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| author | Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> | 2002-12-07 00:32:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@gcc.gnu.org> | 2002-12-06 23:32:52 +0000 |
| commit | 377dfc820f477c12d33c99b238171788c40fda02 (patch) | |
| tree | 9677a7c6c3d515668d684a09518601c609874a73 /gcc/doc/install.texi | |
| parent | 7144b2d89a2563ef912ecdaafbce3f343a4eb3d9 (diff) | |
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install.texi (Configuration): Improve description of cases where `make distclean` may fail...
* doc/install.texi (Configuration): Improve description of cases
where `make distclean` may fail; clarify --with-gnu-as; fix grammar.
From-SVN: r59899
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc/doc/install.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/doc/install.texi | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 09b29f3..fd51869 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -293,12 +293,12 @@ of @var{srcdir} is unsupported. If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a different target machine, do @samp{make distclean} to delete all files -that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is -@file{Makefile}; if @samp{make distclean} complains that @file{Makefile} -does not exist, it probably means that the directory is already suitably -clean. However, with the recommended method of building in a separate -@var{objdir}, you should simply use a different @var{objdir} for each -target. +that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is @file{Makefile}; +if @samp{make distclean} complains that @file{Makefile} does not exist +or issues a message like ``don't know how to make distclean'' it probably +means that the directory is already suitably clean. However, with the +recommended method of building in a separate @var{objdir}, you should +simply use a different @var{objdir} for each target. Second, when configuring a native system, either @command{cc} or @command{gcc} must be in your path or you must set @env{CC} in @@ -544,8 +544,8 @@ argument, only @option{--enable-shared} does. @item @anchor{with-gnu-as}--with-gnu-as Specify that the compiler should assume that the assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify -the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if found -assembler is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion will also +the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if the +assembler found is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion may also result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been configured with @option{--with-gnu-as}.) If you have more than one assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option in @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ Microsoft Win32 API thread support. @item --with-cpu=@var{cpu} Specify which cpu variant the compiler should generate code for by default. This is currently -only supported on the some ports, specifically arm, powerpc, and +only supported on some ports, specifically arm, powerpc, and SPARC@. If configure does not recognize the model name (e.g.@: arm700, 603e, or ultrasparc) you provide, please check the configure script for a complete list of supported models. |