Problems with `Installing GCC'

2010-02-02 Thread Rainer Orth
While preparing a revision of the sections in `Installing GCC' relevant to my platforms, I've just read it front-to-back and found a couple of problems I'd like to discuss before starting to develop patches. * As a general note, many sections describe mechanism (which configure options are

Re: Problems with `Installing GCC'

2010-02-02 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Rainer Orth r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de writes: I don't want this to be merely a rant, so I plan next to revise the specific instructions for my targets and then try and come up with a suggestion for a clearer structure for the configuration chapter, though I fear that much of this will be

Re: Problems with `Installing GCC'

2010-02-02 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Rainer Orth wrote: * The guide is far from complete: e.g., the libstdc++ configure options are missing completely (they are documented in the XML/HTML manual, but there's not even a pointer to that in the installation guide). I I noted that issue at least as far back