From a5ef4c14d6c2af61c77325965f8b417cbae46337 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: okuji Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:35:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix terminology and add more comments about automake. --- INSTALL | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 2f928b781..e17fc479e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -14,21 +14,21 @@ configuring the GRUB. * GCC Probably every recent GCC should work, but we recommend GCC 2.95 and - later, since you can create smaller binary images. See the webpage + later, since you can create smaller binary images. See the web page . * GNU Make For now, the Makefiles produced by Automake depends on GNU Make. See - the webpage . + the web page . * GNU binutils 2.9.1.0.23 or later Binutils has changed the behavior of 16bit assembler between 2.9.1 and 2.9.1.0.x, and we support only 2.9.1.0.x and higher. In particular, we recommend using binutils 2.10, since it is the only - public release that supports real 16bit mode. Please taka a look at - the webpage , for more + public release that supports real 16bit mode. Please take a look at + the web page , for more information. Note that you don't have to install it into any system directory. See the section "Operation Controls", if you want to install binutils into your own directory. @@ -40,17 +40,21 @@ configure script. * Texinfo 4.0 or later We use some new macros in the documents, so you need a recent - Texinfo release. See the webpage + Texinfo release. See the web page . -* Developers: GNU Automake 1.4h or later +* Developers: GNU Automake 1.5 You should not need Automake just to compile GRUB, but you will need it if you edit any of the build files (Makefile.am, configure.in, etc). We use the new "per-executable flags" feature found in the - latest release of automake. See the webpage + latest release of automake. See the web page . + Note that you shouldn't use 1.6 because of the incompatibility on + assembler support. We will shift to 1.6, once 1.6 becomes more popular + than 1.5. + Configuring the GRUB ====================