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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