi        (revision 111328)
+++ install.texi        (working copy)
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
  @c 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  @c *** Converted to texinfo by Dean Wakerley, dean@wakerley.com

+@c IMPORTANT: whenever you modify this file, run `install.texi2html' to
+@c test the generation of HTML documents for the gcc.gnu.org web pages.
+@c
+@c Do not use @footnote{} in this file as it breaks install.texi2html!
+
  @c Include everything if we're not making html
  @ifnothtml
  @set indexhtml
@@ -1720,9 +1725,9 @@ compilation options.  Check your target'

  @section Building in parallel

-You can use @samp{make -j 2}@footnote{Only supported by GNU Make 3.79
-  and above, which is anyway necessary to build GCC.}, instead of 
@samp{make},
-to build GCC in parallel.  You can also specify a bigger number, and
+GNU Make 3.79 and above, which is necessary to build GCC, support
+building in parallel.  To activate this, you can use @samp{make -j 2}
+instead of @samp{make}.  You can also specify a bigger number, and
  in most cases using a value greater than the number of processors in
  your machine will result in fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus
  improving overall throughput; this is especially true for slow drives



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