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The installation instructions in the manual are somewhat outdated (and have always been, at least for some years now).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.
Obviously, a change to Makefiles would be required, to process the build work in higher resolution (don't look at me). I know Frank is busy with more important things, but it could be added to TODO list at least ...
OTOH and IMHO, it could pay out in faster development change-save-compile-test cycle. For compiler developers, I mean. End users shouldn't notice the difference on average.
My $0.02,
Mirsad