Re: cross toolchain vs. info files

[Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 09:31 -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> Dave Korn writes:
>  > 
>  >     Afternoon all!
>  > 
>  >   When we build and install a cross binutils, $prefix/man gets a whole load of
>  > man pages all prefixed with the target - i.e.
>  > $prefix/man/man1/$target-{ar,as,ld,...}.
> 
> I wonder if it's the $target- prefix that's the bug.

Nope. It's what people need.

>  >   OTOH, the info files installed to $prefix/info aren't prefixed with the
>  > target.
>  > 
>  >   This means that 1) you can't look them up by "info $target-$utilityname" (it
>  > brings you the related manpage instead)
> 
> ... but if one has 5 targets why replicate the same document 5 times?
I have ca. 10 installed ... ;)

... because the versions of the tools aren't necessarily identical and
because the man pages also can diverge between version.

Ralf