what's the meaning of "revisited"?

["joan" <joan at sh dot t2-design dot com>]

Why the gcc revisited and kernel headers revisted are needed?
 I don't konw what are they meaning. : (

> ******************************************
> MIPS new tool set
>
> Host: Linux x86 system - RedHat v7.1
> Target: mipsel-linux
>
>  Based on the latest cvs based tool
>  sources along with some mips patches
>  uploaded by Steven J Hill (have to verify)
>  around March-April 2001
>
> Last: 23 July 2001
> *******************************************
>
> step 1 - binutils
> -----------------
>
> ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/mipsel-linux-new --target=mipsel-linux
> make all install
>
> step 1.5 - kernel headers
> -------------------------
>
> Copy the linux and asm-mips from linux kernel source include directory to
> the /usr/local/mipsel-linux-new/include. Also set the link asm to point to
> asm-mips.
>
> step 2 - gcc basic
> ------------------
>
> ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/mipsel-linux-new --target=mipsel-linux
>  --with-newlib --disable-shared --enable-languages=c
> make LANGUAGES="c" -j4
> make LANGUAGES="c" install
>
> * --disable-shared used has there was few errors without it.
>
>
> step 3 - glibc
> ---------------
>
> BUILD_CC=gcc CC=mipsel-linux-gcc
> ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/mipsel-linux-new/mipsel-linux
>
mipsel-linux --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --enable-add-ons --with-elf --with-he
> aders=/usr/local/mipsel-linux-new/include --disable-profile
>
> * had to declare NULL in settimeofday.c
> * have to add UNAME_* seems like 2.4 has UTS_*
>   Looked further into the matter. There is a config-name.in file which
> should
>   be used to create a config-name.h file by configure script, but for some
>   reason its not working. So explicitly created a config-name.h and filled
>   it with the info got using the uname program.
> * Updated swapon function in sysdep/generic/swapon.c by adding int flag as
>   part of the swapon function
> * --disable-profile seems to have solved the cachectl.o required by
stamp.o
>   problem
> * --prefix points to the mipsel-linux directory within the root directory
> for
>   the target tool chain, when compared to the binutils's or gcc's prefix
>
>
> BUILD_CC=gcc CC=mipsel-linux-gcc make -j4
> make install
>
>
> step 3.5 - kernel headers revisited
> -----------------------------------
> Copy the kernel headers from /usr/local/mipsel-linux-new/include to
> /usr/local/mipsel-linux-new/mipsel-linux/include
>
>
> step 4 - gcc revisited
> ----------------------
>
> ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/mipsel-linux-new --target=mipsel-linux
> make LANGUAGES="c c++" -j4
> make LANGUAGES="c c++" install
>
>


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