Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
The installation instructions in the manual are somewhat outdated (and have always been, at least for some years now). There are probably a number of things which are not quite accurate, missing or unnecessary (perhaps kludges that were once necessary). Also, the structure of the chapter is probably not optimal.
Also, if I may add, the installation procedure itself is somewhat not optimal. It's frequent to change a line of code and want to see how it works. Then makefile installs all docs, sometimes rebuilds them, docdemos and various stuff again, while actually only the compiler proper has changed.
Could you please send a "test case" where docs or docdemos are rebuilt without having been changed? I'm trying to fix those cases, but make is a tough beast, so I might still have missed a few.
As for installation, you could try
cd gcc
make pascal.install-compiler pascal.install-common install-gpcpp \ pascal.install-lib pascal.install-utils pascal.install-units
(you can omit parts you certainly don't want to be updated; OTOH I think these parts don't take long, mostly the docs do).
I'm not actually sure we should make it more comfortable to do such partial installs. For those who do it regularly and know how do to it (now you do), it's easy enough to put this in a script.
Making it too simple might confuse newcomers (I'm already getting enough requests about the -with-gcc and plain (without GCC parts) installations), and debugging other people's broken (e.g., because only partly updated) installations is no fun.
Frank