Necessary when regenerating @file{Makefile} dependencies in libiberty.
Necessary when regenerating @file{libiberty/functions.texi}.
Necessary when generating manpages from Texinfo manuals.
-Used by various scripts to generate some files included in SVN (mainly
-Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source tables.
+Used by various scripts to generate some files included in the source
+repository (mainly Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source
+tables.
Used by @command{automake}.
Necessary when modifying @file{*.l} files.
Necessary to build GCC during development because the generated output
-files are not included in the SVN repository. They are included in
-releases.
+files are not included in the version-controlled source repository.
+They are included in releases.
@item Texinfo version 4.7 (or later)
4.8 or later is required for @command{make pdf}.
Necessary to build GCC documentation during development because the
-generated output files are not included in the SVN repository. They are
+generated output files are not included in the repository. They are
included in releases.
@item @TeX{} (any working version)
Necessary to regenerate @file{jit/docs/_build/texinfo} from the @file{.rst}
files in the directories below @file{jit/docs}.
-@item SVN (any version)
+@item git (any version)
@itemx SSH (any version)
-Necessary to access the SVN repository. Public releases and weekly
+Necessary to access the source repository. Public releases and weekly
snapshots of the development sources are also available via HTTPS@.
@item GNU diffutils version 2.7 (or later)
@cindex Downloading GCC
@cindex Downloading the Source
-GCC is distributed via @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html,,SVN} and via
+GCC is distributed via @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/git.html,,git} and via
HTTPS as tarballs compressed with @command{gzip} or @command{bzip2}.
Please refer to the @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html,,releases web page}
We use @var{srcdir} to refer to the toplevel source directory for
GCC; we use @var{objdir} to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
-If you obtained the sources via SVN, @var{srcdir} must refer to the top
-@file{gcc} directory, the one where the @file{MAINTAINERS} file can be
-found, and not its @file{gcc} subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
+If you obtained the sources by cloning the repository, @var{srcdir}
+must refer to the top @file{gcc} directory, the one where the
+@file{MAINTAINERS} file can be found, and not its @file{gcc}
+subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
If either @var{srcdir} or @var{objdir} is located on an automounted NFS
file system, the shell's built-in @command{pwd} command will return
@item --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir
Neither the .c and .h files that are generated from Bison and flex nor the
info manuals and man pages that are built from the .texi files are present
-in the SVN development tree. When building GCC from that development tree,
+in the repository development tree. When building GCC from that development tree,
or from one of our snapshots, those generated files are placed in your
build directory, which allows for the source to be in a readonly
directory.
generated code, but adds error checking within the compiler. This will
slow down the compiler and may only work properly if you are building
the compiler with GCC@. This is @samp{yes,extra} by default when building
-from SVN or snapshots, but @samp{release} for releases. The default
+from the source repository or snapshots, but @samp{release} for releases. The default
for building the stage1 compiler is @samp{yes}. More control
over the checks may be had by specifying @var{list}. The categories of
checks available are @samp{yes} (most common checks
The solution is not to use such a directory for building GCC@.
-Similarly, when building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify
+Similarly, when building from the source repository or snapshots, or if you modify
@file{*.l} files, you need the Flex lexical analyzer generator
installed. If you do not modify @file{*.l} files, releases contain
the Flex-generated files and you do not need Flex installed to build
build machinery, not of GCC itself) that is used even if you only
build the C front end.
-When building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify Texinfo
+When building from the source repository or snapshots, or if you modify Texinfo
documentation, you need version 4.7 or later of Texinfo installed if you
want Info documentation to be regenerated. Releases contain Info
documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in the release.
clauses 20 through 33 and annex D (prior to the 2017 standard
the library clauses started with 17). For those who want to see
exactly how far the project has come, or just want the latest
- bleeding-edge code, the up-to-date source is available over
- anonymous SVN, and can be browsed over the
- <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html">web</link>.
+ bleeding-edge code, the up-to-date source , and can be cloned via Git: see
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://gcc.gnu.org/git.html">web</link>.
</para>
<para>
Current libstdc++ sources can always be checked out of the main
GCC source repository using the appropriate version control
tool. At this time, that tool
- is <application>Subversion</application>.
+ is <application>Git</application>.
</para>
<para>
- <application>Subversion</application>, or <acronym>SVN</acronym>, is
- one of several revision control packages. It was selected for GNU
- projects because it's free (speech), free (beer), and very high
- quality. The <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://subversion.tigris.org"> Subversion
- home page</link> has a better description.
- </para>
- <para>
- The <quote>anonymous client checkout</quote> feature of SVN is
- similar to anonymous FTP in that it allows anyone to retrieve
- the latest libstdc++ sources.
- </para>
- <para>
For more information
- see <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html"><acronym>SVN</acronym>
+ see <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://gcc.gnu.org/git.html">
details</link>.
</para>
</answer>