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1\input texinfo.tex @c -*-texinfo-*-
2@c @ifnothtml
3@c %**start of header
4@setfilename install.info
5@settitle Installing GCC
6@setchapternewpage odd
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10@c Specify title for specific html page
11@ifset indexhtml
12@settitle Installing GCC
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15@settitle Host/Target specific installation notes for GCC
16@end ifset
17@ifset downloadhtml
18@settitle Downloading GCC
19@end ifset
20@ifset configurehtml
21@settitle Installing GCC: Configuration
22@end ifset
23@ifset buildhtml
24@settitle Installing GCC: Building
25@end ifset
26@ifset testhtml
27@settitle Installing GCC: Testing
28@end ifset
29@ifset finalinstallhtml
30@settitle Installing GCC: Final installation
31@end ifset
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33@settitle Installing GCC: Binaries
34@end ifset
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35@ifset oldhtml
36@settitle Installing GCC: Old documentation
37@end ifset
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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
45
46@c Include everything if we're not making html
47@ifnothtml
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58@end ifnothtml
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
66under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
67any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
68Invariant Sections, the Front-Cover texts being (a) (see below), and
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:
74
75 A GNU Manual
76
77(b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is:
78
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.
82@end macro
f42974dc 83@ifinfo
aed5964b 84@copyrightnotice{}
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85@end ifinfo
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
ef88b07d 95@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
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
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125@ifset indexhtml
126@html
127<h1 align="center">Installing GCC</h1>
128@end html
129@ifnothtml
130@chapter Installing GCC
131@end ifnothtml
132
133The latest version of this document is always available at
f9047ed3 134@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/install/,,http://gcc.gnu.org/install/}.
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135
136This document describes the generic installation procedure for GCC as well
f9047ed3 137as detailing some target specific installation instructions.
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139GCC includes several components that previously were separate distributions
140with their own installation instructions. This document supersedes all
eea81d3e 141package specific installation instructions.
f42974dc 142
f9047ed3 143@emph{Before} starting the build/install procedure please check the
f42974dc 144@ifnothtml
eea81d3e 145@ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
f42974dc 146@end ifnothtml
c009f01f 147@ifhtml
f9047ed3 148@uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
c009f01f 149@end ifhtml
f9047ed3 150We recommend you browse the entire generic installation instructions before
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151you proceed.
152
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153Lists of successful builds for released versions of GCC are
154available at our web pages for
155@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/buildstat.html,,3.0}
156and
157@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html,,2.95}.
158These lists are updated as new information becomes available.
159
f9047ed3 160The installation procedure itself is broken into five steps.
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161
162@ifinfo
163@menu
164* Downloading the source::
165* Configuration::
166* Building::
167* Testing:: (optional)
168* Final install::
169@end menu
170@end ifinfo
c009f01f 171@ifhtml
f42974dc 172@enumerate
f9047ed3 173@item
f42974dc 174@uref{download.html,,Downloading the source}
f42974dc 175@item
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176@uref{configure.html,,Configuration}
177@item
178@uref{build.html,,Building}
179@item
180@uref{test.html,,Testing} (optional)
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181@item
182@uref{finalinstall.html,,Final install}
183@end enumerate
c009f01f 184@end ifhtml
f42974dc 185
38209993 186Please note that GCC does not support @samp{make uninstall} and probably
f9047ed3 187won't do so in the near future as this would open a can of worms. Instead,
f42974dc 188we suggest that you install GCC into a directory of its own and simply
38209993 189remove that directory when you do not need that specific version of GCC
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190any longer, and, if shared libraries are installed there as well, no
191more binaries exist that use them.
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193@ifhtml
194There are also some @uref{old.html,,old installation instructions},
195which are mostly obsolete but still contain some information which has
196not yet been merged into the main part of this manual.
197@end ifhtml
198
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199@html
200<hr>
201<p>
202@end html
203@ifhtml
204@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
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205
206@copyrightnotice{}
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207@end ifhtml
208@end ifset
209
210@c ***Downloading the source**************************************************
6cfb3f16 211@ifnothtml
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212@comment node-name, next, previous, up
213@node Downloading the source, Configuration, , Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 214@end ifnothtml
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215@ifset downloadhtml
216@html
217<h1 align="center">Downloading GCC</h1>
218@end html
219@ifnothtml
220@chapter Downloading GCC
221@end ifnothtml
222@cindex Downloading GCC
223@cindex Downloading the Source
224
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225GCC is distributed via @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html,,CVS} and FTP
226tarballs compressed with @command{gzip} or
6cfb3f16 227@command{bzip2}. It is possible to download a full distribution or specific
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228components.
229
230Please refer to our @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html,,releases web page}
161d7b59 231for information on how to obtain GCC@.
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232
233The full distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java,
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234and Ada (in case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers. The full distribution
235also includes runtime libraries for C++, Objective-C, Fortran, and Java.
236In GCC 3.0 and later versions, GNU compiler testsuites are also included
237in the full distribution.
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238
239If you choose to download specific components, you must download the core
eea81d3e 240GCC distribution plus any language specific distributions you wish to
6c0a4eab 241use. The core distribution includes the C language front end as well as the
767094dd 242shared components. Each language has a tarball which includes the language
6c0a4eab 243front end as well as the language runtime (when appropriate).
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245Unpack the core distribution as well as any language specific
246distributions in the same directory.
247
248If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing
249installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your
250OS), unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or
251a separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any
252components of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler
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253(@file{bfd}, @file{binutils}, @file{gas}, @file{gprof}, @file{ld},
254@file{opcodes}, @dots{}) to the directory containing the GCC sources.
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255
256@html
257<hr>
258<p>
259@end html
260@ifhtml
261@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
262@end ifhtml
263@end ifset
264
265@c ***Configuration***********************************************************
6cfb3f16 266@ifnothtml
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267@comment node-name, next, previous, up
268@node Configuration, Building, Downloading the source, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 269@end ifnothtml
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270@ifset configurehtml
271@html
272<h1 align="center">Installing GCC: Configuration</h1>
273@end html
274@ifnothtml
275@chapter Installing GCC: Configuration
276@end ifnothtml
277@cindex Configuration
278@cindex Installing GCC: Configuration
279
280Like most GNU software, GCC must be configured before it can be built.
281This document describes the recommended configuration procedure
282for both native and cross targets.
283
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284We use @var{srcdir} to refer to the toplevel source directory for
285GCC; we use @var{objdir} to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
286
287If you obtained the sources via CVS, @var{srcdir} must refer to the top
288@file{gcc} directory, the one where the @file{MAINTAINERS} can be found,
289and not its @file{gcc} subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
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291First, in general, GCC @strong{must} be built into a separate directory
292than the sources which does @strong{not} reside within the source tree.
293This is how almost all developers build GCC; building where @var{srcdir}
294== @var{objdir} is completely unsupported; building where @var{objdir}
295is a subdirectory of @var{srcdir} is completely unsupported.
f42974dc 296
eea81d3e 297If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
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298different target machine, do @samp{make distclean} to delete all files
299that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is
300@file{Makefile}; if @samp{make distclean} complains that @file{Makefile}
301does not exist, it probably means that the directory is already suitably
302clean. However, with the recommended method of building in a separate
303@var{objdir}, you should simply use a different @var{objdir} for each
304target.
305
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306Second, when configuring a native system, either @command{cc} or
307@command{gcc} must be in your path or you must set @env{CC} in
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308your environment before running configure. Otherwise the configuration
309scripts may fail.
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311Note that the bootstrap compiler and the resulting GCC must be link
312compatible, else the bootstrap will fail with linker errors about
313incompatible object file formats. Several multilibed targets are
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314affected by this requirement, see
315@ifnothtml
316@ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
317@end ifnothtml
c009f01f 318@ifhtml
e69aa433 319@uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
c009f01f 320@end ifhtml
eea81d3e 321
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322To configure GCC:
323
324@example
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325 % mkdir @var{objdir}
326 % cd @var{objdir}
eea81d3e 327 % @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
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328@end example
329
330
ef88b07d 331@heading Target specification
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332@itemize @bullet
333@item
38209993 334GCC has code to correctly determine the correct value for @var{target}
f9047ed3 335for nearly all native systems. Therefore, we highly recommend you not
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336provide a configure target when configuring a native compiler.
337
338@item
6cfb3f16 339@var{target} must be specified as @option{--target=@var{target}}
f9047ed3 340when configuring a cross compiler; examples of valid targets would be
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341i960-rtems, m68k-coff, sh-elf, etc.
342
343@item
6cfb3f16 344Specifying just @var{target} instead of @option{--target=@var{target}}
38209993 345implies that the host defaults to @var{target}.
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346@end itemize
347
348
ef88b07d 349@heading Options specification
f42974dc 350
ef88b07d 351Use @var{options} to override several configure time options for
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352GCC@. A list of supported @var{options} follows; @command{configure
353--help} may list other options, but those not listed below may not
354work and should not normally be used.
f42974dc 355
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356@table @code
357@item --prefix=@var{dirname}
358Specify the toplevel installation
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359directory. This is the recommended way to install the tools into a directory
360other than the default. The toplevel installation directory defaults to
6cfb3f16 361@file{/usr/local}.
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363We @strong{highly} recommend against @var{dirname} being the same or a
364subdirectory of @var{objdir} or vice versa.
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365
366These additional options control where certain parts of the distribution
367are installed. Normally you should not need to use these options.
ef88b07d 368@table @code
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370@item --exec-prefix=@var{dirname}
371Specify the toplevel installation directory for architecture-dependent
372files. The default is @file{@var{prefix}}.
373
374@item --bindir=@var{dirname}
375Specify the installation directory for the executables called by users
376(such as @command{gcc} and @command{g++}). The default is
377@file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}.
378
379@item --libdir=@var{dirname}
380Specify the installation directory for object code libraries and
161d7b59 381internal parts of GCC@. The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/lib}.
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382
383@item --with-slibdir=@var{dirname}
384Specify the installation directory for the shared libgcc library. The
385default is @file{@var{libdir}}.
386
387@item --infodir=@var{dirname}
388Specify the installation directory for documentation in info format.
389The default is @file{@var{prefix}/info}.
390
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
436As currently implemented, this options only take effect for native
437builds; cross compiler binaries' names are not transformed even when a
438transformation is explicitly asked for by one of this options.
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
474@strong{Do not} specify @file{/usr} as the @option{--with-local-prefix}!
475The directory you use for @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{must not}
476contain any of the system's standard header files. If it did contain
477them, certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on
478certain targets), because this would override and nullify the header
479file corrections made by the @code{fixincludes} script.
480
481Indications are that people who use this option use it based on mistaken
482ideas of what it is for. People use it as if it specified where to
161d7b59 483install part of GCC@. Perhaps they make this assumption because
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484installing GCC creates the directory.
485
6cfb3f16 486@item --enable-shared[=@var{package}[,@dots{}]]
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487Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are supported on
488the target platform. Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier, shared libraries
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489are enabled by default on all platforms that support shared libraries,
490except for @samp{libobjc} which is built as a static library only by
491default.
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492
493If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared libraries
494only for the listed packages. For other packages, only static libraries
495will be built. Package names currently recognized in the GCC tree are
496@samp{libgcc} (also known as @samp{gcc}), @samp{libstdc++} (not
497@samp{libstdc++-v3}), @samp{libffi}, @samp{zlib}, @samp{boehm-gc} and
498@samp{libjava}. Note that @samp{libobjc} does not recognize itself by
499any name, so, if you list package names in @option{--enable-shared},
eea81d3e 500you will only get static Objective-C libraries. @samp{libf2c} and
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501@samp{libiberty} do not support shared libraries at all.
502
503Use @option{--disable-shared} to build only static libraries. Note that
504@option{--disable-shared} does not accept a list of package names as
505argument, only @option{--enable-shared} does.
f42974dc 506
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507@item @anchor{with-gnu-as}--with-gnu-as
508Specify that the compiler should assume that the
767094dd 509assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify
38209993 510the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if found
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511assembler is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion will also
512result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been
513configured with @option{--with-gnu-as}.) If you have more than one
38209993 514assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option in
eea81d3e 515connection with @option{--with-as=@var{pathname}}.
38209993 516
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517The systems where it makes a difference whether you use the GNU assembler are
518@samp{hppa1.0-@var{any}-@var{any}}, @samp{hppa1.1-@var{any}-@var{any}},
519@samp{i386-@var{any}-sysv}, @samp{i386-@var{any}-isc},
520@samp{i860-@var{any}-bsd}, @samp{m68k-bull-sysv},
521@samp{m68k-hp-hpux}, @samp{m68k-sony-bsd},
522@samp{m68k-altos-sysv}, @samp{m68000-hp-hpux},
523@samp{m68000-att-sysv}, @samp{@var{any}-lynx-lynxos},
524and @samp{mips-@var{any}}.
525On any other system, @option{--with-gnu-as} has no effect.
526
527On the systems listed above (except for the HP-PA, for ISC on the
528386, and for @samp{mips-sgi-irix5.*}), if you use the GNU assembler,
529you should also use the GNU linker (and specify @option{--with-gnu-ld}).
530
eea81d3e 531@item --with-as=@var{pathname}
ef88b07d 532Specify that the
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533compiler should use the assembler pointed to by @var{pathname}, rather
534than the one found by the standard rules to find an assembler, which
535are:
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536@itemize @bullet
537@item
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538Check the
539@file{@var{exec_prefix}/lib/gcc-lib/@var{target}/@var{version}}
540directory, where @var{exec_prefix} defaults to @var{prefix} which
541defaults to @file{/usr/local} unless overridden by the
eea81d3e 542@option{--prefix=@var{pathname}} switch described above. @var{target} is the
b953cc4b 543target system triple, such as @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.7}, and
eea81d3e 544@var{version} denotes the GCC version, such as 3.0.
f42974dc 545@item
e979f9e8 546Check operating system specific directories (e.g.@: @file{/usr/ccs/bin} on
250d5688 547Sun Solaris 2).
f42974dc 548@end itemize
767094dd 549Note that these rules do not check for the value of @env{PATH}. You may
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550want to use @option{--with-as} if no assembler is installed in the
551directories listed above, or if you have multiple assemblers installed
552and want to choose one that is not found by the above rules.
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555Same as @uref{#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}}
38209993 556but for linker.
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eea81d3e 559@item --with-ld=@var{pathname}
ef88b07d 560Same as
38209993 561@option{--with-as}, but for the linker.
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564Specify that stabs debugging
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566uses. Normally GCC uses the same debug format as the host system.
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569GCC to create the normal ECOFF debugging format, or to use BSD-style
570stabs passed through the ECOFF symbol table. The normal ECOFF debug
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572handle other languages, but it only works with the GNU debugger GDB@.
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574Normally, GCC uses the ECOFF debugging format by default; if you
161d7b59 575prefer BSD stabs, specify @option{--with-stabs} when you configure GCC@.
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577No matter which default you choose when you configure GCC, the user
578can use the @option{-gcoff} and @option{-gstabs+} options to specify explicitly
579the debug format for a particular compilation.
580
581@option{--with-stabs} is meaningful on the ISC system on the 386, also, if
582@option{--with-gas} is used. It selects use of stabs debugging
583information embedded in COFF output. This kind of debugging information
584supports C++ well; ordinary COFF debugging information does not.
585
586@option{--with-stabs} is also meaningful on 386 systems running SVR4. It
587selects use of stabs debugging information embedded in ELF output. The
588C++ compiler currently (2.6.0) does not support the DWARF debugging
589information normally used on 386 SVR4 platforms; stabs provide a
590workable alternative. This requires gas and gdb, as the normal SVR4
591tools can not generate or interpret stabs.
592
eea81d3e 593@item --disable-multilib
ef88b07d 594Specify that multiple target
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596conventions, etc should not be built. The default is to build a
597predefined set of them.
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600(e.g., @option{--disable-softfloat}):
601@table @code
602
603@item arc-*-elf*
604biendian.
605
606@item arm-*-*
607fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
608
609@item m68*-*-*
610softfloat, m68881, m68000, m68020.
611
612@item mips*-*-*
613single-float, biendian, softfloat.
614
615@item powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*
616aix64, pthread, softfloat, powercpu, powerpccpu, powerpcos, biendian,
f282ffb3 617sysv, aix.
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619@end table
620
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622Specify that the target
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624library, and exception handling for other languages like C++ and Java.
6ac48571 625On some systems, this is the default.
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628model available will be configured for use. Beware that on some
629systems, gcc has not been taught what threading models are generally
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631alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
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633@item --disable-threads
634Specify that threading support should be disabled for the system.
3c6bb1db 635This is an alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
f6160ed5 636
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638Specify that
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640compiler and runtime library, and exception handling for other languages
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642
643@table @code
644@item aix
645AIX thread support.
646@item dce
647DCE thread support.
f85b8d1a 648@item mach
eea81d3e 649Generic MACH thread support, known to work on NeXTSTEP@. (Please note
3c6bb1db 650that the file needed to support this configuration, @file{gthr-mach.h}, is
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652@item no
653This is an alias for @samp{single}.
f85b8d1a 654@item posix
c771326b 655Generic POSIX thread support.
f85b8d1a 656@item pthreads
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658only. A future release of gcc might remove this alias or extend it
659to all platforms.
660@item rtems
661RTEMS thread support.
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663Disable thread support, should work for all platforms.
664@item solaris
eea81d3e 665Sun Solaris 2 thread support.
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667VxWorks thread support.
668@item win32
669Microsoft Win32 API thread support.
670@end table
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673Specify which cpu variant the
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675only supported on the some ports, specifically arm, powerpc, and
161d7b59 676SPARC@. If configure does not recognize the model name (e.g.@: arm700,
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678for a complete list of supported models.
679
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681Specify that the target supports AltiVec vector enhancements. This
682option will adjust the ABI for AltiVec enhancements, as well as generate
683AltiVec code when appropriate. This option is only available for
684PowerPC systems.
685
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687Specify that target
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689This is the default for the m32r platform.
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692Specify that a user visible @command{cpp} program should not be installed.
693
694@item --with-cpp-install-dir=@var{dirname}
695Specify that the user visible @command{cpp} program should be installed
696in @file{@var{prefix}/@var{dirname}/cpp}, in addition to @var{bindir}.
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699The build rules that
6cfb3f16 700regenerate the GCC master message catalog @file{gcc.pot} are normally
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702tree is present. If you have changed the sources and want to rebuild the
6ac48571 703catalog, configuring with @option{--enable-maintainer-mode} will enable
767094dd 704this. Note that you need a recent version of the @code{gettext} tools
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705to do so.
706
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708Specify
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710subdirectory (@file{@var{libsubdir}}) rather than the usual places. In
eea81d3e 711addition, @samp{libstdc++}'s include files will be installed in
38209993 712@file{@var{libsubdir}/include/g++} unless you overruled it by using
6cfb3f16 713@option{--with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}}. Using this option is
38209993 714particularly useful if you intend to use several versions of GCC in
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716@samp{libstdc++}, and is the default for @samp{libobjc} which cannot be
717changed in this case.
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720Specify that only a particular subset of compilers and
767094dd 721their runtime libraries should be built. For a list of valid values for
6cfb3f16 722@var{langN} you can issue the following command in the
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724@example
725grep language= */config-lang.in
726@end example
727Currently, you can use any of the following:
e23381df 728@code{ada}, @code{c}, @code{c++}, @code{f77}, @code{java}, @code{objc}.
8ecab453 729Building the Ada compiler has special requirements, see below.@*
38209993 730If you do not pass this flag, all languages available in the @file{gcc}
6cfb3f16 731sub-tree will be configured. Re-defining @code{LANGUAGES} when calling
ef88b07d 732@samp{make bootstrap} @strong{does not} work anymore, as those
38209993 733language sub-directories might not have been configured!
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736Specify that the run-time libraries
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738to use GCJ with some other run-time, or you're going to install it
739separately, or it just happens not to build on your particular
6c0a4eab 740machine. In general, if the Java front end is enabled, the GCJ
f42974dc 741libraries will be enabled too, unless they're known to not work on
eea81d3e 742the target platform. If GCJ is enabled but @samp{libgcj} isn't built, you
f42974dc 743may need to port it; in this case, before modifying the top-level
eea81d3e 744@file{configure.in} so that @samp{libgcj} is enabled by default on this platform,
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746
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748Specify that the compiler should
eea81d3e 749use DWARF 2 debugging information as the default.
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751@item --enable-win32-registry
eea81d3e 752@itemx --enable-win32-registry=@var{key}
f85b8d1a 753@itemx --disable-win32-registry
6cfb3f16 754The @option{--enable-win32-registry} option enables Windows-hosted GCC
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756
757@smallexample
eea81d3e 758@code{HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Free Software Foundation\@var{key}}
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760
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762@option{--enable-win32-registry=@var{key}} option. Vendors and distributors
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764perhaps one comprised of vendor name and GCC version number, to
767094dd 765avoid conflict with existing installations. This feature is enabled
6cfb3f16 766by default, and can be disabled by @option{--disable-win32-registry}
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768
769@item --nfp
770Specify that the machine does not have a floating point unit. This
771option only applies to @samp{m68k-sun-sunos@var{n}} and
6cfb3f16 772@samp{m68k-isi-bsd}. On any other system, @option{--nfp} has no effect.
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774@item --enable-checking
775@itemx --enable-checking=@var{list}
776When you specify this option, the compiler is built to perform checking
777of tree node types when referencing fields of that node, and some other
778internal consistency checks. This does not change the generated code,
779but adds error checking within the compiler. This will slow down the
780compiler and may only work properly if you are building the compiler
161d7b59 781with GCC@. This is on by default when building from CVS or snapshots,
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782but off for releases. More control over the checks may be had by
783specifying @var{list}; the categories of checks available are
784@samp{misc}, @samp{tree}, @samp{gc}, @samp{rtl} and @samp{gcac}. The
785default when @var{list} is not specified is @samp{misc,tree,gc}; the
786checks @samp{rtl} and @samp{gcac} are very expensive.
787
788@item --enable-nls
789@itemx --disable-nls
6cfb3f16 790The @option{--enable-nls} option enables Native Language Support (NLS),
f85b8d1a 791which lets GCC output diagnostics in languages other than American
767094dd 792English. Native Language Support is enabled by default if not doing a
161d7b59 793canadian cross build. The @option{--disable-nls} option disables NLS@.
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795@item --with-included-gettext
c771326b 796If NLS is enabled, the @option{--with-included-gettext} option causes the build
021c4bfd 797procedure to prefer its copy of GNU @command{gettext}.
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799@item --with-catgets
800If NLS is enabled, and if the host lacks @code{gettext} but has the
801inferior @code{catgets} interface, the GCC build procedure normally
802ignores @code{catgets} and instead uses GCC's copy of the GNU
6cfb3f16 803@code{gettext} library. The @option{--with-catgets} option causes the
f85b8d1a 804build procedure to use the host's @code{catgets} in this situation.
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807Search for libiconv header files in @file{@var{dir}/include} and
808libiconv library files in @file{@var{dir}/lib}.
809
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811Use installed zlib rather than that included with GCC@. This option
812only applies if the Java front end is being built.
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814@item --enable-obsolete
815Enable configuration for an obsoleted system. If you attempt to
816configure GCC for a system (build, host, or target) which has been
817obsoleted, and you do not specify this flag, configure will halt with an
818error message.
819
820All support for systems which have been obsoleted in one release of GCC
821is removed entirely in the next major release, unless someone steps
822forward to maintain the port.
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825Some options which only apply to building cross compilers:
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827@item --with-headers=@var{dir}
828Specifies a directory
38209993 829which has target include files.
f42974dc 830@emph{This options is required} when building a cross
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832These include files will be copied into the @file{gcc} install directory.
833Fixincludes will be run on these files to make them compatible with
eea81d3e 834GCC.
ef88b07d 835@item --with-libs=``@var{dir1} @var{dir2} @dots{} @var{dirN}''
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837libraries. These libraries will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
838directory.
ef88b07d 839@item --with-newlib
eea81d3e 840Specifies that @samp{newlib} is
38209993 841being used as the target C library. This causes @code{__eprintf} to be
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843@samp{newlib}.
ef88b07d 844@end table
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846Note that each @option{--enable} option has a corresponding
847@option{--disable} option and that each @option{--with} option has a
848corresponding @option{--without} option.
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850@html
851<hr>
852<p>
853@end html
854@ifhtml
855@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
856@end ifhtml
857@end ifset
858
859@c ***Building****************************************************************
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862@node Building, Testing, Configuration, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 863@end ifnothtml
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865@html
866<h1 align="center">Installing GCC: Building</h1>
867@end html
868@ifnothtml
869@chapter Building
870@end ifnothtml
871@cindex Installing GCC: Building
872
873Now that GCC is configured, you are ready to build the compiler and
874runtime libraries.
875
58db9d1a 876We @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built using GNU make;
f282ffb3 877other versions may work, then again they might not.
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878GNU make is required for compiling GNAT (the Ada compiler) and the Java
879runtime library.
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881(For example, many broken versions of make will fail if you use the
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883Other broken versions may recompile parts of the compiler when
884installing the compiler.)
f42974dc 885
b8df899a 886Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a
df2a54e9 887nonzero status) and be ignored by @code{make}. These failures, which
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888are often due to files that were not found, are expected, and can safely
889be ignored.
890
891It is normal to have compiler warnings when compiling certain files.
892Unless you are a GCC developer, you can generally ignore these warnings
893unless they cause compilation to fail.
894
895On certain old systems, defining certain environment variables such as
6cfb3f16 896@env{CC} can interfere with the functioning of @command{make}.
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898If you encounter seemingly strange errors when trying to build the
899compiler in a directory other than the source directory, it could be
900because you have previously configured the compiler in the source
901directory. Make sure you have done all the necessary preparations.
902
903If you build GCC on a BSD system using a directory stored in an old System
904V file system, problems may occur in running @code{fixincludes} if the
905System V file system doesn't support symbolic links. These problems
906result in a failure to fix the declaration of @code{size_t} in
907@file{sys/types.h}. If you find that @code{size_t} is a signed type and
908that type mismatches occur, this could be the cause.
909
161d7b59 910The solution is not to use such a directory for building GCC@.
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913you need the Bison parser generator installed. Any version 1.25 or
914later should work; older versions may also work. If you do not modify
915parser sources, releases contain the Bison-generated files and you do
916not need Bison installed to build them.
917
918When building from CVS or snapshots, or if you modify Texinfo
dda78254 919documentation, you need version 4.1 or later of Texinfo installed if you
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921documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in the release.
922
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924
f9047ed3 925For a native build issue the command @samp{make bootstrap}. This
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926will build the entire GCC system, which includes the following steps:
927
928@itemize @bullet
929@item
930Build host tools necessary to build the compiler such as texinfo, bison,
931gperf.
932
933@item
934Build target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils (bfd,
eea81d3e 935binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes)
f282ffb3 936if they have been individually linked
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938
939@item
940Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler.
941
942@item
943Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.
944
945@item
946Build runtime libraries using the stage3 compiler from the previous step.
f9047ed3 947
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949
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951bootstrap-lean} instead. This is identical to @samp{make
952bootstrap} except that object files from the stage1 and
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953stage2 of the 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler are deleted as
954soon as they are no longer needed.
955
956
957If you want to save additional space during the bootstrap and in
958the final installation as well, you can build the compiler binaries
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959without debugging information with @samp{make CFLAGS='-O' LIBCFLAGS='-g
960-O2' LIBCXXFLAGS='-g -O2 -fno-implicit-templates' bootstrap}. This will save
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961roughly 40% of disk space both for the bootstrap and the final installation.
962(Libraries will still contain debugging information.)
963
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965stage3 compilers, set @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} on the command line when doing
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967tested here than the default of @samp{-g -O2}, but should still work.
968In a few cases, you may find that you need to specify special flags such
969as @option{-msoft-float} here to complete the bootstrap; or, if the
970native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may need to work
971around this, by choosing @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} to avoid the parts of the
972stage1 compiler that were miscompiled, or by using @samp{make
973bootstrap4} to increase the number of stages of bootstrap.
974
6cfb3f16 975If you used the flag @option{--enable-languages=@dots{}} to restrict
f42974dc 976the compilers to be built, only those you've actually enabled will be
767094dd 977built. This will of course only build those runtime libraries, for
f42974dc 978which the particular compiler has been built. Please note,
eea81d3e 979that re-defining @env{LANGUAGES} when calling @samp{make bootstrap}
ef88b07d 980@strong{does not} work anymore!
f42974dc 981
f85b8d1a 982If the comparison of stage2 and stage3 fails, this normally indicates
eea81d3e 983that the stage2 compiler has compiled GCC incorrectly, and is therefore
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985a few systems, meaningful comparison of object files is impossible; they
986always appear ``different''. If you encounter this problem, you will
987need to disable comparison in the @file{Makefile}.)
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989@section Building a cross compiler
990
991We recommend reading the
992@uref{http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/,,crossgcc FAQ}
993for information about building cross compilers.
994
995When building a cross compiler, it is not generally possible to do a
9963-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This makes for an interesting problem
161d7b59 997as parts of GCC can only be built with GCC@.
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999To build a cross compiler, we first recommend building and installing a
1000native compiler. You can then use the native GCC compiler to build the
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10022.95 or later.
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1004Assuming you have already installed a native copy of GCC and configured
6cfb3f16 1005your cross compiler, issue the command @command{make}, which performs the
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1007
1008@itemize @bullet
1009@item
1010Build host tools necessary to build the compiler such as texinfo, bison,
1011gperf.
1012
1013@item
1014Build target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils (bfd,
1015binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes)
1016if they have been individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source
1017tree before configuring.
1018
1019@item
1020Build the compiler (single stage only).
1021
1022@item
1023Build runtime libraries using the compiler from the previous step.
1024@end itemize
1025
1026Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit.
1027
1028@section Building in parallel
1029
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1031MAKE="make -j 2" -j 2} or just @samp{make -j 2 bootstrap}
1032for GNU Make 3.79 and above instead of just @samp{make bootstrap}
161d7b59 1033when building GCC@. You can use a bigger number instead of two if
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1035the number of processors in your machine.
1036
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1038
1039In order to build GNAT, the Ada compiler, you need a working GNAT
1040compiler, since the Ada front end is written in Ada (with some
1041GNAT-specific extensions), and GNU make.
1042
1043However, you do not need a full installation of GNAT, just the GNAT
1044binary @file{gnat1}, a copy of @file{gnatbind}, and a compiler driver
1045which can deal with Ada input (by invoking the @file{gnat1} binary).
1046You can specify this compiler driver by setting the @env{ADAC}
1047environment variable at the configure step. @command{configure} can
1048detect the driver automatically if it has got a common name such as
1049@command{gcc} or @command{gnatgcc}. Of course, you still need a working
1050C compiler (the compiler driver can be different or not).
1051
1052Additional build tools (such as @command{gnatmake}) or a working GNAT
1053run-time library installation are usually @emph{not} required. However,
1054if you want to boostrap the compiler using a minimal version of GNAT,
1055you have to issue the following commands before invoking @samp{make
1056boostrap} (this assumes that you start with an unmodified and consistent
1057source distribution):
1058
1059@example
1060 cd @var{srcdir}/gcc/ada
1061 touch treeprs.ads [es]info.h nmake.ad[bs]
1062@end example
1063
1064At the moment, the GNAT library and several tools for GNAT are not built
f282ffb3 1065by @samp{make bootstrap}. You have to invoke
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1066@samp{make gnatlib_and_tools} in the @file{@var{objdir}/gcc}
1067subdirectory before proceeding with the next steps.
1068
1069For example, you can build a native Ada compiler by issuing the
1070following commands (assuming @command{make} is GNU make):
1071
1072@example
1073 cd @var{objdir}
f282ffb3 1074 @var{srcdir}/configure --enable-languages=c,ada
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1075 cd @var{srcdir}/gcc/ada
1076 touch treeprs.ads [es]info.h nmake.ad[bs]
f282ffb3 1077 cd @var{objdir}
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1078 make bootstrap
1079 cd gcc
1080 make gnatlib_and_tools
1081 cd ..
1082@end example
1083
1084Currently, when compiling the Ada front end, you cannot use the parallel
1085build feature described in the previous section.
1086
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1087@html
1088<hr>
1089<p>
1090@end html
1091@ifhtml
1092@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
1093@end ifhtml
1094@end ifset
1095
1096@c ***Testing*****************************************************************
6cfb3f16 1097@ifnothtml
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1098@comment node-name, next, previous, up
1099@node Testing, Final install, Building, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 1100@end ifnothtml
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1101@ifset testhtml
1102@html
1103<h1 align="center">Installing GCC: Testing</h1>
1104@end html
1105@ifnothtml
1106@chapter Installing GCC: Testing
1107@end ifnothtml
1108@cindex Testing
1109@cindex Installing GCC: Testing
1110@cindex Testsuite
1111
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1112Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
1113compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
1114been submitted to the
1115@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/,,gcc-testresults mailing list}.
1116This step is optional and may require you to download additional software,
1117but it can give you confidence in your new GCC installation or point out
1118problems before you install and start using your new GCC.
f42974dc 1119
f9047ed3 1120First, you must have @uref{download.html,,downloaded the testsuites}.
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1121These are part of the full distribution, but if you downloaded the
1122``core'' compiler plus any front ends, you must download the testsuites
1123separately.
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1125Second, you must have the testing tools installed. This includes
1126a @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/,,current version of DejaGnu};
f42974dc 1127dejagnu 1.3 is not sufficient.
f97903cc 1128It also includes Tcl and Expect; the DejaGnu site has links to these.
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1130Now you may need specific preparations:
1131
1132@itemize @bullet
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1134@item
ecb7d6b3 1135The following environment variables may need to be set appropriately, as in
f42974dc 1136the following example (which assumes that DejaGnu has been installed
6cfb3f16 1137under @file{/usr/local}):
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1139@example
1140 TCL_LIBRARY = /usr/local/share/tcl8.0
1141 DEJAGNULIBS = /usr/local/share/dejagnu
1142@end example
1143
1144On systems such as Cygwin, these paths are required to be actual
1145paths, not mounts or links; presumably this is due to some lack of
1146portability in the DejaGnu code.
1147
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1148If the directories where @command{runtest} and @command{expect} were
1149installed are in the @env{PATH}, it should not be necessary to set these
1150environment variables.
1151
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1153
1154Finally, you can run the testsuite (which may take a long time):
1155@example
ef88b07d 1156 cd @var{objdir}; make -k check
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1157@end example
1158
1159The testing process will try to test as many components in the GCC
2147b154 1160distribution as possible, including the C, C++, Objective-C and Fortran
ecb7d6b3 1161compilers as well as the C++ and Java runtime libraries.
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1162
1163@section How can I run the test suite on selected tests?
1164
1165As a first possibility to cut down the number of tests that are run it is
38209993 1166possible to use @samp{make check-gcc} or @samp{make check-g++}
eea81d3e 1167in the @file{gcc} subdirectory of the object directory. To further cut down the
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1168tests the following is possible:
1169
1170@example
6cfb3f16 1171 make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp @var{other-options}"
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1172@end example
1173
eea81d3e 1174This will run all @command{gcc} execute tests in the testsuite.
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1175
1176@example
6cfb3f16 1177 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805* @var{other-options}"
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1178@end example
1179
eea81d3e 1180This will run the @command{g++} ``old-deja'' tests in the testsuite where the filename
6cfb3f16 1181matches @samp{9805*}.
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1183The @file{*.exp} files are located in the testsuite directories of the GCC
1184source, the most important ones being @file{compile.exp},
1185@file{execute.exp}, @file{dg.exp} and @file{old-deja.exp}.
1186To get a list of the possible @file{*.exp} files, pipe the
38209993 1187output of @samp{make check} into a file and look at the
6cfb3f16 1188@samp{Running @dots{} .exp} lines.
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1189
1190@section How to interpret test results
1191
6cfb3f16 1192After the testsuite has run you'll find various @file{*.sum} and @file{*.log}
767094dd 1193files in the testsuite subdirectories. The @file{*.log} files contain a
f42974dc 1194detailed log of the compiler invocations and the corresponding
767094dd 1195results, the @file{*.sum} files summarize the results. These summaries list
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1196all the tests that have been run with a corresponding status code:
1197
1198@itemize @bullet
1199@item
1200PASS: the test passed as expected
1201@item
1202XPASS: the test unexpectedly passed
1203@item
1204FAIL: the test unexpectedly failed
1205@item
1206XFAIL: the test failed as expected
1207@item
1208UNSUPPORTED: the test is not supported on this platform
1209@item
1210ERROR: the testsuite detected an error
1211@item
1212WARNING: the testsuite detected a possible problem
1213@end itemize
1214
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1215It is normal for some tests to report unexpected failures. At the
1216current time our testing harness does not allow fine grained control
1217over whether or not a test is expected to fail. We expect to fix this
1218problem in future releases.
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1220
1221@section Submitting test results
1222
1223If you want to report the results to the GCC project, use the
767094dd 1224@file{contrib/test_summary} shell script. Start it in the @var{objdir} with
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1226@example
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1227 @var{srcdir}/contrib/test_summary -p your_commentary.txt \
1228 -m gcc-testresults@@gcc.gnu.org |sh
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1229@end example
1230
6cfb3f16 1231This script uses the @command{Mail} program to send the results, so
767094dd 1232make sure it is in your @env{PATH}. The file @file{your_commentary.txt} is
f42974dc 1233prepended to the testsuite summary and should contain any special
767094dd 1234remarks you have on your results or your build environment. Please
f42974dc 1235do not edit the testsuite result block or the subject line, as these
f9047ed3 1236messages are automatically parsed and presented at the
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1237@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/testresults/,,GCC testresults} web
1238page. Here you can also gather information on how specific tests
767094dd 1239behave on different platforms and compare them with your results. A
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1240few failing testcases are possible even on released versions and you
1241should look here first if you think your results are unreasonable.
1242
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1243@html
1244<hr>
1245<p>
1246@end html
1247@ifhtml
1248@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
1249@end ifhtml
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1250@end ifset
1251
1252@c ***Final install***********************************************************
6cfb3f16 1253@ifnothtml
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1254@comment node-name, next, previous, up
1255@node Final install, , Testing, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 1256@end ifnothtml
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1257@ifset finalinstallhtml
1258@html
1259<h1 align="center">Installing GCC: Final installation</h1>
1260@end html
1261@ifnothtml
1262@chapter Installing GCC: Final installation
1263@end ifnothtml
1264
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1265Now that GCC has been built (and optionally tested), you can install it with
1266@example
1267cd @var{objdir}; make install
1268@end example
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1270That step completes the installation of GCC; user level binaries can
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1271be found in @file{@var{prefix}/bin} where @var{prefix} is the value you
1272specified with the @option{--prefix} to configure (or @file{/usr/local}
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1273by default). (If you specified @option{--bindir}, that directory will
1274be used instead; otherwise, if you specified @option{--exec-prefix},
1275@file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin} will be used.) Headers for the C++ and
1276Java libraries are installed in @file{@var{prefix}/include}; libraries
1277in @file{@var{libdir}} (normally @file{@var{prefix}/lib}); internal
1278parts of the compiler in @file{@var{libdir}/gcc-lib}; documentation in
1279info format in @file{@var{infodir}} (normally @file{@var{prefix}/info}).
f42974dc 1280
2b46bc67 1281If you built a released version of GCC using @samp{make bootstrap} then please
c009f01f 1282quickly review the build status page for
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1283@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/buildstat.html,,3.1},
1284@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/buildstat.html,,3.0}, or
c009f01f 1285@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html,,2.95}.
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1286If your system is not listed for the version of GCC that you built,
1287send a note to
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1288@email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} indicating
1289that you successfully built and installed GCC.
c5997381 1290Include the following information:
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1292@itemize @bullet
1293@item
1294Output from running @file{@var{srcdir}/config.guess}. Do not send us
1295that file itself, just the one-line output from running it.
1296
1297@item
1298The output of @samp{gcc -v} for your newly installed gcc.
1299This tells us which version of GCC you built and the options you passed to
1300configure.
1301
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1302@item
1303Whether you enabled all languages or a subset of them. If you used a
1304full distribution then this information is part of the configure
1305options in the output of @samp{gcc -v}, but if you downloaded the
1306``core'' compiler plus additional front ends then it isn't apparent
1307which ones you built unless you tell us about it.
1308
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1309@item
1310If the build was for GNU/Linux, also include:
1311@itemize @bullet
1312@item
1313The distribution name and version (e.g., Red Hat 7.1 or Debian 2.2.3);
1314this information should be available from @file{/etc/issue}.
1315
1316@item
1317The version of the Linux kernel, available from @samp{uname --version}
1318or @samp{uname -a}.
1319
1320@item
1321The version of glibc you used; for RPM-based systems like Red Hat,
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1322Mandrake, and SuSE type @samp{rpm -q glibc} to get the glibc version,
1323and on systems like Debian and Progeny use @samp{dpkg -l libc6}.
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1324@end itemize
1325For other systems, you can include similar information if you think it is
1326relevant.
1327
1328@item
1329Any other information that you think would be useful to people building
1330GCC on the same configuration. The new entry in the build status list
1331will include a link to the archived copy of your message.
1332@end itemize
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1333
1334We'd also like to know if the
1335@ifnothtml
1336@ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}
1337@end ifnothtml
1338@ifhtml
1339@uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}
1340@end ifhtml
1341didn't include your host/target information or if that information is
1342incomplete or out of date. Send a note to
1343@email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} telling us how the information should be changed.
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1344
1345If you find a bug, please report it following our
1346@uref{../bugs.html,,bug reporting guidelines}.
1347
ab130aa5 1348If you want to print the GCC manuals, do @samp{cd @var{objdir}; make
dda78254 1349dvi}. You will need to have @command{texi2dvi} (version at least 4.1)
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1350and @TeX{} installed. This creates a number of @file{.dvi} files in
1351subdirectories of @file{@var{objdir}}; these may be converted for
1352printing with programs such as @command{dvips}. You can also
1353@uref{http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html,,buy printed manuals from the
1354Free Software Foundation}, though such manuals may not be for the most
161d7b59 1355recent version of GCC@.
ab130aa5 1356
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1357@html
1358<hr>
1359<p>
1360@end html
1361@ifhtml
1362@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
1363@end ifhtml
1364@end ifset
1365
1366@c ***Binaries****************************************************************
6cfb3f16 1367@ifnothtml
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1368@comment node-name, next, previous, up
1369@node Binaries, Specific, Installing GCC, Top
6cfb3f16 1370@end ifnothtml
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1371@ifset binarieshtml
1372@html
1373<h1 align="center">Installing GCC: Binaries</h1>
1374@end html
1375@ifnothtml
1376@chapter Installing GCC: Binaries
1377@end ifnothtml
1378@cindex Binaries
1379@cindex Installing GCC: Binaries
1380
161d7b59 1381We are often asked about pre-compiled versions of GCC@. While we cannot
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1382provide these for all platforms, below you'll find links to binaries for
1383various platforms where creating them by yourself is not easy due to various
1384reasons.
1385
1386Please note that we did not create these binaries, nor do we
1387support them. If you have any problems installing them, please
1388contact their makers.
1389
1390@itemize
1391@item
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1392AIX:
1393@itemize
1394@item
4b5eb038 1395@uref{http://freeware.bull.net,,Bull's Freeware and Shareware Archive for AIX};
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1396
1397@item
9da6e781 1398@uref{http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu,,UCLA Software Library for AIX};
df002c7d 1399@end itemize
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1400
1401@item
6cfb3f16 1402DOS---@uref{http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/,,DJGPP};
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1404@item
1405HP-UX:
1406@itemize
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1408@uref{http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/,,HP-UX Porting Center};
1409
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1410@item
1411@uref{ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/gcc_hpux/,,Binaries for HP-UX 11.00 at Aachen University of Technology}.
1412@end itemize
1413
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1415@uref{http://www.sco.com/skunkware/devtools/index.html#gcc,,SCO
1416OpenServer/Unixware};
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1418@item
250d5688 1419Solaris 2 (SPARC, Intel)---@uref{http://www.sunfreeware.com/,,Sunfreeware};
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1421@item
6cfb3f16 1422SGI---@uref{http://freeware.sgi.com/,,SGI Freeware};
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1423
1424@item
1425Windows 95, 98, and NT:
1426@itemize
1427@item
1428The @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/,,Cygwin} project;
1429@item
1430@uref{http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/,,GNU Win32}
1431related projects by Mumit Khan.
1432@end itemize
1433
1434@item
61d47787 1435@uref{ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/packages/free/by-name/,,The
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1437IRIX 6.2, 6.5, Digital UNIX 4.0D, HP-UX 10.20, and HP-UX 11.00.
1438
1439@item
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1440Hitachi H8/300[HS]---@uref{http://h8300-hms.sourceforge.net/,,GNU
1441Development Tools for the Hitachi H8/300[HS] Series}
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1443@end itemize
1444
1445In addition to those specific offerings, you can get a binary
1446distribution CD-ROM from the
f9047ed3 1447@uref{http://www.fsf.org/order/order.html,,Free Software Foundation}.
f42974dc 1448It contains binaries for a number of platforms, and
767094dd 1449includes not only GCC, but other stuff as well. The current CD does
f42974dc 1450not contain the latest version of GCC, but it should allow
767094dd 1451bootstrapping the compiler. An updated version of that disk is in the
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1452works.
1453
1454@html
1455<hr>
1456<p>
1457@end html
1458@ifhtml
1459@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
1460@end ifhtml
1461@end ifset
1462
1463@c ***Specific****************************************************************
6cfb3f16 1464@ifnothtml
f42974dc 1465@comment node-name, next, previous, up
73e2155a 1466@node Specific, Old, Binaries, Top
6cfb3f16 1467@end ifnothtml
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1468@ifset specifichtml
1469@html
1470<h1 align="center">Host/target specific installation notes for GCC</h1>
1471@end html
1472@ifnothtml
1473@chapter Host/target specific installation notes for GCC
1474@end ifnothtml
1475@cindex Specific
1476@cindex Specific installation notes
1477@cindex Target specific installation
1478@cindex Host specific installation
1479@cindex Target specific installation notes
1480
1481Please read this document carefully @emph{before} installing the
1482GNU Compiler Collection on your machine.
1483
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1484Lists of successful builds for released versions of GCC are
1485available at our web pages for
1486@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/buildstat.html,,3.0}
1487and
1488@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html,,2.95}.
1489These lists are updated as new information becomes available.
1490
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1493@item
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1495@item
1496@uref{#a29k,,a29k}
1497@item
1498@uref{#a29k-*-bsd,,a29k-*-bsd}
1499@item
333e14b0 1500@uref{#alpha*-*-*,,alpha*-*-*}
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1502@uref{#alpha*-dec-osf*,,alpha*-dec-osf*}
1503@item
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1505@item
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1507@item
1508@uref{#arm-*-aout,,arm-*-aout}
1509@item
1510@uref{#arm-*-elf,,arm-*-elf}
1511@item
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1515@item
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1517@item
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1519@item
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1521@item
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1523@item
1524@uref{#elxsi-elxsi-bsd,,elxsi-elxsi-bsd}
1525@item
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1527@item
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1529@item
1530@uref{#hppa*-hp-hpux*,,hppa*-hp-hpux*}
1531@item
1532@uref{#hppa*-hp-hpux9,,hppa*-hp-hpux9}
1533@item
1534@uref{#hppa*-hp-hpux10,,hppa*-hp-hpux10}
1535@item
1536@uref{#hppa*-hp-hpux11,,hppa*-hp-hpux11}
1537@item
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1539@item
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1541@item
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1543@item
1544@uref{#ix86-*-linux*aout,,i?86-*-linux*aout}
1545@item
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1547@item
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1549@item
1550@uref{#ix86-*-sco3.2v4,,i?86-*-sco3.2v4}
1551@item
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1553@item
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1555@item
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1557@item
1558@uref{#ix86-*-esix,,i?86-*-esix}
1559@item
1560@uref{#ix86-ibm-aix,,i?86-ibm-aix}
1561@item
1562@uref{#ix86-sequent-bsd,,i?86-sequent-bsd}
1563@item
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1566@uref{#i860-intel-osf*,,i860-intel-osf*}
1567@item
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1569@item
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1574@uref{#m32r-*-elf,,m32r-*-elf}
1575@item
1576@uref{#m68000-hp-bsd,,m68000-hp-bsd}
1577@item
1578@uref{#m6811-elf,,m6811-elf}
1579@item
1580@uref{#m6812-elf,,m6812-elf}
1581@item
1582@uref{#m68k-altos,,m68k-altos}
1583@item
1584@uref{#m68k-apple-aux,,m68k-apple-aux}
1585@item
1586@uref{#m68k-att-sysv,,m68k-att-sysv}
1587@item
1588@uref{#m68k-bull-sysv,,m68k-bull-sysv}
1589@item
9340544b 1590@uref{#m68k-crds-unos,,m68k-crds-unos}
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1591@item
1592@uref{#m68k-hp-hpux,,m68k-hp-hpux}
1593@item
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1595@item
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1596@uref{#m68k-ncr-*,,m68k-ncr-*}
1597@item
1598@uref{#m68k-sun,,m68k-sun}
1599@item
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1600@uref{#m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1,,m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1}
1601@item
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1602@uref{#m88k-*-svr3,,m88k-*-svr3}
1603@item
1604@uref{#m88k-*-dgux,,m88k-*-dgux}
1605@item
1606@uref{#m88k-tektronix-sysv3,,m88k-tektronix-sysv3}
1607@item
1608@uref{#mips-*-*,,mips-*-*}
1609@item
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1610@uref{#mips-dec-*,,mips-dec-*}
1611@item
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1612@uref{#mips-mips-bsd,,mips-mips-bsd}
1613@item
1614@uref{#mips-mips-riscos*,,mips-mips-riscos*}
1615@item
b953cc4b 1616@uref{#mips-sgi-irix4,,mips-sgi-irix4}
213ba345 1617@item
b953cc4b 1618@uref{#mips-sgi-irix5,,mips-sgi-irix5}
f42974dc 1619@item
b953cc4b 1620@uref{#mips-sgi-irix6,,mips-sgi-irix6}
f42974dc 1621@item
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1622@uref{#mips-sony-sysv,,mips-sony-sysv}
1623@item
1624@uref{#ns32k-encore,,ns32k-encore}
1625@item
1626@uref{#ns32k-*-genix,,ns32k-*-genix}
1627@item
1628@uref{#ns32k-sequent,,ns32k-sequent}
1629@item
1630@uref{#ns32k-utek,,ns32k-utek}
1631@item
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1632@uref{#powerpc*-*-*,,powerpc*-*-*, powerpc-*-sysv4}
1633@item
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1634@uref{#powerpc-*-darwin*,,powerpc-*-darwin*}
1635@item
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1636@uref{#powerpc-*-elf,,powerpc-*-elf, powerpc-*-sysv4}
1637@item
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1638@uref{#powerpc-*-linux-gnu*,,powerpc-*-linux-gnu*}
1639@item
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1640@uref{#powerpc-*-netbsd*,,powerpc-*-netbsd*}
1641@item
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1642@uref{#powerpc-*-eabiaix,,powerpc-*-eabiaix}
1643@item
1644@uref{#powerpc-*-eabisim,,powerpc-*-eabisim}
1645@item
1646@uref{#powerpc-*-eabi,,powerpc-*-eabi}
1647@item
1648@uref{#powerpcle-*-elf,,powerpcle-*-elf, powerpcle-*-sysv4}
1649@item
1650@uref{#powerpcle-*-eabisim,,powerpcle-*-eabisim}
1651@item
1652@uref{#powerpcle-*-eabi,,powerpcle-*-eabi}
1653@item
1654@uref{#powerpcle-*-winnt,,powerpcle-*-winnt, powerpcle-*-pe}
1655@item
1656@uref{#romp-*-aos,,romp-*-aos, romp-*-mach}
1657@item
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1659@item
1660@uref{#s390x-*-linux*}
1661@item
250d5688 1662@uref{#*-*-solaris2*,,*-*-solaris2*}
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250d5688 1664@uref{#sparc-sun-solaris2*,,sparc-sun-solaris2*}
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1665@item
1666@uref{#sparc-sun-solaris2.7,,sparc-sun-solaris2.7}
1667@item
250d5688 1668@uref{#*-*-solaris2.8,,*-*-solaris2.8}
f42974dc 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
1684@uref{#we32k-*-*,,we32k-*-*}
1685@item
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1686@uref{#xtensa-*-elf,,xtensa-*-elf}
1687@item
1688@uref{#xtensa-*-linux*,,xtensa-*-linux*}
1689@item
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1690@uref{#windows,,Microsoft Windows}
1691@item
1692@uref{#os2,,OS/2}
1693@item
1694@uref{#older,,Older systems}
1695@end itemize
1696
1697@itemize
1698@item
250d5688 1699@uref{#elf_targets,,all ELF targets} (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
f42974dc 1700@end itemize
ef88b07d 1701@end ifhtml
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1703
1704@html
1705<!-- -------- host/target specific issues start here ---------------- -->
1706<hr>
f42974dc 1707@end html
b8df899a 1708@heading @anchor{1750a-*-*}1750a-*-*
9340544b 1709MIL-STD-1750A processors. This target is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
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1710
1711The MIL-STD-1750A cross configuration produces output for
021c4bfd 1712@code{as1750}, an assembler/linker available under the GNU General Public
161d7b59 1713License for the 1750A@. @code{as1750} can be obtained at
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1714@uref{ftp://ftp.fta-berlin.de/pub/crossgcc/1750gals/}.
1715A similarly licensed simulator for
1716the 1750A is available from same address.
1717
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1718You should ignore a fatal error during the building of @samp{libgcc}
1719(@samp{libgcc} is not yet implemented for the 1750A@.)
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1720
1721The @code{as1750} assembler requires the file @file{ms1750.inc}, which is
021c4bfd 1722found in the directory @file{gcc/config/1750a}.
b8df899a 1723
f0523f02 1724GCC produced the same sections as the Fairchild F9450 C Compiler,
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1725namely:
1726
1727@table @code
1728@item Normal
1729The program code section.
1730
1731@item Static
1732The read/write (RAM) data section.
1733
1734@item Konst
1735The read-only (ROM) constants section.
1736
1737@item Init
161d7b59 1738Initialization section (code to copy KREL to SREL)@.
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1739@end table
1740
021c4bfd 1741The smallest addressable unit is 16 bits (@code{BITS_PER_UNIT} is 16). This
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1742means that type @code{char} is represented with a 16-bit word per character.
1743The 1750A's ``Load/Store Upper/Lower Byte'' instructions are not used by
161d7b59 1744GCC@.
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1745
1746@html
1747</p>
1748<hr>
1749@end html
1750@heading @anchor{a29k}a29k
1751AMD Am29k-family processors. These are normally used in embedded
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1752applications. This configuration corresponds to AMD's standard calling
1753sequence and binary interface and is compatible with other 29k tools.
1754
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1755AMD has abandoned this processor. All existing a29k targets are obsoleted
1756in GCC 3.1.
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1757
1758You may need to make a variant of the file @file{a29k.h} for your
1759particular configuration.
1760
1761@html
1762</p>
1763<hr>
1764@end html
1765@heading @anchor{a29k-*-bsd}a29k-*-bsd
1766AMD Am29050 used in a system running a variant of BSD Unix.
1767
1768@html
1769</p>
1770<hr>
1771@end html
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1772@heading @anchor{alpha*-*-*}alpha*-*-*
1773
1774This section contains general configuration information for all
1775alpha-based platforms using ELF (in particular, ignore this section for
161d7b59 1776DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX and Tru64 UNIX)@. In addition to reading this
f2541106 1777section, please read all other sections that match your target.
333e14b0 1778
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1779We require binutils 2.11.2 or newer.
1780Previous binutils releases had a number of problems with DWARF 2
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1781debugging information, not the least of which is incorrect linking of
1782shared libraries.
1783
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1784@html
1785</p>
1786<hr>
1787@end html
f2541106 1788@heading @anchor{alpha*-dec-osf*}alpha*-dec-osf*
b8df899a 1789Systems using processors that implement the DEC Alpha architecture and
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1790are running the DEC/Compaq Unix (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX, or Compaq
1791Tru64 UNIX) operating system, for example the DEC Alpha AXP systems.
1792
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1793Support for versions before @code{alpha*-dec-osf4} is obsoleted in GCC
17943.1. (These are the versions which identify themselves as DEC OSF/1.)
9340544b 1795
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1796In Tru64 UNIX V5.1, Compaq introduced a new assembler that does not
1797currently (2001-06-13) work with @command{mips-tfile}. As a workaround,
1798we need to use the old assembler, invoked via the barely documented
1799@option{-oldas} option. To bootstrap GCC, you either need to use the
1800Compaq C Compiler:
1801
1802@example
eea81d3e 1803 % CC=cc @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
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1804@end example
1805
1806or you can use a copy of GCC 2.95.3 or higher built on Tru64 UNIX V4.0:
1807
1808@example
eea81d3e 1809 % CC=gcc -Wa,-oldas @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
f2541106 1810@end example
b8df899a 1811
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1812As of GNU binutils 2.11.2, neither GNU @command{as} nor GNU @command{ld}
1813are supported on Tru64 UNIX, so you must not configure GCC with
1814@option{--with-gnu-as} or @option{--with-gnu-ld}.
1815
1816The @option{--enable-threads} options isn't supported yet. A patch is
18b467f1 1817in preparation for a future release.
b953cc4b 1818
f0523f02 1819GCC writes a @samp{.verstamp} directive to the assembler output file
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1820unless it is built as a cross-compiler. It gets the version to use from
1821the system header file @file{/usr/include/stamp.h}. If you install a
1822new version of DEC Unix, you should rebuild GCC to pick up the new version
1823stamp.
1824
1825Note that since the Alpha is a 64-bit architecture, cross-compilers from
182632-bit machines will not generate code as efficient as that generated
1827when the compiler is running on a 64-bit machine because many
1828optimizations that depend on being able to represent a word on the
1829target in an integral value on the host cannot be performed. Building
1830cross-compilers on the Alpha for 32-bit machines has only been tested in
1831a few cases and may not work properly.
1832
1833@code{make compare} may fail on old versions of DEC Unix unless you add
6cfb3f16 1834@option{-save-temps} to @code{CFLAGS}. On these systems, the name of the
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1835assembler input file is stored in the object file, and that makes
1836comparison fail if it differs between the @code{stage1} and
6cfb3f16 1837@code{stage2} compilations. The option @option{-save-temps} forces a
b8df899a 1838fixed name to be used for the assembler input file, instead of a
6cfb3f16 1839randomly chosen name in @file{/tmp}. Do not add @option{-save-temps}
b8df899a 1840unless the comparisons fail without that option. If you add
6cfb3f16 1841@option{-save-temps}, you will have to manually delete the @samp{.i} and
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1842@samp{.s} files after each series of compilations.
1843
f0523f02 1844GCC now supports both the native (ECOFF) debugging format used by DBX
161d7b59 1845and GDB and an encapsulated STABS format for use only with GDB@. See the
6cfb3f16 1846discussion of the @option{--with-stabs} option of @file{configure} above
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1847for more information on these formats and how to select them.
1848
1849There is a bug in DEC's assembler that produces incorrect line numbers
1850for ECOFF format when the @samp{.align} directive is used. To work
f0523f02 1851around this problem, GCC will not emit such alignment directives
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1852while writing ECOFF format debugging information even if optimization is
1853being performed. Unfortunately, this has the very undesirable
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1854side-effect that code addresses when @option{-O} is specified are
1855different depending on whether or not @option{-g} is also specified.
b8df899a 1856
6cfb3f16 1857To avoid this behavior, specify @option{-gstabs+} and use GDB instead of
161d7b59 1858DBX@. DEC is now aware of this problem with the assembler and hopes to
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1859provide a fix shortly.
1860
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1861@html
1862</p>
1863<hr>
1864@end html
1865@heading @anchor{alphaev5-cray-unicosmk*}alphaev5-cray-unicosmk*
1866Cray T3E systems running Unicos/Mk.
1867
1868This port is incomplete and has many known bugs. We hope to improve the
1869support for this target soon. Currently, only the C front end is supported,
1870and it is not possible to build parallel applications. Cray modules are not
1871supported; in particular, Craylibs are assumed to be in
1872@file{/opt/ctl/craylibs/craylibs}.
1873
1874You absolutely @strong{must} use GNU make on this platform. Also, you
1875need to tell GCC where to find the assembler and the linker. The
1876simplest way to do so is by providing @option{--with-as} and
1877@option{--with-ld} to @file{configure}, e.g.@:
1878
068e5714 1879@samp{configure --with-as=/opt/ctl/bin/cam --with-ld=/opt/ctl/bin/cld
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1880--enable-languages=c}
1881
1882The comparison test during @samp{make bootstrap} fails on Unicos/Mk
1883because the assembler inserts timestamps into object files. You should
1884be able to work around this by doing @samp{make all} after getting this
1885failure.
1886
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1887@html
1888</p>
1889<hr>
1890@end html
1891@heading @anchor{arc-*-elf}arc-*-elf
1892Argonaut ARC processor.
1893This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
1894
1895@html
1896</p>
1897<hr>
1898@end html
1899@heading @anchor{arm-*-aout}arm-*-aout
1900Advanced RISC Machines ARM-family processors. These are often used in
1901embedded applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
1902This configuration corresponds to the basic instruction sequences and will
1903produce @file{a.out} format object modules.
1904
1905You may need to make a variant of the file @file{arm.h} for your particular
1906configuration.
1907
1908@html
1909</p>
1910<hr>
1911@end html
1912@heading @anchor{arm-*-elf}arm-*-elf
1913This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
1914
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1915@html
1916</p>
1917<hr>
476c334e 1918@end html
ef88b07d 1919@heading @anchor{arm*-*-linux-gnu}arm*-*-linux-gnu
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1920
1921We require GNU binutils 2.10 or newer.
1922
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1923@html
1924</p>
1925<hr>
1926@end html
1927@heading @anchor{arm-*-riscix}arm-*-riscix
1928The ARM2 or ARM3 processor running RISC iX, Acorn's port of BSD Unix.
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1929This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
1930
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1931If you are running a version of RISC iX prior to 1.2 then you must
1932specify the version number during configuration. Note that the
1933assembler shipped with RISC iX does not support stabs debugging
1934information; a new version of the assembler, with stabs support
1935included, is now available from Acorn and via ftp
1936@uref{ftp://ftp.acorn.com/pub/riscix/as+xterm.tar.Z}. To enable stabs
6cfb3f16 1937debugging, pass @option{--with-gnu-as} to configure.
b8df899a 1938
6cfb3f16 1939You will need to install GNU @command{sed} before you can run configure.
b8df899a 1940
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1941@html
1942</p>
1943<hr>
f42974dc 1944@end html
ef88b07d 1945@heading @anchor{avr}avr
f42974dc 1946
b8df899a 1947ATMEL AVR-family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
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1948applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
1949@ifnothtml
1950@xref{AVR Options,, AVR Options, gcc, Using and Porting the GNU Compiler
1951Collection (GCC)},
1952@end ifnothtml
98999d8b 1953@ifhtml
ca52d046 1954See ``AVR Options'' in the main manual
98999d8b 1955@end ifhtml
ca52d046 1956for the list of supported MCU types.
b8df899a 1957
161d7b59 1958Use @samp{configure --target=avr --enable-languages="c"} to configure GCC@.
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1959
1960Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR tools
1961can also be obtained from:
1962
1963@itemize @bullet
1964@item
1965@uref{http://home.overta.ru/users/denisc,,http://home.overta.ru/users/denisc}
1966@item
63708ffc 1967@uref{http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr,,http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr}
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1968@end itemize
1969
20293b4c 1970We @emph{strongly} recommend using binutils 2.11 or newer.
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1971
1972The following error:
1973@example
1974 Error: register required
1975@end example
1976
1977indicates that you should upgrade to a newer version of the binutils.
1978
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1979@html
1980</p>
1981<hr>
1982@end html
1983@heading @anchor{c4x}c4x
1984
1985Texas Instruments TMS320C3x and TMS320C4x Floating Point Digital Signal
1986Processors. These are used in embedded applications. There are no
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1987standard Unix configurations.
1988@ifnothtml
1989@xref{TMS320C3x/C4x Options,, TMS320C3x/C4x Options, gcc, Using and
1990Porting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1991@end ifnothtml
98999d8b 1992@ifhtml
d8393f64 1993See ``TMS320C3x/C4x Options'' in the main manual
98999d8b 1994@end ifhtml
d8393f64 1995for the list of supported MCU types.
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1996
1997GCC can be configured as a cross compiler for both the C3x and C4x
1998architectures on the same system. Use @samp{configure --target=c4x
1999--enable-languages="c,c++"} to configure.
2000
2001
2002Further installation notes and other useful information about C4x tools
2003can also be obtained from:
2004
2005@itemize @bullet
2006@item
d8393f64 2007@uref{http://www.elec.canterbury.ac.nz/c4x/,,http://www.elec.canterbury.ac.nz/c4x/}
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2009
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2010@html
2011</p>
2012<hr>
2013@end html
2014@heading @anchor{cris}CRIS
2015
2016CRIS is the CPU architecture in Axis Communications ETRAX system-on-a-chip
2017series. These are used in embedded applications.
2018
2019@ifnothtml
2020@xref{CRIS Options,, CRIS Options, gcc, Using and Porting the GNU Compiler
2021Collection (GCC)},
2022@end ifnothtml
2023@ifhtml
2024See ``CRIS Options'' in the main manual
2025@end ifhtml
2026for a list of CRIS-specific options.
2027
2028There are a few different CRIS targets:
2029@table @code
2030@item cris-axis-aout
2031Old target. Includes a multilib for the @samp{elinux} a.out-based
2032target. No multilibs for newer architecture variants.
2033@item cris-axis-elf
2034Mainly for monolithic embedded systems. Includes a multilib for the
2035@samp{v10} core used in @samp{ETRAX 100 LX}.
2036@item cris-axis-linux-gnu
2037A GNU/Linux port for the CRIS architecture, currently targeting
2038@samp{ETRAX 100 LX} by default.
2039@end table
2040
2041For @code{cris-axis-aout} and @code{cris-axis-elf} you need binutils 2.11
2042or newer. For @code{cris-axis-linux-gnu} you need binutils 2.12 or newer.
2043
2044Pre-packaged tools can be obtained from
2045@uref{ftp://ftp.axis.com/pub/axis/tools/cris/compiler-kit/}. More
2046information about this platform is available at
2047@uref{http://developer.axis.com/}.
2048
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2050</p>
2051<hr>
f42974dc 2052@end html
ef88b07d 2053@heading @anchor{dos}DOS
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2054
2055Please have a look at our @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
2056
f0523f02 2057You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under
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2058any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete
2059compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources,
2060and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.
2061
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2062@html
2063</p>
2064<hr>
2065@end html
2066@heading @anchor{dsp16xx}dsp16xx
2067A port to the AT&T DSP1610 family of processors.
2068
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2069@html
2070</p>
2071<hr>
2072@end html
2073@heading @anchor{*-*-freebsd*}*-*-freebsd*
2074
2075The version of binutils installed in @file{/usr/bin} is known to work unless
2076otherwise specified in any per-architecture notes. However, binutils
46fc709d 20772.11 or greater is known to improve overall testsuite results.
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2078
2079For FreeBSD 1, FreeBSD 2 or any mutant a.out versions of FreeBSD 3: All
2080configuration support and files as shipped with GCC 2.95 are still in
2081place. FreeBSD 2.2.7 has been known to bootstrap completely; however,
2082it is unknown which version of binutils was used (it is assumed that it
2083was the system copy in @file{/usr/bin}) and C++ EH failures were noted.
2084
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2085Support for FreeBSD 1 is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2086
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2087For FreeBSD using the ELF file format: DWARF 2 debugging is now the
2088default for all CPU architectures. It had been the default on
2089FreeBSD/alpha since its inception. You may use @option{-gstabs} instead
2090of @option{-g}, if you really want the old debugging format. There are
2091no known issues with mixing object files and libraries with different
2092debugging formats. Otherwise, this release of GCC should now match more
2093of the configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of GCC. In
2094particular, @option{--enable-threads} is now configured by default.
2095However, as a general user, do not attempt to replace the system
2096compiler with this release. Known to bootstrap and check with good
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2097results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5-STABLE and 5-CURRENT@.
2098
2099In principle, @option{--enable-threads} is now compatible with
2100@option{--enable-libgcj} on FreeBSD@. However, it has only been built
2101and tested on i386-*-freebsd4.5 and alpha-*-freebsd5.0 and important
2102test suite failures remain. Multi-threaded boehm-gc (required for
2103libjava) exposes severe threaded signal-handling bugs on FreeBSD before
21044.5-RELEASE. The alpha port may not fully bootstrap without some manual
2105intervention: gcjh will crash with a floating-point exception while
2106generating @file{java/lang/Double.h} (just copy the version built on
2107i386-*-freebsd* and rerun the top-level gmake with no arguments and it
2108should properly complete the bootstrap). Other CPU architectures
2109supported by FreeBSD will require additional configuration tuning in, at
2110the very least, both boehm-gc and libffi.
021c4bfd 2111
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2112Shared @file{libgcc_s.so} is now built and installed by default.
2113
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2114@html
2115</p>
2116<hr>
2117@end html
2118@heading @anchor{elxsi-elxsi-bsd}elxsi-elxsi-bsd
2119The Elxsi's C compiler has known limitations that prevent it from
f6df5bd2 2120compiling GCC@. Please contact @email{mrs@@wrs.com} for more details.
b8df899a 2121
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2122Support for this processor is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2123
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2124@html
2125</p>
2126<hr>
f42974dc 2127@end html
ef88b07d 2128@heading @anchor{h8300-hms}h8300-hms
b8df899a 2129Hitachi H8/300 series of processors.
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2130
2131Please have a look at our @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
2132
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2133The calling convention and structure layout has changed in release 2.6.
2134All code must be recompiled. The calling convention now passes the
2135first three arguments in function calls in registers. Structures are no
2136longer a multiple of 2 bytes.
2137
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2138@html
2139</p>
2140<hr>
f42974dc 2141@end html
ef88b07d 2142@heading @anchor{hppa*-hp-hpux*}hppa*-hp-hpux*
f42974dc 2143
021c4bfd 2144We @emph{highly} recommend using gas/binutils 2.8 or newer on all hppa
f9047ed3 2145platforms; you may encounter a variety of problems when using the HP
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2146assembler.
2147
2148Specifically, @option{-g} does not work on HP-UX (since that system
2149uses a peculiar debugging format which GCC does not know about), unless you
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2150use GAS and GDB and configure GCC with the
2151@uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}} and
6cfb3f16 2152@option{--with-as=@dots{}} options.
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2153
2154If you wish to use pa-risc 2.0 architecture support, you must use either
021c4bfd 2155the HP assembler, gas/binutils 2.11 or a recent
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2156@uref{ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/snapshots,,snapshot of gas}.
2157
021c4bfd 2158More specific information to @samp{hppa*-hp-hpux*} targets follows.
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2159
2160@html
2161</p>
2162<hr>
f42974dc 2163@end html
ef88b07d 2164@heading @anchor{hppa*-hp-hpux9}hppa*-hp-hpux9
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2165
2166The HP assembler has major problems on this platform. We've tried to work
2167around the worst of the problems. However, those workarounds may be causing
2168linker crashes in some circumstances; the workarounds also probably prevent
2169shared libraries from working. Use the GNU assembler to avoid these problems.
2170
2171
2172The configuration scripts for GCC will also trigger a bug in the hpux9
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2173shell. To avoid this problem set @env{CONFIG_SHELL} to @file{/bin/ksh}
2174and @env{SHELL} to @file{/bin/ksh} in your environment.
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2175
2176
2177@html
2178</p>
2179<hr>
f42974dc 2180@end html
ef88b07d 2181@heading @anchor{hppa*-hp-hpux10}hppa*-hp-hpux10
f42974dc 2182
f9047ed3 2183For hpux10.20, we @emph{highly} recommend you pick up the latest sed patch
161d7b59 2184@code{PHCO_19798} from HP@. HP has two sites which provide patches free of
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2185charge:
2186
2187@itemize @bullet
2188@item
2189@html
2190<a href="http://us-support.external.hp.com">US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, and
2191Latin-America</a>
2192@end html
2193@ifnothtml
2194@uref{http://us-support.external.hp.com,,}US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, and
2195Latin-America
2196@end ifnothtml
2197@item
2198@uref{http://europe-support.external.hp.com,,Europe}
2199@end itemize
2200
2201The HP assembler on these systems is much better than the hpux9 assembler,
2202but still has some problems. Most notably the assembler inserts timestamps
2203into each object file it creates, causing the 3-stage comparison test to fail
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2204during a @samp{make bootstrap}. You should be able to continue by
2205saying @samp{make all} after getting the failure from @samp{make
38209993 2206bootstrap}.
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2207
2208
2209@html
2210</p>
2211<hr>
f42974dc 2212@end html
ef88b07d 2213@heading @anchor{hppa*-hp-hpux11}hppa*-hp-hpux11
f42974dc 2214
25b5b465 2215GCC 3.0 supports HP-UX 11. You must use GNU binutils 2.11 or above on
f282ffb3 2216this platform. Thread support is not currently implemented for this
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2217platform, so @option{--enable-threads} does not work.
2218See @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-prs/2002-01/msg00551.html}
2219and @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2002-01/msg00663.html}.
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2220GCC 2.95.x is not supported under HP-UX 11 and cannot be used to
2221compile GCC 3.0. Refer to @uref{binaries.html,,binaries} for information
2222about obtaining precompiled GCC binaries for HP-UX.
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2224@html
2225</p>
2226<hr>
2227@end html
2228@heading @anchor{i370-*-*}i370-*-*
2229This port is very preliminary and has many known bugs. We hope to
2230have a higher-quality port for this machine soon.
2231
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2232@html
2233</p>
2234<hr>
f42974dc 2235@end html
ef88b07d 2236@heading @anchor{*-*-linux-gnu}*-*-linux-gnu
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2237
2238If you use glibc 2.2 (or 2.1.9x), GCC 2.95.2 won't install
021c4bfd 2239out-of-the-box. You'll get compile errors while building @samp{libstdc++}.
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2240The patch @uref{glibc-2.2.patch,,glibc-2.2.patch}, that is to be
2241applied in the GCC source tree, fixes the compatibility problems.
2242
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2243@html
2244</p>
2245@end html
2246
2247@html
2248<p>
2249@end html
2250
2251Currently Glibc 2.2.3 (and older releases) and GCC 3.0 are out of sync
161d7b59 2252since the latest exception handling changes for GCC@. Compiling glibc
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2253with GCC 3.0 will give a binary incompatible glibc and therefore cause
2254lots of problems and might make your system completly unusable. This
161d7b59 2255will definitly need fixes in glibc but might also need fixes in GCC@. We
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2256strongly advise to wait for glibc 2.2.4 and to read the release notes of
2257glibc 2.2.4 whether patches for GCC 3.0 are needed. You can use glibc
22582.2.3 with GCC 3.0, just do not try to recompile it.
2259
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2260@html
2261</p>
2262<hr>
2263@end html
2264@heading @anchor{ix86-*-linux*oldld}i?86-*-linux*oldld
2265Use this configuration to generate @file{a.out} binaries on Linux-based
2266GNU systems if you do not have gas/binutils version 2.5.2 or later
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2267installed.
2268
2269This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
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2270
2271@html
2272</p>
2273<hr>
2274@end html
2275@heading @anchor{ix86-*-linux*aout}i?86-*-linux*aout
2276Use this configuration to generate @file{a.out} binaries on Linux-based
767094dd 2277GNU systems. This configuration is being superseded. You must use
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2278gas/binutils version 2.5.2 or later.
2279
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2280@html
2281</p>
2282<hr>
f42974dc 2283@end html
ef88b07d 2284@heading @anchor{ix86-*-linux*}i?86-*-linux*
f42974dc 2285
021c4bfd 2286You will need binutils 2.9.1.0.15 or newer for exception handling to work.
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2287
2288If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it is
2289possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this can be
2290found on @uref{http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/,,www.bitwizard.nl}.
2291
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2292@html
2293</p>
2294<hr>
2295@end html
2296@heading @anchor{ix86-*-sco}i?86-*-sco
2297Compilation with RCC is recommended. Also, it may be a good idea to
2298link with GNU malloc instead of the malloc that comes with the system.
2299
2300@html
2301</p>
2302<hr>
2303@end html
2304@heading @anchor{ix86-*-sco3.2v4}i?86-*-sco3.2v4
2305Use this configuration for SCO release 3.2 version 4.
2306
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2307@html
2308</p>
2309<hr>
f42974dc 2310@end html
ef88b07d 2311@heading @anchor{ix86-*-sco3.2v5*}i?86-*-sco3.2v5*
b8df899a 2312Use this for the SCO OpenServer Release 5 family of operating systems.
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2313
2314Unlike earlier versions of GCC, the ability to generate COFF with this
2315target is no longer provided.
2316
021c4bfd 2317Earlier versions of GCC emitted DWARF 1 when generating ELF to allow
f42974dc 2318the system debugger to be used. That support was too burdensome to
021c4bfd 2319maintain. GCC now emits only DWARF 2 for this target. This means you
f42974dc 2320may use either the UDK debugger or GDB to debug programs built by this
161d7b59 2321version of GCC@.
f42974dc 2322
021c4bfd 2323Use of the @option{-march=pentiumpro} flag can result in
f42974dc 2324unrecognized opcodes when using the native assembler on OS versions before
767094dd 23255.0.6. (Support for P6 opcodes was added to the native ELF assembler in
f9047ed3 2326that version.) While it's rather rare to see these emitted by GCC yet,
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2327errors of the basic form:
2328
2329@example
2330 /usr/tmp/ccaNlqBc.s:22:unknown instruction: fcomip
2331 /usr/tmp/ccaNlqBc.s:50:unknown instruction: fucomip
2332@end example
2333
2334are symptoms of this problem. You may work around this by not
2335building affected files with that flag, by using the GNU assembler, or
161d7b59 2336by using the assembler provided with the current version of the OS@.
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2337Users of GNU assembler should see the note below for hazards on doing
2338so.
2339
2340The native SCO assembler that is provided with the OS at no
2341charge is normally required. If, however, you must be able to use
2342the GNU assembler (perhaps you're compiling code with asms that
2343require GAS syntax) you may configure this package using the flags
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2344@uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}}. You must
2345use a recent version of GNU binutils; versions past 2.9.1 seem to work
2346well.
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2347
2348In general, the @option{--with-gnu-as} option isn't as well tested
2349as the native assembler.
2350
6cfb3f16 2351Look in @file{gcc/config/i386/sco5.h} (search for ``messy'') for
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2352additional OpenServer-specific flags.
2353
38209993 2354Systems based on OpenServer before 5.0.4 (@samp{uname -X}
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2355will tell you what you're running) require TLS597 from
2356@uref{ftp://ftp.sco.com/TLS/,,ftp://ftp.sco.com/TLS/}
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2357for C++ constructors and destructors to work right.
2358
2359The system linker in (at least) 5.0.4 and 5.0.5 will sometimes
2360do the wrong thing for a construct that GCC will emit for PIC
2361code. This can be seen as execution testsuite failures when using
6cfb3f16 2362@option{-fPIC} on @file{921215-1.c}, @file{931002-1.c}, @file{nestfunc-1.c}, and @file{gcov-1.c}.
f42974dc 2363For 5.0.5, an updated linker that will cure this problem is
f9047ed3 2364available. You must install both
38209993 2365@uref{ftp://ftp.sco.com/Supplements/rs505a/,,ftp://ftp.sco.com/Supplements/rs505a/}
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2366and @uref{ftp://ftp.sco.com/SLS/,,OSS499A}.
2367
2368The dynamic linker in OpenServer 5.0.5 (earlier versions may show
021c4bfd 2369the same problem) aborts on certain G77-compiled programs. It's particularly
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2370likely to be triggered by building Fortran code with the @option{-fPIC} flag.
2371Although it's conceivable that the error could be triggered by other
2372code, only G77-compiled code has been observed to cause this abort.
2373If you are getting core dumps immediately upon execution of your
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2374G77 program---and especially if it's compiled with @option{-fPIC}---try applying
2375@uref{sco_osr5_g77.patch,,@file{sco_osr5_g77.patch}} to your @samp{libf2c} and
161d7b59 2376rebuilding GCC@.
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2377Affected faults, when analyzed in a debugger, will show a stack
2378backtrace with a fault occurring in @code{rtld()} and the program
f9047ed3 2379running as @file{/usr/lib/ld.so.1}. This problem has been reported to SCO
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2380engineering and will hopefully be addressed in later releases.
2381
2382
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2383@html
2384</p>
2385<hr>
f42974dc 2386@end html
ef88b07d 2387@heading @anchor{ix86-*-udk}i?86-*-udk
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2388
2389This target emulates the SCO Universal Development Kit and requires that
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2390package be installed. (If it is installed, you will have a
2391@file{/udk/usr/ccs/bin/cc} file present.) It's very much like the
b953cc4b 2392@samp{i?86-*-unixware7*} target
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2393but is meant to be used when hosting on a system where UDK isn't the
2394default compiler such as OpenServer 5 or Unixware 2. This target will
f9047ed3 2395generate binaries that will run on OpenServer, Unixware 2, or Unixware 7,
161d7b59 2396with the same warnings and caveats as the SCO UDK@.
f42974dc 2397
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2398This target is a little tricky to build because we have to distinguish
2399it from the native tools (so it gets headers, startups, and libraries
f9047ed3 2400from the right place) while making the tools not think we're actually
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2401building a cross compiler. The easiest way to do this is with a configure
2402command like this:
2403
f9047ed3 2404@samp{CC=/udk/usr/ccs/bin/cc @var{/your/path/to}/gcc/configure
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2405--host=i686-pc-udk --target=i686-pc-udk --program-prefix=udk-}
2406
6cfb3f16 2407@emph{You should substitute @samp{i686} in the above command with the appropriate
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2408processor for your host.}
2409
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2410After the usual @samp{make bootstrap} and
2411@samp{make install}, you can then access the UDK-targeted GCC
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2412tools by adding @command{udk-} before the commonly known name. For
2413example, to invoke the C compiler, you would use @command{udk-gcc}.
2414They will coexist peacefully with any native-target GCC tools you may
2415have installed.
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2416
2417
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2418@html
2419</p>
2420<hr>
2421@end html
2422@heading @anchor{ix86-*-isc}i?86-*-isc
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2423This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2424
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2425It may be a good idea to link with GNU malloc instead of the malloc that
2426comes with the system.
2427
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2428In ISC version 4.1, @command{sed} core dumps when building
2429@file{deduced.h}. Use the version of @command{sed} from version 4.0.
b8df899a 2430
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2431@html
2432</p>
2433<hr>
2434@end html
2435@heading @anchor{ix86-ibm-aix}i?86-ibm-aix
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2436This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2437
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2438You need to use GAS version 2.1 or later, and LD from
2439GNU binutils version 2.2 or later.
2440
2441@html
2442</p>
2443<hr>
2444@end html
2445@heading @anchor{ix86-sequent-bsd}i?86-sequent-bsd
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2446This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2447
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2448Go to the Berkeley universe before compiling.
2449
2450@html
2451</p>
2452<hr>
2453@end html
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2454@heading @anchor{ix86-sequent-ptx1*}i?86-sequent-ptx1*, i?86-sequent-ptx2*, i?86-sequent-sysv3*
2455This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2456
021c4bfd 2457You must install GNU @command{sed} before running @command{configure}.
b8df899a 2458
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2459The @code{fixproto} shell script may trigger a bug in the system shell.
2460If you encounter this problem, upgrade your operating system or
021c4bfd 2461use @command{bash} (the GNU shell) to run @code{fixproto}.
b8df899a 2462
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2463@html
2464</p>
2465<hr>
2466@end html
2467@heading @anchor{i860-intel-osf*}i860-intel-osf*
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2468All support for the i860 processor is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2469
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2470On the Intel Paragon (an i860 machine), if you are using operating
2471system version 1.0, you will get warnings or errors about redefinition
161d7b59 2472of @code{va_arg} when you build GCC@.
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2473
2474If this happens, then you need to link most programs with the library
2475@file{iclib.a}. You must also modify @file{stdio.h} as follows: before
2476the lines
2477
2478@example
2479#if defined(__i860__) && !defined(_VA_LIST)
2480#include <va_list.h>
2481@end example
2482
2483@noindent
2484insert the line
2485
2486@example
2487#if __PGC__
2488@end example
2489
2490@noindent
2491and after the lines
2492
2493@example
2494extern int vprintf(const char *, va_list );
2495extern int vsprintf(char *, const char *, va_list );
2496#endif
2497@end example
2498
2499@noindent
2500insert the line
2501
2502@example
2503#endif /* __PGC__ */
2504@end example
2505
2506These problems don't exist in operating system version 1.1.
2507
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2508@html
2509</p>
2510<hr>
2511@end html
2512@heading @anchor{ia64-*-linux}ia64-*-linux
2513IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family)
2514running GNU/Linux.
2515
2516The toolchain is not completely finished, so requirements will continue
2517to change.
2518GCC 3.0.1 and later require glibc 2.2.4.
2519GCC 3.0.2 requires binutils from 2001-09-05 or later.
2520GCC 3.0.1 requires binutils 2.11.1 or later.
2521
2522None of the following versions of GCC has an ABI that is compatible
2523with any of the other versions in this list, with the exception that
2524Red Hat 2.96 and Trillian 000171 are compatible with each other:
25253.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0, Red Hat 2.96, and Trillian 000717.
2526This primarily affects C++ programs and programs that create shared libraries.
2527Because of these ABI incompatibilities, GCC 3.0.2 is not recommended for
2528user programs on GNU/Linux systems built using earlier compiler releases.
2529GCC 3.0.2 is recommended for compiling linux, the kernel.
2530GCC 3.0.2 is believed to be fully ABI compliant, and hence no more major
2531ABI changes are expected.
2532
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2533@html
2534</p>
2535<hr>
2536@end html
2537@heading @anchor{*-lynx-lynxos}*-lynx-lynxos
f0523f02 2538LynxOS 2.2 and earlier comes with GCC 1.x already installed as
b8df899a 2539@file{/bin/gcc}. You should compile with this instead of @file{/bin/cc}.
f0523f02 2540You can tell GCC to use the GNU assembler and linker, by specifying
b8df899a 2541@samp{--with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld} when configuring. These will produce
f0523f02 2542COFF format object files and executables; otherwise GCC will use the
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2543installed tools, which produce @file{a.out} format executables.
2544
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2545@html
2546</p>
2547<hr>
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2548<!-- rs6000-ibm-aix*, powerpc-ibm-aix* -->
2549@end html
ef88b07d 2550@heading @anchor{*-ibm-aix*}*-ibm-aix*
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2551
2552AIX Make frequently has problems with GCC makefiles. GNU Make 3.76 or
2553newer is recommended to build on this platform.
2554
6cfb3f16 2555Errors involving @code{alloca} when building GCC generally are due
021c4bfd 2556to an incorrect definition of @code{CC} in the Makefile or mixing files
161d7b59 2557compiled with the native C compiler and GCC@. During the stage1 phase of
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2558the build, the native AIX compiler @strong{must} be invoked as @command{cc}
2559(not @command{xlc}). Once @command{configure} has been informed of
2560@command{xlc}, one needs to use @samp{make distclean} to remove the
38209993 2561configure cache files and ensure that @env{CC} environment variable
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2562does not provide a definition that will confuse @command{configure}.
2563If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the problem most likely
2564is the version of Make (see above).
2565
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2566The GNU Assembler incorrectly reports that it supports WEAK symbols on
2567AIX which causes GCC to try to utilize weak symbol functionality which
2568is not really supported on the platform. The native @command{as} and
2569@command{ld} still are recommended. The native AIX tools do
161d7b59 2570interoperate with GCC@.
df002c7d 2571
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2572Building @file{libstdc++.a} requires a fix for a AIX Assembler bug
2573APAR IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1).
2574
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2575Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of
2576duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always
2577have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable
2578and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should
2579not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable
2580executable.
2581
6cfb3f16 2582AIX 4.3 utilizes a ``large format'' archive to support both 32-bit and
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258364-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1
2584to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly.
2585These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during
6cfb3f16 2586linking such as ``not a COFF file''. The version of the routines shipped
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2587with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The @option{-g}
2588option of the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit
6cfb3f16 2589objects using the original ``small format''. A correct version of the
d5d8d540 2590routines is shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above.
df002c7d 2591
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2592Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation
2593overflow severe error when the @option{-bbigtoc} option is used to link
161d7b59 2594GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC@. A fix
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2595for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC) is
2596available from IBM Customer Support and from its
d5d8d540 2597@uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
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2598website as PTF U455193.
2599
df002c7d 2600The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump core
161d7b59 2601with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC@. A fix for
df002c7d 2602APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
d5d8d540 2603@uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
df002c7d 2604website as PTF U461879. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above.
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2605
2606The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect object
2607files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM COMPILER FAILS
2608TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
d5d8d540 2609@uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
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2610website as PTF U453956. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above.
2611
161d7b59 2612AIX provides National Language Support (NLS)@. Compilers and assemblers
df002c7d 2613use NLS to support locale-specific representations of various data
6cfb3f16 2614formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., @samp{.} vs @samp{,} for
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2615separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where
2616GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats that the assembler
c771326b 2617expects. If one encounters this problem, set the @env{LANG}
6cfb3f16 2618environment variable to @samp{C} or @samp{En_US}.
f42974dc 2619
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2620By default, GCC for AIX 4.1 and above produces code that can be used on
2621both Power or PowerPC processors.
2622
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2623A default can be specified with the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
2624switch and using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
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2626@html
2627</p>
2628<hr>
2629@end html
2630@heading @anchor{m32r-*-elf}m32r-*-elf
2631Mitsubishi M32R processor.
2632This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
2633
2634@html
2635</p>
2636<hr>
2637@end html
2638@heading @anchor{m68000-hp-bsd}m68000-hp-bsd
161d7b59 2639HP 9000 series 200 running BSD@. Note that the C compiler that comes
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2640with this system cannot compile GCC; contact @email{law@@cygnus.com}
2641to get binaries of GCC for bootstrapping.
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2642
2643@html
2644</p>
2645<hr>
2646@end html
2647@heading @anchor{m6811-elf}m6811-elf
2648Motorola 68HC11 family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
2649applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
2650
2651@html
2652</p>
2653<hr>
2654@end html
2655@heading @anchor{m6812-elf}m6812-elf
2656Motorola 68HC12 family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
2657applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
2658
2659@html
2660</p>
2661<hr>
2662@end html
2663@heading @anchor{m68k-altos}m68k-altos
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2664Altos 3068. This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2665
2666You must use the GNU assembler, linker and debugger.
021c4bfd 2667Also, you must fix a kernel bug.
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2668
2669@html
2670</p>
2671<hr>
2672@end html
2673@heading @anchor{m68k-apple-aux}m68k-apple-aux
161d7b59 2674Apple Macintosh running A/UX@.
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2675This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2676
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2677You may configure GCC to use either the system assembler and
2678linker or the GNU assembler and linker. You should use the GNU configuration
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2679if you can, especially if you also want to use G++. You enable
2680that configuration with the @option{--with-gnu-as} and @option{--with-gnu-ld}
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2681options to @code{configure}.
2682
2683Note the C compiler that comes
161d7b59 2684with this system cannot compile GCC@. You can find binaries of GCC
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2685for bootstrapping on @code{jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov}.
2686You will also a patched version of @file{/bin/ld} there that
2687raises some of the arbitrary limits found in the original.
2688
2689@html
2690</p>
2691<hr>
2692@end html
2693@heading @anchor{m68k-att-sysv}m68k-att-sysv
161d7b59 2694AT&T 3b1, a.k.a.@: 7300 PC@. This version of GCC cannot
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2695be compiled with the system C compiler, which is too buggy.
2696You will need to get a previous version of GCC and use it to
2697bootstrap. Binaries are available from the OSU-CIS archive, at
2698@uref{ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/att7300/}.
2699
2700@html
2701</p>
2702<hr>
2703@end html
2704@heading @anchor{m68k-bull-sysv}m68k-bull-sysv
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2705Bull DPX/2 series 200 and 300 with BOS-2.00.45 up to BOS-2.01.
2706This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2707
2708GCC works
767094dd 2709either with native assembler or GNU assembler. You can use
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2710GNU assembler with native COFF generation by providing @option{--with-gnu-as} to
2711the configure script or use GNU assembler with stabs-in-COFF encapsulation
2712by providing @samp{--with-gnu-as --stabs}. For any problem with the native
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2713assembler or for availability of the DPX/2 port of GAS, contact
2714@email{F.Pierresteguy@@frcl.bull.fr}.
2715
2716@html
2717</p>
2718<hr>
2719@end html
9340544b 2720@heading @anchor{m68k-crds-unos}m68k-crds-unos
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2721Use @samp{configure unos} for building on Unos.
2722
2723The Unos assembler is named @code{casm} instead of @code{as}. For some
2724strange reason linking @file{/bin/as} to @file{/bin/casm} changes the
f0523f02 2725behavior, and does not work. So, when installing GCC, you should
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2726install the following script as @file{as} in the subdirectory where
2727the passes of GCC are installed:
2728
2729@example
2730#!/bin/sh
2731casm $*
2732@end example
2733
2734The default Unos library is named @file{libunos.a} instead of
f0523f02 2735@file{libc.a}. To allow GCC to function, either change all
6cfb3f16 2736references to @option{-lc} in @file{gcc.c} to @option{-lunos} or link
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2737@file{/lib/libc.a} to @file{/lib/libunos.a}.
2738
2739@cindex @code{alloca}, for Unos
f0523f02 2740When compiling GCC with the standard compiler, to overcome bugs in
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2741the support of @code{alloca}, do not use @option{-O} when making stage 2.
2742Then use the stage 2 compiler with @option{-O} to make the stage 3
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2743compiler. This compiler will have the same characteristics as the usual
2744stage 2 compiler on other systems. Use it to make a stage 4 compiler
2745and compare that with stage 3 to verify proper compilation.
2746
2747(Perhaps simply defining @code{ALLOCA} in @file{x-crds} as described in
2748the comments there will make the above paragraph superfluous. Please
2749inform us of whether this works.)
2750
2751Unos uses memory segmentation instead of demand paging, so you will need
2752a lot of memory. 5 Mb is barely enough if no other tasks are running.
2753If linking @file{cc1} fails, try putting the object files into a library
2754and linking from that library.
2755
2756@html
2757</p>
2758<hr>
2759@end html
2760@heading @anchor{m68k-hp-hpux}m68k-hp-hpux
161d7b59
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2761HP 9000 series 300 or 400 running HP-UX@. HP-UX version 8.0 has a bug in
2762the assembler that prevents compilation of GCC@. This
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2763bug manifests itself during the first stage of compilation, while
2764building @file{libgcc2.a}:
2765
2766@smallexample
2767_floatdisf
2768cc1: warning: `-g' option not supported on this version of GCC
2769cc1: warning: `-g1' option not supported on this version of GCC
2770./xgcc: Internal compiler error: program as got fatal signal 11
2771@end smallexample
2772
2773A patched version of the assembler is available as the file
2774@uref{ftp://altdorf.ai.mit.edu/archive/cph/hpux-8.0-assembler}. If you
2775have HP software support, the patch can also be obtained directly from
2776HP, as described in the following note:
2777
2778@quotation
2779This is the patched assembler, to patch SR#1653-010439, where the
2780assembler aborts on floating point constants.
2781
2782The bug is not really in the assembler, but in the shared library
2783version of the function ``cvtnum(3c)''. The bug on ``cvtnum(3c)'' is
2784SR#4701-078451. Anyway, the attached assembler uses the archive
2785library version of ``cvtnum(3c)'' and thus does not exhibit the bug.
2786@end quotation
2787
2788This patch is also known as PHCO_4484.
2789
021c4bfd 2790In addition, if you wish to use gas, you must use
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2791gas version 2.1 or later, and you must use the GNU linker version 2.1 or
2792later. Earlier versions of gas relied upon a program which converted the
2793gas output into the native HP-UX format, but that program has not been
2794kept up to date. gdb does not understand that native HP-UX format, so
2795you must use gas if you wish to use gdb.
2796
2797On HP-UX version 8.05, but not on 8.07 or more recent versions, the
2798@code{fixproto} shell script triggers a bug in the system shell. If you
2799encounter this problem, upgrade your operating system or use BASH (the
2800GNU shell) to run @code{fixproto}. This bug will cause the fixproto
2801program to report an error of the form:
2802
2803@example
2804./fixproto: sh internal 1K buffer overflow
2805@end example
2806
2807To fix this, you can also change the first line of the fixproto script
2808to look like:
2809
2810@example
2811#!/bin/ksh
2812@end example
2813
2814
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2815@html
2816</p>
2817<hr>
f42974dc 2818@end html
ef88b07d 2819@heading @anchor{m68k-*-nextstep*}m68k-*-nextstep*
9340544b 2820These configurations are obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
f42974dc 2821
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2822Current GCC versions probably do not work on version 2 of the NeXT
2823operating system.
2824
2147b154 2825On NeXTStep 3.0, the Objective-C compiler does not work, due,
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2826apparently, to a kernel bug that it happens to trigger. This problem
2827does not happen on 3.1.
2828
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2829You absolutely @strong{must} use GNU sed and GNU make on this platform.
2830
2831
f282ffb3 2832On NeXTSTEP 3.x where x < 3 the build of GCC will abort during
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2833stage1 with an error message like this:
2834
2835@example
2836 _eh
2837 /usr/tmp/ccbbsZ0U.s:987:Unknown pseudo-op: .section
2838 /usr/tmp/ccbbsZ0U.s:987:Rest of line ignored. 1st junk character
2839 valued 95 (_).
2840@end example
2841
f9047ed3 2842The reason for this is the fact that NeXT's assembler for these
6cfb3f16 2843versions of the operating system does not support the @samp{.section}
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2844pseudo op that's needed for full C++ exception functionality.
2845
f9047ed3
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2846As NeXT's assembler is a derived work from GNU as, a free
2847replacement that does can be obtained at
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2848@uref{ftp://ftp.next.peak.org:/next-ftp/next/apps/devtools/as.3.3.NIHS.s.tar.gz,,ftp://ftp.next.peak.org:/next-ftp/next/apps/devtools/as.3.3.NIHS.s.tar.gz}.
2849
2850If you try to build the integrated C++ & C++ runtime libraries on this system
2851you will run into trouble with include files. The way to get around this is
2852to use the following sequence. Note you must have write permission to
38209993 2853the directory @var{prefix} you specified in the configuration process of GCC
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2854for this sequence to work.
2855
2856@example
2857 cd bld-gcc
2858 make all-texinfo all-bison all-byacc all-binutils all-gas all-ld
2859 cd gcc
2860 make bootstrap
2861 make install-headers-tar
2862 cd ..
2863 make bootstrap3
2864@end example
2865
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2866@html
2867</p>
2868<hr>
2869@end html
2870@heading @anchor{m68k-ncr-*}m68k-ncr-*
2871On the Tower models 4@var{n}0 and 6@var{n}0, by default a process is not
2872allowed to have more than one megabyte of memory. GCC cannot compile
6cfb3f16 2873itself (or many other programs) with @option{-O} in that much memory.
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2874
2875To solve this problem, reconfigure the kernel adding the following line
2876to the configuration file:
2877
2878@smallexample
2879MAXUMEM = 4096
2880@end smallexample
2881
2882
2883@html
2884</p>
2885<hr>
2886@end html
2887@heading @anchor{m68k-sun}m68k-sun
2888Sun 3. We do not provide a configuration file to use the Sun FPA by
2889default, because programs that establish signal handlers for floating
161d7b59 2890point traps inherently cannot work with the FPA@.
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2891
2892@html
2893</p>
2894<hr>
f42974dc 2895@end html
ef88b07d 2896@heading @anchor{m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1}m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1
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2897
2898It is reported that you may need the GNU assembler on this platform.
2899
2900
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2901@html
2902</p>
2903<hr>
2904@end html
2905@heading @anchor{m88k-*-svr3}m88k-*-svr3
2906Motorola m88k running the AT&T/Unisoft/Motorola V.3 reference port.
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2907These configurations are obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2908
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2909These systems tend to use the Green Hills C, revision 1.8.5, as the
2910standard C compiler. There are apparently bugs in this compiler that
2911result in object files differences between stage 2 and stage 3. If this
2912happens, make the stage 4 compiler and compare it to the stage 3
2913compiler. If the stage 3 and stage 4 object files are identical, this
2914suggests you encountered a problem with the standard C compiler; the
2915stage 3 and 4 compilers may be usable.
2916
f0523f02 2917It is best, however, to use an older version of GCC for bootstrapping
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2918if you have one.
2919
2920@html
2921</p>
2922<hr>
2923@end html
2924@heading @anchor{m88k-*-dgux}m88k-*-dgux
9340544b
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2925Motorola m88k running DG/UX@.
2926These configurations are obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2927
2928To build 88open BCS native or cross
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2929compilers on DG/UX, specify the configuration name as
2930@samp{m88k-*-dguxbcs} and build in the 88open BCS software development
2931environment. To build ELF native or cross compilers on DG/UX, specify
2932@samp{m88k-*-dgux} and build in the DG/UX ELF development environment.
2933You set the software development environment by issuing
2934@samp{sde-target} command and specifying either @samp{m88kbcs} or
2935@samp{m88kdguxelf} as the operand.
2936
2937If you do not specify a configuration name, @file{configure} guesses the
2938configuration based on the current software development environment.
2939
2940@html
2941</p>
2942<hr>
2943@end html
2944@heading @anchor{m88k-tektronix-sysv3}m88k-tektronix-sysv3
9340544b
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2945Tektronix XD88 running UTekV 3.2e.
2946These configurations are obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2947
2948Do not turn on
b8df899a 2949optimization while building stage1 if you bootstrap with
021c4bfd 2950the buggy Green Hills compiler. Also, the bundled LAI
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2951System V NFS is buggy so if you build in an NFS mounted
2952directory, start from a fresh reboot, or avoid NFS all together.
2953Otherwise you may have trouble getting clean comparisons
2954between stages.
2955
2956@html
2957</p>
2958<hr>
2959@end html
2960@heading @anchor{mips-*-*}mips-*-*
2961If you use the 1.31 version of the MIPS assembler (such as was shipped
6cfb3f16 2962with Ultrix 3.1), you will need to use the @option{-fno-delayed-branch} switch
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2963when optimizing floating point code. Otherwise, the assembler will
2964complain when the GCC compiler fills a branch delay slot with a
2965floating point instruction, such as @code{add.d}.
2966
2967If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying ``does not have gp
2968sections for all it's [sic] sectons [sic]'', don't worry about it. This
2969happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not
2970really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can
2971stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.
2972
2973It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are
2974optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.
2975
2976Users have reported some problems with version 2.0 of the MIPS
2977compiler tools that were shipped with Ultrix 4.1. Version 2.10
2978which came with Ultrix 4.2 seems to work fine.
2979
2980Users have also reported some problems with version 2.20 of the
2981MIPS compiler tools that were shipped with RISC/os 4.x. The earlier
2982version 2.11 seems to work fine.
2983
2984Some versions of the MIPS linker will issue an assertion failure
2985when linking code that uses @code{alloca} against shared
2986libraries on RISC-OS 5.0, and DEC's OSF/1 systems. This is a bug
2987in the linker, that is supposed to be fixed in future revisions.
6cfb3f16
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2988To protect against this, GCC passes @option{-non_shared} to the
2989linker unless you pass an explicit @option{-shared} or
2990@option{-call_shared} switch.
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2991
2992@heading @anchor{mips-mips-bsd}mips-mips-bsd
9340544b
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2993MIPS machines running the MIPS operating system in BSD mode.
2994These configurations are obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
2995
2996It's possible that some old versions of the system lack the functions
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2997@code{memcpy}, @code{memmove}, @code{memcmp}, and @code{memset}. If your
2998system lacks these, you must remove or undo the definition of
2999@code{TARGET_MEM_FUNCTIONS} in @file{mips-bsd.h}.
3000
021c4bfd
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3001If you use the MIPS C compiler to bootstrap, it may be necessary
3002to increase its table size for switch statements with the
3003@option{-Wf,-XNg1500} option. If you use the @option{-O2}
3004optimization option, you also need to use @option{-Olimit 3000}.
3005Both of these options are automatically generated in the
3006@file{Makefile} that the shell script @file{configure} builds.
3007If you override the @code{CC} make variable and use the MIPS
3008compilers, you may need to add @option{-Wf,-XNg1500 -Olimit 3000}.
3009
3010@html
3011</p>
3012<hr>
3013@end html
3014@heading @anchor{mips-dec-*}mips-dec-*
9340544b
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3015These configurations are obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
3016
021c4bfd
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3017MIPS-based DECstations can support three different personalities:
3018Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, and OSF/rose. (Alpha-based DECstation products have
3019a configuration name beginning with @samp{alpha*-dec}.) To configure GCC
3020for these platforms use the following configurations:
3021
3022@table @samp
3023@item mips-dec-ultrix
3024Ultrix configuration.
3025
3026@item mips-dec-osf1
3027DEC's version of OSF/1.
3028
3029@item mips-dec-osfrose
3030Open Software Foundation reference port of OSF/1 which uses the
3031OSF/rose object file format instead of ECOFF@. Normally, you
3032would not select this configuration.
3033@end table
3034
3035If you use the MIPS C compiler to bootstrap, it may be necessary
3036to increase its table size for switch statements with the
3037@option{-Wf,-XNg1500} option. If you use the @option{-O2}
6cfb3f16 3038optimization option, you also need to use @option{-Olimit 3000}.
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3039Both of these options are automatically generated in the
3040@file{Makefile} that the shell script @file{configure} builds.
3041If you override the @code{CC} make variable and use the MIPS
6cfb3f16 3042compilers, you may need to add @option{-Wf,-XNg1500 -Olimit 3000}.
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3043
3044@html
3045</p>
3046<hr>
3047@end html
3048@heading @anchor{mips-mips-riscos*}mips-mips-riscos*
9340544b
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3049These configurations are obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
3050
021c4bfd
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3051If you use the MIPS C compiler to bootstrap, it may be necessary
3052to increase its table size for switch statements with the
3053@option{-Wf,-XNg1500} option. If you use the @option{-O2}
6cfb3f16 3054optimization option, you also need to use @option{-Olimit 3000}.
b8df899a
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3055Both of these options are automatically generated in the
3056@file{Makefile} that the shell script @file{configure} builds.
3057If you override the @code{CC} make variable and use the MIPS
3058compilers, you may need to add @samp{-Wf,-XNg1500 -Olimit 3000}.
3059
3060MIPS computers running RISC-OS can support four different
3061personalities: default, BSD 4.3, System V.3, and System V.4
3062(older versions of RISC-OS don't support V.4). To configure GCC
3063for these platforms use the following configurations:
3064
3065@table @samp
021c4bfd
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3066@item mips-mips-riscos@var{rev}
3067Default configuration for RISC-OS, revision @var{rev}.
b8df899a 3068
021c4bfd
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3069@item mips-mips-riscos@var{rev}bsd
3070BSD 4.3 configuration for RISC-OS, revision @var{rev}.
b8df899a 3071
021c4bfd
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3072@item mips-mips-riscos@var{rev}sysv4
3073System V.4 configuration for RISC-OS, revision @var{rev}.
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3074
3075@html
3076</p>
3077<hr>
3078@end html
021c4bfd
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3079@item mips-mips-riscos@var{rev}sysv
3080System V.3 configuration for RISC-OS, revision @var{rev}.
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3081@end table
3082
3083The revision @code{rev} mentioned above is the revision of
3084RISC-OS to use. You must reconfigure GCC when going from a
3085RISC-OS revision 4 to RISC-OS revision 5. This has the effect of
3086avoiding a linker bug.
3087
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3088@html
3089</p>
3090<hr>
f42974dc 3091@end html
b953cc4b 3092@heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix4}mips-sgi-irix4
9340544b 3093This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
f42974dc 3094
6cfb3f16 3095In order to compile GCC on an SGI running IRIX 4, the ``c.hdr.lib''
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3096option must be installed from the CD-ROM supplied from Silicon Graphics.
3097This is found on the 2nd CD in release 4.0.1.
3098
213ba345 3099On IRIX version 4.0.5F, and perhaps on some other versions as well,
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3100there is an assembler bug that reorders instructions incorrectly. To
3101work around it, specify the target configuration
3102@samp{mips-sgi-irix4loser}. This configuration inhibits assembler
3103optimization.
3104
3105In a compiler configured with target @samp{mips-sgi-irix4}, you can turn
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3106off assembler optimization by using the @option{-noasmopt} option. This
3107compiler option passes the option @option{-O0} to the assembler, to
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3108inhibit reordering.
3109
6cfb3f16 3110The @option{-noasmopt} option can be useful for testing whether a problem
b8df899a 3111is due to erroneous assembler reordering. Even if a problem does not go
6cfb3f16 3112away with @option{-noasmopt}, it may still be due to assembler
f0523f02 3113reordering---perhaps GCC itself was miscompiled as a result.
b8df899a 3114
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3115You may get the following warning on IRIX 4 platforms, it can be safely
3116ignored.
3117@example
3118 warning: foo.o does not have gp tables for all its sections.
3119@end example
b8df899a 3120
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3121@html
3122</p>
3123<hr>
3124@end html
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3125@heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix5}mips-sgi-irix5
3126
3127This configuration has considerable problems, which will be fixed in a
3128future release.
f42974dc 3129
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3130In order to compile GCC on an SGI running IRIX 5, the ``compiler_dev.hdr''
3131subsystem must be installed from the IDO CD-ROM supplied by Silicon
3132Graphics. It is also available for download from
3133@uref{http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/apis/ido.html,,http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/apis/ido.html}.
f42974dc 3134
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3135@code{make compare} may fail on version 5 of IRIX unless you add
3136@option{-save-temps} to @code{CFLAGS}. On these systems, the name of the
3137assembler input file is stored in the object file, and that makes
3138comparison fail if it differs between the @code{stage1} and
3139@code{stage2} compilations. The option @option{-save-temps} forces a
3140fixed name to be used for the assembler input file, instead of a
3141randomly chosen name in @file{/tmp}. Do not add @option{-save-temps}
3142unless the comparisons fail without that option. If you do you
3143@option{-save-temps}, you will have to manually delete the @samp{.i} and
3144@samp{.s} files after each series of compilations.
f42974dc 3145
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3146If you use the MIPS C compiler to bootstrap, it may be necessary
3147to increase its table size for switch statements with the
3148@option{-Wf,-XNg1500} option. If you use the @option{-O2}
3149optimization option, you also need to use @option{-Olimit 3000}.
f42974dc 3150
b953cc4b 3151To enable debugging under IRIX 5, you must use GNU @command{as} 2.11.2
f282ffb3 3152or later,
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3153and use the @option{--with-gnu-as} configure option when configuring GCC.
3154GNU @command{as} is distributed as part of the binutils package.
f282ffb3 3155When using release 2.11.2, you need to apply a patch
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3156@uref{http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-07/msg00352.html,,http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-07/msg00352.html}
3157which will be included in the next release of binutils.
f42974dc 3158
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3159When building GCC, the build process loops rebuilding @command{cc1} over
3160and over again. This happens on @samp{mips-sgi-irix5.2}, and possibly
3161other platforms. It has been reported that this is a known bug in the
3162@command{make} shipped with IRIX 5.2. We recommend you use GNU
3163@command{make} instead of the vendor supplied @command{make} program;
3164however, you may have success with @command{smake} on IRIX 5.2 if you do
3165not have GNU @command{make} available.
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3166
3167@html
3168</p>
3169<hr>
f42974dc 3170@end html
b953cc4b 3171@heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix6}mips-sgi-irix6
f42974dc 3172
213ba345 3173If you are using IRIX @command{cc} as your bootstrap compiler, you must
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3174ensure that the N32 ABI is in use. To test this, compile a simple C
3175file with @command{cc} and then run @command{file} on the
3176resulting object file. The output should look like:
3177
3178@example
213ba345 3179test.o: ELF N32 MSB @dots{}
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3180@end example
3181
3182If you see:
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3183
3184@example
3185test.o: ELF 32-bit MSB @dots{}
3186@end example
3187
3188or
3189
f42974dc 3190@example
213ba345 3191test.o: ELF 64-bit MSB @dots{}
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3192@end example
3193
213ba345 3194then your version of @command{cc} uses the O32 or N64 ABI by default. You
38209993 3195should set the environment variable @env{CC} to @samp{cc -n32}
161d7b59 3196before configuring GCC@.
f42974dc 3197
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3198GCC on IRIX 6 is usually built to support both the N32 and N64 ABIs. If
3199you build GCC on a system that doesn't have the N64 libraries installed,
3200you need to configure with @option{--disable-multilib} so GCC doesn't
3201try to use them. Look for @file{/usr/lib64/libc.so.1} to see if you
3202have the 64-bit libraries installed.
3203
3204You must @emph{not} use GNU @command{as} (which isn't built anyway as of
3205binutils 2.11.2) on IRIX 6 platforms; doing so will only cause problems.
3206
f42974dc 3207GCC does not currently support generating O32 ABI binaries in the
b953cc4b 3208@samp{mips-sgi-irix6} configurations. It is possible to create a GCC
213ba345 3209with O32 ABI only support by configuring it for the @samp{mips-sgi-irix5}
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3210target and using a patched GNU @command{as} 2.11.2 as documented in the
3211@uref{#mips-sgi-irix5,,@samp{mips-sgi-irix5}} section above. Using the
3212native assembler requires patches to GCC which will be included in a
3213future release. It is
213ba345 3214expected that O32 ABI support will be available again in a future release.
f42974dc 3215
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3216The @option{--enable-threads} option doesn't currently work, a patch is
3217in preparation for a future release. The @option{--enable-libgcj}
3218option is disabled by default: IRIX 6 uses a very low default limit
3219(20480) for the command line length. Although libtool contains a
3220workaround for this problem, at least the N64 @samp{libgcj} is known not
3221to build despite this, running into an internal error of the native
3222@command{ld}. A sure fix is to increase this limit (@samp{ncargs}) to
3223its maximum of 262144 bytes. If you have root access, you can use the
3224@command{systune} command to do this.
3225
f42974dc 3226GCC does not correctly pass/return structures which are
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3227smaller than 16 bytes and which are not 8 bytes. The problem is very
3228involved and difficult to fix. It affects a number of other targets also,
f42974dc 3229but IRIX 6 is affected the most, because it is a 64 bit target, and 4 byte
767094dd 3230structures are common. The exact problem is that structures are being padded
e979f9e8 3231at the wrong end, e.g.@: a 4 byte structure is loaded into the lower 4 bytes
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3232of the register when it should be loaded into the upper 4 bytes of the
3233register.
3234
3235GCC is consistent with itself, but not consistent with the SGI C compiler
3236(and the SGI supplied runtime libraries), so the only failures that can
3237happen are when there are library functions that take/return such
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3238structures. There are very few such library functions. Currently this
3239is known to affect @code{inet_ntoa}, @code{inet_lnaof},
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3240@code{inet_netof}, @code{inet_makeaddr}, and @code{semctl}. Until the
3241bug is fixed, GCC contains workarounds for the known affected functions.
f42974dc 3242
3aa8219e
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3243See @uref{http://freeware.sgi.com/,,http://freeware.sgi.com/} for more
3244information about using GCC on IRIX platforms.
f42974dc 3245
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3246@html
3247</p>
3248<hr>
3249@end html
3250@heading @anchor{mips-sony-sysv}mips-sony-sysv
9340544b 3251Sony MIPS NEWS@. This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
b8df899a 3252
9340544b
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3253This works in NEWSOS 5.0.1, but not in 5.0.2 (which uses ELF instead of
3254COFF)@. In particular, the linker does not like the code generated by
3255GCC when shared libraries are linked in.
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3256
3257@html
3258</p>
3259<hr>
3260@end html
3261@heading @anchor{ns32k-encore}ns32k-encore
9340544b
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3262This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
3263
161d7b59 3264Encore ns32000 system. Encore systems are supported only under BSD@.
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3265
3266@html
3267</p>
3268<hr>
3269@end html
3270@heading @anchor{ns32k-*-genix}ns32k-*-genix
9340544b
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3271National Semiconductor ns32000 system. This configuration is obsoleted
3272in GCC 3.1.
3273
3274Genix has bugs in @code{alloca} and @code{malloc}; you must get the
3275compiled versions of these from GNU Emacs.
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3276
3277@html
3278</p>
3279<hr>
3280@end html
3281@heading @anchor{ns32k-sequent}ns32k-sequent
9340544b
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3282This configuration is obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
3283
b8df899a
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3284Go to the Berkeley universe before compiling.
3285
3286@html
3287</p>
3288<hr>
3289@end html
3290@heading @anchor{ns32k-utek}ns32k-utek
9340544b
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3291UTEK ns32000 system (``merlin''). This configuration is obsoleted in
3292GCC 3.1.
3293
3294The C compiler that comes with this system cannot compile GCC; contact
3295@samp{tektronix!reed!mason} to get binaries of GCC for bootstrapping.
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3296
3297
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3298@html
3299</p>
3300<hr>
3301@end html
021c4bfd 3302@heading @anchor{powerpc*-*-*}powerpc-*-*
b8df899a 3303
6cfb3f16
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3304You can specify a default version for the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
3305switch by using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
b8df899a 3306
4f2b1139
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3307@html
3308</p>
3309<hr>
3310@end html
3311@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-darwin*}powerpc-*-darwin*
3312PowerPC running Darwin (Mac OS X kernel).
3313
3314GCC 3.0 does not support Darwin, but 3.1 and later releases will work.
3315
3316Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer tools,
3317meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool
3318binaries are available at
3319@uref{http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin} (free
3320registration required).
3321
3322Versions of the assembler prior to ``cctools-364'' cannot handle the
33234-argument form of rlwinm and related mask-using instructions. Darwin
33241.3 (Mac OS X 10.0) uses cctools-353 for instance. To get cctools-364,
3325check out @file{cctools} with tag @samp{Apple-364}, build it, and
3326install the assembler as @file{usr/bin/as}. See
3327@uref{http://www.opensource.apple.com/tools/cvs/docs.html} for details.
3328
3329Also, the default stack limit of 512K is too small, and a bootstrap will
3330typically fail when self-compiling @file{expr.c}. Set the stack to 800K
3331or more, for instance by doing @samp{limit stack 800}. It's also
3332convenient to use the GNU preprocessor instead of Apple's during the
3333first stage of bootstrapping; this is automatic when doing @samp{make
3334bootstrap}, but to do it from the toplevel objdir you will need to say
3335@samp{make CC='cc -no-cpp-precomp' bootstrap}.
3336
3337Note that the version of GCC shipped by Apple typically includes a
3338number of extensions not available in a standard GCC release. These
3339extensions are generally specific to Mac programming.
3340
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3341@html
3342</p>
3343<hr>
3344@end html
3345@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-elf}powerpc-*-elf, powerpc-*-sysv4
3346PowerPC system in big endian mode, running System V.4.
3347
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3348@html
3349</p>
3350<hr>
f42974dc 3351@end html
ef88b07d 3352@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-linux-gnu*}powerpc-*-linux-gnu*
f42974dc 3353
f9047ed3 3354You will need
021c4bfd 3355@uref{ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/support/hjl/binutils,,binutils 2.9.4.0.8}
161d7b59 3356or newer for a working GCC@. It is strongly recommended to recompile binutils
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3357if you initially built it with gcc-2.7.2.x.
3358
edf1b3f3
AC
3359@html
3360</p>
3361<hr>
3362@end html
3363@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-netbsd*}powerpc-*-netbsd*
3364PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD@. To build the
dda78254 3365documentation you will need Texinfo version 4.1 (NetBSD 1.5.1 included
edf1b3f3
AC
3366Texinfo version 3.12).
3367
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3368@html
3369</p>
3370<hr>
3371@end html
3372@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-eabiaix}powerpc-*-eabiaix
6cfb3f16 3373Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode with @option{-mcall-aix} selected as
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3374the default.
3375
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3376@html
3377</p>
3378<hr>
3379@end html
3380@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-eabisim}powerpc-*-eabisim
3381Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the
3382PSIM simulator.
3383
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3384@html
3385</p>
3386<hr>
3387@end html
3388@heading @anchor{powerpc-*-eabi}powerpc-*-eabi
3389Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode.
3390
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3391@html
3392</p>
3393<hr>
3394@end html
3395@heading @anchor{powerpcle-*-elf}powerpcle-*-elf, powerpcle-*-sysv4
3396PowerPC system in little endian mode, running System V.4.
3397
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3398@html
3399</p>
3400<hr>
3401@end html
3402@heading @anchor{powerpcle-*-eabisim}powerpcle-*-eabisim
3403Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under
3404the PSIM simulator.
3405
3406@html
3407</p>
3408<hr>
3409@end html
3410@heading @anchor{powerpcle-*-eabi}powerpcle-*-eabi
3411Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode.
3412
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3413@html
3414</p>
3415<hr>
3416@end html
3417@heading @anchor{powerpcle-*-winnt}powerpcle-*-winnt, powerpcle-*-pe
161d7b59 3418PowerPC system in little endian mode running Windows NT@.
b8df899a 3419
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3420@html
3421</p>
3422<hr>
3423@end html
3424@heading @anchor{romp-*-aos}romp-*-aos, romp-*-mach
9340544b
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3425These configurations are obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
3426
3427We recommend you compile GCC with an earlier version of itself; if you
3428compile GCC with @command{hc}, the Metaware compiler, it will work, but
3429you will get mismatches between the stage 2 and stage 3 compilers in
3430various files. These errors are minor differences in some
3431floating-point constants and can be safely ignored; the stage 3 compiler
3432is correct.
f42974dc 3433
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3434@html
3435</p>
3436<hr>
3437@end html
3438@heading @anchor{s390-*-linux*}s390-*-linux*
f282ffb3 3439S/390 system running Linux for S/390@.
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3440
3441@html
3442</p>
3443<hr>
3444@end html
3445@heading @anchor{s390x-*-linux*}s390x-*-linux*
f282ffb3 3446zSeries system (64 Bit) running Linux for zSeries@.
91abf72d 3447
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3448@html
3449</p>
3450<hr>
f42974dc 3451@end html
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3452@c Please use Solaris 2 to refer to all release of Solaris, starting
3453@c with 2.0 until 2.6, 7, and 8. Solaris 1 was a marketing name for
3454@c SunOS 4 releases which we don't use to avoid confusion. Solaris
3455@c alone is too unspecific and must be avoided.
3456@heading @anchor{*-*-solaris2*}*-*-solaris2*
f42974dc 3457
250d5688 3458Sun does not ship a C compiler with Solaris 2. To bootstrap and install
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3459GCC you first have to install a pre-built compiler, see our
3460@uref{binaries.html,,binaries page} for details.
f42974dc 3461
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3462The Solaris 2 @command{/bin/sh} will often fail to configure
3463@file{libstdc++-v3}, @file{boehm-gc} or
021c4bfd 3464@file{libjava}. If you encounter this problem, set @env{CONFIG_SHELL} to
250d5688 3465@command{/bin/ksh} in your environment and run @command{make bootstrap} again.
37324a54 3466Another possibility that sometimes helps is to remove
250d5688 3467@file{*-*-solaris2*/config.cache}.
e6855a2d 3468
b8df899a 3469Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these
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3470packages are needed to use GCC fully, namely @code{SUNWarc},
3471@code{SUNWbtool}, @code{SUNWesu}, @code{SUNWhea}, @code{SUNWlibm},
3472@code{SUNWsprot}, and @code{SUNWtoo}. If you did not install all
250d5688 3473optional packages when installing Solaris 2, you will need to verify that
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3474the packages that GCC needs are installed.
3475
3476To check whether an optional package is installed, use
dbd210ef 3477the @command{pkginfo} command. To add an optional package, use the
250d5688 3478@command{pkgadd} command. For further details, see the Solaris 2
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3479documentation.
3480
250d5688 3481Trying to use the linker and other tools in
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3482@file{/usr/ucb} to install GCC has been observed to cause trouble.
3483For example, the linker may hang indefinitely. The fix is to remove
250d5688 3484@file{/usr/ucb} from your @env{PATH}.
f42974dc 3485
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3486All releases of GNU binutils prior to 2.11.2 have known bugs on this
3487platform. We recommend the use of GNU binutils 2.11.2 or the vendor
3488tools (Sun @command{as}, Sun @command{ld}).
f42974dc 3489
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3490Sun bug 4296832 turns up when compiling X11 headers with GCC 2.95 or
3491newer: @command{g++} will complain that types are missing. These headers assume
3492that omitting the type means @code{int}; this assumption worked for C89 but
3493is wrong for C++, and is now wrong for C99 also.
3494
13ba36b4 3495@command{g++} accepts such (invalid) constructs with the option
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3496@option{-fpermissive}; it
3497will assume that any missing type is @code{int} (as defined by C89).
3498
3499There are patches for Solaris 2.6 (105633-56 or newer for SPARC,
3500106248-42 or newer for Intel), Solaris 7 (108376-21 or newer for SPARC,
3501108377-20 for Intel), and Solaris 8 (108652-24 or newer for SPARC,
3502108653-22 for Intel) that fix this bug.
f42974dc 3503
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3504@html
3505</p>
3506<hr>
3507@end html
250d5688 3508@heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2*}sparc-sun-solaris2*
dbd210ef 3509
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3510When GCC is configured to use binutils 2.11.2 or later the binaries
3511produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools;
3512this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
3513information.
3514
250d5688 3515Sun @command{as} 4.x is broken in that it cannot cope with long symbol names.
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3516A typical error message might look similar to the following:
3517
3518@samp{/usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccMsw135.s", line 11041:
3519error: can't compute value of an expression involving an external symbol.}
3520
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3521This is Sun bug 4237974. This is fixed with patch 108908-02 for Solaris
35222.6 and has been fixed in later (5.x) versions of the assembler,
3523starting with Solaris 7.
dbd210ef 3524
03b272d2 3525Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing
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352664-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later should properly support
3527this. GCC 3.0 lacks the infrastructure necessary to support this
3528configuration properly. However, if all you want is code tuned for
3529the UltraSPARC CPU, you should try the @option{-mtune=ultrasparc}
3530option instead, which should be safe from those bugs and produce code
3531that, unlike full 64-bit code, can still run on non-UltraSPARC
3532machines.
03b272d2 3533
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3534When configuring on a Solaris 7 or 8 system that is running a kernel
3535that supports only 32-bit binaries, one must configure with
3536@option{--disable-multilib}, since we will not be able to build the
353764-bit target libraries.
3fc602a0 3538
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3539@html
3540</p>
3541<hr>
f42974dc 3542@end html
ef88b07d 3543@heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2.7}sparc-sun-solaris2.7
f42974dc 3544
250d5688 3545Sun patch 107058-01 (1999-01-13) for Solaris 7/SPARC triggers a bug in
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3546the dynamic linker. This problem (Sun bug 4210064) affects GCC 2.8
3547and later, including all EGCS releases. Sun formerly recommended
3548107058-01 for all Solaris 7 users, but around 1999-09-01 it started to
3549recommend it only for people who use Sun's compilers.
f9047ed3 3550
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3551Here are some workarounds to this problem:
3552@itemize @bullet
3553@item
3554Do not install Sun patch 107058-01 until after Sun releases a
3555complete patch for bug 4210064. This is the simplest course to take,
3556unless you must also use Sun's C compiler. Unfortunately 107058-01
250d5688 3557is preinstalled on some new Solaris 7-based hosts, so you may have to
f42974dc 3558back it out.
f9047ed3 3559
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3560@item
3561Copy the original, unpatched Solaris 7
3562@command{/usr/ccs/bin/as} into
021c4bfd 3563@command{/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/3.0/as},
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3564adjusting the latter name to fit your local conventions and software
3565version numbers.
3566
3567@item
3568Install Sun patch 106950-03 (1999-05-25) or later. Nobody with
3569both 107058-01 and 106950-03 installed has reported the bug with GCC
3570and Sun's dynamic linker. This last course of action is riskiest,
3571for two reasons. First, you must install 106950 on all hosts that
3572run code generated by GCC; it doesn't suffice to install it only on
3573the hosts that run GCC itself. Second, Sun says that 106950-03 is
3574only a partial fix for bug 4210064, but Sun doesn't know whether the
161d7b59 3575partial fix is adequate for GCC@. Revision -08 or later should fix
250d5688 3576the bug. The current (as of 2001-09-24) revision is -14, and is included in
f282ffb3 3577the Solaris 7 Recommended Patch Cluster.
f9047ed3 3578@end itemize
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3579
3580
3581@html
3582<p>
3583<hr>
f42974dc 3584@end html
250d5688 3585@heading @anchor{*-*-solaris2.8}*-*-solaris2.8
f42974dc 3586
250d5688 3587The Solaris 8 linker fails to link some @samp{libjava} programs if
0e96b203 3588previously-installed GCC java libraries already exist in the configured
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3589prefix. For this reason, @command{configure} will report an error on
3590Solaris 8 if an existing @samp{libgcj} is found in the appropriate
3591install directory and the system linker is in use. In this case, you
3592can configure with a different prefix, or delete or rename the existing
3593@samp{libgcj} library files before configuring, or configure using
3594@option{--disable-libgcj}.
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3595
3596@html
3597<p>
3598<hr>
f42974dc 3599@end html
250d5688 3600@heading @anchor{sparc-sun-sunos4*}sparc-sun-sunos4*
f42974dc 3601
021c4bfd 3602A bug in the SunOS 4 linker will cause it to crash when linking
6cfb3f16 3603@option{-fPIC} compiled objects (and will therefore not allow you to build
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3604shared libraries).
3605
3606To fix this problem you can either use the most recent version of
021c4bfd 3607binutils or get the latest SunOS 4 linker patch (patch ID 100170-10)
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3608from Sun's patch site.
3609
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3610Sometimes on a Sun 4 you may observe a crash in the program
3611@command{genflags} or @command{genoutput} while building GCC. This is said to
3612be due to a bug in @command{sh}. You can probably get around it by running
3613@command{genflags} or @command{genoutput} manually and then retrying the
3614@command{make}.
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3615
3616@html
3617</p>
3618<hr>
f42974dc 3619@end html
ef88b07d 3620@heading @anchor{sparc-unknown-linux-gnulibc1}sparc-unknown-linux-gnulibc1
f42974dc 3621
f9047ed3 3622It has been reported that you might need
021c4bfd 3623@uref{ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/hjl,,binutils 2.8.1.0.23}
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3624for this platform, too.
3625
3626
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3627@html
3628</p>
3629<hr>
3630@end html
3631@heading @anchor{sparc-*-linux*}sparc-*-linux*
3632
3633GCC versions 3.0 and higher require binutils 2.11.2 and glibc 2.2.4
3634or newer on this platform. All earlier binutils and glibc
3635releases mishandled unaligned relocations on @code{sparc-*-*} targets.
3636
3637
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3638@html
3639</p>
3640<hr>
f42974dc 3641@end html
ef88b07d 3642@heading @anchor{sparc64-*-*}sparc64-*-*
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3643
3644GCC version 2.95 is not able to compile code correctly for
3645@code{sparc64} targets. Users of the Linux kernel, at least,
e9d21442 3646can use the @code{sparc32} program to start up a new shell
f42974dc 3647invocation with an environment that causes @command{configure} to
021c4bfd 3648recognize (via @samp{uname -a}) the system as @samp{sparc-*-*} instead.
f42974dc 3649
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3650@html
3651</p>
3652<hr>
3653@end html
3654@heading @anchor{sparcv9-*-solaris2*}sparcv9-*-solaris2*
3655
3656The following compiler flags must be specified in the configure
3657step in order to bootstrap this target with the Sun compiler:
3658
3659@example
3660 % CC="cc -xildoff -xarch=v9" @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
3661@end example
3662
3663@option{-xildoff} turns off the incremental linker, and @option{-xarch=v9}
3664specifies the v9 architecture to the Sun linker and assembler.
f42974dc 3665
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3666@html
3667</p>
3668<hr>
3669@end html
3670@heading @anchor{#*-*-sysv*}*-*-sysv*
3671On System V release 3, you may get this error message
3672while linking:
3673
3674@smallexample
3675ld fatal: failed to write symbol name @var{something}
3676 in strings table for file @var{whatever}
3677@end smallexample
3678
021c4bfd 3679This probably indicates that the disk is full or your ulimit won't allow
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3680the file to be as large as it needs to be.
3681
3682This problem can also result because the kernel parameter @code{MAXUMEM}
3683is too small. If so, you must regenerate the kernel and make the value
3684much larger. The default value is reported to be 1024; a value of 32768
3685is said to work. Smaller values may also work.
3686
3687On System V, if you get an error like this,
3688
3689@example
3690/usr/local/lib/bison.simple: In function `yyparse':
3691/usr/local/lib/bison.simple:625: virtual memory exhausted
3692@end example
3693
3694@noindent
021c4bfd 3695that too indicates a problem with disk space, ulimit, or @code{MAXUMEM}.
b8df899a 3696
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3697On a System V release 4 system, make sure @file{/usr/bin} precedes
3698@file{/usr/ucb} in @code{PATH}. The @code{cc} command in
3699@file{/usr/ucb} uses libraries which have bugs.
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3700
3701@html
3702</p>
3703<hr>
3704@end html
3705@heading @anchor{vax-dec-ultrix}vax-dec-ultrix
8aeea6e6 3706Don't try compiling with VAX C (@code{vcc}). It produces incorrect code
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3707in some cases (for example, when @code{alloca} is used).
3708
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3709@html
3710</p>
3711<hr>
3712@end html
3713@heading @anchor{we32k-*-*}we32k-*-*
3714These computers are also known as the 3b2, 3b5, 3b20 and other similar
3715names. (However, the 3b1 is actually a 68000.)
9340544b 3716These configurations are obsoleted in GCC 3.1.
b8df899a 3717
6cfb3f16 3718Don't use @option{-g} when compiling with the system's compiler. The
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3719system's linker seems to be unable to handle such a large program with
3720debugging information.
3721
3722The system's compiler runs out of capacity when compiling @file{stmt.c}
161d7b59 3723in GCC@. You can work around this by building @file{cpp} in GCC
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3724first, then use that instead of the system's preprocessor with the
3725system's C compiler to compile @file{stmt.c}. Here is how:
3726
3727@smallexample
3728mv /lib/cpp /lib/cpp.att
3729cp cpp /lib/cpp.gnu
3730echo '/lib/cpp.gnu -traditional $@{1+"$@@"@}' > /lib/cpp
3731chmod +x /lib/cpp
3732@end smallexample
3733
f0523f02 3734The system's compiler produces bad code for some of the GCC
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3735optimization files. So you must build the stage 2 compiler without
3736optimization. Then build a stage 3 compiler with optimization.
3737That executable should work. Here are the necessary commands:
3738
3739@smallexample
3740make LANGUAGES=c CC=stage1/xgcc CFLAGS="-Bstage1/ -g"
3741make stage2
3742make CC=stage2/xgcc CFLAGS="-Bstage2/ -g -O"
3743@end smallexample
3744
3745You may need to raise the ULIMIT setting to build a C++ compiler,
3746as the file @file{cc1plus} is larger than one megabyte.
3747
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3748@html
3749</p>
3750<hr>
3751@end html
3752@heading @anchor{xtensa-*-elf}xtensa-*-elf
3753
3754This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the
3755@samp{newlib} C library. It uses ELF but does not support shared
3756objects. Designed-defined instructions specified via the
3757Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) language are only supported
3758through inline assembly.
3759
3760The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to
3761building GCC@. The @file{gcc/config/xtensa/xtensa-config.h} header
3762file contains the configuration information. If you created your
3763own Xtensa configuration with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the
3764downloaded files include a customized copy of this header file,
3765which you can use to replace the default header file.
3766
3767@html
3768</p>
3769<hr>
3770@end html
3771@heading @anchor{xtensa-*-linux*}xtensa-*-linux*
3772
3773This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF
3774shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates
3775position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the
3776@option{-fpic} or @option{-fPIC} options are used. In other
f282ffb3 3777respects, this target is the same as the
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3778@uref{#xtensa-*-elf,,@samp{xtensa-*-elf}} target.
3779
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3780@html
3781</p>
3782<hr>
f42974dc 3783@end html
ef88b07d 3784@heading @anchor{windows}Microsoft Windows (32 bit)
f42974dc 3785
f9047ed3 3786A port of GCC 2.95.x is included with the
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3787@uref{http://www.cygwin.com/,,Cygwin environment}.
3788
3789Current (as of early 2001) snapshots of GCC will build under Cygwin
3790without modification.
3791
3792@html
3793</p>
3794<hr>
f42974dc 3795@end html
ef88b07d 3796@heading @anchor{os2}OS/2
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3797
3798GCC does not currently support OS/2. However, Andrew Zabolotny has been
14976c58 3799working on a generic OS/2 port with pgcc. The current code can be found
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3800at @uref{http://www.goof.com/pcg/os2/,,http://www.goof.com/pcg/os2/}.
3801
f9047ed3 3802An older copy of GCC 2.8.1 is included with the EMX tools available at
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3803@uref{ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/devtools/emx+gcc/,,
3804ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/devtools/emx+gcc/}.
3805
3806@html
3807</p>
3808<hr>
f42974dc 3809@end html
ef88b07d 3810@heading @anchor{older}Older systems
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3811
3812GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early
38131990s) Unix variants. For the most part, support for these systems
3814has not been deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for
3815several years and may suffer from bitrot. Support from some systems
3816has been removed from GCC 3: fx80, ns32-ns-genix, pyramid, tahoe,
3817gmicro, spur; most of these targets had not been updated since GCC
f42974dc 3818version 1.
f9047ed3 3819
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3820We are planning to remove support for more older systems, starting in
3821GCC 3.1. Each release will have a list of ``obsoleted'' systems.
3822Support for these systems is still present in that release, but
3823@command{configure} will fail unless the @option{--enable-obsolete}
3824option is given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for
3825these systems will be removed from the next release of GCC@.
3826
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3827Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less
3828problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast
3829wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any
3830of the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last
3831CVS version before they were removed), patches
3832@uref{../contribute.html,,following the usual requirements}
3833would be likely to be accepted, since they should not affect the
f42974dc 3834support for more modern targets.
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3835
3836Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the
3837workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the
161d7b59 3838cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC@. In some cases, to
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3839bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may
3840require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that
3841system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in
3842the vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in
021c4bfd 3843the @file{old-releases} directory on the
f9047ed3 3844@uref{../mirrors.html,,GCC mirror sites}. Header bugs may generally
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3845be avoided using @command{fixincludes}, but bugs or deficiencies in
3846libraries and the operating system may still cause problems.
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3847
3848For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful,
021c4bfd 3849and are available from @file{pub/binutils/old-releases} on
f42974dc 3850@uref{http://sources.redhat.com/mirrors.html,,sources.redhat.com mirror sites}.
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3851
3852Some of the information on specific systems above relates to
3853such older systems, but much of the information
3854about GCC on such systems (which may no longer be applicable to
f42974dc 3855current GCC) is to be found in the GCC texinfo manual.
f9047ed3 3856
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3857@html
3858</p>
3859<hr>
f42974dc 3860@end html
250d5688 3861@heading @anchor{elf_targets}all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
f42974dc 3862
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3863C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the
3864@uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-ld,,GNU linker}; duplicate copies of
3865inlines, vtables and template instantiations will be discarded
3866automatically.
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3867
3868
3869@html
3870</p>
3871<hr>
3872<p>
3873@end html
3874@ifhtml
3875@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
3876@end ifhtml
3877@end ifset
3878
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3879@c ***Old documentation******************************************************
3880@ifset oldhtml
3881@include install-old.texi
3882@html
3883</p>
3884<hr>
3885<p>
3886@end html
3887@ifhtml
3888@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
3889@end ifhtml
3890@end ifset
3891
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3892@c ***GFDL********************************************************************
3893@ifset gfdlhtml
3894@include fdl.texi
3895@html
3896</p>
3897<hr>
3898<p>
3899@end html
3900@ifhtml
3901@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
3902@end ifhtml
3903@end ifset
3904
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3905@c ***************************************************************************
3906@c Part 6 The End of the Document
3907@ifinfo
3908@comment node-name, next, previous, up
aed5964b 3909@node Concept Index, , GNU Free Documentation License, Top
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3910@end ifinfo
3911
3912@ifinfo
3913@unnumbered Concept Index
3914
3915@printindex cp
3916
3917@contents
3918@end ifinfo
3919@bye