[lfs] 03/03: gcc: adjust the words of languages with external dependencies

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Author: Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Jun 2 19:23:03 2026 +0800

    gcc: adjust the words of languages with external dependencies
    
    per Rainer's suggestion.
---
 chapter08/gcc.xml | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/chapter08/gcc.xml b/chapter08/gcc.xml
index 185037762..854ddf202 100644
--- a/chapter08/gcc.xml
+++ b/chapter08/gcc.xml
@@ -77,18 +77,20 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>We only enable C and C++ here to save the build time as no
     packages in LFS and BLFS require GCC to compile other languages. Append
-    <literal>cobol</literal> for Cobol (note that it will cause GCC fail
-    to build on a 32-bit LFS system),
+    <literal>algol68</literal> for Algol 68,
     <literal>fortran</literal> for Fortran,
     <literal>go</literal> for Go,
     <literal>objc</literal> for Objective C,
     <literal>obj-c++</literal> for Objective C++, and/or
     <literal>m2</literal> for Modula 2 into the value of
     <parameter>--enable-languages</parameter> option if you want to compile
-    programs in one or more of those languages with GCC.  GCC also supports
-    Ada and D, but the code to support Ada or D is written in Ada or D
-    itself, so the support can only be built with an existing Ada or D
-    compiler installation and we cannot enable the support here.</para>
+    programs in one or more of those languages with GCC.</para>
+
+    <para>GCC also supports the Ada, COBOL, and D languages.  But that would
+    require some dependencies which are not available in the base LFS system
+    and would exceed the scope of this book.  Read
+    <ulink url='https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html'>the upstream
+    documentation</ulink> for details.</para>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the new configure parameters:</title>

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