diff --git a/llvm/docs/GCCFEBuildInstrs.html b/llvm/docs/GCCFEBuildInstrs.html index 289bda304ea2..0c675340cbfa 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/GCCFEBuildInstrs.html +++ b/llvm/docs/GCCFEBuildInstrs.html @@ -92,12 +92,13 @@ top-level README.LLVM file, adding ",ada" to EXTRALANGS, for example: systems without some work.

  • The build requires having a compiler that supports Ada, C and C++. The Ada front-end is written in Ada so an Ada compiler is needed to - build it. What is more, the Ada compiler must not be more recent - than what it is trying to compile, otherwise the build will fail. - This rules out gcc-4.3 (but not gcc-4.2) and also the - 2007 GNAT GPL Edition. - The LLVM parts of llvm-gcc are written in C++ so a C++ - compiler is needed to build them. The rest of gcc is written in C. + build it. Appropriate Ada compilers are gcc-4.2 (or earlier) or the + 2006 GNAT GPL Edition + (or earlier). As a general rule, the Ada compiler used for the + build must not be more recent than the Ada compiler it is building. + This is why the build fails with gcc-4.3 and the 2007 GNAT GPL Edition. + The LLVM parts of llvm-gcc are written in C++ so a C++ compiler is + needed to build them. The rest of gcc is written in C. Some linux distributions provide a version of gcc that supports all three languages (the Ada part often comes as an add-on package to the rest of gcc). Otherwise it is possible to combine two versions