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d7f8491b 4@setfilename gccinstall.info
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5@settitle Installing GCC
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12@settitle Installing GCC
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15@settitle Host/Target specific installation notes for GCC
16@end ifset
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18@settitle Downloading GCC
19@end ifset
20@ifset configurehtml
21@settitle Installing GCC: Configuration
22@end ifset
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24@settitle Installing GCC: Building
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27@settitle Installing GCC: Testing
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30@settitle Installing GCC: Final installation
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33@settitle Installing GCC: Binaries
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36@settitle Installing GCC: Old documentation
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38@ifset gfdlhtml
39@settitle Installing GCC: GNU Free Documentation License
40@end ifset
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aed5964b 42@c Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
4dd57c18 43@c 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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44@c *** Converted to texinfo by Dean Wakerley, dean@wakerley.com
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46@c Include everything if we're not making html
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59
60@c Part 2 Summary Description and Copyright
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61@macro copyrightnotice
62Copyright @copyright{} 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
4dd57c18 631999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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64@sp 1
65Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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67any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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69with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the
70license is included in the section entitled ``@uref{./gfdl.html,,GNU
71Free Documentation License}''.
72
73(a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is:
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75 A GNU Manual
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77(b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is:
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79 You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU
80 software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise
81 funds for GNU development.
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86
87@c Part 3 Titlepage and Copyright
88@titlepage
89@sp 10
90@comment The title is printed in a large font.
ef88b07d 91@center @titlefont{Installing GCC}
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93@c The following two commands start the copyright page.
94@page
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aed5964b 96@copyrightnotice{}
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97@end titlepage
98
99@c Part 4 Top node and Master Menu
100@ifinfo
101@node Top, , , (dir)
102@comment node-name, next, Previous, up
103
104@menu
105* Installing GCC:: This document describes the generic installation
106 procedure for GCC as well as detailing some target
f9047ed3 107 specific installation instructions.
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108
109* Specific:: Host/target specific installation notes for GCC.
110* Binaries:: Where to get pre-compiled binaries.
111
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112* Old:: Old installation documentation.
113
aed5964b 114* GNU Free Documentation License:: How you can copy and share this manual.
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115* Concept Index:: This index has two entries.
116@end menu
117@end ifinfo
118
119@c Part 5 The Body of the Document
120@c ***Installing GCC**********************************************************
6cfb3f16 121@ifnothtml
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122@comment node-name, next, previous, up
123@node Installing GCC, Binaries, , Top
6cfb3f16 124@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 125@ifset indexhtml
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126@ifnothtml
127@chapter Installing GCC
128@end ifnothtml
129
130The latest version of this document is always available at
f9047ed3 131@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/install/,,http://gcc.gnu.org/install/}.
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132
133This document describes the generic installation procedure for GCC as well
f9047ed3 134as detailing some target specific installation instructions.
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136GCC includes several components that previously were separate distributions
137with their own installation instructions. This document supersedes all
eea81d3e 138package specific installation instructions.
f42974dc 139
f9047ed3 140@emph{Before} starting the build/install procedure please check the
f42974dc 141@ifnothtml
eea81d3e 142@ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
f42974dc 143@end ifnothtml
c009f01f 144@ifhtml
f9047ed3 145@uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
c009f01f 146@end ifhtml
f9047ed3 147We recommend you browse the entire generic installation instructions before
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148you proceed.
149
c009f01f 150Lists of successful builds for released versions of GCC are
b58bbfbb 151available at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
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152These lists are updated as new information becomes available.
153
f9047ed3 154The installation procedure itself is broken into five steps.
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155
156@ifinfo
157@menu
158* Downloading the source::
159* Configuration::
160* Building::
161* Testing:: (optional)
162* Final install::
163@end menu
164@end ifinfo
c009f01f 165@ifhtml
f42974dc 166@enumerate
f9047ed3 167@item
f42974dc 168@uref{download.html,,Downloading the source}
f42974dc 169@item
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170@uref{configure.html,,Configuration}
171@item
172@uref{build.html,,Building}
173@item
174@uref{test.html,,Testing} (optional)
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175@item
176@uref{finalinstall.html,,Final install}
177@end enumerate
c009f01f 178@end ifhtml
f42974dc 179
38209993 180Please note that GCC does not support @samp{make uninstall} and probably
f9047ed3 181won't do so in the near future as this would open a can of worms. Instead,
f42974dc 182we suggest that you install GCC into a directory of its own and simply
38209993 183remove that directory when you do not need that specific version of GCC
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184any longer, and, if shared libraries are installed there as well, no
185more binaries exist that use them.
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187@ifhtml
188There are also some @uref{old.html,,old installation instructions},
189which are mostly obsolete but still contain some information which has
190not yet been merged into the main part of this manual.
191@end ifhtml
192
f42974dc 193@html
b8db17af 194<hr />
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195<p>
196@end html
197@ifhtml
198@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
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199
200@copyrightnotice{}
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201@end ifhtml
202@end ifset
203
204@c ***Downloading the source**************************************************
6cfb3f16 205@ifnothtml
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206@comment node-name, next, previous, up
207@node Downloading the source, Configuration, , Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 208@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 209@ifset downloadhtml
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210@ifnothtml
211@chapter Downloading GCC
212@end ifnothtml
213@cindex Downloading GCC
214@cindex Downloading the Source
215
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216GCC is distributed via @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html,,CVS} and FTP
217tarballs compressed with @command{gzip} or
6cfb3f16 218@command{bzip2}. It is possible to download a full distribution or specific
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219components.
220
221Please refer to our @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html,,releases web page}
161d7b59 222for information on how to obtain GCC@.
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223
224The full distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java,
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225and Ada (in case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers. The full distribution
226also includes runtime libraries for C++, Objective-C, Fortran, and Java.
227In GCC 3.0 and later versions, GNU compiler testsuites are also included
228in the full distribution.
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229
230If you choose to download specific components, you must download the core
eea81d3e 231GCC distribution plus any language specific distributions you wish to
6c0a4eab 232use. The core distribution includes the C language front end as well as the
767094dd 233shared components. Each language has a tarball which includes the language
6c0a4eab 234front end as well as the language runtime (when appropriate).
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236Unpack the core distribution as well as any language specific
237distributions in the same directory.
238
239If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing
240installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your
241OS), unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or
242a separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any
243components of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler
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244(@file{bfd}, @file{binutils}, @file{gas}, @file{gprof}, @file{ld},
245@file{opcodes}, @dots{}) to the directory containing the GCC sources.
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247@html
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249<p>
250@end html
251@ifhtml
252@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
253@end ifhtml
254@end ifset
255
256@c ***Configuration***********************************************************
6cfb3f16 257@ifnothtml
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258@comment node-name, next, previous, up
259@node Configuration, Building, Downloading the source, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 260@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 261@ifset configurehtml
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262@ifnothtml
263@chapter Installing GCC: Configuration
264@end ifnothtml
265@cindex Configuration
266@cindex Installing GCC: Configuration
267
268Like most GNU software, GCC must be configured before it can be built.
269This document describes the recommended configuration procedure
270for both native and cross targets.
271
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272We use @var{srcdir} to refer to the toplevel source directory for
273GCC; we use @var{objdir} to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
274
275If you obtained the sources via CVS, @var{srcdir} must refer to the top
276@file{gcc} directory, the one where the @file{MAINTAINERS} can be found,
277and not its @file{gcc} subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
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279If either @var{srcdir} or @var{objdir} is located on an automounted NFS
280file system, the shell's built-in @command{pwd} command will return
281temporary pathnames. Using these can lead to various sorts of build
282problems. To avoid this issue, set the @env{PWDCMD} environment
283variable to an automounter-aware @command{pwd} command, e.g.,
284@command{pawd} or @command{amq -w}, during the configuration and build
285phases.
286
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287First, we @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built into a
288separate directory than the sources which does @strong{not} reside
289within the source tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building
290where @var{srcdir} == @var{objdir} should still work, but doesn't
291get extensive testing; building where @var{objdir} is a subdirectory
292of @var{srcdir} is unsupported.
f42974dc 293
eea81d3e 294If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
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295different target machine, do @samp{make distclean} to delete all files
296that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is
297@file{Makefile}; if @samp{make distclean} complains that @file{Makefile}
298does not exist, it probably means that the directory is already suitably
299clean. However, with the recommended method of building in a separate
300@var{objdir}, you should simply use a different @var{objdir} for each
301target.
302
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303Second, when configuring a native system, either @command{cc} or
304@command{gcc} must be in your path or you must set @env{CC} in
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305your environment before running configure. Otherwise the configuration
306scripts may fail.
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308Note that the bootstrap compiler and the resulting GCC must be link
309compatible, else the bootstrap will fail with linker errors about
310incompatible object file formats. Several multilibed targets are
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311affected by this requirement, see
312@ifnothtml
313@ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
314@end ifnothtml
c009f01f 315@ifhtml
e69aa433 316@uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
c009f01f 317@end ifhtml
eea81d3e 318
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319To configure GCC:
320
321@example
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322 % mkdir @var{objdir}
323 % cd @var{objdir}
eea81d3e 324 % @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
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325@end example
326
327
ef88b07d 328@heading Target specification
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329@itemize @bullet
330@item
38209993 331GCC has code to correctly determine the correct value for @var{target}
f9047ed3 332for nearly all native systems. Therefore, we highly recommend you not
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333provide a configure target when configuring a native compiler.
334
335@item
6cfb3f16 336@var{target} must be specified as @option{--target=@var{target}}
f9047ed3 337when configuring a cross compiler; examples of valid targets would be
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338i960-rtems, m68k-coff, sh-elf, etc.
339
340@item
6cfb3f16 341Specifying just @var{target} instead of @option{--target=@var{target}}
38209993 342implies that the host defaults to @var{target}.
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344
345
ef88b07d 346@heading Options specification
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ef88b07d 348Use @var{options} to override several configure time options for
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349GCC@. A list of supported @var{options} follows; @command{configure
350--help} may list other options, but those not listed below may not
351work and should not normally be used.
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353@table @code
354@item --prefix=@var{dirname}
355Specify the toplevel installation
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356directory. This is the recommended way to install the tools into a directory
357other than the default. The toplevel installation directory defaults to
6cfb3f16 358@file{/usr/local}.
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360We @strong{highly} recommend against @var{dirname} being the same or a
361subdirectory of @var{objdir} or vice versa.
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362
363These additional options control where certain parts of the distribution
364are installed. Normally you should not need to use these options.
ef88b07d 365@table @code
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366@item --exec-prefix=@var{dirname}
367Specify the toplevel installation directory for architecture-dependent
368files. The default is @file{@var{prefix}}.
369
370@item --bindir=@var{dirname}
371Specify the installation directory for the executables called by users
372(such as @command{gcc} and @command{g++}). The default is
373@file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}.
374
375@item --libdir=@var{dirname}
376Specify the installation directory for object code libraries and
161d7b59 377internal parts of GCC@. The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/lib}.
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379@item --with-slibdir=@var{dirname}
380Specify the installation directory for the shared libgcc library. The
381default is @file{@var{libdir}}.
382
383@item --infodir=@var{dirname}
384Specify the installation directory for documentation in info format.
385The default is @file{@var{prefix}/info}.
386
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387@item --datadir=@var{dirname}
388Specify the installation directory for some architecture-independent
389data files referenced by GCC@. The default is @file{@var{prefix}/share}.
390
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391@item --mandir=@var{dirname}
392Specify the installation directory for manual pages. The default is
393@file{@var{prefix}/man}. (Note that the manual pages are only extracts from
394the full GCC manuals, which are provided in Texinfo format. The
395@command{g77} manpage is unmaintained and may be out of date; the others
396are derived by an automatic conversion process from parts of the full
397manual.)
398
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399@item --with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}
400Specify
eea81d3e 401the installation directory for G++ header files. The default is
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402@file{@var{prefix}/include/g++-v3}.
403
ef88b07d 404@end table
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406@item --program-prefix=@var{prefix}
407GCC supports some transformations of the names of its programs when
408installing them. This option prepends @var{prefix} to the names of
409programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). For example, specifying
410@option{--program-prefix=foo-} would result in @samp{gcc}
411being installed as @file{/usr/local/bin/foo-gcc}.
412
413@item --program-suffix=@var{suffix}
414Appends @var{suffix} to the names of programs to install in @var{bindir}
415(see above). For example, specifying @option{--program-suffix=-3.1}
416would result in @samp{gcc} being installed as
417@file{/usr/local/bin/gcc-3.1}.
418
419@item --program-transform-name=@var{pattern}
420Applies the @samp{sed} script @var{pattern} to be applied to the names
421of programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). @var{pattern} has to
422consist of one or more basic @samp{sed} editing commands, separated by
423semicolons. For example, if you want the @samp{gcc} program name to be
424transformed to the installed program @file{/usr/local/bin/myowngcc} and
425the @samp{g++} program name to be transformed to
426@file{/usr/local/bin/gspecial++} without changing other program names,
427you could use the pattern
428@option{--program-transform-name='s/^gcc$/myowngcc/; s/^g++$/gspecial++/'}
429to achieve this effect.
430
431All three options can be combined and used together, resulting in more
432complex conversion patterns. As a basic rule, @var{prefix} (and
433@var{suffix}) are prepended (appended) before further transformations
434can happen with a special transformation script @var{pattern}.
435
8c085f6f 436As currently implemented, this option only takes effect for native
b21d216c 437builds; cross compiler binaries' names are not transformed even when a
8c085f6f 438transformation is explicitly asked for by one of these options.
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439
440For native builds, some of the installed programs are also installed
441with the target alias in front of their name, as in
442@samp{i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc}. All of the above transformations happen
443before the target alias is prepended to the name - so, specifying
444@option{--program-prefix=foo-} and @option{program-suffix=-3.1}, the
445resulting binary would be installed as
446@file{/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-foo-gcc-3.1}.
447
8ecab453 448As a last shortcoming, none of the installed Ada programs are
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449transformed yet, which will be fixed in some time.
450
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451@item --with-local-prefix=@var{dirname}
452Specify the
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453installation directory for local include files. The default is
454@file{/usr/local}. Specify this option if you want the compiler to
455search directory @file{@var{dirname}/include} for locally installed
456header files @emph{instead} of @file{/usr/local/include}.
457
458You should specify @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{only} if your
459site has a different convention (not @file{/usr/local}) for where to put
460site-specific files.
461
462The default value for @option{--with-local-prefix} is @file{/usr/local}
463regardless of the value of @option{--prefix}. Specifying
464@option{--prefix} has no effect on which directory GCC searches for
465local header files. This may seem counterintuitive, but actually it is
466logical.
467
468The purpose of @option{--prefix} is to specify where to @emph{install
469GCC}. The local header files in @file{/usr/local/include}---if you put
161d7b59 470any in that directory---are not part of GCC@. They are part of other
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471programs---perhaps many others. (GCC installs its own header files in
472another directory which is based on the @option{--prefix} value.)
473
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474Both the local-prefix include directory and the GCC-prefix include
475directory are part of GCC's "system include" directories. Although these
476two directories are not fixed, they need to be searched in the proper
477order for the correct processing of the include_next directive. The
478local-prefix include directory is searched before the GCC-prefix
479include directory. Another characteristic of system include directories
480is that pedantic warnings are turned off for headers in these directories.
481
482Some autoconf macros add @option{-I @var{directory}} options to the
483compiler command line, to ensure that directories containing installed
484packages' headers are searched. When @var{directory} is one of GCC's
485system include directories, GCC will ignore the option so that system
486directories continue to be processed in the correct order. This
487may result in a search order different from what was specified but the
488directory will still be searched.
489
490GCC automatically searches for ordinary libraries using
491@env{GCC_EXEC_PREFIX}. Thus, when the same installation prefix is
492used for both GCC and packages, GCC will automatically search for
493both headers and libraries. This provides a configuration that is
494easy to use. GCC behaves in a manner similar to that when it is
495installed as a system compiler in @file{/usr}.
496
497Sites that need to install multiple versions of GCC may not want to
498use the above simple configuration. It is possible to use the
499@option{--program-prefix}, @option{--program-suffix} and
500@option{--program-transform-name} options to install multiple versions
501into a single directory, but it may be simpler to use different prefixes
502and the @option{--with-local-prefix} option to specify the location of the
503site-specific files for each version. It will then be necessary for
504users to specify explicitly the location of local site libraries
505(e.g., with @env{LIBRARY_PATH}).
506
507The same value can be used for both @option{--with-local-prefix} and
508@option{--prefix} provided it is not @file{/usr}. This can be used
509to avoid the default search of @file{/usr/local/include}.
510
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511@strong{Do not} specify @file{/usr} as the @option{--with-local-prefix}!
512The directory you use for @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{must not}
513contain any of the system's standard header files. If it did contain
514them, certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on
515certain targets), because this would override and nullify the header
4c64396e 516file corrections made by the @command{fixincludes} script.
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517
518Indications are that people who use this option use it based on mistaken
519ideas of what it is for. People use it as if it specified where to
161d7b59 520install part of GCC@. Perhaps they make this assumption because
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521installing GCC creates the directory.
522
6cfb3f16 523@item --enable-shared[=@var{package}[,@dots{}]]
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524Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are supported on
525the target platform. Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier, shared libraries
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526are enabled by default on all platforms that support shared libraries,
527except for @samp{libobjc} which is built as a static library only by
528default.
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530If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared libraries
531only for the listed packages. For other packages, only static libraries
532will be built. Package names currently recognized in the GCC tree are
533@samp{libgcc} (also known as @samp{gcc}), @samp{libstdc++} (not
534@samp{libstdc++-v3}), @samp{libffi}, @samp{zlib}, @samp{boehm-gc} and
535@samp{libjava}. Note that @samp{libobjc} does not recognize itself by
536any name, so, if you list package names in @option{--enable-shared},
eea81d3e 537you will only get static Objective-C libraries. @samp{libf2c} and
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538@samp{libiberty} do not support shared libraries at all.
539
540Use @option{--disable-shared} to build only static libraries. Note that
541@option{--disable-shared} does not accept a list of package names as
542argument, only @option{--enable-shared} does.
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544@item @anchor{with-gnu-as}--with-gnu-as
545Specify that the compiler should assume that the
767094dd 546assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify
38209993 547the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if found
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548assembler is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion will also
549result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been
550configured with @option{--with-gnu-as}.) If you have more than one
38209993 551assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option in
eea81d3e 552connection with @option{--with-as=@var{pathname}}.
38209993 553
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554The following systems are the only ones where it makes a difference
555whether you use the GNU assembler. On any other system,
556@option{--with-gnu-as} has no effect.
557
558@itemize bullet
559@item @samp{hppa1.0-@var{any}-@var{any}}
560@item @samp{hppa1.1-@var{any}-@var{any}}
561@item @samp{i386-@var{any}-sysv}
562@item @samp{i386-@var{any}-isc}
563@item @samp{i860-@var{any}-bsd}
564@item @samp{m68k-bull-sysv}
565@item @samp{m68k-hp-hpux}
566@item @samp{m68k-sony-bsd}
567@item @samp{m68k-altos-sysv}
568@item @samp{m68000-hp-hpux}
569@item @samp{m68000-att-sysv}
570@item @samp{@var{any}-lynx-lynxos}
571@item @samp{mips-@var{any}}
572@end itemize
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574On the systems listed above (except for the HP-PA, for ISC on the
575386, and for @samp{mips-sgi-irix5.*}), if you use the GNU assembler,
576you should also use the GNU linker (and specify @option{--with-gnu-ld}).
577
eea81d3e 578@item --with-as=@var{pathname}
ef88b07d 579Specify that the
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581than the one found by the standard rules to find an assembler, which
582are:
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584@item
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586@file{@var{exec_prefix}/lib/gcc-lib/@var{target}/@var{version}}
587directory, where @var{exec_prefix} defaults to @var{prefix} which
588defaults to @file{/usr/local} unless overridden by the
eea81d3e 589@option{--prefix=@var{pathname}} switch described above. @var{target} is the
b953cc4b 590target system triple, such as @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.7}, and
eea81d3e 591@var{version} denotes the GCC version, such as 3.0.
f42974dc 592@item
e979f9e8 593Check operating system specific directories (e.g.@: @file{/usr/ccs/bin} on
250d5688 594Sun Solaris 2).
f42974dc 595@end itemize
767094dd 596Note that these rules do not check for the value of @env{PATH}. You may
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598directories listed above, or if you have multiple assemblers installed
599and want to choose one that is not found by the above rules.
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602Same as @uref{#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}}
38209993 603but for linker.
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eea81d3e 606@item --with-ld=@var{pathname}
ef88b07d 607Same as
38209993 608@option{--with-as}, but for the linker.
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611Specify that stabs debugging
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613uses. Normally GCC uses the same debug format as the host system.
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616GCC to create the normal ECOFF debugging format, or to use BSD-style
617stabs passed through the ECOFF symbol table. The normal ECOFF debug
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619handle other languages, but it only works with the GNU debugger GDB@.
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621Normally, GCC uses the ECOFF debugging format by default; if you
161d7b59 622prefer BSD stabs, specify @option{--with-stabs} when you configure GCC@.
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624No matter which default you choose when you configure GCC, the user
625can use the @option{-gcoff} and @option{-gstabs+} options to specify explicitly
626the debug format for a particular compilation.
627
628@option{--with-stabs} is meaningful on the ISC system on the 386, also, if
629@option{--with-gas} is used. It selects use of stabs debugging
630information embedded in COFF output. This kind of debugging information
631supports C++ well; ordinary COFF debugging information does not.
632
633@option{--with-stabs} is also meaningful on 386 systems running SVR4. It
634selects use of stabs debugging information embedded in ELF output. The
635C++ compiler currently (2.6.0) does not support the DWARF debugging
636information normally used on 386 SVR4 platforms; stabs provide a
637workable alternative. This requires gas and gdb, as the normal SVR4
638tools can not generate or interpret stabs.
639
eea81d3e 640@item --disable-multilib
ef88b07d 641Specify that multiple target
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643conventions, etc should not be built. The default is to build a
644predefined set of them.
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647(e.g., @option{--disable-softfloat}):
648@table @code
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650biendian.
651
652@item arm-*-*
653fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
654
655@item m68*-*-*
656softfloat, m68881, m68000, m68020.
657
658@item mips*-*-*
659single-float, biendian, softfloat.
660
661@item powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*
662aix64, pthread, softfloat, powercpu, powerpccpu, powerpcos, biendian,
f282ffb3 663sysv, aix.
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665@end table
666
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668Specify that the target
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670library, and exception handling for other languages like C++ and Java.
6ac48571 671On some systems, this is the default.
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674model available will be configured for use. Beware that on some
675systems, gcc has not been taught what threading models are generally
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677alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
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679@item --disable-threads
680Specify that threading support should be disabled for the system.
3c6bb1db 681This is an alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
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684Specify that
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686compiler and runtime library, and exception handling for other languages
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688
689@table @code
690@item aix
691AIX thread support.
692@item dce
693DCE thread support.
f85b8d1a 694@item mach
eea81d3e 695Generic MACH thread support, known to work on NeXTSTEP@. (Please note
3c6bb1db 696that the file needed to support this configuration, @file{gthr-mach.h}, is
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698@item no
699This is an alias for @samp{single}.
f85b8d1a 700@item posix
c771326b 701Generic POSIX thread support.
f85b8d1a 702@item pthreads
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704only. A future release of gcc might remove this alias or extend it
705to all platforms.
706@item rtems
707RTEMS thread support.
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709Disable thread support, should work for all platforms.
710@item solaris
eea81d3e 711Sun Solaris 2 thread support.
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713VxWorks thread support.
714@item win32
715Microsoft Win32 API thread support.
716@end table
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719Specify which cpu variant the
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721only supported on the some ports, specifically arm, powerpc, and
161d7b59 722SPARC@. If configure does not recognize the model name (e.g.@: arm700,
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724for a complete list of supported models.
725
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727Specify that the target supports AltiVec vector enhancements. This
728option will adjust the ABI for AltiVec enhancements, as well as generate
729AltiVec code when appropriate. This option is only available for
730PowerPC systems.
731
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733Specify that target
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735This is the default for the m32r platform.
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738Specify that a user visible @command{cpp} program should not be installed.
739
740@item --with-cpp-install-dir=@var{dirname}
741Specify that the user visible @command{cpp} program should be installed
742in @file{@var{prefix}/@var{dirname}/cpp}, in addition to @var{bindir}.
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745The build rules that
6cfb3f16 746regenerate the GCC master message catalog @file{gcc.pot} are normally
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748tree is present. If you have changed the sources and want to rebuild the
6ac48571 749catalog, configuring with @option{--enable-maintainer-mode} will enable
767094dd 750this. Note that you need a recent version of the @code{gettext} tools
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751to do so.
752
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754Specify
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756subdirectory (@file{@var{libsubdir}}) rather than the usual places. In
eea81d3e 757addition, @samp{libstdc++}'s include files will be installed in
38209993 758@file{@var{libsubdir}/include/g++} unless you overruled it by using
6cfb3f16 759@option{--with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}}. Using this option is
38209993 760particularly useful if you intend to use several versions of GCC in
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762@samp{libstdc++}, and is the default for @samp{libobjc} which cannot be
763changed in this case.
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766Specify that only a particular subset of compilers and
767094dd 767their runtime libraries should be built. For a list of valid values for
6cfb3f16 768@var{langN} you can issue the following command in the
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770@example
771grep language= */config-lang.in
772@end example
773Currently, you can use any of the following:
e23381df 774@code{ada}, @code{c}, @code{c++}, @code{f77}, @code{java}, @code{objc}.
8ecab453 775Building the Ada compiler has special requirements, see below.@*
38209993 776If you do not pass this flag, all languages available in the @file{gcc}
6cfb3f16 777sub-tree will be configured. Re-defining @code{LANGUAGES} when calling
ef88b07d 778@samp{make bootstrap} @strong{does not} work anymore, as those
38209993 779language sub-directories might not have been configured!
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782Specify that the run-time libraries
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784to use GCJ with some other run-time, or you're going to install it
785separately, or it just happens not to build on your particular
6c0a4eab 786machine. In general, if the Java front end is enabled, the GCJ
f42974dc 787libraries will be enabled too, unless they're known to not work on
eea81d3e 788the target platform. If GCJ is enabled but @samp{libgcj} isn't built, you
f42974dc 789may need to port it; in this case, before modifying the top-level
eea81d3e 790@file{configure.in} so that @samp{libgcj} is enabled by default on this platform,
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792
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794Specify that the compiler should
eea81d3e 795use DWARF 2 debugging information as the default.
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797@item --enable-win32-registry
eea81d3e 798@itemx --enable-win32-registry=@var{key}
f85b8d1a 799@itemx --disable-win32-registry
6cfb3f16 800The @option{--enable-win32-registry} option enables Windows-hosted GCC
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802
803@smallexample
eea81d3e 804@code{HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Free Software Foundation\@var{key}}
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806
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808@option{--enable-win32-registry=@var{key}} option. Vendors and distributors
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810perhaps one comprised of vendor name and GCC version number, to
767094dd 811avoid conflict with existing installations. This feature is enabled
6cfb3f16 812by default, and can be disabled by @option{--disable-win32-registry}
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813option. This option has no effect on the other hosts.
814
815@item --nfp
816Specify that the machine does not have a floating point unit. This
817option only applies to @samp{m68k-sun-sunos@var{n}} and
6cfb3f16 818@samp{m68k-isi-bsd}. On any other system, @option{--nfp} has no effect.
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820@item --enable-checking
821@itemx --enable-checking=@var{list}
822When you specify this option, the compiler is built to perform checking
823of tree node types when referencing fields of that node, and some other
824internal consistency checks. This does not change the generated code,
825but adds error checking within the compiler. This will slow down the
826compiler and may only work properly if you are building the compiler
161d7b59 827with GCC@. This is on by default when building from CVS or snapshots,
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829specifying @var{list}; the categories of checks available are
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831@samp{gcac}. The
832default when @var{list} is not specified is @samp{misc,tree,gc,rtlflag}; the
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834
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836@item --enable-coverage=@var{level}
837With this option, the compiler is built to collect self coverage
838information, every time it is run. This is for internal development
839purposes, and only works when the compiler is being built with gcc. The
840@var{level} argument controls whether the compiler is built optimized or
841not, values are @samp{opt} and @samp{noopt}. For coverage analysis you
842want to disable optimization, for performance analysis you want to
843enable optimization. When coverage is enabled, the default level is
844without optimization.
845
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847@itemx --disable-nls
6cfb3f16 848The @option{--enable-nls} option enables Native Language Support (NLS),
f85b8d1a 849which lets GCC output diagnostics in languages other than American
767094dd 850English. Native Language Support is enabled by default if not doing a
161d7b59 851canadian cross build. The @option{--disable-nls} option disables NLS@.
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853@item --with-included-gettext
c771326b 854If NLS is enabled, the @option{--with-included-gettext} option causes the build
021c4bfd 855procedure to prefer its copy of GNU @command{gettext}.
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857@item --with-catgets
858If NLS is enabled, and if the host lacks @code{gettext} but has the
859inferior @code{catgets} interface, the GCC build procedure normally
860ignores @code{catgets} and instead uses GCC's copy of the GNU
6cfb3f16 861@code{gettext} library. The @option{--with-catgets} option causes the
f85b8d1a 862build procedure to use the host's @code{catgets} in this situation.
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865Search for libiconv header files in @file{@var{dir}/include} and
866libiconv library files in @file{@var{dir}/lib}.
867
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869Use installed zlib rather than that included with GCC@. This option
870only applies if the Java front end is being built.
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872@item --enable-obsolete
873Enable configuration for an obsoleted system. If you attempt to
874configure GCC for a system (build, host, or target) which has been
875obsoleted, and you do not specify this flag, configure will halt with an
876error message.
877
878All support for systems which have been obsoleted in one release of GCC
879is removed entirely in the next major release, unless someone steps
880forward to maintain the port.
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883Some options which only apply to building cross compilers:
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886@itemx --with-headers=@var{dir}
887Specifies that target headers are available when building a cross compiler.
888The @var{dir} argument specifies a directory which has the target include
889files. These include files will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
890directory. @emph{This option with the @var{dir} argument is required} when
891building a cross compiler, if @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include}
892doesn't pre-exist. If @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include} does
893pre-exist, the @var{dir} argument may be omitted. @command{fixincludes}
894will be run on these files to make them compatible with GCC.
895@item --with-libs
896@itemx --with-libs=``@var{dir1} @var{dir2} @dots{} @var{dirN}''
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898libraries. These libraries will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
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899directory. If the directory list is omitted, this option has no
900effect.
ef88b07d 901@item --with-newlib
eea81d3e 902Specifies that @samp{newlib} is
38209993 903being used as the target C library. This causes @code{__eprintf} to be
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905@samp{newlib}.
ef88b07d 906@end table
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909@option{--disable} option and that each @option{--with} option has a
910corresponding @option{--without} option.
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912@html
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915@end html
916@ifhtml
917@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
918@end ifhtml
919@end ifset
920
921@c ***Building****************************************************************
6cfb3f16 922@ifnothtml
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924@node Building, Testing, Configuration, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 925@end ifnothtml
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928@chapter Building
929@end ifnothtml
930@cindex Installing GCC: Building
931
932Now that GCC is configured, you are ready to build the compiler and
933runtime libraries.
934
58db9d1a 935We @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built using GNU make;
f282ffb3 936other versions may work, then again they might not.
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937GNU make is required for compiling GNAT (the Ada compiler) and the Java
938runtime library.
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940(For example, many broken versions of make will fail if you use the
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941recommended setup where @var{objdir} is different from @var{srcdir}.
942Other broken versions may recompile parts of the compiler when
943installing the compiler.)
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b8df899a 945Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a
df2a54e9 946nonzero status) and be ignored by @code{make}. These failures, which
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948be ignored.
949
950It is normal to have compiler warnings when compiling certain files.
951Unless you are a GCC developer, you can generally ignore these warnings
952unless they cause compilation to fail.
953
954On certain old systems, defining certain environment variables such as
6cfb3f16 955@env{CC} can interfere with the functioning of @command{make}.
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957If you encounter seemingly strange errors when trying to build the
958compiler in a directory other than the source directory, it could be
959because you have previously configured the compiler in the source
960directory. Make sure you have done all the necessary preparations.
961
962If you build GCC on a BSD system using a directory stored in an old System
4c64396e 963V file system, problems may occur in running @command{fixincludes} if the
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965result in a failure to fix the declaration of @code{size_t} in
966@file{sys/types.h}. If you find that @code{size_t} is a signed type and
967that type mismatches occur, this could be the cause.
968
161d7b59 969The solution is not to use such a directory for building GCC@.
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972you need the Bison parser generator installed. Any version 1.25 or
973later should work; older versions may also work. If you do not modify
974parser sources, releases contain the Bison-generated files and you do
975not need Bison installed to build them.
976
977When building from CVS or snapshots, or if you modify Texinfo
dda78254 978documentation, you need version 4.1 or later of Texinfo installed if you
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980documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in the release.
981
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983
f9047ed3 984For a native build issue the command @samp{make bootstrap}. This
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986
987@itemize @bullet
988@item
989Build host tools necessary to build the compiler such as texinfo, bison,
990gperf.
991
992@item
993Build target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils (bfd,
eea81d3e 994binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes)
f282ffb3 995if they have been individually linked
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997
998@item
999Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler.
1000
1001@item
1002Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.
1003
1004@item
1005Build runtime libraries using the stage3 compiler from the previous step.
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1008
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1010bootstrap-lean} instead. This is identical to @samp{make
1011bootstrap} except that object files from the stage1 and
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1013soon as they are no longer needed.
1014
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1016the final installation as well, you can build the compiler binaries
8c085f6f 1017without debugging information as in the following example. This will save
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1019(Libraries will still contain debugging information.)
1020
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1022 make CFLAGS='-O' LIBCFLAGS='-g -O2' \
1023 LIBCXXFLAGS='-g -O2 -fno-implicit-templates' bootstrap
1024@end example
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1027stage3 compilers, set @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} on the command line when doing
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1029tested here than the default of @samp{-g -O2}, but should still work.
1030In a few cases, you may find that you need to specify special flags such
1031as @option{-msoft-float} here to complete the bootstrap; or, if the
1032native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may need to work
1033around this, by choosing @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} to avoid the parts of the
1034stage1 compiler that were miscompiled, or by using @samp{make
1035bootstrap4} to increase the number of stages of bootstrap.
1036
6cfb3f16 1037If you used the flag @option{--enable-languages=@dots{}} to restrict
f42974dc 1038the compilers to be built, only those you've actually enabled will be
767094dd 1039built. This will of course only build those runtime libraries, for
f42974dc 1040which the particular compiler has been built. Please note,
eea81d3e 1041that re-defining @env{LANGUAGES} when calling @samp{make bootstrap}
ef88b07d 1042@strong{does not} work anymore!
f42974dc 1043
f85b8d1a 1044If the comparison of stage2 and stage3 fails, this normally indicates
eea81d3e 1045that the stage2 compiler has compiled GCC incorrectly, and is therefore
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1046a potentially serious bug which you should investigate and report. (On
1047a few systems, meaningful comparison of object files is impossible; they
1048always appear ``different''. If you encounter this problem, you will
1049need to disable comparison in the @file{Makefile}.)
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1051@section Building a cross compiler
1052
1053We recommend reading the
1054@uref{http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/,,crossgcc FAQ}
1055for information about building cross compilers.
1056
1057When building a cross compiler, it is not generally possible to do a
10583-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This makes for an interesting problem
161d7b59 1059as parts of GCC can only be built with GCC@.
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1060
1061To build a cross compiler, we first recommend building and installing a
1062native compiler. You can then use the native GCC compiler to build the
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1063cross compiler. The installed native compiler needs to be GCC version
10642.95 or later.
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1065
1066Assuming you have already installed a native copy of GCC and configured
6cfb3f16 1067your cross compiler, issue the command @command{make}, which performs the
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1068following steps:
1069
1070@itemize @bullet
1071@item
1072Build host tools necessary to build the compiler such as texinfo, bison,
1073gperf.
1074
1075@item
1076Build target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils (bfd,
1077binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes)
1078if they have been individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source
1079tree before configuring.
1080
1081@item
1082Build the compiler (single stage only).
1083
1084@item
1085Build runtime libraries using the compiler from the previous step.
1086@end itemize
1087
1088Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit.
1089
1090@section Building in parallel
1091
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1092If you have a multiprocessor system you can use @samp{make bootstrap
1093MAKE="make -j 2" -j 2} or just @samp{make -j 2 bootstrap}
1094for GNU Make 3.79 and above instead of just @samp{make bootstrap}
161d7b59 1095when building GCC@. You can use a bigger number instead of two if
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1096you like. In most cases, it won't help to use a number bigger than
1097the number of processors in your machine.
1098
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1099@section Building the Ada compiler
1100
1101In order to build GNAT, the Ada compiler, you need a working GNAT
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1102compiler (GNAT version 3.13 or later, or GCC version 3.1 or later),
1103since the Ada front end is written in Ada (with some
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1104GNAT-specific extensions), and GNU make.
1105
1106However, you do not need a full installation of GNAT, just the GNAT
1107binary @file{gnat1}, a copy of @file{gnatbind}, and a compiler driver
1108which can deal with Ada input (by invoking the @file{gnat1} binary).
1109You can specify this compiler driver by setting the @env{ADAC}
1110environment variable at the configure step. @command{configure} can
1111detect the driver automatically if it has got a common name such as
1112@command{gcc} or @command{gnatgcc}. Of course, you still need a working
1113C compiler (the compiler driver can be different or not).
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1114@command{configure} does not test whether the GNAT installation works
1115and has a sufficiently recent version; if too old a GNAT version is
1116installed, the build will fail unless @option{--enable-languages} is
1117used to disable building the Ada front end.
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1118
1119Additional build tools (such as @command{gnatmake}) or a working GNAT
1120run-time library installation are usually @emph{not} required. However,
9026a957 1121if you want to bootstrap the compiler using a minimal version of GNAT,
e23381df 1122you have to issue the following commands before invoking @samp{make
9026a957 1123bootstrap} (this assumes that you start with an unmodified and consistent
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1124source distribution):
1125
1126@example
1127 cd @var{srcdir}/gcc/ada
1128 touch treeprs.ads [es]info.h nmake.ad[bs]
1129@end example
1130
1131At the moment, the GNAT library and several tools for GNAT are not built
f282ffb3 1132by @samp{make bootstrap}. You have to invoke
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1133@samp{make gnatlib_and_tools} in the @file{@var{objdir}/gcc}
1134subdirectory before proceeding with the next steps.
1135
1136For example, you can build a native Ada compiler by issuing the
1137following commands (assuming @command{make} is GNU make):
1138
1139@example
1140 cd @var{objdir}
f282ffb3 1141 @var{srcdir}/configure --enable-languages=c,ada
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1142 cd @var{srcdir}/gcc/ada
1143 touch treeprs.ads [es]info.h nmake.ad[bs]
f282ffb3 1144 cd @var{objdir}
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1145 make bootstrap
1146 cd gcc
1147 make gnatlib_and_tools
1148 cd ..
1149@end example
1150
1151Currently, when compiling the Ada front end, you cannot use the parallel
1152build feature described in the previous section.
1153
f42974dc 1154@html
b8db17af 1155<hr />
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1156<p>
1157@end html
1158@ifhtml
1159@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
1160@end ifhtml
1161@end ifset
1162
1163@c ***Testing*****************************************************************
6cfb3f16 1164@ifnothtml
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1165@comment node-name, next, previous, up
1166@node Testing, Final install, Building, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 1167@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 1168@ifset testhtml
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1169@ifnothtml
1170@chapter Installing GCC: Testing
1171@end ifnothtml
1172@cindex Testing
1173@cindex Installing GCC: Testing
1174@cindex Testsuite
1175
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1176Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
1177compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
1178been submitted to the
1179@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/,,gcc-testresults mailing list}.
1180This step is optional and may require you to download additional software,
1181but it can give you confidence in your new GCC installation or point out
1182problems before you install and start using your new GCC.
f42974dc 1183
f9047ed3 1184First, you must have @uref{download.html,,downloaded the testsuites}.
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1185These are part of the full distribution, but if you downloaded the
1186``core'' compiler plus any front ends, you must download the testsuites
1187separately.
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1189Second, you must have the testing tools installed. This includes
1190a @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/,,current version of DejaGnu};
f42974dc 1191dejagnu 1.3 is not sufficient.
f97903cc 1192It also includes Tcl and Expect; the DejaGnu site has links to these.
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1193
1194Now you may need specific preparations:
1195
1196@itemize @bullet
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1198@item
ecb7d6b3 1199The following environment variables may need to be set appropriately, as in
f42974dc 1200the following example (which assumes that DejaGnu has been installed
6cfb3f16 1201under @file{/usr/local}):
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1203@example
1204 TCL_LIBRARY = /usr/local/share/tcl8.0
1205 DEJAGNULIBS = /usr/local/share/dejagnu
1206@end example
1207
1208On systems such as Cygwin, these paths are required to be actual
1209paths, not mounts or links; presumably this is due to some lack of
1210portability in the DejaGnu code.
1211
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1212If the directories where @command{runtest} and @command{expect} were
1213installed are in the @env{PATH}, it should not be necessary to set these
1214environment variables.
1215
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1216@end itemize
1217
1218Finally, you can run the testsuite (which may take a long time):
1219@example
ef88b07d 1220 cd @var{objdir}; make -k check
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1221@end example
1222
1223The testing process will try to test as many components in the GCC
2147b154 1224distribution as possible, including the C, C++, Objective-C and Fortran
ecb7d6b3 1225compilers as well as the C++ and Java runtime libraries.
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1227While running the testsuite, DejaGnu might emit messages resembling
1228@samp{WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.} or
1229@samp{WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file}.
1230These messages are harmless and do not affect the validity of the tests.
1231
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1232@section How can I run the test suite on selected tests?
1233
1234As a first possibility to cut down the number of tests that are run it is
38209993 1235possible to use @samp{make check-gcc} or @samp{make check-g++}
eea81d3e 1236in the @file{gcc} subdirectory of the object directory. To further cut down the
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1237tests the following is possible:
1238
1239@example
6cfb3f16 1240 make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp @var{other-options}"
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1241@end example
1242
eea81d3e 1243This will run all @command{gcc} execute tests in the testsuite.
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1244
1245@example
6cfb3f16 1246 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805* @var{other-options}"
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1247@end example
1248
eea81d3e 1249This will run the @command{g++} ``old-deja'' tests in the testsuite where the filename
6cfb3f16 1250matches @samp{9805*}.
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1252The @file{*.exp} files are located in the testsuite directories of the GCC
1253source, the most important ones being @file{compile.exp},
1254@file{execute.exp}, @file{dg.exp} and @file{old-deja.exp}.
1255To get a list of the possible @file{*.exp} files, pipe the
38209993 1256output of @samp{make check} into a file and look at the
6cfb3f16 1257@samp{Running @dots{} .exp} lines.
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1258
1259@section How to interpret test results
1260
6cfb3f16 1261After the testsuite has run you'll find various @file{*.sum} and @file{*.log}
767094dd 1262files in the testsuite subdirectories. The @file{*.log} files contain a
f42974dc 1263detailed log of the compiler invocations and the corresponding
767094dd 1264results, the @file{*.sum} files summarize the results. These summaries list
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1265all the tests that have been run with a corresponding status code:
1266
1267@itemize @bullet
1268@item
1269PASS: the test passed as expected
1270@item
1271XPASS: the test unexpectedly passed
1272@item
1273FAIL: the test unexpectedly failed
1274@item
1275XFAIL: the test failed as expected
1276@item
1277UNSUPPORTED: the test is not supported on this platform
1278@item
1279ERROR: the testsuite detected an error
1280@item
1281WARNING: the testsuite detected a possible problem
1282@end itemize
1283
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1284It is normal for some tests to report unexpected failures. At the
1285current time our testing harness does not allow fine grained control
1286over whether or not a test is expected to fail. We expect to fix this
1287problem in future releases.
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1289
1290@section Submitting test results
1291
1292If you want to report the results to the GCC project, use the
767094dd 1293@file{contrib/test_summary} shell script. Start it in the @var{objdir} with
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1295@example
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1296 @var{srcdir}/contrib/test_summary -p your_commentary.txt \
1297 -m gcc-testresults@@gcc.gnu.org |sh
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1298@end example
1299
6cfb3f16 1300This script uses the @command{Mail} program to send the results, so
767094dd 1301make sure it is in your @env{PATH}. The file @file{your_commentary.txt} is
f42974dc 1302prepended to the testsuite summary and should contain any special
767094dd 1303remarks you have on your results or your build environment. Please
f42974dc 1304do not edit the testsuite result block or the subject line, as these
f9047ed3 1305messages are automatically parsed and presented at the
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1306@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/testresults/,,GCC testresults} web
1307page. Here you can also gather information on how specific tests
767094dd 1308behave on different platforms and compare them with your results. A
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1309few failing testcases are possible even on released versions and you
1310should look here first if you think your results are unreasonable.
1311
aed5964b 1312@html
b8db17af 1313<hr />
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1314<p>
1315@end html
1316@ifhtml
1317@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
1318@end ifhtml
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1319@end ifset
1320
1321@c ***Final install***********************************************************
6cfb3f16 1322@ifnothtml
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1323@comment node-name, next, previous, up
1324@node Final install, , Testing, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 1325@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 1326@ifset finalinstallhtml
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1327@ifnothtml
1328@chapter Installing GCC: Final installation
1329@end ifnothtml
1330
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1331Now that GCC has been built (and optionally tested), you can install it with
1332@example
1333cd @var{objdir}; make install
1334@end example
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1336We strongly recommend to install into a target directory where there is
1337no previous version of GCC present.
1338
f42974dc 1339That step completes the installation of GCC; user level binaries can
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1340be found in @file{@var{prefix}/bin} where @var{prefix} is the value you
1341specified with the @option{--prefix} to configure (or @file{/usr/local}
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1342by default). (If you specified @option{--bindir}, that directory will
1343be used instead; otherwise, if you specified @option{--exec-prefix},
1344@file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin} will be used.) Headers for the C++ and
1345Java libraries are installed in @file{@var{prefix}/include}; libraries
1346in @file{@var{libdir}} (normally @file{@var{prefix}/lib}); internal
1347parts of the compiler in @file{@var{libdir}/gcc-lib}; documentation in
1348info format in @file{@var{infodir}} (normally @file{@var{prefix}/info}).
f42974dc 1349
2b46bc67 1350If you built a released version of GCC using @samp{make bootstrap} then please
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1351quickly review the build status page for your release, available from
1352@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
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1353If your system is not listed for the version of GCC that you built,
1354send a note to
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1355@email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} indicating
1356that you successfully built and installed GCC.
c5997381 1357Include the following information:
f42974dc 1358
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1359@itemize @bullet
1360@item
1361Output from running @file{@var{srcdir}/config.guess}. Do not send us
1362that file itself, just the one-line output from running it.
1363
1364@item
1365The output of @samp{gcc -v} for your newly installed gcc.
1366This tells us which version of GCC you built and the options you passed to
1367configure.
1368
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1369@item
1370Whether you enabled all languages or a subset of them. If you used a
1371full distribution then this information is part of the configure
1372options in the output of @samp{gcc -v}, but if you downloaded the
1373``core'' compiler plus additional front ends then it isn't apparent
1374which ones you built unless you tell us about it.
1375
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1376@item
1377If the build was for GNU/Linux, also include:
1378@itemize @bullet
1379@item
1380The distribution name and version (e.g., Red Hat 7.1 or Debian 2.2.3);
1381this information should be available from @file{/etc/issue}.
1382
1383@item
1384The version of the Linux kernel, available from @samp{uname --version}
1385or @samp{uname -a}.
1386
1387@item
1388The version of glibc you used; for RPM-based systems like Red Hat,
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1389Mandrake, and SuSE type @samp{rpm -q glibc} to get the glibc version,
1390and on systems like Debian and Progeny use @samp{dpkg -l libc6}.
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1391@end itemize
1392For other systems, you can include similar information if you think it is
1393relevant.
1394
1395@item
1396Any other information that you think would be useful to people building
1397GCC on the same configuration. The new entry in the build status list
1398will include a link to the archived copy of your message.
1399@end itemize
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1400
1401We'd also like to know if the
1402@ifnothtml
1403@ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}
1404@end ifnothtml
1405@ifhtml
1406@uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}
1407@end ifhtml
1408didn't include your host/target information or if that information is
1409incomplete or out of date. Send a note to
1410@email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} telling us how the information should be changed.
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1411
1412If you find a bug, please report it following our
1413@uref{../bugs.html,,bug reporting guidelines}.
1414
ab130aa5 1415If you want to print the GCC manuals, do @samp{cd @var{objdir}; make
dda78254 1416dvi}. You will need to have @command{texi2dvi} (version at least 4.1)
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1417and @TeX{} installed. This creates a number of @file{.dvi} files in
1418subdirectories of @file{@var{objdir}}; these may be converted for
1419printing with programs such as @command{dvips}. You can also
1420@uref{http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html,,buy printed manuals from the
1421Free Software Foundation}, though such manuals may not be for the most
161d7b59 1422recent version of GCC@.
ab130aa5 1423
f42974dc 1424@html
b8db17af 1425<hr />
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1426<p>
1427@end html
1428@ifhtml
1429@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
1430@end ifhtml
1431@end ifset
1432
1433@c ***Binaries****************************************************************
6cfb3f16 1434@ifnothtml
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1435@comment node-name, next, previous, up
1436@node Binaries, Specific, Installing GCC, Top
6cfb3f16 1437@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 1438@ifset binarieshtml
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1439@ifnothtml
1440@chapter Installing GCC: Binaries
1441@end ifnothtml
1442@cindex Binaries
1443@cindex Installing GCC: Binaries
1444
161d7b59 1445We are often asked about pre-compiled versions of GCC@. While we cannot
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1446provide these for all platforms, below you'll find links to binaries for
1447various platforms where creating them by yourself is not easy due to various
1448reasons.
1449
1450Please note that we did not create these binaries, nor do we
1451support them. If you have any problems installing them, please
1452contact their makers.
1453
1454@itemize
1455@item
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1456AIX:
1457@itemize
1458@item
ff4c5e7b 1459@uref{http://www.bullfreeware.com,,Bull's Freeware and Shareware Archive for AIX};
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1460
1461@item
8d5362b7 1462@uref{http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu,,UCLA Software Library for AIX}.
df002c7d 1463@end itemize
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1465@item
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1467
1468@item
1469Hitachi H8/300[HS]---@uref{http://h8300-hms.sourceforge.net/,,GNU
1470Development Tools for the Hitachi H8/300[HS] Series}.
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1472@item
1473HP-UX:
1474@itemize
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1476@uref{http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/,,HP-UX Porting Center};
1477
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1478@item
1479@uref{ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/gcc_hpux/,,Binaries for HP-UX 11.00 at Aachen University of Technology}.
1480@end itemize
1481
f42974dc 1482@item
38209993 1483@uref{http://www.sco.com/skunkware/devtools/index.html#gcc,,SCO
8d5362b7 1484OpenServer/Unixware}.
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1485
1486@item
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1487Sinix/Reliant Unix---@uref{ftp://ftp.siemens.de/sni/mr/pd/gnu/gcc,,Siemens}.
1488
1489@item
1490Solaris 2 (SPARC, Intel)---@uref{http://www.sunfreeware.com/,,Sunfreeware}.
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1491
1492@item
8d5362b7 1493SGI---@uref{http://freeware.sgi.com/,,SGI Freeware}.
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1494
1495@item
1496Windows 95, 98, and NT:
1497@itemize
1498@item
1499The @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/,,Cygwin} project;
1500@item
cc92b8ab 1501The @uref{http://www.mingw.org/,,MinGW} project.
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1502@end itemize
1503
1504@item
61d47787 1505@uref{ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/packages/free/by-name/,,The
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1506Written Word} offers binaries for Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7/SPARC, 2.7/Intel,
1507IRIX 6.2, 6.5, Digital UNIX 4.0D, HP-UX 10.20, and HP-UX 11.00.
1508
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1510
1511In addition to those specific offerings, you can get a binary
1512distribution CD-ROM from the
f9047ed3 1513@uref{http://www.fsf.org/order/order.html,,Free Software Foundation}.
f42974dc 1514It contains binaries for a number of platforms, and
767094dd 1515includes not only GCC, but other stuff as well. The current CD does
f42974dc 1516not contain the latest version of GCC, but it should allow
767094dd 1517bootstrapping the compiler. An updated version of that disk is in the
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1518works.
1519
1520@html
b8db17af 1521<hr />
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1522<p>
1523@end html
1524@ifhtml
1525@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
1526@end ifhtml
1527@end ifset
1528
1529@c ***Specific****************************************************************
6cfb3f16 1530@ifnothtml
f42974dc 1531@comment node-name, next, previous, up
73e2155a 1532@node Specific, Old, Binaries, Top
6cfb3f16 1533@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 1534@ifset specifichtml
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1535@ifnothtml
1536@chapter Host/target specific installation notes for GCC
1537@end ifnothtml
1538@cindex Specific
1539@cindex Specific installation notes
1540@cindex Target specific installation
1541@cindex Host specific installation
1542@cindex Target specific installation notes
1543
1544Please read this document carefully @emph{before} installing the
1545GNU Compiler Collection on your machine.
1546
ef88b07d 1547@ifhtml
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1549@item
333e14b0 1550@uref{#alpha*-*-*,,alpha*-*-*}
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1552@uref{#alpha*-dec-osf*,,alpha*-dec-osf*}
1553@item
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1555@item
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1557@item
1558@uref{#arm-*-aout,,arm-*-aout}
1559@item
1560@uref{#arm-*-elf,,arm-*-elf}
1561@item
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1563@item
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1565@item
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1567@item
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1569@item
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1570@uref{#dsp16xx,,dsp16xx}
1571@item
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1572@uref{#*-*-freebsd*,,*-*-freebsd*}
1573@item
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1574@uref{#h8300-hms,,h8300-hms}
1575@item
1576@uref{#hppa*-hp-hpux*,,hppa*-hp-hpux*}
1577@item
1578@uref{#hppa*-hp-hpux9,,hppa*-hp-hpux9}
1579@item
1580@uref{#hppa*-hp-hpux10,,hppa*-hp-hpux10}
1581@item
1582@uref{#hppa*-hp-hpux11,,hppa*-hp-hpux11}
1583@item
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1584@uref{#i370-*-*,,i370-*-*}
1585@item
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1586@uref{#*-*-linux-gnu,,*-*-linux-gnu}
1587@item
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1588@uref{#ix86-*-linux*aout,,i?86-*-linux*aout}
1589@item
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1590@uref{#ix86-*-linux*,,i?86-*-linux*}
1591@item
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1592@uref{#ix86-*-sco,,i?86-*-sco}
1593@item
1594@uref{#ix86-*-sco3.2v4,,i?86-*-sco3.2v4}
1595@item
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1596@uref{#ix86-*-sco3.2v5*,,i?86-*-sco3.2v5*}
1597@item
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1598@uref{#ix86-*-udk,,i?86-*-udk}
1599@item
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1600@uref{#ix86-*-esix,,i?86-*-esix}
1601@item
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1602@uref{#ia64-*-linux,,ia64-*-linux}
1603@item
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1604@uref{#*-lynx-lynxos,,*-lynx-lynxos}
1605@item
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1606@uref{#*-ibm-aix*,,*-ibm-aix*}
1607@item
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1608@uref{#ip2k-*-elf,,ip2k-*-elf}
1609@item
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1610@uref{#m32r-*-elf,,m32r-*-elf}
1611@item
1612@uref{#m68000-hp-bsd,,m68000-hp-bsd}
1613@item
1614@uref{#m6811-elf,,m6811-elf}
1615@item
1616@uref{#m6812-elf,,m6812-elf}
1617@item
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1618@uref{#m68k-att-sysv,,m68k-att-sysv}
1619@item
9340544b 1620@uref{#m68k-crds-unos,,m68k-crds-unos}
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1621@item
1622@uref{#m68k-hp-hpux,,m68k-hp-hpux}
1623@item
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1624@uref{#m68k-ncr-*,,m68k-ncr-*}
1625@item
1626@uref{#m68k-sun,,m68k-sun}
1627@item
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1628@uref{#m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1,,m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1}
1629@item
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1630@uref{#mips-*-*,,mips-*-*}
1631@item
b953cc4b 1632@uref{#mips-sgi-irix5,,mips-sgi-irix5}
f42974dc 1633@item
b953cc4b 1634@uref{#mips-sgi-irix6,,mips-sgi-irix6}
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1636@uref{#powerpc*-*-*,,powerpc*-*-*, powerpc-*-sysv4}
1637@item
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1638@uref{#powerpc-*-darwin*,,powerpc-*-darwin*}
1639@item
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1640@uref{#powerpc-*-elf,,powerpc-*-elf, powerpc-*-sysv4}
1641@item
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1642@uref{#powerpc-*-linux-gnu*,,powerpc-*-linux-gnu*}
1643@item
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1644@uref{#powerpc-*-netbsd*,,powerpc-*-netbsd*}
1645@item
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1646@uref{#powerpc-*-eabiaix,,powerpc-*-eabiaix}
1647@item
1648@uref{#powerpc-*-eabisim,,powerpc-*-eabisim}
1649@item
1650@uref{#powerpc-*-eabi,,powerpc-*-eabi}
1651@item
1652@uref{#powerpcle-*-elf,,powerpcle-*-elf, powerpcle-*-sysv4}
1653@item
1654@uref{#powerpcle-*-eabisim,,powerpcle-*-eabisim}
1655@item
1656@uref{#powerpcle-*-eabi,,powerpcle-*-eabi}
1657@item
1658@uref{#powerpcle-*-winnt,,powerpcle-*-winnt, powerpcle-*-pe}
1659@item
225cee28 1660@uref{#s390-*-linux*,,s390-*-linux*}
91abf72d 1661@item
225cee28 1662@uref{#s390x-*-linux*,,s390x-*-linux*}
91abf72d 1663@item
250d5688 1664@uref{#*-*-solaris2*,,*-*-solaris2*}
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250d5688 1666@uref{#sparc-sun-solaris2*,,sparc-sun-solaris2*}
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1667@item
1668@uref{#sparc-sun-solaris2.7,,sparc-sun-solaris2.7}
1669@item
250d5688 1670@uref{#sparc-sun-sunos4*,,sparc-sun-sunos4*}
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1671@item
1672@uref{#sparc-unknown-linux-gnulibc1,,sparc-unknown-linux-gnulibc1}
1673@item
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1674@uref{#sparc-*-linux*,,sparc-*-linux*}
1675@item
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1676@uref{#sparc64-*-*,,sparc64-*-*}
1677@item
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1678@uref{#sparcv9-*-solaris2*,,sparcv9-*-solaris2*}
1679@item
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1680@uref{#*-*-sysv*,,*-*-sysv*}
1681@item
1682@uref{#vax-dec-ultrix,,vax-dec-ultrix}
1683@item
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1684@uref{#xtensa-*-elf,,xtensa-*-elf}
1685@item
1686@uref{#xtensa-*-linux*,,xtensa-*-linux*}
1687@item
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1688@uref{#windows,,Microsoft Windows}
1689@item
1690@uref{#os2,,OS/2}
1691@item
1692@uref{#older,,Older systems}
1693@end itemize
1694
1695@itemize
1696@item
250d5688 1697@uref{#elf_targets,,all ELF targets} (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
f42974dc 1698@end itemize
ef88b07d 1699@end ifhtml
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1701
1702@html
1703<!-- -------- host/target specific issues start here ---------------- -->
b8db17af 1704<hr />
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1706@heading @anchor{alpha*-*-*}alpha*-*-*
1707
1708This section contains general configuration information for all
1709alpha-based platforms using ELF (in particular, ignore this section for
161d7b59 1710DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX and Tru64 UNIX)@. In addition to reading this
f2541106 1711section, please read all other sections that match your target.
333e14b0 1712
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1713We require binutils 2.11.2 or newer.
1714Previous binutils releases had a number of problems with DWARF 2
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1715debugging information, not the least of which is incorrect linking of
1716shared libraries.
1717
b8df899a 1718@html
b8db17af 1719<hr />
b8df899a 1720@end html
f2541106 1721@heading @anchor{alpha*-dec-osf*}alpha*-dec-osf*
b8df899a 1722Systems using processors that implement the DEC Alpha architecture and
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1723are running the DEC/Compaq Unix (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX, or Compaq
1724Tru64 UNIX) operating system, for example the DEC Alpha AXP systems.
1725
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1726As of GCC 3.2, versions before @code{alpha*-dec-osf4} are no longer
1727supported. (These are the versions which identify themselves as DEC
1728OSF/1.)
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1730In Digital Unix V4.0, virtual memory exhausted bootstrap failures
1731may be fixed by configuring with @option{--with-gc=simple},
1732reconfiguring Kernel Virtual Memory and Swap parameters
1733per the @command{/usr/sbin/sys_check} Tuning Suggestions,
1734or applying the patch in
1735@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00822.html}.
1736
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1737In Tru64 UNIX V5.1, Compaq introduced a new assembler that does not
1738currently (2001-06-13) work with @command{mips-tfile}. As a workaround,
1739we need to use the old assembler, invoked via the barely documented
1740@option{-oldas} option. To bootstrap GCC, you either need to use the
1741Compaq C Compiler:
1742
1743@example
eea81d3e 1744 % CC=cc @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
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1745@end example
1746
1747or you can use a copy of GCC 2.95.3 or higher built on Tru64 UNIX V4.0:
1748
1749@example
eea81d3e 1750 % CC=gcc -Wa,-oldas @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
f2541106 1751@end example
b8df899a 1752
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1753As of GNU binutils 2.11.2, neither GNU @command{as} nor GNU @command{ld}
1754are supported on Tru64 UNIX, so you must not configure GCC with
1755@option{--with-gnu-as} or @option{--with-gnu-ld}.
1756
1757The @option{--enable-threads} options isn't supported yet. A patch is
18b467f1 1758in preparation for a future release.
b953cc4b 1759
f0523f02 1760GCC writes a @samp{.verstamp} directive to the assembler output file
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1761unless it is built as a cross-compiler. It gets the version to use from
1762the system header file @file{/usr/include/stamp.h}. If you install a
1763new version of DEC Unix, you should rebuild GCC to pick up the new version
1764stamp.
1765
1766Note that since the Alpha is a 64-bit architecture, cross-compilers from
176732-bit machines will not generate code as efficient as that generated
1768when the compiler is running on a 64-bit machine because many
1769optimizations that depend on being able to represent a word on the
1770target in an integral value on the host cannot be performed. Building
1771cross-compilers on the Alpha for 32-bit machines has only been tested in
1772a few cases and may not work properly.
1773
1774@code{make compare} may fail on old versions of DEC Unix unless you add
6cfb3f16 1775@option{-save-temps} to @code{CFLAGS}. On these systems, the name of the
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1776assembler input file is stored in the object file, and that makes
1777comparison fail if it differs between the @code{stage1} and
6cfb3f16 1778@code{stage2} compilations. The option @option{-save-temps} forces a
b8df899a 1779fixed name to be used for the assembler input file, instead of a
6cfb3f16 1780randomly chosen name in @file{/tmp}. Do not add @option{-save-temps}
b8df899a 1781unless the comparisons fail without that option. If you add
6cfb3f16 1782@option{-save-temps}, you will have to manually delete the @samp{.i} and
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1783@samp{.s} files after each series of compilations.
1784
f0523f02 1785GCC now supports both the native (ECOFF) debugging format used by DBX
161d7b59 1786and GDB and an encapsulated STABS format for use only with GDB@. See the
6cfb3f16 1787discussion of the @option{--with-stabs} option of @file{configure} above
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1788for more information on these formats and how to select them.
1789
1790There is a bug in DEC's assembler that produces incorrect line numbers
1791for ECOFF format when the @samp{.align} directive is used. To work
f0523f02 1792around this problem, GCC will not emit such alignment directives
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1793while writing ECOFF format debugging information even if optimization is
1794being performed. Unfortunately, this has the very undesirable
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1795side-effect that code addresses when @option{-O} is specified are
1796different depending on whether or not @option{-g} is also specified.
b8df899a 1797
6cfb3f16 1798To avoid this behavior, specify @option{-gstabs+} and use GDB instead of
161d7b59 1799DBX@. DEC is now aware of this problem with the assembler and hopes to
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1800provide a fix shortly.
1801
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1804@end html
1805@heading @anchor{alphaev5-cray-unicosmk*}alphaev5-cray-unicosmk*
1806Cray T3E systems running Unicos/Mk.
1807
1808This port is incomplete and has many known bugs. We hope to improve the
1809support for this target soon. Currently, only the C front end is supported,
1810and it is not possible to build parallel applications. Cray modules are not
1811supported; in particular, Craylibs are assumed to be in
1812@file{/opt/ctl/craylibs/craylibs}.
1813
1814You absolutely @strong{must} use GNU make on this platform. Also, you
1815need to tell GCC where to find the assembler and the linker. The
1816simplest way to do so is by providing @option{--with-as} and
1817@option{--with-ld} to @file{configure}, e.g.@:
1818
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1819@example
1820 configure --with-as=/opt/ctl/bin/cam --with-ld=/opt/ctl/bin/cld \
1821 --enable-languages=c
1822@end example
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1824The comparison test during @samp{make bootstrap} fails on Unicos/Mk
1825because the assembler inserts timestamps into object files. You should
1826be able to work around this by doing @samp{make all} after getting this
1827failure.
1828
b8df899a 1829@html
b8db17af 1830<hr />
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1831@end html
1832@heading @anchor{arc-*-elf}arc-*-elf
1833Argonaut ARC processor.
1834This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
1835
1836@html
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1838@end html
1839@heading @anchor{arm-*-aout}arm-*-aout
1840Advanced RISC Machines ARM-family processors. These are often used in
1841embedded applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
1842This configuration corresponds to the basic instruction sequences and will
1843produce @file{a.out} format object modules.
1844
1845You may need to make a variant of the file @file{arm.h} for your particular
1846configuration.
1847
1848@html
b8db17af 1849<hr />
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1850@end html
1851@heading @anchor{arm-*-elf}arm-*-elf
1852This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
1853
476c334e 1854@html
b8db17af 1855<hr />
476c334e 1856@end html
ef88b07d 1857@heading @anchor{arm*-*-linux-gnu}arm*-*-linux-gnu
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1858
1859We require GNU binutils 2.10 or newer.
1860
f42974dc 1861@html
b8db17af 1862<hr />
f42974dc 1863@end html
ef88b07d 1864@heading @anchor{avr}avr
f42974dc 1865
b8df899a 1866ATMEL AVR-family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
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1867applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
1868@ifnothtml
1869@xref{AVR Options,, AVR Options, gcc, Using and Porting the GNU Compiler
1870Collection (GCC)},
1871@end ifnothtml
98999d8b 1872@ifhtml
ca52d046 1873See ``AVR Options'' in the main manual
98999d8b 1874@end ifhtml
ca52d046 1875for the list of supported MCU types.
b8df899a 1876
161d7b59 1877Use @samp{configure --target=avr --enable-languages="c"} to configure GCC@.
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1879Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR tools
1880can also be obtained from:
1881
1882@itemize @bullet
1883@item
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1884@uref{http://www.openavr.org,,http://www.openavr.org}
1885@item
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1886@uref{http://home.overta.ru/users/denisc,,http://home.overta.ru/users/denisc}
1887@item
63708ffc 1888@uref{http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr,,http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr}
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1889@end itemize
1890
de7999ba 1891We @emph{strongly} recommend using binutils 2.13 or newer.
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1892
1893The following error:
1894@example
1895 Error: register required
1896@end example
1897
1898indicates that you should upgrade to a newer version of the binutils.
1899
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b8db17af 1901<hr />
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1902@end html
1903@heading @anchor{c4x}c4x
1904
1905Texas Instruments TMS320C3x and TMS320C4x Floating Point Digital Signal
1906Processors. These are used in embedded applications. There are no
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1908@ifnothtml
1909@xref{TMS320C3x/C4x Options,, TMS320C3x/C4x Options, gcc, Using and
1910Porting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1911@end ifnothtml
98999d8b 1912@ifhtml
d8393f64 1913See ``TMS320C3x/C4x Options'' in the main manual
98999d8b 1914@end ifhtml
d8393f64 1915for the list of supported MCU types.
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1916
1917GCC can be configured as a cross compiler for both the C3x and C4x
1918architectures on the same system. Use @samp{configure --target=c4x
1919--enable-languages="c,c++"} to configure.
1920
1921
1922Further installation notes and other useful information about C4x tools
1923can also be obtained from:
1924
1925@itemize @bullet
1926@item
d8393f64 1927@uref{http://www.elec.canterbury.ac.nz/c4x/,,http://www.elec.canterbury.ac.nz/c4x/}
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1928@end itemize
1929
0b85d816 1930@html
b8db17af 1931<hr />
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1932@end html
1933@heading @anchor{cris}CRIS
1934
1935CRIS is the CPU architecture in Axis Communications ETRAX system-on-a-chip
1936series. These are used in embedded applications.
1937
1938@ifnothtml
1939@xref{CRIS Options,, CRIS Options, gcc, Using and Porting the GNU Compiler
1940Collection (GCC)},
1941@end ifnothtml
1942@ifhtml
1943See ``CRIS Options'' in the main manual
1944@end ifhtml
1945for a list of CRIS-specific options.
1946
1947There are a few different CRIS targets:
1948@table @code
1949@item cris-axis-aout
1950Old target. Includes a multilib for the @samp{elinux} a.out-based
1951target. No multilibs for newer architecture variants.
1952@item cris-axis-elf
1953Mainly for monolithic embedded systems. Includes a multilib for the
1954@samp{v10} core used in @samp{ETRAX 100 LX}.
1955@item cris-axis-linux-gnu
1956A GNU/Linux port for the CRIS architecture, currently targeting
1957@samp{ETRAX 100 LX} by default.
1958@end table
1959
1960For @code{cris-axis-aout} and @code{cris-axis-elf} you need binutils 2.11
1961or newer. For @code{cris-axis-linux-gnu} you need binutils 2.12 or newer.
1962
1963Pre-packaged tools can be obtained from
1964@uref{ftp://ftp.axis.com/pub/axis/tools/cris/compiler-kit/}. More
1965information about this platform is available at
1966@uref{http://developer.axis.com/}.
1967
f42974dc 1968@html
b8db17af 1969<hr />
f42974dc 1970@end html
ef88b07d 1971@heading @anchor{dos}DOS
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1973Please have a look at our @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
1974
f0523f02 1975You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under
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1976any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete
1977compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources,
1978and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.
1979
b8df899a 1980@html
b8db17af 1981<hr />
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1982@end html
1983@heading @anchor{dsp16xx}dsp16xx
1984A port to the AT&T DSP1610 family of processors.
1985
021c4bfd 1986@html
b8db17af 1987<hr />
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1989@heading @anchor{*-*-freebsd*}*-*-freebsd*
1990
1991The version of binutils installed in @file{/usr/bin} is known to work unless
1992otherwise specified in any per-architecture notes. However, binutils
6b976d99 19932.12.1 or greater is known to improve overall testsuite results.
021c4bfd 1994
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1995FreeBSD 1 is no longer supported in GCC 3.2.
1996
1997For FreeBSD 2 or any mutant a.out versions of FreeBSD 3: All
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1998configuration support and files as shipped with GCC 2.95 are still in
1999place. FreeBSD 2.2.7 has been known to bootstrap completely; however,
2000it is unknown which version of binutils was used (it is assumed that it
2001was the system copy in @file{/usr/bin}) and C++ EH failures were noted.
2002
2003For FreeBSD using the ELF file format: DWARF 2 debugging is now the
2004default for all CPU architectures. It had been the default on
2005FreeBSD/alpha since its inception. You may use @option{-gstabs} instead
2006of @option{-g}, if you really want the old debugging format. There are
2007no known issues with mixing object files and libraries with different
2008debugging formats. Otherwise, this release of GCC should now match more
2009of the configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of GCC. In
2010particular, @option{--enable-threads} is now configured by default.
2011However, as a general user, do not attempt to replace the system
2012compiler with this release. Known to bootstrap and check with good
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2014
2015In principle, @option{--enable-threads} is now compatible with
2016@option{--enable-libgcj} on FreeBSD@. However, it has only been built
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2017and tested on @samp{i386-*-freebsd4.5} and @samp{alpha-*-freebsd5.0}.
2018The static
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2020There is a rare timing-based startup hang (probably involves an
2021assupmtion about the thread library). Multi-threaded boehm-gc (required for
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2022libjava) exposes severe threaded signal-handling bugs on FreeBSD before
20234.5-RELEASE. The alpha port may not fully bootstrap without some manual
8c085f6f 2024intervention: @command{gcjh} will crash with a floating-point exception while
46fc709d 2025generating @file{java/lang/Double.h} (just copy the version built on
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2026@samp{i386-*-freebsd*} and rerun the top-level @command{gmake} with no
2027arguments and it
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2029supported by FreeBSD will require additional configuration tuning in, at
2030the very least, both boehm-gc and libffi.
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2032Shared @file{libgcc_s.so} is now built and installed by default.
2033
f42974dc 2034@html
b8db17af 2035<hr />
f42974dc 2036@end html
ef88b07d 2037@heading @anchor{h8300-hms}h8300-hms
b8df899a 2038Hitachi H8/300 series of processors.
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2039
2040Please have a look at our @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
2041
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2042The calling convention and structure layout has changed in release 2.6.
2043All code must be recompiled. The calling convention now passes the
2044first three arguments in function calls in registers. Structures are no
2045longer a multiple of 2 bytes.
2046
f42974dc 2047@html
b8db17af 2048<hr />
f42974dc 2049@end html
ef88b07d 2050@heading @anchor{hppa*-hp-hpux*}hppa*-hp-hpux*
f42974dc 2051
021c4bfd 2052We @emph{highly} recommend using gas/binutils 2.8 or newer on all hppa
f9047ed3 2053platforms; you may encounter a variety of problems when using the HP
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2054assembler. The HP assembler does not work with the @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*}
2055port.
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2057Specifically, @option{-g} does not work on HP-UX (since that system
2058uses a peculiar debugging format which GCC does not know about), unless you
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2059use GAS and GDB and configure GCC with the
2060@uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}} and
6cfb3f16 2061@option{--with-as=@dots{}} options.
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2063If you wish to use the pa-risc 2.0 architecture support with a 32-bit
2064runtime, you must use either the HP assembler, gas/binutils 2.11 or newer,
2065or a recent
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2066@uref{ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/snapshots,,snapshot of gas}.
2067
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2068There are two default scheduling models for instructions. These are
2069PROCESSOR_7100LC and PROCESSOR_8000. They are selected from the pa-risc
2070architecture specified for the target machine when configuring.
2071PROCESSOR_8000 is the default. PROCESSOR_7100LC is selected when
2072the target is a @samp{hppa1*} machine.
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2073
2074The PROCESSOR_8000 model is not well suited to older processors. Thus,
2075it is important to completely specify the machine architecture when
2076configuring if you want a model other than PROCESSOR_8000. The macro
2077TARGET_SCHED_DEFAULT can be defined in BOOT_CFLAGS if a different
2078default scheduling model is desired.
2079
021c4bfd 2080More specific information to @samp{hppa*-hp-hpux*} targets follows.
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2081
2082@html
b8db17af 2083<hr />
f42974dc 2084@end html
ef88b07d 2085@heading @anchor{hppa*-hp-hpux9}hppa*-hp-hpux9
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2086
2087The HP assembler has major problems on this platform. We've tried to work
2088around the worst of the problems. However, those workarounds may be causing
2089linker crashes in some circumstances; the workarounds also probably prevent
2090shared libraries from working. Use the GNU assembler to avoid these problems.
2091
2092
2093The configuration scripts for GCC will also trigger a bug in the hpux9
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2094shell. To avoid this problem set @env{CONFIG_SHELL} to @file{/bin/ksh}
2095and @env{SHELL} to @file{/bin/ksh} in your environment.
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2096
2097
2098@html
b8db17af 2099<hr />
f42974dc 2100@end html
ef88b07d 2101@heading @anchor{hppa*-hp-hpux10}hppa*-hp-hpux10
f42974dc 2102
f9047ed3 2103For hpux10.20, we @emph{highly} recommend you pick up the latest sed patch
161d7b59 2104@code{PHCO_19798} from HP@. HP has two sites which provide patches free of
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2105charge:
2106
2107@itemize @bullet
2108@item
2109@html
2110<a href="http://us-support.external.hp.com">US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, and
2111Latin-America</a>
2112@end html
2113@ifnothtml
2114@uref{http://us-support.external.hp.com,,}US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, and
2115Latin-America
2116@end ifnothtml
2117@item
2118@uref{http://europe-support.external.hp.com,,Europe}
2119@end itemize
2120
2121The HP assembler on these systems is much better than the hpux9 assembler,
2122but still has some problems. Most notably the assembler inserts timestamps
2123into each object file it creates, causing the 3-stage comparison test to fail
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2124during a @samp{make bootstrap}. You should be able to continue by
2125saying @samp{make all} after getting the failure from @samp{make
38209993 2126bootstrap}.
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2127
2128
2129@html
b8db17af 2130<hr />
f42974dc 2131@end html
ef88b07d 2132@heading @anchor{hppa*-hp-hpux11}hppa*-hp-hpux11
f42974dc 2133
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2134GCC 3.0 and up support HP-UX 11. On 64-bit capable systems, there
2135are two distinct ports. The @samp{hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11*} port generates
2136code for the 32-bit pa-risc runtime architecture. It uses the HP
2137linker and is currently the default selected by config.guess. The
2138optional @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} port generates 64-bit code for the
2139pa-risc 2.0 architecture. It must be explicitly selected using the
2140@samp{--host=hppa64-hp-hpux11*} configure option. Different prefixes
2141must be used if both ports are to be installed on the same system.
2142
2143You must use GNU binutils 2.11 or above with the 32-bit port. Thread
2144support is not currently implemented, so @option{--enable-threads} does
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2145not work. See:
2146
2147@itemize
2148@item @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-prs/2002-01/msg00551.html}
2149@item @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2002-01/msg00663.html}
2150@end itemize
2151
6f2a28d7 2152GCC 2.95.x is not supported under HP-UX 11 and cannot be used to
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2153compile GCC 3.0 and up. Refer to @uref{binaries.html,,binaries} for
2154information about obtaining precompiled GCC binaries for HP-UX.
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2156GNU binutils 2.13 or later is recommended with the 64-bit port.
2157The HP assembler is not supported. It is @emph{highly} recommended
2158that the GNU linker be used as well. Either binutils must be built
2159prior to gcc, or a binary distribution of gcc or binutils must be
2160obtained for the initial builds. When starting with a HP compiler,
2161it is preferable to use the ANSI compiler as the bundled compiler
2162only supports traditional C. Bootstrapping with the bundled compiler
2163is tested infrequently and problems often arise because of the subtle
2164differences in semantics between traditional and ISO C. There also
2165have been problems reported with various binary distributions. This
2166port still is undergoing significant development.
2167
b8df899a 2168@html
b8db17af 2169<hr />
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2170@end html
2171@heading @anchor{i370-*-*}i370-*-*
2172This port is very preliminary and has many known bugs. We hope to
2173have a higher-quality port for this machine soon.
2174
f42974dc 2175@html
b8db17af 2176<hr />
f42974dc 2177@end html
ef88b07d 2178@heading @anchor{*-*-linux-gnu}*-*-linux-gnu
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2179
2180If you use glibc 2.2 (or 2.1.9x), GCC 2.95.2 won't install
021c4bfd 2181out-of-the-box. You'll get compile errors while building @samp{libstdc++}.
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2182The patch @uref{glibc-2.2.patch,,glibc-2.2.patch}, that is to be
2183applied in the GCC source tree, fixes the compatibility problems.
2184
e15ed790 2185@html
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2186@end html
2187
2188@html
2189<p>
2190@end html
2191
2192Currently Glibc 2.2.3 (and older releases) and GCC 3.0 are out of sync
161d7b59 2193since the latest exception handling changes for GCC@. Compiling glibc
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2194with GCC 3.0 will give a binary incompatible glibc and therefore cause
2195lots of problems and might make your system completly unusable. This
161d7b59 2196will definitly need fixes in glibc but might also need fixes in GCC@. We
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2197strongly advise to wait for glibc 2.2.4 and to read the release notes of
2198glibc 2.2.4 whether patches for GCC 3.0 are needed. You can use glibc
21992.2.3 with GCC 3.0, just do not try to recompile it.
2200
b8df899a 2201@html
b8db17af 2202<hr />
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2203@end html
2204@heading @anchor{ix86-*-linux*aout}i?86-*-linux*aout
2205Use this configuration to generate @file{a.out} binaries on Linux-based
767094dd 2206GNU systems. This configuration is being superseded. You must use
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2207gas/binutils version 2.5.2 or later.
2208
f42974dc 2209@html
b8db17af 2210<hr />
f42974dc 2211@end html
ef88b07d 2212@heading @anchor{ix86-*-linux*}i?86-*-linux*
f42974dc 2213
021c4bfd 2214You will need binutils 2.9.1.0.15 or newer for exception handling to work.
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2216If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it is
2217possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this can be
2218found on @uref{http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/,,www.bitwizard.nl}.
2219
b8df899a 2220@html
b8db17af 2221<hr />
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2222@end html
2223@heading @anchor{ix86-*-sco}i?86-*-sco
2224Compilation with RCC is recommended. Also, it may be a good idea to
2225link with GNU malloc instead of the malloc that comes with the system.
2226
2227@html
b8db17af 2228<hr />
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2229@end html
2230@heading @anchor{ix86-*-sco3.2v4}i?86-*-sco3.2v4
2231Use this configuration for SCO release 3.2 version 4.
2232
f42974dc 2233@html
b8db17af 2234<hr />
f42974dc 2235@end html
ef88b07d 2236@heading @anchor{ix86-*-sco3.2v5*}i?86-*-sco3.2v5*
b8df899a 2237Use this for the SCO OpenServer Release 5 family of operating systems.
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2238
2239Unlike earlier versions of GCC, the ability to generate COFF with this
2240target is no longer provided.
2241
021c4bfd 2242Earlier versions of GCC emitted DWARF 1 when generating ELF to allow
f42974dc 2243the system debugger to be used. That support was too burdensome to
021c4bfd 2244maintain. GCC now emits only DWARF 2 for this target. This means you
f42974dc 2245may use either the UDK debugger or GDB to debug programs built by this
161d7b59 2246version of GCC@.
f42974dc 2247
021c4bfd 2248Use of the @option{-march=pentiumpro} flag can result in
f42974dc 2249unrecognized opcodes when using the native assembler on OS versions before
767094dd 22505.0.6. (Support for P6 opcodes was added to the native ELF assembler in
f9047ed3 2251that version.) While it's rather rare to see these emitted by GCC yet,
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2252errors of the basic form:
2253
2254@example
2255 /usr/tmp/ccaNlqBc.s:22:unknown instruction: fcomip
2256 /usr/tmp/ccaNlqBc.s:50:unknown instruction: fucomip
2257@end example
2258
2259are symptoms of this problem. You may work around this by not
2260building affected files with that flag, by using the GNU assembler, or
161d7b59 2261by using the assembler provided with the current version of the OS@.
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2262Users of GNU assembler should see the note below for hazards on doing
2263so.
2264
2265The native SCO assembler that is provided with the OS at no
2266charge is normally required. If, however, you must be able to use
2267the GNU assembler (perhaps you're compiling code with asms that
2268require GAS syntax) you may configure this package using the flags
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2269@uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}}. You must
2270use a recent version of GNU binutils; versions past 2.9.1 seem to work
2271well.
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2272
2273In general, the @option{--with-gnu-as} option isn't as well tested
2274as the native assembler.
2275
6cfb3f16 2276Look in @file{gcc/config/i386/sco5.h} (search for ``messy'') for
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2277additional OpenServer-specific flags.
2278
38209993 2279Systems based on OpenServer before 5.0.4 (@samp{uname -X}
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2280will tell you what you're running) require TLS597 from
2281@uref{ftp://ftp.sco.com/TLS/,,ftp://ftp.sco.com/TLS/}
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2282for C++ constructors and destructors to work right.
2283
2284The system linker in (at least) 5.0.4 and 5.0.5 will sometimes
2285do the wrong thing for a construct that GCC will emit for PIC
2286code. This can be seen as execution testsuite failures when using
6cfb3f16 2287@option{-fPIC} on @file{921215-1.c}, @file{931002-1.c}, @file{nestfunc-1.c}, and @file{gcov-1.c}.
f42974dc 2288For 5.0.5, an updated linker that will cure this problem is
f9047ed3 2289available. You must install both
38209993 2290@uref{ftp://ftp.sco.com/Supplements/rs505a/,,ftp://ftp.sco.com/Supplements/rs505a/}
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2291and @uref{ftp://ftp.sco.com/SLS/,,OSS499A}.
2292
2293The dynamic linker in OpenServer 5.0.5 (earlier versions may show
021c4bfd 2294the same problem) aborts on certain G77-compiled programs. It's particularly
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2295likely to be triggered by building Fortran code with the @option{-fPIC} flag.
2296Although it's conceivable that the error could be triggered by other
2297code, only G77-compiled code has been observed to cause this abort.
2298If you are getting core dumps immediately upon execution of your
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2299G77 program---and especially if it's compiled with @option{-fPIC}---try applying
2300@uref{sco_osr5_g77.patch,,@file{sco_osr5_g77.patch}} to your @samp{libf2c} and
161d7b59 2301rebuilding GCC@.
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2302Affected faults, when analyzed in a debugger, will show a stack
2303backtrace with a fault occurring in @code{rtld()} and the program
f9047ed3 2304running as @file{/usr/lib/ld.so.1}. This problem has been reported to SCO
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2305engineering and will hopefully be addressed in later releases.
2306
2307
f42974dc 2308@html
b8db17af 2309<hr />
f42974dc 2310@end html
ef88b07d 2311@heading @anchor{ix86-*-udk}i?86-*-udk
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2312
2313This target emulates the SCO Universal Development Kit and requires that
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2314package be installed. (If it is installed, you will have a
2315@file{/udk/usr/ccs/bin/cc} file present.) It's very much like the
b953cc4b 2316@samp{i?86-*-unixware7*} target
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2317but is meant to be used when hosting on a system where UDK isn't the
2318default compiler such as OpenServer 5 or Unixware 2. This target will
f9047ed3 2319generate binaries that will run on OpenServer, Unixware 2, or Unixware 7,
161d7b59 2320with the same warnings and caveats as the SCO UDK@.
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2322This target is a little tricky to build because we have to distinguish
2323it from the native tools (so it gets headers, startups, and libraries
f9047ed3 2324from the right place) while making the tools not think we're actually
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2325building a cross compiler. The easiest way to do this is with a configure
2326command like this:
2327
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2328@example
2329 CC=/udk/usr/ccs/bin/cc @var{/your/path/to}/gcc/configure \
2330 --host=i686-pc-udk --target=i686-pc-udk --program-prefix=udk-
2331@end example
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6cfb3f16 2333@emph{You should substitute @samp{i686} in the above command with the appropriate
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2334processor for your host.}
2335
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2336After the usual @samp{make bootstrap} and
2337@samp{make install}, you can then access the UDK-targeted GCC
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2338tools by adding @command{udk-} before the commonly known name. For
2339example, to invoke the C compiler, you would use @command{udk-gcc}.
2340They will coexist peacefully with any native-target GCC tools you may
2341have installed.
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2342
2343
b499d9ab 2344@html
b8db17af 2345<hr />
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2346@end html
2347@heading @anchor{ia64-*-linux}ia64-*-linux
2348IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family)
2349running GNU/Linux.
2350
2351The toolchain is not completely finished, so requirements will continue
2352to change.
2353GCC 3.0.1 and later require glibc 2.2.4.
2354GCC 3.0.2 requires binutils from 2001-09-05 or later.
2355GCC 3.0.1 requires binutils 2.11.1 or later.
2356
2357None of the following versions of GCC has an ABI that is compatible
2358with any of the other versions in this list, with the exception that
2359Red Hat 2.96 and Trillian 000171 are compatible with each other:
23603.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0, Red Hat 2.96, and Trillian 000717.
2361This primarily affects C++ programs and programs that create shared libraries.
2362Because of these ABI incompatibilities, GCC 3.0.2 is not recommended for
2363user programs on GNU/Linux systems built using earlier compiler releases.
2364GCC 3.0.2 is recommended for compiling linux, the kernel.
2365GCC 3.0.2 is believed to be fully ABI compliant, and hence no more major
2366ABI changes are expected.
2367
b8df899a 2368@html
b8db17af 2369<hr />
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2370@end html
2371@heading @anchor{*-lynx-lynxos}*-lynx-lynxos
f0523f02 2372LynxOS 2.2 and earlier comes with GCC 1.x already installed as
b8df899a 2373@file{/bin/gcc}. You should compile with this instead of @file{/bin/cc}.
f0523f02 2374You can tell GCC to use the GNU assembler and linker, by specifying
b8df899a 2375@samp{--with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld} when configuring. These will produce
f0523f02 2376COFF format object files and executables; otherwise GCC will use the
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2377installed tools, which produce @file{a.out} format executables.
2378
f42974dc 2379@html
b8db17af 2380<hr />
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2381<!-- rs6000-ibm-aix*, powerpc-ibm-aix* -->
2382@end html
ef88b07d 2383@heading @anchor{*-ibm-aix*}*-ibm-aix*
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2384
2385AIX Make frequently has problems with GCC makefiles. GNU Make 3.76 or
2386newer is recommended to build on this platform.
2387
6cfb3f16 2388Errors involving @code{alloca} when building GCC generally are due
021c4bfd 2389to an incorrect definition of @code{CC} in the Makefile or mixing files
161d7b59 2390compiled with the native C compiler and GCC@. During the stage1 phase of
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2391the build, the native AIX compiler @strong{must} be invoked as @command{cc}
2392(not @command{xlc}). Once @command{configure} has been informed of
2393@command{xlc}, one needs to use @samp{make distclean} to remove the
38209993 2394configure cache files and ensure that @env{CC} environment variable
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2395does not provide a definition that will confuse @command{configure}.
2396If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the problem most likely
2397is the version of Make (see above).
2398
2705baf5 2399The GNU Assembler incorrectly reports that it supports WEAK symbols on
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2400AIX which causes GCC to try to utilize weak symbol functionality although
2401it is not supported on the platform. The native @command{as} and
2705baf5 2402@command{ld} still are recommended. The native AIX tools do
161d7b59 2403interoperate with GCC@.
df002c7d 2404
04d2be8e 2405Building @file{libstdc++.a} requires a fix for an AIX Assembler bug
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2406APAR IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1).
2407
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2408@samp{libstdc++} in GCC 3.2 increments the major version number of the
2409shared object and GCC installation places the @file{libstdc++.a}
2410shared library in a common location which will overwrite the GCC 3.1
2411version of the shared library. Applications either need to be
2412re-linked against the new shared library or the GCC 3.1 version of the
2413@samp{libstdc++} shared object needs to be available to the AIX
2414runtime loader. The GCC 3.1 @samp{libstdc++.so.4} shared object can
2415be installed for runtime dynamic loading using the following steps to
2416set the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag in the shared object for @emph{each}
2417multilib @file{libstdc++.a} installed:
2418
2419Extract the shared object from each the GCC 3.1 @file{libstdc++.a}
2420archive:
2421@example
35fb4cf6 2422 % ar -x libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4
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2424
2425Enable the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag so that the shared object will be
2426available for runtime dynamic loading, but not linking:
2427@example
2428 % strip -e libstdc++.so.4
2429@end example
2430
2431Archive the runtime-only shared object in the GCC 3.2
2432@file{libstdc++.a} archive:
2433@example
35fb4cf6 2434 % ar -q libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4
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2435@end example
2436
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2437Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of
2438duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always
2439have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable
2440and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should
2441not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable
2442executable.
2443
6cfb3f16 2444AIX 4.3 utilizes a ``large format'' archive to support both 32-bit and
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244564-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1
2446to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly.
2447These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during
6cfb3f16 2448linking such as ``not a COFF file''. The version of the routines shipped
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2449with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The @option{-g}
2450option of the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit
6cfb3f16 2451objects using the original ``small format''. A correct version of the
d5d8d540 2452routines is shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above.
df002c7d 2453
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2454Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation
2455overflow severe error when the @option{-bbigtoc} option is used to link
161d7b59 2456GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC@. A fix
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2457for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC) is
2458available from IBM Customer Support and from its
d5d8d540 2459@uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
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2460website as PTF U455193.
2461
df002c7d 2462The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump core
161d7b59 2463with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC@. A fix for
df002c7d 2464APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
d5d8d540 2465@uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
df002c7d 2466website as PTF U461879. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above.
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2467
2468The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect object
2469files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM COMPILER FAILS
2470TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
d5d8d540 2471@uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
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2472website as PTF U453956. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above.
2473
161d7b59 2474AIX provides National Language Support (NLS)@. Compilers and assemblers
df002c7d 2475use NLS to support locale-specific representations of various data
6cfb3f16 2476formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., @samp{.} vs @samp{,} for
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2477separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where
2478GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats that the assembler
c771326b 2479expects. If one encounters this problem, set the @env{LANG}
6cfb3f16 2480environment variable to @samp{C} or @samp{En_US}.
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2482By default, GCC for AIX 4.1 and above produces code that can be used on
2483both Power or PowerPC processors.
2484
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2485A default can be specified with the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
2486switch and using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
f42974dc 2487
e3223ea2 2488@html
b8db17af 2489<hr />
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2490@end html
2491@heading @anchor{ip2k-*-elf}ip2k-*-elf
2492Ubicom IP2022 micro controller.
2493This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
2494There are no standard Unix configurations.
2495
2496Use @samp{configure --target=ip2k-elf --enable-languages=c} to configure GCC@.
2497
b8df899a 2498@html
b8db17af 2499<hr />
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2500@end html
2501@heading @anchor{m32r-*-elf}m32r-*-elf
2502Mitsubishi M32R processor.
2503This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
2504
2505@html
b8db17af 2506<hr />
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2507@end html
2508@heading @anchor{m68000-hp-bsd}m68000-hp-bsd
161d7b59 2509HP 9000 series 200 running BSD@. Note that the C compiler that comes
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2510with this system cannot compile GCC; contact @email{law@@cygnus.com}
2511to get binaries of GCC for bootstrapping.
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2512
2513@html
b8db17af 2514<hr />
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2515@end html
2516@heading @anchor{m6811-elf}m6811-elf
2517Motorola 68HC11 family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
2518applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
2519
2520@html
b8db17af 2521<hr />
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2522@end html
2523@heading @anchor{m6812-elf}m6812-elf
2524Motorola 68HC12 family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
2525applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
2526
b8df899a 2527@html
b8db17af 2528<hr />
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2529@end html
2530@heading @anchor{m68k-att-sysv}m68k-att-sysv
161d7b59 2531AT&T 3b1, a.k.a.@: 7300 PC@. This version of GCC cannot
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2532be compiled with the system C compiler, which is too buggy.
2533You will need to get a previous version of GCC and use it to
2534bootstrap. Binaries are available from the OSU-CIS archive, at
2535@uref{ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/att7300/}.
2536
b8df899a 2537@html
b8db17af 2538<hr />
b8df899a 2539@end html
9340544b 2540@heading @anchor{m68k-crds-unos}m68k-crds-unos
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2541Use @samp{configure unos} for building on Unos.
2542
2543The Unos assembler is named @code{casm} instead of @code{as}. For some
2544strange reason linking @file{/bin/as} to @file{/bin/casm} changes the
f0523f02 2545behavior, and does not work. So, when installing GCC, you should
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2546install the following script as @file{as} in the subdirectory where
2547the passes of GCC are installed:
2548
2549@example
2550#!/bin/sh
2551casm $*
2552@end example
2553
2554The default Unos library is named @file{libunos.a} instead of
f0523f02 2555@file{libc.a}. To allow GCC to function, either change all
6cfb3f16 2556references to @option{-lc} in @file{gcc.c} to @option{-lunos} or link
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2557@file{/lib/libc.a} to @file{/lib/libunos.a}.
2558
2559@cindex @code{alloca}, for Unos
f0523f02 2560When compiling GCC with the standard compiler, to overcome bugs in
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2561the support of @code{alloca}, do not use @option{-O} when making stage 2.
2562Then use the stage 2 compiler with @option{-O} to make the stage 3
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2563compiler. This compiler will have the same characteristics as the usual
2564stage 2 compiler on other systems. Use it to make a stage 4 compiler
2565and compare that with stage 3 to verify proper compilation.
2566
2567(Perhaps simply defining @code{ALLOCA} in @file{x-crds} as described in
2568the comments there will make the above paragraph superfluous. Please
2569inform us of whether this works.)
2570
2571Unos uses memory segmentation instead of demand paging, so you will need
2572a lot of memory. 5 Mb is barely enough if no other tasks are running.
2573If linking @file{cc1} fails, try putting the object files into a library
2574and linking from that library.
2575
2576@html
b8db17af 2577<hr />
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2578@end html
2579@heading @anchor{m68k-hp-hpux}m68k-hp-hpux
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2580HP 9000 series 300 or 400 running HP-UX@. HP-UX version 8.0 has a bug in
2581the assembler that prevents compilation of GCC@. This
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2582bug manifests itself during the first stage of compilation, while
2583building @file{libgcc2.a}:
2584
2585@smallexample
2586_floatdisf
2587cc1: warning: `-g' option not supported on this version of GCC
2588cc1: warning: `-g1' option not supported on this version of GCC
2589./xgcc: Internal compiler error: program as got fatal signal 11
2590@end smallexample
2591
2592A patched version of the assembler is available as the file
2593@uref{ftp://altdorf.ai.mit.edu/archive/cph/hpux-8.0-assembler}. If you
2594have HP software support, the patch can also be obtained directly from
2595HP, as described in the following note:
2596
2597@quotation
2598This is the patched assembler, to patch SR#1653-010439, where the
2599assembler aborts on floating point constants.
2600
2601The bug is not really in the assembler, but in the shared library
2602version of the function ``cvtnum(3c)''. The bug on ``cvtnum(3c)'' is
2603SR#4701-078451. Anyway, the attached assembler uses the archive
2604library version of ``cvtnum(3c)'' and thus does not exhibit the bug.
2605@end quotation
2606
2607This patch is also known as PHCO_4484.
2608
021c4bfd 2609In addition, if you wish to use gas, you must use
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2610gas version 2.1 or later, and you must use the GNU linker version 2.1 or
2611later. Earlier versions of gas relied upon a program which converted the
2612gas output into the native HP-UX format, but that program has not been
2613kept up to date. gdb does not understand that native HP-UX format, so
2614you must use gas if you wish to use gdb.
2615
2616On HP-UX version 8.05, but not on 8.07 or more recent versions, the
2617@code{fixproto} shell script triggers a bug in the system shell. If you
2618encounter this problem, upgrade your operating system or use BASH (the
2619GNU shell) to run @code{fixproto}. This bug will cause the fixproto
2620program to report an error of the form:
2621
2622@example
2623./fixproto: sh internal 1K buffer overflow
2624@end example
2625
2626To fix this, you can also change the first line of the fixproto script
2627to look like:
2628
2629@example
2630#!/bin/ksh
2631@end example
2632
2633
b8df899a 2634@html
b8db17af 2635<hr />
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2636@end html
2637@heading @anchor{m68k-ncr-*}m68k-ncr-*
2638On the Tower models 4@var{n}0 and 6@var{n}0, by default a process is not
2639allowed to have more than one megabyte of memory. GCC cannot compile
6cfb3f16 2640itself (or many other programs) with @option{-O} in that much memory.
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2641
2642To solve this problem, reconfigure the kernel adding the following line
2643to the configuration file:
2644
2645@smallexample
2646MAXUMEM = 4096
2647@end smallexample
2648
2649
2650@html
b8db17af 2651<hr />
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2652@end html
2653@heading @anchor{m68k-sun}m68k-sun
2654Sun 3. We do not provide a configuration file to use the Sun FPA by
2655default, because programs that establish signal handlers for floating
161d7b59 2656point traps inherently cannot work with the FPA@.
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2657
2658@html
b8db17af 2659<hr />
f42974dc 2660@end html
ef88b07d 2661@heading @anchor{m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1}m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1
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2662
2663It is reported that you may need the GNU assembler on this platform.
2664
2665
b8df899a 2666@html
b8db17af 2667<hr />
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2668@end html
2669@heading @anchor{mips-*-*}mips-*-*
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2670If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying ``does not have gp
2671sections for all it's [sic] sectons [sic]'', don't worry about it. This
2672happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not
2673really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can
2674stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.
2675
2676It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are
2677optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.
2678
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2679@heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix5}mips-sgi-irix5
2680
2681This configuration has considerable problems, which will be fixed in a
2682future release.
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2684In order to compile GCC on an SGI running IRIX 5, the ``compiler_dev.hdr''
2685subsystem must be installed from the IDO CD-ROM supplied by Silicon
2686Graphics. It is also available for download from
2687@uref{http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/apis/ido.html,,http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/apis/ido.html}.
f42974dc 2688
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2689@code{make compare} may fail on version 5 of IRIX unless you add
2690@option{-save-temps} to @code{CFLAGS}. On these systems, the name of the
2691assembler input file is stored in the object file, and that makes
2692comparison fail if it differs between the @code{stage1} and
2693@code{stage2} compilations. The option @option{-save-temps} forces a
2694fixed name to be used for the assembler input file, instead of a
2695randomly chosen name in @file{/tmp}. Do not add @option{-save-temps}
2696unless the comparisons fail without that option. If you do you
2697@option{-save-temps}, you will have to manually delete the @samp{.i} and
2698@samp{.s} files after each series of compilations.
f42974dc 2699
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2700If you use the MIPS C compiler to bootstrap, it may be necessary
2701to increase its table size for switch statements with the
2702@option{-Wf,-XNg1500} option. If you use the @option{-O2}
2703optimization option, you also need to use @option{-Olimit 3000}.
f42974dc 2704
b953cc4b 2705To enable debugging under IRIX 5, you must use GNU @command{as} 2.11.2
f282ffb3 2706or later,
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2707and use the @option{--with-gnu-as} configure option when configuring GCC.
2708GNU @command{as} is distributed as part of the binutils package.
f282ffb3 2709When using release 2.11.2, you need to apply a patch
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2710@uref{http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-07/msg00352.html,,http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-07/msg00352.html}
2711which will be included in the next release of binutils.
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2713When building GCC, the build process loops rebuilding @command{cc1} over
2714and over again. This happens on @samp{mips-sgi-irix5.2}, and possibly
2715other platforms. It has been reported that this is a known bug in the
2716@command{make} shipped with IRIX 5.2. We recommend you use GNU
2717@command{make} instead of the vendor supplied @command{make} program;
2718however, you may have success with @command{smake} on IRIX 5.2 if you do
2719not have GNU @command{make} available.
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2720
2721@html
b8db17af 2722<hr />
f42974dc 2723@end html
b953cc4b 2724@heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix6}mips-sgi-irix6
f42974dc 2725
213ba345 2726If you are using IRIX @command{cc} as your bootstrap compiler, you must
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2727ensure that the N32 ABI is in use. To test this, compile a simple C
2728file with @command{cc} and then run @command{file} on the
2729resulting object file. The output should look like:
2730
2731@example
213ba345 2732test.o: ELF N32 MSB @dots{}
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2733@end example
2734
2735If you see:
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2736
2737@example
2738test.o: ELF 32-bit MSB @dots{}
2739@end example
2740
2741or
2742
f42974dc 2743@example
213ba345 2744test.o: ELF 64-bit MSB @dots{}
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2745@end example
2746
213ba345 2747then your version of @command{cc} uses the O32 or N64 ABI by default. You
38209993 2748should set the environment variable @env{CC} to @samp{cc -n32}
161d7b59 2749before configuring GCC@.
f42974dc 2750
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2751If you want the resulting @command{gcc} to run on old 32-bit systems
2752with the MIPS R4400 CPU, you need to ensure that only code for the mips3
2753instruction set architecture (ISA) is generated. While GCC 3.x does
2754this correctly, both GCC 2.95 and SGI's MIPSpro @command{cc} may change
2755the ISA depending on the machine where GCC is built. Using one of them
2756as the bootstrap compiler may result in mips4 code, which won't run at
2757all on mips3-only systems. For the test program above, you should see:
2758
2759@example
2760test.o: ELF N32 MSB mips-3 @dots{}
2761@end example
2762
2763If you get:
2764
2765@example
2766test.o: ELF N32 MSB mips-4 @dots{}
2767@end example
2768
2769instead, you should set the environment variable @env{CC} to @samp{cc
2770-n32 -mips3} or @samp{gcc -mips3} respectively before configuring GCC@.
2771
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2772GCC on IRIX 6 is usually built to support both the N32 and N64 ABIs. If
2773you build GCC on a system that doesn't have the N64 libraries installed,
2774you need to configure with @option{--disable-multilib} so GCC doesn't
2775try to use them. Look for @file{/usr/lib64/libc.so.1} to see if you
2776have the 64-bit libraries installed.
2777
2778You must @emph{not} use GNU @command{as} (which isn't built anyway as of
2779binutils 2.11.2) on IRIX 6 platforms; doing so will only cause problems.
2780
f42974dc 2781GCC does not currently support generating O32 ABI binaries in the
b953cc4b 2782@samp{mips-sgi-irix6} configurations. It is possible to create a GCC
213ba345 2783with O32 ABI only support by configuring it for the @samp{mips-sgi-irix5}
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2784target and using a patched GNU @command{as} 2.11.2 as documented in the
2785@uref{#mips-sgi-irix5,,@samp{mips-sgi-irix5}} section above. Using the
2786native assembler requires patches to GCC which will be included in a
2787future release. It is
213ba345 2788expected that O32 ABI support will be available again in a future release.
f42974dc 2789
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2790The @option{--enable-threads} option doesn't currently work, a patch is
2791in preparation for a future release. The @option{--enable-libgcj}
2792option is disabled by default: IRIX 6 uses a very low default limit
2793(20480) for the command line length. Although libtool contains a
2794workaround for this problem, at least the N64 @samp{libgcj} is known not
2795to build despite this, running into an internal error of the native
2796@command{ld}. A sure fix is to increase this limit (@samp{ncargs}) to
2797its maximum of 262144 bytes. If you have root access, you can use the
2798@command{systune} command to do this.
2799
f42974dc 2800GCC does not correctly pass/return structures which are
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2801smaller than 16 bytes and which are not 8 bytes. The problem is very
2802involved and difficult to fix. It affects a number of other targets also,
57694e40 2803but IRIX 6 is affected the most, because it is a 64-bit target, and 4 byte
767094dd 2804structures are common. The exact problem is that structures are being padded
e979f9e8 2805at the wrong end, e.g.@: a 4 byte structure is loaded into the lower 4 bytes
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2806of the register when it should be loaded into the upper 4 bytes of the
2807register.
2808
2809GCC is consistent with itself, but not consistent with the SGI C compiler
2810(and the SGI supplied runtime libraries), so the only failures that can
2811happen are when there are library functions that take/return such
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2812structures. There are very few such library functions. Currently this
2813is known to affect @code{inet_ntoa}, @code{inet_lnaof},
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2814@code{inet_netof}, @code{inet_makeaddr}, and @code{semctl}. Until the
2815bug is fixed, GCC contains workarounds for the known affected functions.
f42974dc 2816
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2817See @uref{http://freeware.sgi.com/,,http://freeware.sgi.com/} for more
2818information about using GCC on IRIX platforms.
f42974dc 2819
b8df899a 2820@html
b8db17af 2821<hr />
b8df899a 2822@end html
021c4bfd 2823@heading @anchor{powerpc*-*-*}powerpc-*-*
b8df899a 2824
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2825You can specify a default version for the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
2826switch by using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
b8df899a 2827
4f2b1139 2828@html
b8db17af 2829<hr />
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2830@end html
2831@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-darwin*}powerpc-*-darwin*
2832PowerPC running Darwin (Mac OS X kernel).
2833
2834GCC 3.0 does not support Darwin, but 3.1 and later releases will work.
2835
2836Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer tools,
2837meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool
2838binaries are available at
2839@uref{http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin} (free
2840registration required).
2841
2842Versions of the assembler prior to ``cctools-364'' cannot handle the
8c085f6f 28434-argument form of @code{rlwinm} and related mask-using instructions. Darwin
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28441.3 (Mac OS X 10.0) uses cctools-353 for instance. To get cctools-364,
2845check out @file{cctools} with tag @samp{Apple-364}, build it, and
2846install the assembler as @file{usr/bin/as}. See
2847@uref{http://www.opensource.apple.com/tools/cvs/docs.html} for details.
2848
2849Also, the default stack limit of 512K is too small, and a bootstrap will
2850typically fail when self-compiling @file{expr.c}. Set the stack to 800K
2851or more, for instance by doing @samp{limit stack 800}. It's also
2852convenient to use the GNU preprocessor instead of Apple's during the
2853first stage of bootstrapping; this is automatic when doing @samp{make
2854bootstrap}, but to do it from the toplevel objdir you will need to say
2855@samp{make CC='cc -no-cpp-precomp' bootstrap}.
2856
2857Note that the version of GCC shipped by Apple typically includes a
2858number of extensions not available in a standard GCC release. These
2859extensions are generally specific to Mac programming.
2860
021c4bfd 2861@html
b8db17af 2862<hr />
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2863@end html
2864@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-elf}powerpc-*-elf, powerpc-*-sysv4
2865PowerPC system in big endian mode, running System V.4.
2866
f42974dc 2867@html
b8db17af 2868<hr />
f42974dc 2869@end html
ef88b07d 2870@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-linux-gnu*}powerpc-*-linux-gnu*
f42974dc 2871
f9047ed3 2872You will need
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2873@uref{ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils,,binutils 2.12.90.0.7}
2874or newer for a working GCC@.
f42974dc 2875
edf1b3f3 2876@html
b8db17af 2877<hr />
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2878@end html
2879@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-netbsd*}powerpc-*-netbsd*
2880PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD@. To build the
dda78254 2881documentation you will need Texinfo version 4.1 (NetBSD 1.5.1 included
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2882Texinfo version 3.12).
2883
b8df899a 2884@html
b8db17af 2885<hr />
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2886@end html
2887@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-eabiaix}powerpc-*-eabiaix
6cfb3f16 2888Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode with @option{-mcall-aix} selected as
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2889the default.
2890
b8df899a 2891@html
b8db17af 2892<hr />
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2893@end html
2894@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-eabisim}powerpc-*-eabisim
2895Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the
2896PSIM simulator.
2897
b8df899a 2898@html
b8db17af 2899<hr />
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2900@end html
2901@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-eabi}powerpc-*-eabi
2902Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode.
2903
b8df899a 2904@html
b8db17af 2905<hr />
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2906@end html
2907@heading @anchor{powerpcle-*-elf}powerpcle-*-elf, powerpcle-*-sysv4
2908PowerPC system in little endian mode, running System V.4.
2909
b8df899a 2910@html
b8db17af 2911<hr />
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2912@end html
2913@heading @anchor{powerpcle-*-eabisim}powerpcle-*-eabisim
2914Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under
2915the PSIM simulator.
2916
2917@html
b8db17af 2918<hr />
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2919@end html
2920@heading @anchor{powerpcle-*-eabi}powerpcle-*-eabi
2921Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode.
2922
b8df899a 2923@html
b8db17af 2924<hr />
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2925@end html
2926@heading @anchor{powerpcle-*-winnt}powerpcle-*-winnt, powerpcle-*-pe
161d7b59 2927PowerPC system in little endian mode running Windows NT@.
b8df899a 2928
91abf72d 2929@html
b8db17af 2930<hr />
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2931@end html
2932@heading @anchor{s390-*-linux*}s390-*-linux*
f282ffb3 2933S/390 system running Linux for S/390@.
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2934
2935@html
b8db17af 2936<hr />
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2937@end html
2938@heading @anchor{s390x-*-linux*}s390x-*-linux*
57694e40 2939zSeries system (64-bit) running Linux for zSeries@.
91abf72d 2940
f42974dc 2941@html
b8db17af 2942<hr />
f42974dc 2943@end html
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2944@c Please use Solaris 2 to refer to all release of Solaris, starting
2945@c with 2.0 until 2.6, 7, and 8. Solaris 1 was a marketing name for
2946@c SunOS 4 releases which we don't use to avoid confusion. Solaris
2947@c alone is too unspecific and must be avoided.
2948@heading @anchor{*-*-solaris2*}*-*-solaris2*
f42974dc 2949
250d5688 2950Sun does not ship a C compiler with Solaris 2. To bootstrap and install
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2951GCC you first have to install a pre-built compiler, see our
2952@uref{binaries.html,,binaries page} for details.
f42974dc 2953
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2954The Solaris 2 @command{/bin/sh} will often fail to configure
2955@file{libstdc++-v3}, @file{boehm-gc} or
021c4bfd 2956@file{libjava}. If you encounter this problem, set @env{CONFIG_SHELL} to
29f21e4f 2957@command{/bin/ksh} in your environment before running @command{configure}.
e6855a2d 2958
b8df899a 2959Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these
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2960packages are needed to use GCC fully, namely @code{SUNWarc},
2961@code{SUNWbtool}, @code{SUNWesu}, @code{SUNWhea}, @code{SUNWlibm},
2962@code{SUNWsprot}, and @code{SUNWtoo}. If you did not install all
250d5688 2963optional packages when installing Solaris 2, you will need to verify that
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2964the packages that GCC needs are installed.
2965
2966To check whether an optional package is installed, use
dbd210ef 2967the @command{pkginfo} command. To add an optional package, use the
250d5688 2968@command{pkgadd} command. For further details, see the Solaris 2
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2969documentation.
2970
250d5688 2971Trying to use the linker and other tools in
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2972@file{/usr/ucb} to install GCC has been observed to cause trouble.
2973For example, the linker may hang indefinitely. The fix is to remove
250d5688 2974@file{/usr/ucb} from your @env{PATH}.
f42974dc 2975
021c4bfd
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2976All releases of GNU binutils prior to 2.11.2 have known bugs on this
2977platform. We recommend the use of GNU binutils 2.11.2 or the vendor
2978tools (Sun @command{as}, Sun @command{ld}).
f42974dc 2979
250d5688
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2980Sun bug 4296832 turns up when compiling X11 headers with GCC 2.95 or
2981newer: @command{g++} will complain that types are missing. These headers assume
2982that omitting the type means @code{int}; this assumption worked for C89 but
2983is wrong for C++, and is now wrong for C99 also.
2984
13ba36b4 2985@command{g++} accepts such (invalid) constructs with the option
250d5688
RO
2986@option{-fpermissive}; it
2987will assume that any missing type is @code{int} (as defined by C89).
2988
2989There are patches for Solaris 2.6 (105633-56 or newer for SPARC,
2990106248-42 or newer for Intel), Solaris 7 (108376-21 or newer for SPARC,
2991108377-20 for Intel), and Solaris 8 (108652-24 or newer for SPARC,
2992108653-22 for Intel) that fix this bug.
f42974dc 2993
dbd210ef 2994@html
b8db17af 2995<hr />
dbd210ef 2996@end html
250d5688 2997@heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2*}sparc-sun-solaris2*
dbd210ef 2998
1405141b
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2999When GCC is configured to use binutils 2.11.2 or later the binaries
3000produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools;
3001this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
3002information.
3003
250d5688 3004Sun @command{as} 4.x is broken in that it cannot cope with long symbol names.
dbd210ef
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3005A typical error message might look similar to the following:
3006
8c085f6f
JJ
3007@smallexample
3008/usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccMsw135.s", line 11041: error:
3009 can't compute value of an expression involving an external symbol.
3010@end smallexample
dbd210ef 3011
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3012This is Sun bug 4237974. This is fixed with patch 108908-02 for Solaris
30132.6 and has been fixed in later (5.x) versions of the assembler,
3014starting with Solaris 7.
dbd210ef 3015
03b272d2 3016Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing
975c6e4e
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301764-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later properly supports
3018this; the @option{-m64} option enables 64-bit code generation.
3019However, if all you want is code tuned for the UltraSPARC CPU, you
3020should try the @option{-mtune=ultrasparc} option instead, which produces
3021code that, unlike full 64-bit code, can still run on non-UltraSPARC
edf1c8df 3022machines.
03b272d2 3023
975c6e4e 3024When configuring on a Solaris 7 or later system that is running a kernel
8947df0c
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3025that supports only 32-bit binaries, one must configure with
3026@option{--disable-multilib}, since we will not be able to build the
302764-bit target libraries.
3fc602a0 3028
f42974dc 3029@html
b8db17af 3030<hr />
f42974dc 3031@end html
ef88b07d 3032@heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2.7}sparc-sun-solaris2.7
f42974dc 3033
250d5688 3034Sun patch 107058-01 (1999-01-13) for Solaris 7/SPARC triggers a bug in
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3035the dynamic linker. This problem (Sun bug 4210064) affects GCC 2.8
3036and later, including all EGCS releases. Sun formerly recommended
3037107058-01 for all Solaris 7 users, but around 1999-09-01 it started to
3038recommend it only for people who use Sun's compilers.
f9047ed3 3039
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3040Here are some workarounds to this problem:
3041@itemize @bullet
3042@item
3043Do not install Sun patch 107058-01 until after Sun releases a
3044complete patch for bug 4210064. This is the simplest course to take,
3045unless you must also use Sun's C compiler. Unfortunately 107058-01
250d5688 3046is preinstalled on some new Solaris 7-based hosts, so you may have to
f42974dc 3047back it out.
f9047ed3 3048
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3049@item
3050Copy the original, unpatched Solaris 7
3051@command{/usr/ccs/bin/as} into
975c6e4e 3052@command{/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/3.1/as},
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3053adjusting the latter name to fit your local conventions and software
3054version numbers.
3055
3056@item
3057Install Sun patch 106950-03 (1999-05-25) or later. Nobody with
3058both 107058-01 and 106950-03 installed has reported the bug with GCC
3059and Sun's dynamic linker. This last course of action is riskiest,
3060for two reasons. First, you must install 106950 on all hosts that
3061run code generated by GCC; it doesn't suffice to install it only on
3062the hosts that run GCC itself. Second, Sun says that 106950-03 is
3063only a partial fix for bug 4210064, but Sun doesn't know whether the
161d7b59 3064partial fix is adequate for GCC@. Revision -08 or later should fix
250d5688 3065the bug. The current (as of 2001-09-24) revision is -14, and is included in
f282ffb3 3066the Solaris 7 Recommended Patch Cluster.
f9047ed3 3067@end itemize
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3068
3069
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3070@html
3071<p>
b8db17af 3072<hr />
f42974dc 3073@end html
250d5688 3074@heading @anchor{sparc-sun-sunos4*}sparc-sun-sunos4*
f42974dc 3075
021c4bfd 3076A bug in the SunOS 4 linker will cause it to crash when linking
6cfb3f16 3077@option{-fPIC} compiled objects (and will therefore not allow you to build
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3078shared libraries).
3079
3080To fix this problem you can either use the most recent version of
021c4bfd 3081binutils or get the latest SunOS 4 linker patch (patch ID 100170-10)
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3082from Sun's patch site.
3083
dbd210ef
KC
3084Sometimes on a Sun 4 you may observe a crash in the program
3085@command{genflags} or @command{genoutput} while building GCC. This is said to
3086be due to a bug in @command{sh}. You can probably get around it by running
3087@command{genflags} or @command{genoutput} manually and then retrying the
3088@command{make}.
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3089
3090@html
b8db17af 3091<hr />
f42974dc 3092@end html
ef88b07d 3093@heading @anchor{sparc-unknown-linux-gnulibc1}sparc-unknown-linux-gnulibc1
f42974dc 3094
f9047ed3 3095It has been reported that you might need
021c4bfd 3096@uref{ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/hjl,,binutils 2.8.1.0.23}
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3097for this platform, too.
3098
3099
c6fa9728 3100@html
b8db17af 3101<hr />
c6fa9728
JS
3102@end html
3103@heading @anchor{sparc-*-linux*}sparc-*-linux*
3104
3105GCC versions 3.0 and higher require binutils 2.11.2 and glibc 2.2.4
3106or newer on this platform. All earlier binutils and glibc
3107releases mishandled unaligned relocations on @code{sparc-*-*} targets.
3108
3109
f42974dc 3110@html
b8db17af 3111<hr />
f42974dc 3112@end html
ef88b07d 3113@heading @anchor{sparc64-*-*}sparc64-*-*
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3114
3115GCC version 2.95 is not able to compile code correctly for
3116@code{sparc64} targets. Users of the Linux kernel, at least,
e9d21442 3117can use the @code{sparc32} program to start up a new shell
f42974dc 3118invocation with an environment that causes @command{configure} to
021c4bfd 3119recognize (via @samp{uname -a}) the system as @samp{sparc-*-*} instead.
f42974dc 3120
e403b4bc 3121@html
b8db17af 3122<hr />
e403b4bc
CR
3123@end html
3124@heading @anchor{sparcv9-*-solaris2*}sparcv9-*-solaris2*
3125
3126The following compiler flags must be specified in the configure
3127step in order to bootstrap this target with the Sun compiler:
3128
3129@example
3130 % CC="cc -xildoff -xarch=v9" @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
3131@end example
3132
3133@option{-xildoff} turns off the incremental linker, and @option{-xarch=v9}
3134specifies the v9 architecture to the Sun linker and assembler.
f42974dc 3135
b8df899a 3136@html
b8db17af 3137<hr />
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3138@end html
3139@heading @anchor{#*-*-sysv*}*-*-sysv*
3140On System V release 3, you may get this error message
3141while linking:
3142
3143@smallexample
3144ld fatal: failed to write symbol name @var{something}
3145 in strings table for file @var{whatever}
3146@end smallexample
3147
021c4bfd 3148This probably indicates that the disk is full or your ulimit won't allow
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3149the file to be as large as it needs to be.
3150
3151This problem can also result because the kernel parameter @code{MAXUMEM}
3152is too small. If so, you must regenerate the kernel and make the value
3153much larger. The default value is reported to be 1024; a value of 32768
3154is said to work. Smaller values may also work.
3155
3156On System V, if you get an error like this,
3157
3158@example
3159/usr/local/lib/bison.simple: In function `yyparse':
3160/usr/local/lib/bison.simple:625: virtual memory exhausted
3161@end example
3162
3163@noindent
021c4bfd 3164that too indicates a problem with disk space, ulimit, or @code{MAXUMEM}.
b8df899a 3165
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3166On a System V release 4 system, make sure @file{/usr/bin} precedes
3167@file{/usr/ucb} in @code{PATH}. The @code{cc} command in
3168@file{/usr/ucb} uses libraries which have bugs.
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3169
3170@html
b8db17af 3171<hr />
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3172@end html
3173@heading @anchor{vax-dec-ultrix}vax-dec-ultrix
8aeea6e6 3174Don't try compiling with VAX C (@code{vcc}). It produces incorrect code
b8df899a
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3175in some cases (for example, when @code{alloca} is used).
3176
fd29f6ea 3177@html
b8db17af 3178<hr />
fd29f6ea
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3179@end html
3180@heading @anchor{xtensa-*-elf}xtensa-*-elf
3181
3182This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the
3183@samp{newlib} C library. It uses ELF but does not support shared
3184objects. Designed-defined instructions specified via the
3185Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) language are only supported
3186through inline assembly.
3187
3188The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to
3189building GCC@. The @file{gcc/config/xtensa/xtensa-config.h} header
3190file contains the configuration information. If you created your
3191own Xtensa configuration with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the
3192downloaded files include a customized copy of this header file,
3193which you can use to replace the default header file.
3194
3195@html
b8db17af 3196<hr />
fd29f6ea
BW
3197@end html
3198@heading @anchor{xtensa-*-linux*}xtensa-*-linux*
3199
3200This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF
3201shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates
3202position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the
3203@option{-fpic} or @option{-fPIC} options are used. In other
f282ffb3 3204respects, this target is the same as the
fd29f6ea
BW
3205@uref{#xtensa-*-elf,,@samp{xtensa-*-elf}} target.
3206
f42974dc 3207@html
b8db17af 3208<hr />
f42974dc 3209@end html
57694e40 3210@heading @anchor{windows}Microsoft Windows (32-bit)
f42974dc 3211
f9047ed3 3212A port of GCC 2.95.x is included with the
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3213@uref{http://www.cygwin.com/,,Cygwin environment}.
3214
3215Current (as of early 2001) snapshots of GCC will build under Cygwin
3216without modification.
3217
3218@html
b8db17af 3219<hr />
f42974dc 3220@end html
ef88b07d 3221@heading @anchor{os2}OS/2
f42974dc
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3222
3223GCC does not currently support OS/2. However, Andrew Zabolotny has been
14976c58 3224working on a generic OS/2 port with pgcc. The current code can be found
f42974dc
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3225at @uref{http://www.goof.com/pcg/os2/,,http://www.goof.com/pcg/os2/}.
3226
f9047ed3 3227An older copy of GCC 2.8.1 is included with the EMX tools available at
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3228@uref{ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/devtools/emx+gcc/,,
3229ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/devtools/emx+gcc/}.
3230
3231@html
b8db17af 3232<hr />
f42974dc 3233@end html
ef88b07d 3234@heading @anchor{older}Older systems
f9047ed3
JM
3235
3236GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early
32371990s) Unix variants. For the most part, support for these systems
3238has not been deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for
c7bdf0a6 3239several years and may suffer from bitrot.
f9047ed3 3240
c7bdf0a6 3241Starting with GCC 3.1, each release has a list of ``obsoleted'' systems.
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ZW
3242Support for these systems is still present in that release, but
3243@command{configure} will fail unless the @option{--enable-obsolete}
c7bdf0a6
ZW
3244option is given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for these
3245systems will be removed from the next release of GCC@.
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3246
3247Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the
3248workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the
161d7b59 3249cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC@. In some cases, to
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3250bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may
3251require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that
c7bdf0a6
ZW
3252system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in the
3253vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in the
3254@file{old-releases} directory on the @uref{../mirrors.html,,GCC mirror
3255sites}. Header bugs may generally be avoided using
3256@command{fixincludes}, but bugs or deficiencies in libraries and the
3257operating system may still cause problems.
3258
3259Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less
3260problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast
3261wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any of
3262the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last CVS
3263version before they were removed), patches
3264@uref{../contribute.html,,following the usual requirements} would be
3265likely to be accepted, since they should not affect the support for more
3266modern targets.
f9047ed3
JM
3267
3268For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful,
021c4bfd 3269and are available from @file{pub/binutils/old-releases} on
f42974dc 3270@uref{http://sources.redhat.com/mirrors.html,,sources.redhat.com mirror sites}.
f9047ed3
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3271
3272Some of the information on specific systems above relates to
3273such older systems, but much of the information
3274about GCC on such systems (which may no longer be applicable to
f42974dc 3275current GCC) is to be found in the GCC texinfo manual.
f9047ed3 3276
f42974dc 3277@html
b8db17af 3278<hr />
f42974dc 3279@end html
250d5688 3280@heading @anchor{elf_targets}all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
f42974dc 3281
38209993
LG
3282C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the
3283@uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-ld,,GNU linker}; duplicate copies of
3284inlines, vtables and template instantiations will be discarded
3285automatically.
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3286
3287
3288@html
b8db17af 3289<hr />
f42974dc
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3290<p>
3291@end html
3292@ifhtml
3293@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
3294@end ifhtml
3295@end ifset
3296
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3297@c ***Old documentation******************************************************
3298@ifset oldhtml
3299@include install-old.texi
3300@html
b8db17af 3301<hr />
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3302<p>
3303@end html
3304@ifhtml
3305@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
3306@end ifhtml
3307@end ifset
3308
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3309@c ***GFDL********************************************************************
3310@ifset gfdlhtml
3311@include fdl.texi
3312@html
b8db17af 3313<hr />
aed5964b
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3314<p>
3315@end html
3316@ifhtml
3317@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
3318@end ifhtml
3319@end ifset
3320
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3321@c ***************************************************************************
3322@c Part 6 The End of the Document
3323@ifinfo
3324@comment node-name, next, previous, up
aed5964b 3325@node Concept Index, , GNU Free Documentation License, Top
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3326@end ifinfo
3327
3328@ifinfo
3329@unnumbered Concept Index
3330
3331@printindex cp
3332
3333@contents
3334@end ifinfo
3335@bye