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From: Gerald Pfeifer
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Subject: [wwwdocs] Condense and trim three aspects of our snapshot
instructions.
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This includes folding in a reference to our lists overview as a link
into some other text, removing a long obsolete reference to age-old
versions of the patch command, and skippking details that are covered
by the gcc_update script.
Pushed.
Gerald
---
htdocs/snapshots.html | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/htdocs/snapshots.html b/htdocs/snapshots.html
index 80d61e27..6567a857 100644
--- a/htdocs/snapshots.html
+++ b/htdocs/snapshots.html
@@ -21,20 +21,15 @@ progress. Any given snapshot may generate incorrect code or even fail to
build.
If you plan on downloading and using snapshots, we highly recommend you
-subscribe to the GCC mailing lists. See
-mailing lists on the main GCC page for instructions on how to subscribe.
+subscribe to the GCC mailing lists.
When using the diff files to update from older snapshots to newer snapshots,
make sure to use "-E" and "-p" arguments to patch so that empty files are
-deleted and full pathnames are provided to patch. If your version of
-patch does not support "-E", you'll need to get a newer version. Also note
-that you may need autoconf, autoheader and various other programs if you use
-diff files to update from one snapshot to the next.
+deleted and full pathnames are provided to patch.
contrib/gcc_update
can be used to apply diffs between
successive snapshot versions and preserve relations between generated
-files so that autoconf et al aren't needed. This is documented in
-comments in contrib/gcc_update.
+files so that autoconf et al aren't needed.
The program sha512sum
— which is included with the
GNU Coreutils