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GCC is distributed via <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html">SVN</a> and FTP
tarballs compressed with <samp><span class="command">gzip</span></samp> or
-<samp><span class="command">bzip2</span></samp>. It is possible to download a full distribution or specific
-components.
+<samp><span class="command">bzip2</span></samp>.
<p>Please refer to the <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html">releases web page</a>
for information on how to obtain GCC.
- <p>The full distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java,
-and Ada (in the case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers. The full
-distribution also includes runtime libraries for C++, Objective-C,
-Fortran, and Java. In GCC 3.0 and later versions, the GNU compiler
-testsuites are also included in the full distribution.
-
- <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 components. Each language has a tarball which includes the language
-front end as well as the language runtime (when appropriate).
-
- <p>Unpack the core distribution as well as any language specific
-distributions in the same directory.
+ <p>The source distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java,
+and Ada (in the case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers, as well as
+runtime libraries for C++, Objective-C, Fortran, and Java.
+For previous versions these were downloadable as separate components such
+as the core GCC distribution, which included the C language front end and
+shared components, and language-specific distributions including the
+language front end and the language runtime (where appropriate).
<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