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Re: 5.1 README
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: 5.1 README
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:56:53 -0400
- Cc: GDB Discussion <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010723193604.20613K-100000@is>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>
>> Several things I've noticed:
>>
>> o it recommends a separate build tree
>> yet gives the same build tree example
>> first
>
>
> IIRC, this was discussed in the past, and we decided to leave it as it is
> now. I don't see anything wrong with the current structure: after all,
> for a typical user, keeping the source directory pristine is not very
> important. Those who care will read the recommendation and act upon it.
Point taken, not something to debate this late in the game.
>> o it doesn't mention building PDF
>
>
> This can be easily added. Should I do that?
Yes please.
> P.S. Somebody should make sure the PDF version indeed can be built with
> the popular version(s) of PDFTeX, before we advertise that.
Oh, great :-) How many are there? Looks like all the machines I have
access to have teTeX (of one varity or another) installed. That
includes sources which is used for the nightly PDF snapshots.
Andrew