Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Tobias Schlüter wrote:
I'll take care of this, provided Gerald approves the change. Gerald, if
you think that copyright is a problem, I'll gladly rephrase it.
Thanks for the change, it looks like a good one. You may want to make
one or the other adjustment for extra safety, but this should be on the
harmless side.
I expanded the patch somewhat, so that the information appears in a
somewhat more user-friendly place. See below.
Committed after make info, make dvi and make html succeeded.
Cheers,
- Tobi
2008-10-19 Tobias Schlüter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/install.texi: Document in-tree building of gcc and mpfr.
Index: install.texi
===================================================================
--- install.texi (revision 141230)
+++ install.texi (working copy)
@@ -307,7 +307,9 @@ systems' @command{tar} programs will als
Necessary to build [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do not have it installed in your
library search path, you will have to configure with the
@option{--with-gmp} configure option. See also
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and @option{--with-gmp-include}.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and @option{--with-gmp-include}. Alternatively,
+if a GMP source ditribution is found in a subdirectory of you GCC
+sources named @file{gmp}, it will be built together with [EMAIL PROTECTED]
@item MPFR Library version 2.3.2 (or later)
@@ -319,8 +321,12 @@ fixed when using this version. It is st
to the recommended version of MPFR.
The @option{--with-mpfr} configure option should be used if your MPFR
-Library is not installed in your default library search path. See
-also @option{--with-mpfr-lib} and @option{--with-mpfr-include}.
+Library is not installed in your default library search path. See also
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and @option{--with-mpfr-include}.
+Alternatively, if a MPFR source ditribution is found in a subdirectory
+of you GCC sources named @file{mpfr}, it will be built together with
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+
@item @command{jar}, or InfoZIP (@command{zip} and @command{unzip})
@@ -496,6 +502,12 @@ components of the binutils you intend to
(@file{bfd}, @file{binutils}, @file{gas}, @file{gprof}, @file{ld},
@file{opcodes}, @dots{}) to the directory containing the GCC sources.
+Likewise, the GMP and MPFR libraries can be automatically built together
+with GCC. Unpack the GMP and/or MPFR source distributions in the
+directory containing the GCC sources and rename their directories to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and @file{mpfr}, respectively (or use symbolic links with the
+same name).
+
@html
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