From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6VcA-0002DP-It for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 16:08:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6Vc5-00028h-JS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 16:08:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53710 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M6Vc5-00028U-Ch for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 16:08:37 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:33719) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M6Vc4-0001aj-LJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 16:08:36 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n4JKAsb2015030 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 16:10:54 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n4JK8XPE157252 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 16:08:33 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n4JK8VAI020507 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 16:08:31 -0400 Received: from [9.53.41.42] (slate.austin.ibm.com [9.53.41.42]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n4JK8Q7I019847 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 16:08:26 -0400 From: Hollis Blanchard Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:08:25 -0500 Message-Id: <1242763705.8611.234.camel@slate.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] remove gcc 3.x requirement from documentation List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel This text is no longer accurate. After the patch is applied, the generated version at http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html should be regenerated. This patch is also a candidate for the stable branch. (The URL above is probably generated from the stable branch anyways, so maybe it goes without saying.) Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -2619,16 +2619,6 @@ make install @end example to install QEMU in @file{/usr/local}. -@subsection GCC version - -In order to compile QEMU successfully, it is very important that you -have the right tools. The most important one is gcc. On most hosts and -in particular on x86 ones, @emph{gcc 4.x is not supported}. If your -Linux distribution includes a gcc 4.x compiler, you can usually -install an older version (it is invoked by @code{gcc32} or -@code{gcc34}). The QEMU configure script automatically probes for -these older versions so that usually you don't have to do anything. - @node Windows @section Windows -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center