Author: bdubbs
Date: 2006-04-25 07:46:06 -0600 (Tue, 25 Apr 2006)
New Revision: 5933

Modified:
   trunk/BOOK/general/prog/gcc3.xml
   trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
Log:
Updated note about g77 in gcc3.  Removed reference to Objective C becuae it is 
available in gcc4.

Modified: trunk/BOOK/general/prog/gcc3.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general/prog/gcc3.xml    2006-04-25 13:22:47 UTC (rev 5932)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general/prog/gcc3.xml    2006-04-25 13:46:06 UTC (rev 5933)
@@ -147,10 +147,9 @@
     <application>GCC</application> to build the <application>C</application>
     and <application>C++</application> compilers and enable the related
     <application>C++</application> options. In addition to c and c++, you can
-    add f77 for FORTRAN (called <application>g77</application>) and objc for
-    Objective C libraries.  Note that <application>GCC-4</application> no
-    longer provides a FORTRAN 77 compiler.   Ada is a more complicated
-    installation and not supported in BLFS.</para>
+    add f77 for FORTRAN (called <application>g77</application>).
+    Note that <application>GCC-4</application> no
+    longer provides a FORTRAN 77 compiler.</para>
 
     <indexterm zone="gcc3  gcc3-lang">
       <primary sortas="b-g77">g77</primary>
@@ -185,12 +184,13 @@
       front of your <envar>PATH</envar> or (preferably) set the 
<envar>CC</envar>
       environment variable before compiling the concerned package.</para>
 
-      <para>If you need <application>g77</application> or Objective C
-      libraries, you also need to either update
+      <para>If you use <application>g77</application>  programs, you also
+      should move the libg2c.* libraries and symbolic links to <filename
+      class='directory'>/usr/lib</filename>.  Using export
+      LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gcc-&gcc3-version;/lib or  updating
       <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> to point to <filename
-      class='directory'>/opt/gcc-&gcc3-version;/lib</filename> and run
-      <application>ldconfig</application> or export
-      LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gcc-&gcc3-version;/lib.</para>
+      class='directory'>/opt/gcc-&gcc3-version;/lib</filename> is not
+      recommended as it may conflict with your normal libraries.</para>
 
     </sect3>
 

Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml       2006-04-25 13:22:47 UTC 
(rev 5932)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml       2006-04-25 13:46:06 UTC 
(rev 5933)
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@
           <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to fcron-3.0.1.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a note about adding FORTRAN 77 and
-          Objective C to the gcc-3 instructions.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a note about adding FORTRAN 77 
+          to the gcc-3 instructions.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[randy] - Added a short note about the GCC-3.4.6 Fortran

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