Please consider the following patch: --- o/INSTALL/README 2010-03-22 14:56:56.000000000 +0100 +++ INSTALL/README 2012-02-15 19:30:09.416537896 +0100 @@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ gcc/doc/install.texi and copied into this directory. To read this documentation, please point your HTML browser to "index.html". +The latest version of this document is always available at <URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/install/ >.
It will save you bandwidth, because otherwise this information is only available within the gcc-core source tarball, which must be downloaded in order to configure and build a snapshot.