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<head>
<title>Downloading GCC</title>
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<body>
<h1 align="center">Downloading GCC</h1>
-<p>GCC is distributed via FTP tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2. It is
-possible to download a full distribution or specific components.
+<p>GCC is distributed via CVS and FTP tarballs compressed with gzip or
+bzip2. It is possible to download a full distribution or specific
+components.</p>
+
+<p>Please refer to our <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html">releases
+web page</a> for information on how to obtain GCC.</p>
<p>The full distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java,
and Chill compilers. The full distribution also includes runtime libraries
for C++, Objective-C and Fortran. In the future the GNU compiler testsuites
-will be included in the full distribution.
+will be included in the full distribution.</p>
<p>If you choose to download specific components, you must download the core
gcc distribution plus any language specific distributions you wish to
use. The core distribution includes the C language front-end as well as the
-shared componenets. Each language has a tarball which includes the language
-front-end as well as the language runtime (when appropriate).
+shared components. Each language has a tarball which includes the language
+front-end as well as the language runtime (when appropriate).</p>
-<p>Unpack the core distribution as well as any language specific distributions
-in the same directory.
+<p>Unpack the core distribution as well as any language specific
+distributions in the same directory.</p>
-<p>XXX FSF mirror sites
-<p><a href="ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html">
-FTP download from egcs.cygnus.com (USA California)</a>
-<p><a href="ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html">
-FTP download from go.cygnus.com (USA California -- High speed link
-provided by Stanford)</a>
-<p>GCC releases are available on many <a href="../mirrors.html">FTP mirror sites</a>. If possible, please use one of these.
+<P>If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing
+installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your
+OS), unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or
+a separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any
+components of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler
+(bfd, binutils, gas, gprof, ld, opcodes,...) to the directory containing
+the GCC sources.</p>
-<p>
<hr>
-<i>Last modified on July 16, 1999.</i>
+<p><a href="./index.html">Return to the GCC Installation page</a></p>
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