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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index be6b5784..7c6258f3 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
PREREQUISITES
=============
-GiNaC requires the CLN library by Bruno Haible, available at either
+GiNaC requires the CLN library by Bruno Haible, available from either
one of the following FTP-sites:
* ,
* or
@@ -12,14 +12,6 @@ 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.
-Optionally, GiNaC may work together with Masaharu Goto's C++
-interpreter cint (which requires that you register for commercial
-use). You may obtain it from
- * .
-Install it by following the instructions included in Cint's
-distribution before trying to compile GiNaC-cint. (See section
-`Working with the Cint C++ interpreter' below.)
-
INSTALLATION
============
@@ -30,10 +22,12 @@ As with any autoconfiguring GNU software, installation is as easy as this:
$ make
$ make check
[become root if necessary]
- $ make install
+ # make install
Known to work with:
- - Linux/x86, EGCS-1.1.x and GCC 2-95.x
+ - Linux on x86, Alpha and Sparc using GCC 2-95.x.
+Known not to work with:
+ - GCC 2.7.x or earlier because proper exception support is missing there.
The "configure" script can be given a number of options to enable and
disable various features. For a complete list, type:
@@ -55,13 +49,13 @@ The time the "make" step takes depends heavily on optimization levels.
Large amounts of memory (>128MB) will be required by the compiler,
also depending on optimization. To give you a rough idea of what you
have to expect the following table may be helpful. It was measured on
-a P-III/500MHz with "enough" memory:
+an Athlon/800MHz with "enough" memory:
-step: | GCC optimization level: | comment:
- | -O0 | -O1 | -O2 |
---------------+--------+--------+--------+-------------------------------
-make | ~4m | ~6m | ~10m | building shared and static lib
-make check | ~3m | ~3m | ~7m | mostly due to compilation
+step | GCC optimization | comment
+ | -O1 | -O2 |
+--------------+---------+---------+----------------------------------------
+make | ~6m | ~8m | shared and static library
+make check | ~8m | ~12m | largely due to compilation
COMMON PROBLEMS
@@ -70,12 +64,11 @@ COMMON PROBLEMS
Problems with CLN
-----------------
-You should use at least CLN V1.0.3, since during the development of
+You should use at least CLN-1.1, since during the development of
GiNaC various bugs have been discovered and fixed in earlier versions.
-To protect you, the "configure" script checks for a feature that was
-added in V1.0.3 so it won't continue with earlier versions anyhow.
Please install CLN properly on your system before continuing with
-GiNaC.
+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.
Problems with building ginsh
----------------------------
@@ -85,31 +78,20 @@ libreadline and/or the corresponding header files. Depending on what
your system/distribution is, you will have to install a package called
libreadline and maybe libreadline-dev. If your system's vendor
doesn't supply such packages, go to
-and compile it yourself. After that it should work fine.
-
-If you want to build a completely static ginsh and your compiler still
-complains about unresolved objects try linking with libncurses, too.
-
-
-Working with the Cint C++ interpreter
-=====================================
-
-The interface to the Cint C++ interpreter is currently in an alpha
-state. Please see to learn about
-Cint and install it before installing ginaccint. For the tool
-makecint to work properly it must know where Cint has its system
-directory. This is usually done by exporting $CINTSYSDIR to point to
-the proper place. With GiNaC you may either try to export that
-variable and type
- $ ./configure --with-cint
-or specify it on the command line saying
- $ ./configure --with-cint=/my/path/to/cintsysdir
-Good luck!
-
- Known to work with: | Known not to work with:
------------------------+----------------------------
- Cint 5.14.38 | Cint before 5.14.37
-
-Due to a bug in Cint 5.14.38 compilation will fail with GCC 2.95.2,
-maybe even with all 2.95.x. Currently you must use EGCS-1.1.x. This
-is under investigation.
+and compile it yourself.
+
+Problems with missing standard header files
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Building GiNaC requires many standard header files. If you get a
+configure error complaining about such missing files your compiler and
+library are probably not up to date enough and it's no worth
+continuing. If the only file missing is , however, there is
+a solution. GCC-2.95.2 and earlier don't ship with this file. A
+working implementation has been available since GCC-2.95.3. GCC-3.0
+and later have an even better, fully standard-conforming
+implementation, by default. If you are stuck with GCC-2.95.2 or
+earlier and you cannot upgrade your compiler we recommend obtaining
+the libstdc++-v2 header written by Magnus Fromreide. It was
+posted to the gcc-patches mailing list on November 21 2000:
+.