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diff --git a/gcc/install.texi b/gcc/install.texi index 5717a826271..9013d8894e1 100644 --- a/gcc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/install.texi @@ -248,19 +248,18 @@ If you want to install its files somewhere else, specify is a directory name to use instead of @file{/usr/local} for all purposes with one exception: the directory @file{/usr/local/include} is searched for header files no matter where you install the compiler. To override -this name, use the @code{--with-local-prefix} option below. The directory -you specify need not exist, but its parent directory must exist. +this name, use the @code{--local-prefix} option below. @item -Specify @samp{--with-local-prefix=@var{dir}} if you want the compiler to +Specify @samp{--local-prefix=@var{dir}} if you want the compiler to search directory @file{@var{dir}/include} for locally installed header files @emph{instead} of @file{/usr/local/include}. -You should specify @samp{--with-local-prefix} @strong{only} if your site has +You should specify @samp{--local-prefix} @strong{only} if your site has a different convention (not @file{/usr/local}) for where to put site-specific files. -The default value for @samp{--with-local-prefix} is @file{/usr/local} +The default value for @samp{--local-prefix} is @file{/usr/local} regardless of the value of @samp{--prefix}. Specifying @samp{--prefix} has no effect on which directory GNU CC searches for local header files. This may seem counterintuitive, but actually it is logical. @@ -271,8 +270,8 @@ any in that directory---are not part of GNU CC. They are part of other programs---perhaps many others. (GNU CC installs its own header files in another directory which is based on the @samp{--prefix} value.) -@strong{Do not} specify @file{/usr} as the @samp{--with-local-prefix}! The -directory you use for @samp{--with-local-prefix} @strong{must not} contain +@strong{Do not} specify @file{/usr} as the @samp{--local-prefix}! The +directory you use for @samp{--local-prefix} @strong{must not} contain any of the system's standard header files. If it did contain them, certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on certain targets), because this would override and nullify the header file @@ -971,7 +970,7 @@ Use this for the SCO OpenServer Release family including 5.0.0, 5.0.2, GNU CC can generate either ELF or COFF binaries. ELF is the default. To get COFF output, you must specify @samp{-mcoff} on the command line. -For releases 5.0.0 and 5.0.2, you must install TLS597 from ftp.sco.com/TLS. +For 5.0.0 and 5.0.2, you must install TLS597 from ftp.sco.com/TLS. 5.0.4 and later do not require this patch. @emph{NOTE:} You must follow the instructions about invoking @@ -1104,7 +1103,7 @@ that configuration with + the @samp{--with-gnu-as} and @samp{--with-gnu-ld} options to @code{configure}. Note the C compiler that comes -with this system cannot compile GNU CC. You can find binaries of GNU CC +with this system cannot compile GNU CC. You can fine binaries of GNU CC for bootstrapping on @code{jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov}. You will also a patched version of @file{/bin/ld} there that raises some of the arbitrary limits found in the original. |