Hi,
This patch is on behalf of John Henning, who opened PR 101843:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101843
He proposed the following doc change, please take a look and let me know
whether this is Okay for commit?
Thanks.
Qing
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>From 9bf6f9a5964df26cac32d90f57719f4871874d54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: qing zhao <qing.z...@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:20:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] doc/install.texi: add a generic advice on building gcc and
binutils together.
gcc/ChangeLog:
* doc/install.texi: Add a generic advice on building gcc and binutils together.
---
gcc/doc/install.texi | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index 8e974d2..4f1abbd 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -562,11 +562,13 @@ language front end and the language runtime (where
appropriate).
If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing
installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your
-OS), unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or
-a separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any
-components of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler
-(@file{bfd}, @file{binutils}, @file{gas}, @file{gprof}, @file{ld},
-@file{opcodes}, @dots{}) to the directory containing the GCC sources.
+OS), begin by identifying a version of binutils that was created at
+about the same time as your version of GCC. Then unpack the binutils
+distribution either in the same directory or a separate one. In the
+latter case, add symbolic links to any components of the binutils you
+intend to build alongside the compiler (@file{bfd}, @file{binutils},
+@file{gas}, @file{gprof}, @file{ld}, @file{opcodes}, @dots{}) to the
+directory containing the GCC sources.
Likewise the GMP, MPFR and MPC libraries can be automatically built
together with GCC. You may simply run the
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1.8.3.1
