From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 21:33:30 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: * doc/install.texi (alpha-linux): Require binutils 2.11.
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=75f3e3c8d6d152e9876857a0e0b3b717115dede9;p=gcc.git

* doc/install.texi (alpha-linux): Require binutils 2.11.

From-SVN: r42513
---

diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index e971438fc93..a29771e2be9 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-05-23  Richard Henderson  <rth@redhat.com>
+
+	* doc/install.texi (alpha-linux): Require binutils 2.11.
+
 2001-05-23  Neil Booth  <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>
 
 	* c-lex.c (read_escape, read_ucs): Delete.
diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index f6bfd688c87..0d55763e52a 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 @settitle Installing GCC: Binaries
 @end ifset
 
-@comment $Id: install.texi,v 1.4 2001/05/22 14:54:01 gerald Exp $
+@comment $Id: install.texi,v 1.5 2001/05/23 06:41:48 rth Exp $
 @c Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c *** Converted to texinfo by Dean Wakerley, dean@wakerley.com
 
@@ -968,9 +968,9 @@ GNU Compiler Collection on your machine.
 <h3><a name="alpha*-dec-linux*">alpha*-dec-linux*</a></h3>
 @end html
 
-We require binutils 2.10 or newer.  Upgrading to binutils 2.11
-or newer is strongly recommended, as it will result in more 
-compact debugging and exception handling information.
+We require binutils 2.11 or newer.  Previous binutils releases
+had a number of problems with DWARF2 debugging information, not
+the least of which is incorrect linking of shared libraries.
 
 @html
 </p>