------- Comment #5 from rmathew at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-03-31 05:30 ------- (In reply to comment #4) > > I was not intending to modify GCC (as the requirements for modifying it do > list > Texinfo). I was intending to compile it. Out of the box compile on my system > failed, and Ranjit's system. Thus a bug, no? (And even if it still isn't > deemed a bug, the fix is a simple one-liner, which I provided.)
When you're downloading an SVN snapshot, which is intended for developers, you do not get much of the automatically generated stuff that's available in releases. For SVN snapshots, you must read the "modifying GCC" portion of the pre-requisites documentation. > Perhaps the term "modify" implies "CVS" -- if so, perhaps that could be > emphasized on the prerequisite page? That is, "If you download GCC from the > repository (regardless of whether you want to modify it or not), you must have > the following ..." Agreed. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22195
