some random notes.

[oota-llvm.git] / docs / GettingStarted.html

diff --git a/docs/GettingStarted.html b/docs/GettingStarted.html
index d057390d83c9f02468bdbc898410496075abd754..b3fbb33cc8ea4581e53c14383aae3d1c23511033 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/GettingStarted.html
+++ b/docs/GettingStarted.html
@@ -119,8 +119,7 @@ and performance.
       <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-the-C-front-end-to-live</i></tt></li>
       <li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-gcc.<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
       </li>
-      <ul><li>If the binary extension is ".bz" use bunzip2 instead of gunzip.</li>
-      </ul>
+      <li>Note: If the binary extension is ".bz" use bunzip2 instead of gunzip.</li>
       <li>Add llvm-gcc's "bin" directory to your PATH variable.</li>
     </ol></li>
 
@@ -253,7 +252,7 @@ software you will need.</p>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>Linux</td>
-  <td>amd64<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a></sup></td>
+  <td>amd64</td>
   <td>GCC</td>
 </tr>
 </table>
@@ -320,10 +319,10 @@ project.</li>
     future. We highly recommend that you rebuild your current binutils with the
     patch from <a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2659">
     Binutils bugzilla</a>, if it wasn't already applied.</li>
-<li><a name="pf_9">XCode 2.5 and gcc 4.0.1 (Apple Build 5370) will trip
+<li><a name="pf_9">XCode 2.5 and gcc 4.0.1</a> (Apple Build 5370) will trip
     internal LLVM assert messages when compiled for Release at optimization
-    levels greater than 0 (i.e., <i>&ldquo;-O1&rdquo;</i> and higher).
-    Add <i>OPTIMIZE_OPTION=&quot;-O0&quot;</i> to the build command line
+    levels greater than 0 (i.e., <i>"-O1"</i> and higher).
+    Add <i>OPTIMIZE_OPTION="-O0"</i> to the build command line
     if compiling for LLVM Release or bootstrapping the LLVM toolchain.</li>
 </ol>
 </div>
@@ -556,6 +555,10 @@ the "<tt>convert_from_eh_region_ranges_1</tt>" GCC function.</p>
    portions of its testsuite.</p>
 <p><b>GCC 4.1.2 on OpenSUSE</b>: Seg faults during libstdc++ build and on x86_64
 platforms compiling md5.c gets a mangled constant.</p>
+<p><b>GCC 4.1.2 (20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) on Debian</b>: Appears
+to miscompile parts of LLVM 2.4. One symptom is ValueSymbolTable complaining
+about symbols remaining in the table on destruction.</p>
+
 <p><b>GNU ld 2.16.X</b>. Some 2.16.X versions of the ld linker will produce very
 long warning messages complaining that some ".gnu.linkonce.t.*" symbol was
 defined in a discarded section. You can safely ignore these messages as they are
@@ -681,10 +684,6 @@ compressed with the gzip program.
 
 </dl>
 
-<p>It is also possible to download the sources of the llvm-gcc4 front end from a
-read-only subversion mirror at
-svn://anonsvn.opensource.apple.com/svn/llvm/trunk. </p>
-
 </div>
 
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@@ -1291,8 +1290,7 @@ different <a href="#tools">tools</a>.</p>
   <p>This directory contains projects that are not strictly part of LLVM but are
   shipped with LLVM. This is also the directory where you should create your own
   LLVM-based projects. See <tt>llvm/projects/sample</tt> for an example of how
-  to set up your own project. See <tt>llvm/projects/Stacker</tt> for a fully 
-  functional example of a compiler front end.</p>
+  to set up your own project.</p>
 </div>
 
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