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GettingStarted.html updated: 1.153 -> 1.154 --- Log message: There is no circular dependency between llvm and llvm-gcc anymore. stop scaring users. --- Diffs of the changes: (+14 -5) GettingStarted.html | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html diff -u llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html:1.153 llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html:1.154 --- llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html:1.153 Fri Feb 9 09:59:08 2007 +++ llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html Wed Feb 14 01:33:00 2007 @@ -730,10 +730,11 @@ <div class="doc_text"> -<p>Before configuring and compiling the LLVM suite, you need to extract the LLVM -GCC front end from the binary distribution. It is used for building the -bytecode libraries later used by the GCC front end for linking programs, and its -location must be specified when the LLVM suite is configured.</p> +<p>Before configuring and compiling the LLVM suite, you can optionally extract the +LLVM GCC front end from the binary distribution. It is used for running the +llvm-test testsuite and for compiling C/C++ programs. Note that you can optionally +<a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">build llvm-gcc yourself</a> after building the +main LLVM repository.</p> <p>To install the GCC front end, do the following:</p> @@ -743,6 +744,14 @@ -</tt></li> </ol> +<p>Once the binary is uncompressed, you should add a symlink for llvm-gcc and +llvm-g++ to some directory in your path. When you configure LLVM, it will +automatically detect llvm-gcc's presence (if it is in your path) enabling its +use in llvm-test. Note that you can always build or install llvm-gcc at any +pointer after building the main LLVM repository: just reconfigure llvm and +llvm-test will pick it up. +</p> + <p>The binary versions of the GCC front end may not suit all of your needs. For example, the binary distribution may include an old version of a system header file, not "fix" a header file that needs to be fixed for GCC, or it may be @@ -1607,7 +1616,7 @@ <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Chris Lattner</a><br> <a href="http://llvm.x10sys.com/rspencer/">Reid Spencer</a><br> <a href="http://llvm.org">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br> - Last modified: $Date: 2007/02/09 15:59:08 $ + Last modified: $Date: 2007/02/14 07:33:00 $ </address> </body> </html> _______________________________________________ llvm-commits mailing list llvm-commits@cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits