>
> Editors, can we perhaps add some extra text to the GCC Pass 1
> instructions (and perhaps a short reminder to Pass 2 as well)? Right
> now, all the book has to say is:
>
> "GCC now requires the GMP, MPFR and MPC packages. As these
> packages may not be included in your host distribution, they
> will be built with GCC"
>
> Can we go into a bit more detail about that "build with GCC" bit?
> Extracting seemingly unrelated tarballs into the GCC source tree *is* an
> unusual thing to do, unless you're aware that the GCC build will
> magically build those packages if present. A short explanation of how
> this works, and why we do it would 1) improve the educational aspects of
> the book, and 2) discourage people from improvising because the
> instructions seem wrong.
>
> Simon.
>
I agree, there is no way that I could figure that out from reading the
book. Googling I found some posts along the lines of "follow the book
and it will be right" but to my reading of the book I did follow it
and it was not right.
But maybe it makes sense if you already know how to do it.
Only after hours of web trawling and fine-print-reading of gcc mailing
lists did I get to an explanation that made sense (and worked).
Would be great to see this explanation made more clear!
Brett.
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