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diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 0210e7c..4b89617 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -957,6 +957,20 @@ catalog, configuring with @option{--enable-maintainer-mode} will enable this. Note that you need a recent version of the @code{gettext} tools to do so. +@item --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir +Neither the .c and .h files that are generated from bison and flex nor the +info manuals and man pages that are built from the .texi files are present +in the CVS development tree. When building GCC from that development tree, +or from a snapshot which are created from CVS, then those generated files +are placed in your build directory, which allows for the source to be in a +readonly directory. + +If you configure with @option{--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir} then those +generated files will go into the source directory. This is mainly intended +for generating release or prerelease tarballs of the GCC sources, since it +is not a requirement that the users of source releases to have flex, bison, or +makeinfo. + @item --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs Specify that runtime libraries should be installed in the compiler specific |