Re: first release candidate for 2.10.1

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>]

On 2 Nov 2000, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> It's not clear to me that the configure.texi or configure.info files
> should be part of a binutils release, actually.  They don't have much
> to do with the binutils, really, and they are available elsewhere.
> The same goes for the standards files, in fact.  It made some small
> amount of sense to include them before the proliferation of the World
> Wide Web, but now there are many ways to easily find this sort of
> documentation.

 I guess the choice is among binutils, gcc and possibly a standalone
package.  People seem to confuse cross-compilation configuration which
leads to incorrect configure scripts.  I believe it's worthwhile to
provide these documents in a way that makes them be installed on people's
systems in a standard way, i.e. with a system distribution or upon `make
install'. 

 Referring to the WWW only is not necessarily the best idea -- servers may
be down or people may be off-line when the information is needed.

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