On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 06:32:41PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > You may find this discussion currently on the Autoconf list helpful: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/8755
Thanks to all (Daniel Jacobowitz, Ian Lance Taylor, Paolo Bonzini, Ralf Wildenhues). I partly updated the Wiki. It is sad that nobody corrected the page http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Regenerating_GCC_Configuration (I hope I corrected some stuff there, and I wrote most of it). I really think that such information should go into GCC internal documentation, where I was not able to find it out. Do you believe that some of the descriptions in this thread and in the Wiki page just cited should go into the documentation? Is the documentation expected to help new GCC contributors, or is it only for users? In particular, IMHO the commands to re-generate the configure scripts should be documented if the documentation also targets potential GCC contributors. I could write (by copying phrases from the wiki page) a few sentences into the documentation (gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi)? Is it worthwhile; in other words for whom is this documentation written: for users of GCC (including the few people compiling GCC to use it) or for potential contributors (GCC hackers)? Regards -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faïencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mines, sont seulement les miennes} ***
