Added rationale notes.

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chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@
 </itemizedlist>
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
+rationale notes.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the acknowledgements
 page to match the website.</para></listitem>
 

chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml

@@ -9,6 +9,18 @@ Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override
 default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting
 or modifying them when building GCC.</para>
 
+<para>This is an older release of GCC which we are going to install for the
+purpose of compiling the Linux kernel in Chapter 8. This version is recommended
+by the kernel developers when you need absolute stability. Later versions of
+GCC have not received as much testing for Linux kernel compilation. Using a
+later version is likely to work, however, we recommend adhering to the kernel
+developer's advice and using the version here to compile your kernel.</para>
+
+<para>We'll install this older release of GCC into the non-standard prefix of
+<filename class="directory">/opt</filename> so as to avoid interfering with
+the system GCC already installed in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
+ .</para>
+
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-2.95.3-2.patch
 patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-2.95.3-returntype-fix.patch
 echo timestamp > gcc/cstamp-h.in