# HG changeset patch # User "Yann E. MORIN" # Date 1255166671 -7200 # Node ID 07684767f87335e0ffb989e81871d074a6eb0946 # Parent a4e30d311569d92a941d1bfec571110dd19a56a5 docs: configure no longer accepts --with-contrib It's been a while that configure does not recognise --with-contrib. Applying contibutions is to be done manually, using patch. diff -r a4e30d311569 -r 07684767f873 docs/overview.txt --- a/docs/overview.txt Fri Oct 09 16:22:09 2009 +0200 +++ b/docs/overview.txt Sat Oct 10 11:24:31 2009 +0200 @@ -188,18 +188,10 @@ -----------------+ Some people contibuted code that couldn't get merged for various reasons. This -code is available as patches in the contrib/ sub-directory. These patches are -to be applied to the source of crosstool-NG, prior to installing. - -An easy way to use contributed code is to pass the --with-contrib= option to -./configure. The possible values depend upon which contributions are packaged -with your version, but you can get with it with passing one of those two -special values: - --with-contrib=list - will list all available contributions - - --with-contrib=all - will select all avalaible contributions +code is available as lzma-compressed patches, in the contrib/ sub-directory. +These patches are to be applied to the source of crosstool-NG, prior to +installing, using something like the following: + lzcat contrib/foobar.patch.lzma |patch -p1 There is no guarantee that a particuliar contribution applies to the current version of crosstool-ng, or that it will work at all. Use contributions at