* Adjust to up-to-date compiler landscape.

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 7c6258f3889723389732d7913c2cab8e3b229589..65d37fd195899fd1b4e61d2f23122b534c5ba5b4 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ one of the following FTP-sites:
   * <ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/gnu/>,
   * <ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/> or
   * <ftp://ftpthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/pub/gnu/>.
-You will also need a decent ANSI-compliant C++-compiler.  We use
-`post-EGCS' GCC, i.e GCC >= 2.95 for development so if you have a
-different compiler you are on your own.  Note that you may have to use
-the same compiler you compiled CLN with because of differing
-name-mangling schemes.
+You will also need a decent ANSI-compliant C++-compiler.  We recommend
+the C++ compiler from the GNU compiler collection, GCC >= 3.0.  If you
+have a different or older compiler you are on your own.  Note that you
+may have to use the same compiler you compiled CLN with because of
+differing name-mangling schemes.
 
 
 INSTALLATION
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ As with any autoconfiguring GNU software, installation is as easy as this:
  # make install
 
 Known to work with:
-  - Linux on x86, Alpha and Sparc using GCC 2-95.x.
+  - Linux on x86, Alpha and Sparc using GCC 2.95.x and 3.0.x.
 Known not to work with:
   - GCC 2.7.x or earlier because proper exception support is missing there.
 
@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ Problems with CLN
 You should use at least CLN-1.1, since during the development of
 GiNaC various bugs have been discovered and fixed in earlier versions.
 Please install CLN properly on your system before continuing with
-GiNaC.  When using GCC3 as compiler please use at least CLN-1.1.1
-since some parts of GiNaC won't build with CLN-1.1.
+GiNaC.
 
 Problems with building ginsh
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