On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Rainer Orth wrote: > While investigating PR bootstrap/48135, it came up that the submitter > had run into trouble bootstrapping with mpc 0.9.0. Unfortunately, > install.texi when describing support library requirements always > lists `(or later)' with the individual libraries.
I wouldn't say "unfortunately", since those later versions _are_ supposed to work. Also, think of users of a distribution that has these libraries in specific, possibly newer version, who ideally should be able to use those. > +Several support libraries are necessary to build GCC, some are required, > +others optional. Something's odd here. :-) Some of the necessary libaries are required, while other necessary libaries are optional? How about something like Several support libraries are necessary to build GCC, plus there are a couple of optional ones. or so? 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. This is an important clarification, though at the same time I'm a bit concerned about our installation documentation getting ever bigger (and less likely to be read in consequence). Perhaps omit the part about bug reports? Gerald