From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: GDB Discussion <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 5.1 README
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:56:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B5C8F95.9020900@cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010723193604.20613K-100000@is>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00328.html

> 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