Changeset 5f3a328 for chapter06/gcc-pass2.xml

Timestamp:

11/04/2022 07:03:33 AM (18 months ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl (Moody) <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib

Children:

381c8a7

Parents:

90fcd12 (diff), 5156c400 (diff)
Note: this is a merge changeset, the changes displayed below correspond to the merge itself.
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Message:

Automatic merge of trunk into multilib

File:

• chapter06/gcc-pass2.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

chapter06/gcc-pass2.xml

@@ -49 +49 @@
 -->
     <para>As in the first build of GCC, the GMP, MPFR, and MPC packages are
-    required. Unpack the tarballs and move them into the required directory
-    names:</para>
+    required. Unpack the tarballs and move them into the required directories:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">tar -xf ../mpfr-&mpfr-version;.tar.xz
@@ -145 +144 @@
           a cross-compiler is used for building GCC, and that compiler knows
           that it has to look for headers and libraries in <filename
-          class="directory">$LFS</filename>. But the build system of GCC uses
+          class="directory">$LFS</filename>. But the build system for GCC uses
           other tools, which are not aware of this location. This switch is
-          needed to have them find the needed files in <filename
+          needed so those tools will find the needed files in <filename
           class="directory">$LFS</filename>, and not on the host.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -155 +154 @@
         <term><parameter>--target=$LFS_TGT</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>As we are cross-compiling GCC, it's impossible to build
+          <para>We are cross-compiling GCC, so it's impossible to build
           target libraries (<filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename>
           and <filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++</filename>) with the
-          compiled GCC binaries because these binaries won't run on the
-          host distro.  GCC building system will attempt to use the
-          C and C++ compilers on the host distro as a workaround by default.
-          It's not supported to build GCC target libraries with a different
-          version of GCC, so using host compilers may cause building
-          failure.  This parameter ensures to build the libraries with GCC
-          pass 1 and prevent the issue.</para>
+          previously compiled GCC binaries&mdash;those binaries won't run on the
+          host.  The GCC build system will attempt to use the host's
+          C and C++ compilers as a workaround by default.
+          Building the GCC target libraries with a different
+          version of GCC is not supported, so using the host's compilers may cause
+          the build to fail. This parameter ensures the libraries are built by GCC
+          pass 1.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -172 +171 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>Allow <filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++</filename> to
-          use shared <filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename> being
-          built in this pass, instead of the static version built in GCC
-          pass 1. This is needed for supporting C++ exception
+          use the shared <filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename> being
+          built in this pass, instead of the static version that was built in GCC
+          pass 1. This is necessary to support C++ exception
           handling.</para>
         </listitem>