From 37de1373273fb26c2c2e01960092936bcf01047e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Pfeifer Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:20:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] install.texi (Building): Avoid duplicate reference to GNU make requirement. * doc/install.texi (Building): Avoid duplicate reference to GNU make requirement. (*-*-solaris2*): Do not recommend GNU make any longer. Simplify. Co-Authored-By: Dave Korn Co-Authored-By: Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos From-SVN: r85995 --- gcc/ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ gcc/doc/install.texi | 16 +++------------- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 21ae7f928e2..47693578669 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2004-08-14 Gerald Pfeifer + Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos + Dave Korn + + * doc/install.texi (Building): Avoid duplicate reference to GNU + make requirement. + (*-*-solaris2*): Do not recommend GNU make any longer. Simplify. + 2004-08-14 Richard Henderson * config/alpha/alpha.h (PROMOTE_MODE): Don't promote vector types. diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index a6bf5e986c7..6805665f85b 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -1382,16 +1382,6 @@ Do not try to compile and run a test libart program. Now that GCC is configured, you are ready to build the compiler and runtime libraries. -We @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built using GNU make; -other versions may work, then again they might not. -GNU make is required for compiling GNAT (the Ada compiler) and the Java -runtime library. - -(For example, many broken versions of make will fail if you use the -recommended setup where @var{objdir} is different from @var{srcdir}. -Other broken versions may recompile parts of the compiler when -installing the compiler.) - Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a nonzero status) and be ignored by @command{make}. These failures, which are often due to files that were not found, are expected, and can safely @@ -3419,9 +3409,9 @@ install GCC: % export CONFIG_SHELL @end smallexample -and then proceed as described in @uref{build.html,,the build instructions}, -where we strongly recommend using GNU make and specifying an absolute path -to invoke @var{srcdir}/configure. +and then proceed as described in @uref{build.html,,the build instructions}. +In addition we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke +@var{srcdir}/configure. Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these are needed to use GCC fully, namely @code{SUNWarc}, -- 2.30.2