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| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/doc/install.texi | 18 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 65a112e..759bd33 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ 2011-03-21 Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> PR bootstrap/48135 + * doc/install.texi (Prerequisites): Move jar etc. up. + Explain support library version requirements. + +2011-03-21 Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> + + PR bootstrap/48135 * doc/install.texi (Prerequisites): Move Perl to build requirements. Always necessary on Solaris 2 with Sun ld. diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 66bdaf4..fc04c96 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -319,6 +319,20 @@ Necessary when generating manpages from Texinfo manuals. Used by various scripts to generate some files included in SVN (mainly Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source tables. +@item @command{jar}, or InfoZIP (@command{zip} and @command{unzip}) + +Necessary to build libgcj, the GCJ runtime. + +@end table + +Several support libraries are necessary to build GCC, some are required, +others optional. While any sufficiently new version of required tools +usually work, library requirements are generally stricter. Newer +versions may work in some cases, but it's safer to use the exact +versions documented. We appreciate bug reports about problems with +newer versions, though. + +@table @asis @item GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) version 4.3.2 (or later) Necessary to build GCC@. If you do not have it installed in your @@ -374,10 +388,6 @@ does not use PPL, PPL is still required for Graphite. In both cases @option{--with-cloog} configure option should be used if CLooG is not installed in your default library search path. -@item @command{jar}, or InfoZIP (@command{zip} and @command{unzip}) - -Necessary to build libgcj, the GCJ runtime. - @end table @heading Tools/packages necessary for modifying GCC |