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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 721d6a25..e1881a35 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ one of the following FTP-sites:
* ,
* or
* .
-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
@@ -25,9 +25,10 @@ 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 3.0.x, 3.1 and 3.2.
Known not to work with:
- - GCC 2.7.x or earlier because proper exception support is missing there.
+ - GCC 2.96 or earlier because proper exception and standard library 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:
@@ -51,11 +52,11 @@ 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
an Athlon/800MHz with "enough" memory:
-step: | GCC optimization level: | comment:
- | -O0 | -O1 | -O2 |
---------------+--------+--------+--------+-------------------------------
-make | ~4m | ~5m | ~6m | building shared and static lib
-make check | ~20m | ~11m | ~12m | largely 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
@@ -67,8 +68,7 @@ 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
----------------------------
@@ -86,12 +86,4 @@ 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
-earliear 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:
-.
+continuing.