Components no longer exist

[Mischa Baars]

On 01/17/2013 06:31 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 17 January 2013 17:29, Mischa Baars <mjbaars1977@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/17/2013 06:23 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>> On 17 January 2013 15:48, Michael Witten :
>>>> The documentation here:
>>>>
>>>>     http://gcc.gnu.org/install/download.html
>>>>
>>>> says:
>>>>
>>>>     It is possible to download a full distribution or
>>>>     specific components... If you choose to download
>>>>     specific components, you must download the core
>>>>     GCC distribution plus any language specific
>>>>     distributions you wish to use.
>>>>
>>>> However, from what I can tell, this hasn't been the
>>>> case since the release of 4.7.0; there is only a
>>>> monolithic distribution of source (no separate
>>>> components).
>>>>
>>>> Either the components need to be added, or the
>>>> documentation needs to be updated.
>>> The documentation is out of date, thanks for reporting it.
>> Does that mean that you are satisfied with the 'if / else' as is, and that
>> you also do not need an improvement of the arctangent in glibc?
> You're confused.  This is nothing to do with glibc.
>
> The "distribution" is the tarball of GCC sources.  The "components"
> are the separate tarballs that used to be made available for
> gcc-core-x.y.z.tar.gz, gcc-c++-x.y.z.tar.gz, gcc-fortran-x.y.z.tar.gz,
> etc. but these are no longer made available, only the gcc-x.y.z.tar.gz
> tarball containing everything.
Indeed I am, I thought you were trying to say that gcc-x.y.z.tar.gz has 
missing components. I had some trouble compiler: unable to compute 
suffix for object files, but now it seems to work?!

Let me get back to you. See if I can fix the 'if / else' for you, and 
finish the algorithm. It will be my first update to the compiler so it 
will probably take a while.

Mischa.