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| author | Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> | 2000-08-19 15:20:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeff Law <law@gcc.gnu.org> | 2000-08-19 09:20:01 -0600 |
| commit | f49957d671b1a98ca2886231ff36c7712d71577a (patch) | |
| tree | 2efdb72e72b1ed07a4dce29ae7478f6b28702676 | |
| parent | 11d4ebb581035590f5e921eb2980ba1adf8577bc (diff) | |
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* invoke.texi: Clean up linux-gnu vs linux comments.
From-SVN: r35806
| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/install.texi | 10 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index d7ca945..14b92e3 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +Sat Aug 19 09:18:47 2000 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com) + + * invoke.texi: Clean up linux-gnu vs linux comments. + 2000-08-19 Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> * config/ia64/ia64.c (reg_or_5bit_operand): New. diff --git a/gcc/install.texi b/gcc/install.texi index d3614d0..f74a906 100644 --- a/gcc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/install.texi @@ -793,11 +793,11 @@ make a difference. For example, you can write @samp{bsd4.3} or number is most needed for @samp{sysv3} and @samp{sysv4}, which are often treated differently. -@samp{linux} and @samp{linux-gnu} are equivalent. The distinction is -purely political, and has no effect on the compiler. The version of -the kernel in use is not relevant on these systems. A suffix such as -@samp{libc1} or @samp{aout} distinguishes major versions of the C library; -all of the suffixed versions are obsolete. +@samp{linux-gnu} is the canonical name for the GNU/Linux target; however +GNU CC will also accept @samp{linux}. The version of the kernel in use is +not relevant on these systems. A suffix such as @samp{libc1} or @samp{aout} +distinguishes major versions of the C library; all of the suffixed versions +are obsolete. If you specify an impossible combination such as @samp{i860-dg-vms}, then you may get an error message from @file{configure}, or it may |