[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html

[Chris Lattner]

Changes in directory llvm/docs:

GettingStarted.html updated: 1.162 -> 1.163
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Log message:

don't use binutils 2.17


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Diffs of the changes:  (+9 -3)

 GettingStarted.html |   12 +++++++++---
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


Index: llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html
diff -u llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html:1.162 llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html:1.163
--- llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html:1.162	Tue May 22 01:12:51 2007
+++ llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html	Tue Jun 19 00:52:36 2007
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     <ol>
       <li><a href="#hardware">Hardware</a>
       <li><a href="#software">Software</a>
-      <li><a href="#brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a>
+      <li><a href="#brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC and other tools</a>
     </ol></li>
 
   <li><a href="#starting">Getting Started with LLVM</a>
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@
 
 <!-- ======================================================================= -->
 <div class="doc_subsection">
-  <a name="brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a>
+  <a name="brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC and other tools</a>
 </div>
 
 <div class="doc_text">
@@ -553,6 +553,12 @@
 defined in a discarded section. You can safely ignore these messages as they are
 erroneous and the linkage is correct.  These messages disappear using ld
 2.17.</p>
+
+<p><b>GNU binutils 2.17</b>: Binutils 2.17 contains <a 
+href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3111">a bug</a> which
+causes huge link times (minutes instead of seconds) when building LLVM.  We
+recommend upgrading to a newer version (2.17.50.0.4 or later).</p>
+
 </div>
 
 
@@ -1623,7 +1629,7 @@
   <a href="mailto:sabre at nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a><br>
   <a href="http://llvm.x10sys.com/rspencer/">Reid Spencer</a><br>
   <a href="http://llvm.org">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
-  Last modified: $Date: 2007/05/22 06:12:51 $
+  Last modified: $Date: 2007/06/19 05:52:36 $
 </address>
 </body>
 </html>