On Thu, 13 May 2010, Todd Rinaldo wrote: > Your FAQ at the below URLS conflicts as to which autoconf should be > used. one says 2.13 th other says 2.64. 2.65 is currently available. > > http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#generated_files > > http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html
Thanks for your report, Todd. You are right, and the FAQ is out of date whereas the installation documentation is correct. I am updating FAQ per the patch below, and if you got to http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#generated_files you will see the new (and shorter) version already which now directly refers to the installation documentation. I hope this addresses the issue you have been seeing? Gerald Index: faq.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/faq.html,v retrieving revision 1.209 diff -u -3 -p -r1.209 faq.html --- faq.html 3 May 2010 13:47:48 -0000 1.209 +++ faq.html 25 May 2010 08:54:05 -0000 @@ -475,19 +475,9 @@ those generated files are out of date an </code> script in the contrib subdirectory of GCC, which handles this transparently without requiring installation of any additional tools.</p> - -<p>When building from diffs or SVN or if you modified some sources, -you may also need to obtain development versions of some GNU tools, as -the production versions do not necessarily handle all features needed -to rebuild GCC.</p> - -<p>In general, the current versions of these tools from <a -href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/";>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/</a> will work. -At present, Autoconf 2.50 is not supported, and you will need to use -Autoconf 2.13; work is in progress to fix this problem. Also look at -<a href="ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/";> -ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/</a> for any special versions -of packages.</p> +<p>If you modified some sources or when building from SVN you may also +need <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html#TOC1";>some +additional tools</a>.</p> <hr />
