diff --git a/docs/GettingStarted.rst b/docs/GettingStarted.rst index 22813d2e4ee..29be6c68b99 100644 --- a/docs/GettingStarted.rst +++ b/docs/GettingStarted.rst @@ -298,10 +298,10 @@ The first step is to get a recent GCC toolchain installed. The most common distribution on which users have struggled with the version requirements is Ubuntu Precise, 12.04 LTS. For this distribution, one easy option is to install the `toolchain testing PPA -` and use it to +`__ and use it to install a modern GCC. There is a really nice discussions of this on the `ask ubuntu stack exchange -`. +`__. However, not all users can use PPAs and there are many other distros, so it may be necessory (or just useful, if you're here you *are* doing compiler development after all) to build and install GCC from source. It is also quite @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ Easy steps for installing GCC 4.8.2: make install For more details, check out the `excellent GCC wiki entry -`, where I got most of this information +`__, where I got most of this information from. Once you have a GCC toolchain, use it as your host compiler. Things should