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1\input texinfo.tex @c -*-texinfo-*-
2@c @ifnothtml
3@c %**start of header
d7f8491b 4@setfilename gccinstall.info
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5@settitle Installing GCC
6@setchapternewpage odd
7@c %**end of header
8@c @end ifnothtml
9
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10@include gcc-common.texi
11
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12@c Specify title for specific html page
13@ifset indexhtml
14@settitle Installing GCC
15@end ifset
16@ifset specifichtml
17@settitle Host/Target specific installation notes for GCC
18@end ifset
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19@ifset prerequisiteshtml
20@settitle Prerequisites for GCC
21@end ifset
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22@ifset downloadhtml
23@settitle Downloading GCC
24@end ifset
25@ifset configurehtml
26@settitle Installing GCC: Configuration
27@end ifset
28@ifset buildhtml
29@settitle Installing GCC: Building
30@end ifset
31@ifset testhtml
32@settitle Installing GCC: Testing
33@end ifset
34@ifset finalinstallhtml
35@settitle Installing GCC: Final installation
36@end ifset
37@ifset binarieshtml
38@settitle Installing GCC: Binaries
39@end ifset
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40@ifset oldhtml
41@settitle Installing GCC: Old documentation
42@end ifset
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43@ifset gfdlhtml
44@settitle Installing GCC: GNU Free Documentation License
45@end ifset
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d1e082c2 47@c Copyright (C) 1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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48@c *** Converted to texinfo by Dean Wakerley, dean@wakerley.com
49
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50@c IMPORTANT: whenever you modify this file, run `install.texi2html' to
51@c test the generation of HTML documents for the gcc.gnu.org web pages.
52@c
53@c Do not use @footnote{} in this file as it breaks install.texi2html!
54
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56@ifnothtml
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65@set binarieshtml
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69
70@c Part 2 Summary Description and Copyright
bdefb2ab 71@copying
d1e082c2 72Copyright @copyright{} 1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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73@sp 1
74Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
07a67d6a 75under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
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76any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
77Invariant Sections, the Front-Cover texts being (a) (see below), and
78with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the
79license is included in the section entitled ``@uref{./gfdl.html,,GNU
80Free Documentation License}''.
81
82(a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is:
83
84 A GNU Manual
85
86(b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is:
87
88 You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU
89 software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise
90 funds for GNU development.
bdefb2ab 91@end copying
f42974dc 92@ifinfo
bdefb2ab 93@insertcopying
f42974dc 94@end ifinfo
c3cb54c6 95@dircategory Software development
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96@direntry
97* gccinstall: (gccinstall). Installing the GNU Compiler Collection.
98@end direntry
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100@c Part 3 Titlepage and Copyright
101@titlepage
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102@title Installing GCC
103@versionsubtitle
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105@c The following two commands start the copyright page.
106@page
ef88b07d 107@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
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109@end titlepage
110
7771bb62 111@c Part 4 Top node, Master Menu, and/or Table of Contents
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112@ifinfo
113@node Top, , , (dir)
114@comment node-name, next, Previous, up
115
116@menu
117* Installing GCC:: This document describes the generic installation
118 procedure for GCC as well as detailing some target
f9047ed3 119 specific installation instructions.
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120
121* Specific:: Host/target specific installation notes for GCC.
122* Binaries:: Where to get pre-compiled binaries.
123
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124* Old:: Old installation documentation.
125
aed5964b 126* GNU Free Documentation License:: How you can copy and share this manual.
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127* Concept Index:: This index has two entries.
128@end menu
129@end ifinfo
130
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131@iftex
132@contents
133@end iftex
134
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135@c Part 5 The Body of the Document
136@c ***Installing GCC**********************************************************
6cfb3f16 137@ifnothtml
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138@comment node-name, next, previous, up
139@node Installing GCC, Binaries, , Top
6cfb3f16 140@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 141@ifset indexhtml
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142@ifnothtml
143@chapter Installing GCC
144@end ifnothtml
145
146The latest version of this document is always available at
f9047ed3 147@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/install/,,http://gcc.gnu.org/install/}.
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148It refers to the current development sources, instructions for
149specific released versions are included with the sources.
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150
151This document describes the generic installation procedure for GCC as well
f9047ed3 152as detailing some target specific installation instructions.
f42974dc 153
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154GCC includes several components that previously were separate distributions
155with their own installation instructions. This document supersedes all
1b667f1b 156package-specific installation instructions.
f42974dc 157
f9047ed3 158@emph{Before} starting the build/install procedure please check the
f42974dc 159@ifnothtml
eea81d3e 160@ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
f42974dc 161@end ifnothtml
c009f01f 162@ifhtml
f9047ed3 163@uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
c009f01f 164@end ifhtml
f9047ed3 165We recommend you browse the entire generic installation instructions before
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166you proceed.
167
c009f01f 168Lists of successful builds for released versions of GCC are
daf2f129 169available at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
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170These lists are updated as new information becomes available.
171
f9047ed3 172The installation procedure itself is broken into five steps.
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174@ifinfo
175@menu
67b1fbb9 176* Prerequisites::
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177* Downloading the source::
178* Configuration::
179* Building::
180* Testing:: (optional)
181* Final install::
182@end menu
183@end ifinfo
c009f01f 184@ifhtml
f42974dc 185@enumerate
f9047ed3 186@item
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187@uref{prerequisites.html,,Prerequisites}
188@item
f42974dc 189@uref{download.html,,Downloading the source}
f42974dc 190@item
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191@uref{configure.html,,Configuration}
192@item
193@uref{build.html,,Building}
194@item
195@uref{test.html,,Testing} (optional)
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197@uref{finalinstall.html,,Final install}
198@end enumerate
c009f01f 199@end ifhtml
f42974dc 200
38209993 201Please note that GCC does not support @samp{make uninstall} and probably
f9047ed3 202won't do so in the near future as this would open a can of worms. Instead,
f42974dc 203we suggest that you install GCC into a directory of its own and simply
38209993 204remove that directory when you do not need that specific version of GCC
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205any longer, and, if shared libraries are installed there as well, no
206more binaries exist that use them.
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208@ifhtml
209There are also some @uref{old.html,,old installation instructions},
210which are mostly obsolete but still contain some information which has
211not yet been merged into the main part of this manual.
212@end ifhtml
213
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217@end html
218@ifhtml
219@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
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223@end ifset
224
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225@c ***Prerequisites**************************************************
226@ifnothtml
227@comment node-name, next, previous, up
228@node Prerequisites, Downloading the source, , Installing GCC
229@end ifnothtml
230@ifset prerequisiteshtml
231@ifnothtml
232@chapter Prerequisites
233@end ifnothtml
234@cindex Prerequisites
235
236GCC requires that various tools and packages be available for use in the
237build procedure. Modifying GCC sources requires additional tools
238described below.
239
240@heading Tools/packages necessary for building GCC
241@table @asis
477a24c1 242@item ISO C++98 compiler
80521187 243Necessary to bootstrap GCC, although versions of GCC prior
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244to 4.8 also allow bootstrapping with a ISO C89 compiler and versions
245of GCC prior to 3.4 also allow bootstrapping with a traditional
246(K&R) C compiler.
67b1fbb9 247
80521187 248To build all languages in a cross-compiler or other configuration where
67b1fbb9 2493-stage bootstrap is not performed, you need to start with an existing
477a24c1 250GCC binary (version 3.4 or later) because source code for language
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251frontends other than C might use GCC extensions.
252
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253Note that to bootstrap GCC with versions of GCC earlier than 3.4, you
254may need to use @option{--disable-stage1-checking}, though
255bootstrapping the compiler with such earlier compilers is strongly
256discouraged.
257
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258@item GNAT
259
260In order to build the Ada compiler (GNAT) you must already have GNAT
261installed because portions of the Ada frontend are written in Ada (with
262GNAT extensions.) Refer to the Ada installation instructions for more
263specific information.
264
265@item A ``working'' POSIX compatible shell, or GNU bash
266
267Necessary when running @command{configure} because some
268@command{/bin/sh} shells have bugs and may crash when configuring the
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269target libraries. In other cases, @command{/bin/sh} or @command{ksh}
270have disastrous corner-case performance problems. This
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271can cause target @command{configure} runs to literally take days to
272complete in some cases.
273
274So on some platforms @command{/bin/ksh} is sufficient, on others it
275isn't. See the host/target specific instructions for your platform, or
276use @command{bash} to be sure. Then set @env{CONFIG_SHELL} in your
277environment to your ``good'' shell prior to running
278@command{configure}/@command{make}.
279
daf2f129 280@command{zsh} is not a fully compliant POSIX shell and will not
8a36672b 281work when configuring GCC@.
1b49d06f 282
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283@item A POSIX or SVR4 awk
284
285Necessary for creating some of the generated source files for GCC@.
286If in doubt, use a recent GNU awk version, as some of the older ones
287are broken. GNU awk version 3.1.5 is known to work.
288
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289@item GNU binutils
290
291Necessary in some circumstances, optional in others. See the
292host/target specific instructions for your platform for the exact
293requirements.
294
295@item gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
296@itemx bzip2 version 1.0.2 (or later)
297
298Necessary to uncompress GCC @command{tar} files when source code is
299obtained via FTP mirror sites.
300
6cba282a 301@item GNU make version 3.80 (or later)
e158a5fb 302
8a36672b 303You must have GNU make installed to build GCC@.
e158a5fb 304
f44a5ab6 305@item GNU tar version 1.14 (or later)
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307Necessary (only on some platforms) to untar the source code. Many
308systems' @command{tar} programs will also work, only try GNU
309@command{tar} if you have problems.
310
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311@item Perl version 5.6.1 (or later)
312
073a8998 313Necessary when targeting Darwin, building @samp{libstdc++},
eb975109 314and not using @option{--disable-symvers}.
073a8998 315Necessary when targeting Solaris 2 with Sun @command{ld} and not using
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316@option{--disable-symvers}. The bundled @command{perl} in Solaris@tie{}8
317and up works.
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318
319Necessary when regenerating @file{Makefile} dependencies in libiberty.
320Necessary when regenerating @file{libiberty/functions.texi}.
321Necessary when generating manpages from Texinfo manuals.
322Used by various scripts to generate some files included in SVN (mainly
323Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source tables.
324
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326
327Necessary to build libgcj, the GCJ runtime.
328
329@end table
330
331Several support libraries are necessary to build GCC, some are required,
332others optional. While any sufficiently new version of required tools
333usually work, library requirements are generally stricter. Newer
334versions may work in some cases, but it's safer to use the exact
335versions documented. We appreciate bug reports about problems with
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336newer versions, though. If your OS vendor provides packages for the
337support libraries then using those packages may be the simplest way to
338install the libraries.
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340@table @asis
362c6d2f 341@item GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) version 4.3.2 (or later)
bda4d063 342
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343Necessary to build GCC@. If a GMP source distribution is found in a
344subdirectory of your GCC sources named @file{gmp}, it will be built
345together with GCC. Alternatively, if GMP is already installed but it
346is not in your library search path, you will have to configure with the
c02c7cb1 347@option{--with-gmp} configure option. See also @option{--with-gmp-lib}
7a07ae52 348and @option{--with-gmp-include}.
bda4d063 349
362c6d2f 350@item MPFR Library version 2.4.2 (or later)
bebf829d 351
0ee2ea09 352Necessary to build GCC@. It can be downloaded from
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353@uref{http://www.mpfr.org/}. If an MPFR source distribution is found
354in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named @file{mpfr}, it will be
355built together with GCC. Alternatively, if MPFR is already installed
356but it is not in your default library search path, the
357@option{--with-mpfr} configure option should be used. See also
358@option{--with-mpfr-lib} and @option{--with-mpfr-include}.
641afcff 359
362c6d2f 360@item MPC Library version 0.8.1 (or later)
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361
362Necessary to build GCC@. It can be downloaded from
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363@uref{http://www.multiprecision.org/}. If an MPC source distribution
364is found in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named @file{mpc}, it
365will be built together with GCC. Alternatively, if MPC is already
366installed but it is not in your default library search path, the
367@option{--with-mpc} configure option should be used. See also
368@option{--with-mpc-lib} and @option{--with-mpc-include}.
3a5729ea 369
04b535af 370@item ISL Library version 0.11.1
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372Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations.
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373It can be downloaded from @uref{ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/}
374as @file{isl-0.11.1.tar.bz2}.
3aea2d1c 375
33ad93b9 376The @option{--with-isl} configure option should be used if ISL is not
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377installed in your default library search path.
378
04b535af 379@item CLooG 0.18.0
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380
381Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations. It can be
382downloaded from @uref{ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/} as
04b535af 383@file{cloog-0.18.0.tar.gz}. The @option{--with-cloog} configure option should
6886e444 384be used if CLooG is not installed in your default library search path.
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385CLooG needs to be built against ISL 0.11.1. Use @option{--with-isl=system}
386to direct CLooG to pick up an already installed ISL, otherwise it will use
387ISL 0.11.1 as bundled with CLooG. CLooG needs to be configured to use GMP
9795be39 388internally, use @option{--with-bits=gmp} to direct it to do that.
bebf829d 389
f9bab007 390@end table
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391
392@heading Tools/packages necessary for modifying GCC
393@table @asis
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394@item autoconf version 2.64
395@itemx GNU m4 version 1.4.6 (or later)
67b1fbb9 396
89acbae0 397Necessary when modifying @file{configure.ac}, @file{aclocal.m4}, etc.@:
565f8ce5 398to regenerate @file{configure} and @file{config.in} files.
67b1fbb9 399
4d9e8446 400@item automake version 1.11.1
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401
402Necessary when modifying a @file{Makefile.am} file to regenerate its
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403associated @file{Makefile.in}.
404
405Much of GCC does not use automake, so directly edit the @file{Makefile.in}
406file. Specifically this applies to the @file{gcc}, @file{intl},
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407@file{libcpp}, @file{libiberty}, @file{libobjc} directories as well
408as any of their subdirectories.
ce5c1cf3 409
ae8cacc6 410For directories that use automake, GCC requires the latest release in
4d9e8446 411the 1.11 series, which is currently 1.11.1. When regenerating a directory
70fa0efa 412to a newer version, please update all the directories using an older 1.11
ae8cacc6 413to the latest released version.
ccfca4ae 414
4b794eaf 415@item gettext version 0.14.5 (or later)
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417Needed to regenerate @file{gcc.pot}.
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418
419@item gperf version 2.7.2 (or later)
420
421Necessary when modifying @command{gperf} input files, e.g.@:
422@file{gcc/cp/cfns.gperf} to regenerate its associated header file, e.g.@:
423@file{gcc/cp/cfns.h}.
424
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425@item DejaGnu 1.4.4
426@itemx Expect
427@itemx Tcl
67b1fbb9 428
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429Necessary to run the GCC testsuite; see the section on testing for
430details. Tcl 8.6 has a known regression in RE pattern handling that
431make parts of the testsuite fail. See
432@uref{http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/tktview/267b7e2334ee2e9de34c4b00d6e72e2f1997085f}
433for more information.
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434
435@item autogen version 5.5.4 (or later) and
436@itemx guile version 1.4.1 (or later)
437
438Necessary to regenerate @file{fixinc/fixincl.x} from
439@file{fixinc/inclhack.def} and @file{fixinc/*.tpl}.
440
80521187 441Necessary to run @samp{make check} for @file{fixinc}.
67b1fbb9 442
ce5c1cf3 443Necessary to regenerate the top level @file{Makefile.in} file from
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444@file{Makefile.tpl} and @file{Makefile.def}.
445
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446@item Flex version 2.5.4 (or later)
447
448Necessary when modifying @file{*.l} files.
449
450Necessary to build GCC during development because the generated output
80521187 451files are not included in the SVN repository. They are included in
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452releases.
453
7326a39e 454@item Texinfo version 4.7 (or later)
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455
456Necessary for running @command{makeinfo} when modifying @file{*.texi}
457files to test your changes.
458
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459Necessary for running @command{make dvi} or @command{make pdf} to
460create printable documentation in DVI or PDF format. Texinfo version
4614.8 or later is required for @command{make pdf}.
462
67b1fbb9 463Necessary to build GCC documentation during development because the
80521187 464generated output files are not included in the SVN repository. They are
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465included in releases.
466
467@item @TeX{} (any working version)
468
ff2ce160 469Necessary for running @command{texi2dvi} and @command{texi2pdf}, which
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470are used when running @command{make dvi} or @command{make pdf} to create
471DVI or PDF files, respectively.
67b1fbb9 472
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473@item SVN (any version)
474@itemx SSH (any version)
67b1fbb9 475
80521187 476Necessary to access the SVN repository. Public releases and weekly
8a36672b 477snapshots of the development sources are also available via FTP@.
67b1fbb9 478
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479@item GNU diffutils version 2.7 (or later)
480
80521187 481Useful when submitting patches for the GCC source code.
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482
483@item patch version 2.5.4 (or later)
484
485Necessary when applying patches, created with @command{diff}, to one's
486own sources.
487
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488@item ecj1
489@itemx gjavah
490
491If you wish to modify @file{.java} files in libjava, you will need to
492configure with @option{--enable-java-maintainer-mode}, and you will need
493to have executables named @command{ecj1} and @command{gjavah} in your path.
494The @command{ecj1} executable should run the Eclipse Java compiler via
495the GCC-specific entry point. You can download a suitable jar from
496@uref{ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/}, or by running the script
497@command{contrib/download_ecj}.
498
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499@item antlr.jar version 2.7.1 (or later)
500@itemx antlr binary
501
502If you wish to build the @command{gjdoc} binary in libjava, you will
e4ae5e77 503need to have an @file{antlr.jar} library available. The library is
169264b3 504searched for in system locations but can be specified with
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505@option{--with-antlr-jar=} instead. When configuring with
506@option{--enable-java-maintainer-mode}, you will need to have one of
507the executables named @command{cantlr}, @command{runantlr} or
508@command{antlr} in your path.
509
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510@end table
511
512@html
513<hr />
514<p>
515@end html
516@ifhtml
517@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
518@end ifhtml
519@end ifset
520
f42974dc 521@c ***Downloading the source**************************************************
6cfb3f16 522@ifnothtml
f42974dc 523@comment node-name, next, previous, up
67b1fbb9 524@node Downloading the source, Configuration, Prerequisites, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 525@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 526@ifset downloadhtml
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527@ifnothtml
528@chapter Downloading GCC
529@end ifnothtml
530@cindex Downloading GCC
531@cindex Downloading the Source
532
80521187 533GCC is distributed via @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html,,SVN} and FTP
eea81d3e 534tarballs compressed with @command{gzip} or
47876a2a 535@command{bzip2}.
f42974dc 536
962e6e00 537Please refer to the @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html,,releases web page}
161d7b59 538for information on how to obtain GCC@.
f42974dc 539
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540The source distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java,
541and Ada (in the case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers, as well as
542runtime libraries for C++, Objective-C, Fortran, and Java.
543For previous versions these were downloadable as separate components such
544as the core GCC distribution, which included the C language front end and
545shared components, and language-specific distributions including the
546language front end and the language runtime (where appropriate).
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548If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing
549installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your
550OS), unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or
551a separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any
552components of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler
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553(@file{bfd}, @file{binutils}, @file{gas}, @file{gprof}, @file{ld},
554@file{opcodes}, @dots{}) to the directory containing the GCC sources.
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556Likewise the GMP, MPFR and MPC libraries can be automatically built
557together with GCC. Unpack the GMP, MPFR and/or MPC source
558distributions in the directory containing the GCC sources and rename
559their directories to @file{gmp}, @file{mpfr} and @file{mpc},
560respectively (or use symbolic links with the same name).
641afcff 561
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565@end html
566@ifhtml
567@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
568@end ifhtml
569@end ifset
570
571@c ***Configuration***********************************************************
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573@comment node-name, next, previous, up
574@node Configuration, Building, Downloading the source, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 575@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 576@ifset configurehtml
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577@ifnothtml
578@chapter Installing GCC: Configuration
579@end ifnothtml
580@cindex Configuration
581@cindex Installing GCC: Configuration
582
583Like most GNU software, GCC must be configured before it can be built.
584This document describes the recommended configuration procedure
585for both native and cross targets.
586
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587We use @var{srcdir} to refer to the toplevel source directory for
588GCC; we use @var{objdir} to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
589
80521187 590If you obtained the sources via SVN, @var{srcdir} must refer to the top
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591@file{gcc} directory, the one where the @file{MAINTAINERS} file can be
592found, and not its @file{gcc} subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
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594If either @var{srcdir} or @var{objdir} is located on an automounted NFS
595file system, the shell's built-in @command{pwd} command will return
596temporary pathnames. Using these can lead to various sorts of build
597problems. To avoid this issue, set the @env{PWDCMD} environment
598variable to an automounter-aware @command{pwd} command, e.g.,
7ba4ca63 599@command{pawd} or @samp{amq -w}, during the configuration and build
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600phases.
601
102b60d1 602First, we @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built into a
0b70519f 603separate directory from the sources which does @strong{not} reside
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604within the source tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building
605where @var{srcdir} == @var{objdir} should still work, but doesn't
606get extensive testing; building where @var{objdir} is a subdirectory
607of @var{srcdir} is unsupported.
f42974dc 608
eea81d3e 609If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
f85b8d1a 610different target machine, do @samp{make distclean} to delete all files
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611that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is @file{Makefile};
612if @samp{make distclean} complains that @file{Makefile} does not exist
613or issues a message like ``don't know how to make distclean'' it probably
614means that the directory is already suitably clean. However, with the
615recommended method of building in a separate @var{objdir}, you should
616simply use a different @var{objdir} for each target.
f85b8d1a 617
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618Second, when configuring a native system, either @command{cc} or
619@command{gcc} must be in your path or you must set @env{CC} in
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620your environment before running configure. Otherwise the configuration
621scripts may fail.
f42974dc 622
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624Note that the bootstrap compiler and the resulting GCC must be link
625compatible, else the bootstrap will fail with linker errors about
626incompatible object file formats. Several multilibed targets are
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627affected by this requirement, see
628@ifnothtml
629@ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
630@end ifnothtml
c009f01f 631@ifhtml
e69aa433 632@uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
c009f01f 633@end ifhtml
cc11cc9b 634@end ignore
eea81d3e 635
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636To configure GCC:
637
3ab51846 638@smallexample
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640% cd @var{objdir}
641% @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
3ab51846 642@end smallexample
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644@heading Distributor options
645
646If you will be distributing binary versions of GCC, with modifications
647to the source code, you should use the options described in this
648section to make clear that your version contains modifications.
649
650@table @code
651@item --with-pkgversion=@var{version}
652Specify a string that identifies your package. You may wish
653to include a build number or build date. This version string will be
654included in the output of @command{gcc --version}. This suffix does
655not replace the default version string, only the @samp{GCC} part.
656
657The default value is @samp{GCC}.
658
659@item --with-bugurl=@var{url}
660Specify the URL that users should visit if they wish to report a bug.
661You are of course welcome to forward bugs reported to you to the FSF,
662if you determine that they are not bugs in your modifications.
663
664The default value refers to the FSF's GCC bug tracker.
665
666@end table
f42974dc 667
ef88b07d 668@heading Target specification
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670@item
38209993 671GCC has code to correctly determine the correct value for @var{target}
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672for nearly all native systems. Therefore, we highly recommend you do
673not provide a configure target when configuring a native compiler.
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675@item
6cfb3f16 676@var{target} must be specified as @option{--target=@var{target}}
f9047ed3 677when configuring a cross compiler; examples of valid targets would be
52c0e446 678m68k-elf, sh-elf, etc.
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680@item
6cfb3f16 681Specifying just @var{target} instead of @option{--target=@var{target}}
38209993 682implies that the host defaults to @var{target}.
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684
685
ef88b07d 686@heading Options specification
f42974dc 687
ef88b07d 688Use @var{options} to override several configure time options for
7ba4ca63 689GCC@. A list of supported @var{options} follows; @samp{configure
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690--help} may list other options, but those not listed below may not
691work and should not normally be used.
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693Note that each @option{--enable} option has a corresponding
694@option{--disable} option and that each @option{--with} option has a
695corresponding @option{--without} option.
696
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697@table @code
698@item --prefix=@var{dirname}
699Specify the toplevel installation
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700directory. This is the recommended way to install the tools into a directory
701other than the default. The toplevel installation directory defaults to
6cfb3f16 702@file{/usr/local}.
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38209993 704We @strong{highly} recommend against @var{dirname} being the same or a
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705subdirectory of @var{objdir} or vice versa. If specifying a directory
706beneath a user's home directory tree, some shells will not expand
707@var{dirname} correctly if it contains the @samp{~} metacharacter; use
708@env{$HOME} instead.
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710The following standard @command{autoconf} options are supported. Normally you
711should not need to use these options.
ef88b07d 712@table @code
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713@item --exec-prefix=@var{dirname}
714Specify the toplevel installation directory for architecture-dependent
715files. The default is @file{@var{prefix}}.
716
717@item --bindir=@var{dirname}
718Specify the installation directory for the executables called by users
719(such as @command{gcc} and @command{g++}). The default is
720@file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}.
721
722@item --libdir=@var{dirname}
723Specify the installation directory for object code libraries and
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724internal data files of GCC@. The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/lib}.
725
726@item --libexecdir=@var{dirname}
727Specify the installation directory for internal executables of GCC@.
6ccde948 728The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/libexec}.
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730@item --with-slibdir=@var{dirname}
731Specify the installation directory for the shared libgcc library. The
732default is @file{@var{libdir}}.
733
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734@item --datarootdir=@var{dirname}
735Specify the root of the directory tree for read-only architecture-independent
736data files referenced by GCC@. The default is @file{@var{prefix}/share}.
737
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738@item --infodir=@var{dirname}
739Specify the installation directory for documentation in info format.
70fa0efa 740The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}/info}.
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743Specify the installation directory for some architecture-independent
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744data files referenced by GCC@. The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}}.
745
746@item --docdir=@var{dirname}
747Specify the installation directory for documentation files (other
748than Info) for GCC@. The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}/doc}.
749
750@item --htmldir=@var{dirname}
751Specify the installation directory for HTML documentation files.
752The default is @file{@var{docdir}}.
753
754@item --pdfdir=@var{dirname}
755Specify the installation directory for PDF documentation files.
756The default is @file{@var{docdir}}.
8567c70f 757
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758@item --mandir=@var{dirname}
759Specify the installation directory for manual pages. The default is
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760@file{@var{datarootdir}/man}. (Note that the manual pages are only extracts
761from the full GCC manuals, which are provided in Texinfo format. The manpages
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762are derived by an automatic conversion process from parts of the full
763manual.)
764
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766Specify
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767the installation directory for G++ header files. The default depends
768on other configuration options, and differs between cross and native
769configurations.
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772Specify additional command line driver SPECS.
773This can be useful if you need to turn on a non-standard feature by
774default without modifying the compiler's source code, for instance
775@option{--with-specs=%@{!fcommon:%@{!fno-common:-fno-common@}@}}.
776@ifnothtml
777@xref{Spec Files,, Specifying subprocesses and the switches to pass to them,
778gcc, Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
779@end ifnothtml
780@ifhtml
781See ``Spec Files'' in the main manual
782@end ifhtml
783
ef88b07d 784@end table
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786@item --program-prefix=@var{prefix}
787GCC supports some transformations of the names of its programs when
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788installing them. This option prepends @var{prefix} to the names of
789programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). For example, specifying
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790@option{--program-prefix=foo-} would result in @samp{gcc}
791being installed as @file{/usr/local/bin/foo-gcc}.
792
793@item --program-suffix=@var{suffix}
794Appends @var{suffix} to the names of programs to install in @var{bindir}
8a36672b 795(see above). For example, specifying @option{--program-suffix=-3.1}
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796would result in @samp{gcc} being installed as
797@file{/usr/local/bin/gcc-3.1}.
798
799@item --program-transform-name=@var{pattern}
800Applies the @samp{sed} script @var{pattern} to be applied to the names
8a36672b 801of programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). @var{pattern} has to
b21d216c 802consist of one or more basic @samp{sed} editing commands, separated by
8a36672b 803semicolons. For example, if you want the @samp{gcc} program name to be
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804transformed to the installed program @file{/usr/local/bin/myowngcc} and
805the @samp{g++} program name to be transformed to
806@file{/usr/local/bin/gspecial++} without changing other program names,
807you could use the pattern
808@option{--program-transform-name='s/^gcc$/myowngcc/; s/^g++$/gspecial++/'}
809to achieve this effect.
810
811All three options can be combined and used together, resulting in more
8a36672b 812complex conversion patterns. As a basic rule, @var{prefix} (and
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813@var{suffix}) are prepended (appended) before further transformations
814can happen with a special transformation script @var{pattern}.
815
8c085f6f 816As currently implemented, this option only takes effect for native
b21d216c 817builds; cross compiler binaries' names are not transformed even when a
8c085f6f 818transformation is explicitly asked for by one of these options.
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819
820For native builds, some of the installed programs are also installed
821with the target alias in front of their name, as in
8a36672b 822@samp{i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc}. All of the above transformations happen
78466c0e 823before the target alias is prepended to the name---so, specifying
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824@option{--program-prefix=foo-} and @option{program-suffix=-3.1}, the
825resulting binary would be installed as
826@file{/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-foo-gcc-3.1}.
827
8ecab453 828As a last shortcoming, none of the installed Ada programs are
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829transformed yet, which will be fixed in some time.
830
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831@item --with-local-prefix=@var{dirname}
832Specify the
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833installation directory for local include files. The default is
834@file{/usr/local}. Specify this option if you want the compiler to
835search directory @file{@var{dirname}/include} for locally installed
836header files @emph{instead} of @file{/usr/local/include}.
837
838You should specify @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{only} if your
839site has a different convention (not @file{/usr/local}) for where to put
840site-specific files.
841
842The default value for @option{--with-local-prefix} is @file{/usr/local}
843regardless of the value of @option{--prefix}. Specifying
844@option{--prefix} has no effect on which directory GCC searches for
845local header files. This may seem counterintuitive, but actually it is
846logical.
847
848The purpose of @option{--prefix} is to specify where to @emph{install
849GCC}. The local header files in @file{/usr/local/include}---if you put
161d7b59 850any in that directory---are not part of GCC@. They are part of other
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851programs---perhaps many others. (GCC installs its own header files in
852another directory which is based on the @option{--prefix} value.)
853
48209ce5 854Both the local-prefix include directory and the GCC-prefix include
78466c0e 855directory are part of GCC's ``system include'' directories. Although these
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856two directories are not fixed, they need to be searched in the proper
857order for the correct processing of the include_next directive. The
858local-prefix include directory is searched before the GCC-prefix
859include directory. Another characteristic of system include directories
860is that pedantic warnings are turned off for headers in these directories.
861
862Some autoconf macros add @option{-I @var{directory}} options to the
863compiler command line, to ensure that directories containing installed
864packages' headers are searched. When @var{directory} is one of GCC's
865system include directories, GCC will ignore the option so that system
866directories continue to be processed in the correct order. This
867may result in a search order different from what was specified but the
868directory will still be searched.
869
870GCC automatically searches for ordinary libraries using
871@env{GCC_EXEC_PREFIX}. Thus, when the same installation prefix is
872used for both GCC and packages, GCC will automatically search for
873both headers and libraries. This provides a configuration that is
874easy to use. GCC behaves in a manner similar to that when it is
875installed as a system compiler in @file{/usr}.
876
877Sites that need to install multiple versions of GCC may not want to
878use the above simple configuration. It is possible to use the
879@option{--program-prefix}, @option{--program-suffix} and
880@option{--program-transform-name} options to install multiple versions
881into a single directory, but it may be simpler to use different prefixes
882and the @option{--with-local-prefix} option to specify the location of the
883site-specific files for each version. It will then be necessary for
884users to specify explicitly the location of local site libraries
885(e.g., with @env{LIBRARY_PATH}).
886
887The same value can be used for both @option{--with-local-prefix} and
888@option{--prefix} provided it is not @file{/usr}. This can be used
889to avoid the default search of @file{/usr/local/include}.
890
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891@strong{Do not} specify @file{/usr} as the @option{--with-local-prefix}!
892The directory you use for @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{must not}
893contain any of the system's standard header files. If it did contain
894them, certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on
895certain targets), because this would override and nullify the header
4c64396e 896file corrections made by the @command{fixincludes} script.
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897
898Indications are that people who use this option use it based on mistaken
899ideas of what it is for. People use it as if it specified where to
161d7b59 900install part of GCC@. Perhaps they make this assumption because
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901installing GCC creates the directory.
902
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903@item --with-native-system-header-dir=@var{dirname}
904Specifies that @var{dirname} is the directory that contains native system
905header files, rather than @file{/usr/include}. This option is most useful
906if you are creating a compiler that should be isolated from the system
907as much as possible. It is most commonly used with the
908@option{--with-sysroot} option and will cause GCC to search
909@var{dirname} inside the system root specified by that option.
910
6cfb3f16 911@item --enable-shared[=@var{package}[,@dots{}]]
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912Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are supported on
913the target platform. Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier, shared libraries
07659e97 914are enabled by default on all platforms that support shared libraries.
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916If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared libraries
917only for the listed packages. For other packages, only static libraries
918will be built. Package names currently recognized in the GCC tree are
919@samp{libgcc} (also known as @samp{gcc}), @samp{libstdc++} (not
e22df315 920@samp{libstdc++-v3}), @samp{libffi}, @samp{zlib}, @samp{boehm-gc},
7a938933 921@samp{ada}, @samp{libada}, @samp{libjava}, @samp{libgo}, and @samp{libobjc}.
55c45226 922Note @samp{libiberty} does not support shared libraries at all.
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924Use @option{--disable-shared} to build only static libraries. Note that
925@option{--disable-shared} does not accept a list of package names as
926argument, only @option{--enable-shared} does.
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929Specify that the compiler should assume that the
767094dd 930assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify
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931the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if the
932assembler found is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion may also
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933result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been
934configured with @option{--with-gnu-as}.) If you have more than one
38209993 935assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option in
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936connection with @option{--with-as=@var{pathname}} or
937@option{--with-build-time-tools=@var{pathname}}.
38209993 938
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940whether you use the GNU assembler. On any other system,
941@option{--with-gnu-as} has no effect.
942
2ff16718 943@itemize @bullet
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944@item @samp{hppa1.0-@var{any}-@var{any}}
945@item @samp{hppa1.1-@var{any}-@var{any}}
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946@item @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.@var{any}}
947@item @samp{sparc64-@var{any}-solaris2.@var{any}}
8c085f6f 948@end itemize
8c26c999 949
8f2afc21 950@item @anchor{with-as}--with-as=@var{pathname}
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951Specify that the compiler should use the assembler pointed to by
952@var{pathname}, rather than the one found by the standard rules to find
953an assembler, which are:
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955@item
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956Unless GCC is being built with a cross compiler, check the
957@file{@var{libexec}/gcc/@var{target}/@var{version}} directory.
958@var{libexec} defaults to @file{@var{exec-prefix}/libexec};
959@var{exec-prefix} defaults to @var{prefix}, which
960defaults to @file{/usr/local} unless overridden by the
961@option{--prefix=@var{pathname}} switch described above. @var{target}
962is the target system triple, such as @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.7}, and
963@var{version} denotes the GCC version, such as 3.0.
964
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967operating system specific directories (e.g.@: @file{/usr/ccs/bin} on
250d5688 968Sun Solaris 2).
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970@item
971Check in the @env{PATH} for a tool whose name is prefixed by the
972target system triple.
973
974@item
975Check in the @env{PATH} for a tool whose name is not prefixed by the
976target system triple, if the host and target system triple are
977the same (in other words, we use a host tool if it can be used for
978the target as well).
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980
981You may want to use @option{--with-as} if no assembler
982is installed in the directories listed above, or if you have multiple
983assemblers installed and want to choose one that is not found by the
984above rules.
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987Same as @uref{#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}}
8f2afc21 988but for the linker.
f42974dc 989
eea81d3e 990@item --with-ld=@var{pathname}
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991Same as @uref{#with-as,,@option{--with-as}}
992but for the linker.
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995Specify that stabs debugging
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997uses. Normally GCC uses the same debug format as the host system.
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999On MIPS based systems and on Alphas, you must specify whether you want
1000GCC to create the normal ECOFF debugging format, or to use BSD-style
1001stabs passed through the ECOFF symbol table. The normal ECOFF debug
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1002format cannot fully handle languages other than C@. BSD stabs format can
1003handle other languages, but it only works with the GNU debugger GDB@.
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1004
1005Normally, GCC uses the ECOFF debugging format by default; if you
161d7b59 1006prefer BSD stabs, specify @option{--with-stabs} when you configure GCC@.
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1007
1008No matter which default you choose when you configure GCC, the user
1009can use the @option{-gcoff} and @option{-gstabs+} options to specify explicitly
1010the debug format for a particular compilation.
1011
1012@option{--with-stabs} is meaningful on the ISC system on the 386, also, if
1013@option{--with-gas} is used. It selects use of stabs debugging
1014information embedded in COFF output. This kind of debugging information
1015supports C++ well; ordinary COFF debugging information does not.
1016
1017@option{--with-stabs} is also meaningful on 386 systems running SVR4. It
1018selects use of stabs debugging information embedded in ELF output. The
1019C++ compiler currently (2.6.0) does not support the DWARF debugging
1020information normally used on 386 SVR4 platforms; stabs provide a
1021workable alternative. This requires gas and gdb, as the normal SVR4
1022tools can not generate or interpret stabs.
1023
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1024@item --with-tls=@var{dialect}
1025Specify the default TLS dialect, for systems were there is a choice.
1026For ARM targets, possible values for @var{dialect} are @code{gnu} or
1027@code{gnu2}, which select between the original GNU dialect and the GNU TLS
1028descriptor-based dialect.
1029
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1031Specify whether to enable or disable multiarch support. The default is
1032to check for glibc start files in a multiarch location, and enable it
1033if the files are found. The auto detection is enabled for native builds,
1034and for cross builds configured with @option{--with-sysroot}, and without
1035@option{--with-native-system-header-dir}.
1036More documentation about multiarch can be found at
1037@uref{http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch}.
1038
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1039@item --enable-vtable-verify
1040Specify whether to enable or disable the vtable verification feature.
1041Enabling this feature causes libstdc++ to be built with its virtual calls
1042in verifiable mode. This means that, when linked with libvtv, every
1043virtual call in libstdc++ will verify the vtable pointer through which the
1044call will be made before actually making the call. If not linked with libvtv,
1045the verifier will call stub functions (in libstdc++ itself) and do nothing.
1046If vtable verification is disabled, then libstdc++ is not built with its
1047virtual calls in verifiable mode at all. However the libvtv library will
1048still be built (see @option{--disable-libvtv} to turn off building libvtv).
1049@option{--disable-vtable-verify} is the default.
1050
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1051@item --disable-multilib
1052Specify that multiple target
1053libraries to support different target variants, calling
1054conventions, etc.@: should not be built. The default is to build a
1055predefined set of them.
1056
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1057Some targets provide finer-grained control over which multilibs are built
1058(e.g., @option{--disable-softfloat}):
1059@table @code
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1060@item arm-*-*
1061fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
1062
1063@item m68*-*-*
1064softfloat, m68881, m68000, m68020.
1065
1066@item mips*-*-*
1067single-float, biendian, softfloat.
1068
1069@item powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*
1070aix64, pthread, softfloat, powercpu, powerpccpu, powerpcos, biendian,
f282ffb3 1071sysv, aix.
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1073@end table
1074
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1075@item --with-multilib-list=@var{list}
1076@itemx --without-multilib-list
1077Specify what multilibs to build.
f0ea7581 1078Currently only implemented for sh*-*-* and x86-64-*-linux*.
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1080@table @code
1081@item sh*-*-*
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1082@var{list} is a comma separated list of CPU names. These must be of the
1083form @code{sh*} or @code{m*} (in which case they match the compiler option
1084for that processor). The list should not contain any endian options -
1085these are handled by @option{--with-endian}.
1086
1087If @var{list} is empty, then there will be no multilibs for extra
1088processors. The multilib for the secondary endian remains enabled.
1089
1090As a special case, if an entry in the list starts with a @code{!}
1091(exclamation point), then it is added to the list of excluded multilibs.
1092Entries of this sort should be compatible with @samp{MULTILIB_EXCLUDES}
1093(once the leading @code{!} has been stripped).
1094
1095If @option{--with-multilib-list} is not given, then a default set of
1096multilibs is selected based on the value of @option{--target}. This is
1097usually the complete set of libraries, but some targets imply a more
1098specialized subset.
1099
1100Example 1: to configure a compiler for SH4A only, but supporting both
1101endians, with little endian being the default:
1102@smallexample
1103--with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big --with-multilib-list=
1104@end smallexample
1105
1106Example 2: to configure a compiler for both SH4A and SH4AL-DSP, but with
1107only little endian SH4AL:
1108@smallexample
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1110--with-multilib-list=sh4al,!mb/m4al
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1111@end smallexample
1112
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1113@item x86-64-*-linux*
1114@var{list} is a comma separated list of @code{m32}, @code{m64} and
1115@code{mx32} to enable 32-bit, 64-bit and x32 run-time libraries,
1116respectively. If @var{list} is empty, then there will be no multilibs
1117and only the default run-time library will be enabled.
1118
1119If @option{--with-multilib-list} is not given, then only 32-bit and
112064-bit run-time libraries will be enabled.
1121@end table
1122
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1123@item --with-endian=@var{endians}
1124Specify what endians to use.
1125Currently only implemented for sh*-*-*.
1126
1127@var{endians} may be one of the following:
1128@table @code
1129@item big
1130Use big endian exclusively.
1131@item little
1132Use little endian exclusively.
1133@item big,little
1134Use big endian by default. Provide a multilib for little endian.
1135@item little,big
1136Use little endian by default. Provide a multilib for big endian.
1137@end table
1138
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1139@item --enable-threads
1140Specify that the target
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1141supports threads. This affects the Objective-C compiler and runtime
1142library, and exception handling for other languages like C++ and Java.
6ac48571 1143On some systems, this is the default.
f42974dc 1144
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1145In general, the best (and, in many cases, the only known) threading
1146model available will be configured for use. Beware that on some
2dd76960 1147systems, GCC has not been taught what threading models are generally
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1148available for the system. In this case, @option{--enable-threads} is an
1149alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
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1150
1151@item --disable-threads
1152Specify that threading support should be disabled for the system.
3c6bb1db 1153This is an alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
f6160ed5 1154
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1155@item --enable-threads=@var{lib}
1156Specify that
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1157@var{lib} is the thread support library. This affects the Objective-C
1158compiler and runtime library, and exception handling for other languages
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1159like C++ and Java. The possibilities for @var{lib} are:
1160
1161@table @code
1162@item aix
1163AIX thread support.
1164@item dce
1165DCE thread support.
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1166@item lynx
1167LynxOS thread support.
1168@item mipssde
1169MIPS SDE thread support.
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1170@item no
1171This is an alias for @samp{single}.
f85b8d1a 1172@item posix
18167442 1173Generic POSIX/Unix98 thread support.
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1174@item rtems
1175RTEMS thread support.
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1176@item single
1177Disable thread support, should work for all platforms.
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1179TPF thread support.
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1180@item vxworks
1181VxWorks thread support.
1182@item win32
1183Microsoft Win32 API thread support.
1184@end table
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1186@item --enable-tls
1187Specify that the target supports TLS (Thread Local Storage). Usually
1188configure can correctly determine if TLS is supported. In cases where
1189it guesses incorrectly, TLS can be explicitly enabled or disabled with
1190@option{--enable-tls} or @option{--disable-tls}. This can happen if
1191the assembler supports TLS but the C library does not, or if the
1192assumptions made by the configure test are incorrect.
1193
1194@item --disable-tls
1195Specify that the target does not support TLS.
1196This is an alias for @option{--enable-tls=no}.
1197
ef88b07d 1198@item --with-cpu=@var{cpu}
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1199@itemx --with-cpu-32=@var{cpu}
1200@itemx --with-cpu-64=@var{cpu}
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1201Specify which cpu variant the compiler should generate code for by default.
1202@var{cpu} will be used as the default value of the @option{-mcpu=} switch.
59fbf3cb 1203This option is only supported on some targets, including ARM, i386, M68k,
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1204PowerPC, and SPARC@. The @option{--with-cpu-32} and
1205@option{--with-cpu-64} options specify separate default CPUs for
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120632-bit and 64-bit modes; these options are only supported for i386,
1207x86-64 and PowerPC.
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1208
1209@item --with-schedule=@var{cpu}
1210@itemx --with-arch=@var{cpu}
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1211@itemx --with-arch-32=@var{cpu}
1212@itemx --with-arch-64=@var{cpu}
7816bea0 1213@itemx --with-tune=@var{cpu}
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1214@itemx --with-tune-32=@var{cpu}
1215@itemx --with-tune-64=@var{cpu}
7816bea0 1216@itemx --with-abi=@var{abi}
9b66ebb1 1217@itemx --with-fpu=@var{type}
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1218@itemx --with-float=@var{type}
1219These configure options provide default values for the @option{-mschedule=},
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1220@option{-march=}, @option{-mtune=}, @option{-mabi=}, and @option{-mfpu=}
1221options and for @option{-mhard-float} or @option{-msoft-float}. As with
1222@option{--with-cpu}, which switches will be accepted and acceptable values
1223of the arguments depend on the target.
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1225@item --with-mode=@var{mode}
1226Specify if the compiler should default to @option{-marm} or @option{-mthumb}.
1227This option is only supported on ARM targets.
1228
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1229@item --with-stack-offset=@var{num}
1230This option sets the default for the -mstack-offset=@var{num} option,
1231and will thus generally also control the setting of this option for
1232libraries. This option is only supported on Epiphany targets.
1233
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1234@item --with-fpmath=@var{isa}
1235This options sets @option{-mfpmath=sse} by default and specifies the default
1236ISA for floating-point arithmetics. You can select either @samp{sse} which
1237enables @option{-msse2} or @samp{avx} which enables @option{-mavx} by default.
1238This option is only supported on i386 and x86-64 targets.
a3af5e26 1239
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1240@item --with-nan=@var{encoding}
1241On MIPS targets, set the default encoding convention to use for the
1242special not-a-number (NaN) IEEE 754 floating-point data. The
1243possibilities for @var{encoding} are:
1244@table @code
1245@item legacy
1246Use the legacy encoding, as with the @option{-mnan=legacy} command-line
1247option.
1248@item 2008
1249Use the 754-2008 encoding, as with the @option{-mnan=2008} command-line
1250option.
1251@end table
1252To use this configuration option you must have an assembler version
1253installed that supports the @option{-mnan=} command-line option too.
1254In the absence of this configuration option the default convention is
1255the legacy encoding, as when neither of the @option{-mnan=2008} and
1256@option{-mnan=legacy} command-line options has been used.
1257
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1258@item --with-divide=@var{type}
1259Specify how the compiler should generate code for checking for
1260division by zero. This option is only supported on the MIPS target.
1261The possibilities for @var{type} are:
1262@table @code
1263@item traps
1264Division by zero checks use conditional traps (this is the default on
1265systems that support conditional traps).
1266@item breaks
1267Division by zero checks use the break instruction.
1268@end table
1269
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1270@c If you make --with-llsc the default for additional targets,
1271@c update the --with-llsc description in the MIPS section below.
1272
1273@item --with-llsc
1274On MIPS targets, make @option{-mllsc} the default when no
3805a93e 1275@option{-mno-llsc} option is passed. This is the default for
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1276Linux-based targets, as the kernel will emulate them if the ISA does
1277not provide them.
1278
1279@item --without-llsc
1280On MIPS targets, make @option{-mno-llsc} the default when no
1281@option{-mllsc} option is passed.
1282
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1283@item --with-synci
1284On MIPS targets, make @option{-msynci} the default when no
1285@option{-mno-synci} option is passed.
1286
ff2ce160 1287@item --without-synci
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1288On MIPS targets, make @option{-mno-synci} the default when no
1289@option{-msynci} option is passed. This is the default.
1290
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1291@item --with-mips-plt
1292On MIPS targets, make use of copy relocations and PLTs.
1293These features are extensions to the traditional
1294SVR4-based MIPS ABIs and require support from GNU binutils
1295and the runtime C library.
1296
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1297@item --enable-__cxa_atexit
1298Define if you want to use __cxa_atexit, rather than atexit, to
1299register C++ destructors for local statics and global objects.
1300This is essential for fully standards-compliant handling of
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1301destructors, but requires __cxa_atexit in libc. This option is currently
1302only available on systems with GNU libc. When enabled, this will cause
cea79118 1303@option{-fuse-cxa-atexit} to be passed by default.
354b7da5 1304
d1a6ec10 1305@item --enable-gnu-indirect-function
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1306Define if you want to enable the @code{ifunc} attribute. This option is
1307currently only available on systems with GNU libc on certain targets.
1308
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1309@item --enable-target-optspace
1310Specify that target
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1311libraries should be optimized for code space instead of code speed.
1312This is the default for the m32r platform.
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1314@item --with-cpp-install-dir=@var{dirname}
1315Specify that the user visible @command{cpp} program should be installed
1316in @file{@var{prefix}/@var{dirname}/cpp}, in addition to @var{bindir}.
f42974dc 1317
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1318@item --enable-comdat
1319Enable COMDAT group support. This is primarily used to override the
1320automatically detected value.
1321
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1322@item --enable-initfini-array
1323Force the use of sections @code{.init_array} and @code{.fini_array}
1324(instead of @code{.init} and @code{.fini}) for constructors and
1325destructors. Option @option{--disable-initfini-array} has the
1326opposite effect. If neither option is specified, the configure script
1327will try to guess whether the @code{.init_array} and
1328@code{.fini_array} sections are supported and, if they are, use them.
1329
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1330@item --enable-link-mutex
1331When building GCC, use a mutex to avoid linking the compilers for
1332multiple languages at the same time, to avoid thrashing on build
1333systems with limited free memory. The default is not to use such a mutex.
1334
ef88b07d 1335@item --enable-maintainer-mode
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1336The build rules that regenerate the Autoconf and Automake output files as
1337well as the GCC master message catalog @file{gcc.pot} are normally
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1338disabled. This is because it can only be rebuilt if the complete source
1339tree is present. If you have changed the sources and want to rebuild the
6ac48571 1340catalog, configuring with @option{--enable-maintainer-mode} will enable
767094dd 1341this. Note that you need a recent version of the @code{gettext} tools
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1342to do so.
1343
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1344@item --disable-bootstrap
1345For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
1346a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when @samp{make} is invoked,
1347testing that GCC can compile itself correctly. If you want to disable
1348this process, you can configure with @option{--disable-bootstrap}.
1349
1350@item --enable-bootstrap
1351In special cases, you may want to perform a 3-stage build
1352even if the target and host triplets are different.
0b70519f 1353This is possible when the host can run code compiled for
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PB
1354the target (e.g.@: host is i686-linux, target is i486-linux).
1355Starting from GCC 4.2, to do this you have to configure explicitly
1356with @option{--enable-bootstrap}.
1357
51b9ff45 1358@item --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir
80521187 1359Neither the .c and .h files that are generated from Bison and flex nor the
51b9ff45 1360info manuals and man pages that are built from the .texi files are present
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1361in the SVN development tree. When building GCC from that development tree,
1362or from one of our snapshots, those generated files are placed in your
1363build directory, which allows for the source to be in a readonly
1364directory.
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1365
1366If you configure with @option{--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir} then those
1367generated files will go into the source directory. This is mainly intended
1368for generating release or prerelease tarballs of the GCC sources, since it
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1369is not a requirement that the users of source releases to have flex, Bison,
1370or makeinfo.
51b9ff45 1371
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1372@item --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
1373Specify
38209993 1374that runtime libraries should be installed in the compiler specific
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1375subdirectory (@file{@var{libdir}/gcc}) rather than the usual places. In
1376addition, @samp{libstdc++}'s include files will be installed into
1377@file{@var{libdir}} unless you overruled it by using
6cfb3f16 1378@option{--with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}}. Using this option is
38209993 1379particularly useful if you intend to use several versions of GCC in
8a36672b 1380parallel. This is currently supported by @samp{libgfortran},
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1381@samp{libjava}, @samp{libmudflap}, @samp{libstdc++}, and @samp{libobjc}.
1382
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1383@item --enable-languages=@var{lang1},@var{lang2},@dots{}
1384Specify that only a particular subset of compilers and
767094dd 1385their runtime libraries should be built. For a list of valid values for
6cfb3f16 1386@var{langN} you can issue the following command in the
eea81d3e 1387@file{gcc} directory of your GCC source tree:@*
3ab51846 1388@smallexample
eea81d3e 1389grep language= */config-lang.in
3ab51846 1390@end smallexample
eea81d3e 1391Currently, you can use any of the following:
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1392@code{all}, @code{ada}, @code{c}, @code{c++}, @code{fortran},
1393@code{go}, @code{java}, @code{objc}, @code{obj-c++}.
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1394Building the Ada compiler has special requirements, see below.
1395If you do not pass this flag, or specify the option @code{all}, then all
1396default languages available in the @file{gcc} sub-tree will be configured.
7a938933 1397Ada, Go and Objective-C++ are not default languages; the rest are.
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1399@item --enable-stage1-languages=@var{lang1},@var{lang2},@dots{}
1400Specify that a particular subset of compilers and their runtime
1401libraries should be built with the system C compiler during stage 1 of
1402the bootstrap process, rather than only in later stages with the
1403bootstrapped C compiler. The list of valid values is the same as for
1404@option{--enable-languages}, and the option @code{all} will select all
1405of the languages enabled by @option{--enable-languages}. This option is
1406primarily useful for GCC development; for instance, when a development
1407version of the compiler cannot bootstrap due to compiler bugs, or when
1408one is debugging front ends other than the C front end. When this
1409option is used, one can then build the target libraries for the
1410specified languages with the stage-1 compiler by using @command{make
1411stage1-bubble all-target}, or run the testsuite on the stage-1 compiler
1412for the specified languages using @command{make stage1-start check-gcc}.
1413
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1414@item --disable-libada
1415Specify that the run-time libraries and tools used by GNAT should not
1416be built. This can be useful for debugging, or for compatibility with
c2910edf 1417previous Ada build procedures, when it was required to explicitly
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1418do a @samp{make -C gcc gnatlib_and_tools}.
1419
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1420@item --disable-libssp
1421Specify that the run-time libraries for stack smashing protection
1422should not be built.
1423
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1424@item --disable-libquadmath
1425Specify that the GCC quad-precision math library should not be built.
1426On some systems, the library is required to be linkable when building
1427the Fortran front end, unless @option{--disable-libquadmath-support}
1428is used.
1429
1430@item --disable-libquadmath-support
1431Specify that the Fortran front end and @code{libgfortran} do not add
1432support for @code{libquadmath} on systems supporting it.
1433
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1434@item --disable-libgomp
1435Specify that the run-time libraries used by GOMP should not be built.
1436
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1437@item --disable-libvtv
1438Specify that the run-time libraries used by vtable verification
1439should not be built.
1440
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1441@item --with-dwarf2
1442Specify that the compiler should
eea81d3e 1443use DWARF 2 debugging information as the default.
f85b8d1a 1444
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1445@item --enable-targets=all
1446@itemx --enable-targets=@var{target_list}
1447Some GCC targets, e.g.@: powerpc64-linux, build bi-arch compilers.
1448These are compilers that are able to generate either 64-bit or 32-bit
8ab5f5c9 1449code. Typically, the corresponding 32-bit target, e.g.@:
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1450powerpc-linux for powerpc64-linux, only generates 32-bit code. This
1451option enables the 32-bit target to be a bi-arch compiler, which is
1452useful when you want a bi-arch compiler that defaults to 32-bit, and
1453you are building a bi-arch or multi-arch binutils in a combined tree.
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1454On mips-linux, this will build a tri-arch compiler (ABI o32/n32/64),
1455defaulted to o32.
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1456Currently, this option only affects sparc-linux, powerpc-linux, x86-linux,
1457mips-linux and s390-linux.
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1458
1459@item --enable-secureplt
1460This option enables @option{-msecure-plt} by default for powerpc-linux.
1461@ifnothtml
1462@xref{RS/6000 and PowerPC Options,, RS/6000 and PowerPC Options, gcc,
1463Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1464@end ifnothtml
1465@ifhtml
1466See ``RS/6000 and PowerPC Options'' in the main manual
1467@end ifhtml
1468
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1469@item --enable-cld
1470This option enables @option{-mcld} by default for 32-bit x86 targets.
1471@ifnothtml
1472@xref{i386 and x86-64 Options,, i386 and x86-64 Options, gcc,
1473Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1474@end ifnothtml
1475@ifhtml
1476See ``i386 and x86-64 Options'' in the main manual
1477@end ifhtml
1478
f85b8d1a 1479@item --enable-win32-registry
eea81d3e 1480@itemx --enable-win32-registry=@var{key}
f85b8d1a 1481@itemx --disable-win32-registry
95fef11f 1482The @option{--enable-win32-registry} option enables Microsoft Windows-hosted GCC
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1483to look up installations paths in the registry using the following key:
1484
1485@smallexample
eea81d3e 1486@code{HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Free Software Foundation\@var{key}}
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1487@end smallexample
1488
eea81d3e 1489@var{key} defaults to GCC version number, and can be overridden by the
8a36672b 1490@option{--enable-win32-registry=@var{key}} option. Vendors and distributors
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1491who use custom installers are encouraged to provide a different key,
1492perhaps one comprised of vendor name and GCC version number, to
767094dd 1493avoid conflict with existing installations. This feature is enabled
6cfb3f16 1494by default, and can be disabled by @option{--disable-win32-registry}
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1495option. This option has no effect on the other hosts.
1496
1497@item --nfp
1498Specify that the machine does not have a floating point unit. This
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1499option only applies to @samp{m68k-sun-sunos@var{n}}. On any other
1500system, @option{--nfp} has no effect.
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1502@item --enable-werror
1503@itemx --disable-werror
1504@itemx --enable-werror=yes
1505@itemx --enable-werror=no
1506When you specify this option, it controls whether certain files in the
1507compiler are built with @option{-Werror} in bootstrap stage2 and later.
1508If you don't specify it, @option{-Werror} is turned on for the main
1509development trunk. However it defaults to off for release branches and
1510final releases. The specific files which get @option{-Werror} are
1511controlled by the Makefiles.
1512
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1513@item --enable-checking
1514@itemx --enable-checking=@var{list}
cdce5c16 1515When you specify this option, the compiler is built to perform internal
e5080aa6 1516consistency checks of the requested complexity. This does not change the
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1517generated code, but adds error checking within the compiler. This will
1518slow down the compiler and may only work properly if you are building
1519the compiler with GCC@. This is @samp{yes} by default when building
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1520from SVN or snapshots, but @samp{release} for releases. The default
1521for building the stage1 compiler is @samp{yes}. More control
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1522over the checks may be had by specifying @var{list}. The categories of
1523checks available are @samp{yes} (most common checks
1524@samp{assert,misc,tree,gc,rtlflag,runtime}), @samp{no} (no checks at
1525all), @samp{all} (all but @samp{valgrind}), @samp{release} (cheapest
1526checks @samp{assert,runtime}) or @samp{none} (same as @samp{no}).
1527Individual checks can be enabled with these flags @samp{assert},
604f825c 1528@samp{df}, @samp{fold}, @samp{gc}, @samp{gcac} @samp{misc}, @samp{rtl},
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1529@samp{rtlflag}, @samp{runtime}, @samp{tree}, and @samp{valgrind}.
1530
1531The @samp{valgrind} check requires the external @command{valgrind}
ccf548a7 1532simulator, available from @uref{http://valgrind.org/}. The
604f825c 1533@samp{df}, @samp{rtl}, @samp{gcac} and @samp{valgrind} checks are very expensive.
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1534To disable all checking, @samp{--disable-checking} or
1535@samp{--enable-checking=none} must be explicitly requested. Disabling
1536assertions will make the compiler and runtime slightly faster but
1537increase the risk of undetected internal errors causing wrong code to be
1538generated.
f85b8d1a 1539
00f39bd5 1540@item --disable-stage1-checking
1588fb31 1541@itemx --enable-stage1-checking
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1542@itemx --enable-stage1-checking=@var{list}
1543If no @option{--enable-checking} option is specified the stage1
1544compiler will be built with @samp{yes} checking enabled, otherwise
1545the stage1 checking flags are the same as specified by
1546@option{--enable-checking}. To build the stage1 compiler with
1547different checking options use @option{--enable-stage1-checking}.
1548The list of checking options is the same as for @option{--enable-checking}.
1549If your system is too slow or too small to bootstrap a released compiler
1550with checking for stage1 enabled, you can use @samp{--disable-stage1-checking}
1551to disable checking for the stage1 compiler.
1552
22aa533e 1553@item --enable-coverage
31775d31 1554@itemx --enable-coverage=@var{level}
22aa533e 1555With this option, the compiler is built to collect self coverage
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1556information, every time it is run. This is for internal development
1557purposes, and only works when the compiler is being built with gcc. The
22aa533e 1558@var{level} argument controls whether the compiler is built optimized or
8a36672b 1559not, values are @samp{opt} and @samp{noopt}. For coverage analysis you
22aa533e 1560want to disable optimization, for performance analysis you want to
8a36672b 1561enable optimization. When coverage is enabled, the default level is
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1562without optimization.
1563
439a7e54 1564@item --enable-gather-detailed-mem-stats
95ea367d 1565When this option is specified more detailed information on memory
439a7e54 1566allocation is gathered. This information is printed when using
daf2f129 1567@option{-fmem-report}.
439a7e54 1568
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1569@item --enable-nls
1570@itemx --disable-nls
6cfb3f16 1571The @option{--enable-nls} option enables Native Language Support (NLS),
f85b8d1a 1572which lets GCC output diagnostics in languages other than American
767094dd 1573English. Native Language Support is enabled by default if not doing a
161d7b59 1574canadian cross build. The @option{--disable-nls} option disables NLS@.
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1575
1576@item --with-included-gettext
c771326b 1577If NLS is enabled, the @option{--with-included-gettext} option causes the build
021c4bfd 1578procedure to prefer its copy of GNU @command{gettext}.
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1579
1580@item --with-catgets
1581If NLS is enabled, and if the host lacks @code{gettext} but has the
1582inferior @code{catgets} interface, the GCC build procedure normally
1583ignores @code{catgets} and instead uses GCC's copy of the GNU
6cfb3f16 1584@code{gettext} library. The @option{--with-catgets} option causes the
f85b8d1a 1585build procedure to use the host's @code{catgets} in this situation.
80f9249a 1586
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1587@item --with-libiconv-prefix=@var{dir}
1588Search for libiconv header files in @file{@var{dir}/include} and
1589libiconv library files in @file{@var{dir}/lib}.
1590
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1591@item --enable-obsolete
1592Enable configuration for an obsoleted system. If you attempt to
1593configure GCC for a system (build, host, or target) which has been
1594obsoleted, and you do not specify this flag, configure will halt with an
1595error message.
1596
1597All support for systems which have been obsoleted in one release of GCC
1598is removed entirely in the next major release, unless someone steps
1599forward to maintain the port.
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1601@item --enable-decimal-float
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1602@itemx --enable-decimal-float=yes
1603@itemx --enable-decimal-float=no
1604@itemx --enable-decimal-float=bid
1605@itemx --enable-decimal-float=dpd
486aa804 1606@itemx --disable-decimal-float
79b87c74 1607Enable (or disable) support for the C decimal floating point extension
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1608that is in the IEEE 754-2008 standard. This is enabled by default only
1609on PowerPC, i386, and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems. Other systems may also
1610support it, but require the user to specifically enable it. You can
1611optionally control which decimal floating point format is used (either
1612@samp{bid} or @samp{dpd}). The @samp{bid} (binary integer decimal)
1613format is default on i386 and x86_64 systems, and the @samp{dpd}
1614(densely packed decimal) format is default on PowerPC systems.
486aa804 1615
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1616@item --enable-fixed-point
1617@itemx --disable-fixed-point
1618Enable (or disable) support for C fixed-point arithmetic.
1619This option is enabled by default for some targets (such as MIPS) which
1620have hardware-support for fixed-point operations. On other targets, you
1621may enable this option manually.
1622
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1623@item --with-long-double-128
1624Specify if @code{long double} type should be 128-bit by default on selected
1625GNU/Linux architectures. If using @code{--without-long-double-128},
1626@code{long double} will be by default 64-bit, the same as @code{double} type.
1627When neither of these configure options are used, the default will be
1628128-bit @code{long double} when built against GNU C Library 2.4 and later,
162964-bit @code{long double} otherwise.
1630
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1631@item --with-gmp=@var{pathname}
1632@itemx --with-gmp-include=@var{pathname}
1633@itemx --with-gmp-lib=@var{pathname}
1634@itemx --with-mpfr=@var{pathname}
1635@itemx --with-mpfr-include=@var{pathname}
1636@itemx --with-mpfr-lib=@var{pathname}
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1637@itemx --with-mpc=@var{pathname}
1638@itemx --with-mpc-include=@var{pathname}
1639@itemx --with-mpc-lib=@var{pathname}
7a07ae52 1640If you want to build GCC but do not have the GMP library, the MPFR
f9bab007 1641library and/or the MPC library installed in a standard location and
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1642do not have their sources present in the GCC source tree then you
1643can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
1644(@samp{--with-gmp=@var{gmpinstalldir}},
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1645@samp{--with-mpfr=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}},
1646@samp{--with-mpc=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}}). The
1647@option{--with-gmp=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1648@option{--with-gmp-lib=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}/lib} and
1649@option{--with-gmp-include=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}/include}. Likewise the
1650@option{--with-mpfr=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1651@option{--with-mpfr-lib=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}/lib} and
1652@option{--with-mpfr-include=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}/include}, also the
1653@option{--with-mpc=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1654@option{--with-mpc-lib=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}/lib} and
1655@option{--with-mpc-include=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}/include}. If these
3aea2d1c 1656shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
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1657include and lib options directly. You might also need to ensure the
1658shared libraries can be found by the dynamic linker when building and
1659using GCC, for example by setting the runtime shared library path
1660variable (@env{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} on GNU/Linux and Solaris systems).
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1662These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When building
1663a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1664
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1665@item --with-isl=@var{pathname}
1666@itemx --with-isl-include=@var{pathname}
1667@itemx --with-isl-lib=@var{pathname}
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1668@itemx --with-cloog=@var{pathname}
1669@itemx --with-cloog-include=@var{pathname}
1670@itemx --with-cloog-lib=@var{pathname}
33ad93b9 1671If you do not have ISL and the CLooG
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1672libraries installed in a standard location and you want to build GCC,
1673you can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
33ad93b9 1674(@samp{--with-isl=@/@var{islinstalldir}},
b7ae9eb5 1675@samp{--with-cloog=@/@var{clooginstalldir}}). The
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1676@option{--with-isl=@/@var{islinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1677@option{--with-isl-lib=@/@var{islinstalldir}/lib} and
1678@option{--with-isl-include=@/@var{islinstalldir}/include}. Likewise the
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1679@option{--with-cloog=@/@var{clooginstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1680@option{--with-cloog-lib=@/@var{clooginstalldir}/lib} and
1681@option{--with-cloog-include=@/@var{clooginstalldir}/include}. If these
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1682shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
1683include and lib options directly.
1684
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1685These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When building
1686a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1687
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1688@item --with-host-libstdcxx=@var{linker-args}
1689If you are linking with a static copy of PPL, you can use this option
1690to specify how the linker should find the standard C++ library used
1691internally by PPL. Typical values of @var{linker-args} might be
1692@samp{-lstdc++} or @samp{-Wl,-Bstatic,-lstdc++,-Bdynamic -lm}. If you are
1693linking with a shared copy of PPL, you probably do not need this
1694option; shared library dependencies will cause the linker to search
1695for the standard C++ library automatically.
1696
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1697@item --with-stage1-ldflags=@var{flags}
1698This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1699stage 1 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1700@option{--disable-bootstrap}. By default no special flags are used.
1701
1702@item --with-stage1-libs=@var{libs}
1703This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 1
1704of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1705@option{--disable-bootstrap}. The default is the argument to
1706@option{--with-host-libstdcxx}, if specified.
1707
1708@item --with-boot-ldflags=@var{flags}
1709This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
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1710stage 2 and later when bootstrapping GCC. If neither --with-boot-libs
1711nor --with-host-libstdcxx is set to a value, then the default is
1712@samp{-static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc}.
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1713
1714@item --with-boot-libs=@var{libs}
1715This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 2
1716and later when bootstrapping GCC. The default is the argument to
1717@option{--with-host-libstdcxx}, if specified.
1718
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1719@item --with-debug-prefix-map=@var{map}
1720Convert source directory names using @option{-fdebug-prefix-map} when
1721building runtime libraries. @samp{@var{map}} is a space-separated
1722list of maps of the form @samp{@var{old}=@var{new}}.
1723
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1724@item --enable-linker-build-id
1725Tells GCC to pass @option{--build-id} option to the linker for all final
1726links (links performed without the @option{-r} or @option{--relocatable}
1727option), if the linker supports it. If you specify
1728@option{--enable-linker-build-id}, but your linker does not
1729support @option{--build-id} option, a warning is issued and the
1730@option{--enable-linker-build-id} option is ignored. The default is off.
1731
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1732@item --with-linker-hash-style=@var{choice}
1733Tells GCC to pass @option{--hash-style=@var{choice}} option to the
1734linker for all final links. @var{choice} can be one of
1735@samp{sysv}, @samp{gnu}, and @samp{both} where @samp{sysv} is the default.
1736
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1737@item --enable-gnu-unique-object
1738@itemx --disable-gnu-unique-object
1739Tells GCC to use the gnu_unique_object relocation for C++ template
1740static data members and inline function local statics. Enabled by
1741default for a native toolchain with an assembler that accepts it and
1742GLIBC 2.11 or above, otherwise disabled.
1743
2d413304 1744@item --enable-lto
48215350 1745@itemx --disable-lto
2d413304 1746Enable support for link-time optimization (LTO). This is enabled by
48215350 1747default, and may be disabled using @option{--disable-lto}.
2d413304 1748
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1749@item --with-plugin-ld=@var{pathname}
1750Enable an alternate linker to be used at link-time optimization (LTO)
1751link time when @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} is enabled.
1752This linker should have plugin support such as gold starting with
1753version 2.20 or GNU ld starting with version 2.21.
1754See @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} for details.
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1755
1756@item --enable-canonical-system-headers
1757@itemx --disable-canonical-system-headers
1758Enable system header path canonicalization for @file{libcpp}. This can
1759produce shorter header file paths in diagnostics and dependency output
1760files, but these changed header paths may conflict with some compilation
1761environments. Enabled by default, and may be disabled using
1762@option{--disable-canonical-system-headers}.
ef88b07d 1763@end table
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1765@subheading Cross-Compiler-Specific Options
1766The following options only apply to building cross compilers.
0b70519f 1767
ef88b07d 1768@table @code
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1769@item --with-sysroot
1770@itemx --with-sysroot=@var{dir}
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1771Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the root of a tree that contains
1772(a subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
4977bab6 1773Target system headers, libraries and run-time object files will be
169264b3 1774searched for in there. More specifically, this acts as if
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1775@option{--sysroot=@var{dir}} was added to the default options of the built
1776compiler. The specified directory is not copied into the
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1777install tree, unlike the options @option{--with-headers} and
1778@option{--with-libs} that this option obsoletes. The default value,
1779in case @option{--with-sysroot} is not given an argument, is
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1780@option{$@{gcc_tooldir@}/sys-root}. If the specified directory is a
1781subdirectory of @option{$@{exec_prefix@}}, then it will be found relative to
1782the GCC binaries if the installation tree is moved.
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1784This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1785target libraries (which runs on the build system) and the compiler newly
1786installed with @code{make install}; it does not affect the compiler which is
1787used to build GCC itself.
1788
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1789If you specify the @option{--with-native-system-header-dir=@var{dirname}}
1790option then the compiler will search that directory within @var{dirname} for
1791native system headers rather than the default @file{/usr/include}.
1792
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1793@item --with-build-sysroot
1794@itemx --with-build-sysroot=@var{dir}
1795Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the system root (see
526635cb 1796@option{--with-sysroot}) while building target libraries, instead of
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1797the directory specified with @option{--with-sysroot}. This option is
1798only useful when you are already using @option{--with-sysroot}. You
526635cb 1799can use @option{--with-build-sysroot} when you are configuring with
160633c6 1800@option{--prefix} set to a directory that is different from the one in
ff2ce160 1801which you are installing GCC and your target libraries.
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1803This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1804target libraries (which runs on the build system); it does not affect
1805the compiler which is used to build GCC itself.
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1807If you specify the @option{--with-native-system-header-dir=@var{dirname}}
1808option then the compiler will search that directory within @var{dirname} for
1809native system headers rather than the default @file{/usr/include}.
1810
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1811@item --with-headers
1812@itemx --with-headers=@var{dir}
4977bab6 1813Deprecated in favor of @option{--with-sysroot}.
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1814Specifies that target headers are available when building a cross compiler.
1815The @var{dir} argument specifies a directory which has the target include
1816files. These include files will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
1817directory. @emph{This option with the @var{dir} argument is required} when
1818building a cross compiler, if @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include}
1819doesn't pre-exist. If @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include} does
1820pre-exist, the @var{dir} argument may be omitted. @command{fixincludes}
8a36672b 1821will be run on these files to make them compatible with GCC@.
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1822
1823@item --without-headers
1824Tells GCC not use any target headers from a libc when building a cross
2dd76960 1825compiler. When crossing to GNU/Linux, you need the headers so GCC
264d65c1 1826can build the exception handling for libgcc.
264d65c1 1827
65a824f6 1828@item --with-libs
0b70519f 1829@itemx --with-libs="@var{dir1} @var{dir2} @dots{} @var{dirN}"
4977bab6 1830Deprecated in favor of @option{--with-sysroot}.
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1831Specifies a list of directories which contain the target runtime
1832libraries. These libraries will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
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1833directory. If the directory list is omitted, this option has no
1834effect.
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ef88b07d 1836@item --with-newlib
eea81d3e 1837Specifies that @samp{newlib} is
38209993 1838being used as the target C library. This causes @code{__eprintf} to be
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1839omitted from @file{libgcc.a} on the assumption that it will be provided by
1840@samp{newlib}.
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1842@item --with-avrlibc
1843Specifies that @samp{AVR-Libc} is
1844being used as the target C library. This causes float support
1845functions like @code{__addsf3} to be omitted from @file{libgcc.a} on
1846the assumption that it will be provided by @file{libm.a}. For more
1847technical details, cf. @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/PR54461,,PR54461}.
1848This option is only supported for the AVR target. It is not supported for
1849RTEMS configurations, which currently use newlib. The option is
1850supported since version 4.7.2 and is the default in 4.8.0 and newer.
1851
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1852@item --with-build-time-tools=@var{dir}
1853Specifies where to find the set of target tools (assembler, linker, etc.)
1854that will be used while building GCC itself. This option can be useful
1855if the directory layouts are different between the system you are building
1856GCC on, and the system where you will deploy it.
1857
e4ae5e77 1858For example, on an @samp{ia64-hp-hpux} system, you may have the GNU
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1859assembler and linker in @file{/usr/bin}, and the native tools in a
1860different path, and build a toolchain that expects to find the
1861native tools in @file{/usr/bin}.
1862
1863When you use this option, you should ensure that @var{dir} includes
1864@command{ar}, @command{as}, @command{ld}, @command{nm},
1865@command{ranlib} and @command{strip} if necessary, and possibly
1866@command{objdump}. Otherwise, GCC may use an inconsistent set of
1867tools.
ef88b07d 1868@end table
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1870@subheading Java-Specific Options
1871
1872The following option applies to the build of the Java front end.
1873
1874@table @code
1875@item --disable-libgcj
1876Specify that the run-time libraries
1877used by GCJ should not be built. This is useful in case you intend
1878to use GCJ with some other run-time, or you're going to install it
1879separately, or it just happens not to build on your particular
1880machine. In general, if the Java front end is enabled, the GCJ
1881libraries will be enabled too, unless they're known to not work on
1882the target platform. If GCJ is enabled but @samp{libgcj} isn't built, you
1883may need to port it; in this case, before modifying the top-level
1884@file{configure.in} so that @samp{libgcj} is enabled by default on this platform,
1885you may use @option{--enable-libgcj} to override the default.
1886
1887@end table
1888
1889The following options apply to building @samp{libgcj}.
1890
1891@subsubheading General Options
1892
1893@table @code
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1894@item --enable-java-maintainer-mode
1895By default the @samp{libjava} build will not attempt to compile the
1896@file{.java} source files to @file{.class}. Instead, it will use the
1897@file{.class} files from the source tree. If you use this option you
1898must have executables named @command{ecj1} and @command{gjavah} in your path
1899for use by the build. You must use this option if you intend to
1900modify any @file{.java} files in @file{libjava}.
1901
1902@item --with-java-home=@var{dirname}
1903This @samp{libjava} option overrides the default value of the
1904@samp{java.home} system property. It is also used to set
1905@samp{sun.boot.class.path} to @file{@var{dirname}/lib/rt.jar}. By
1906default @samp{java.home} is set to @file{@var{prefix}} and
1907@samp{sun.boot.class.path} to
1908@file{@var{datadir}/java/libgcj-@var{version}.jar}.
1909
1910@item --with-ecj-jar=@var{filename}
1911This option can be used to specify the location of an external jar
1912file containing the Eclipse Java compiler. A specially modified
1913version of this compiler is used by @command{gcj} to parse
1914@file{.java} source files. If this option is given, the
1915@samp{libjava} build will create and install an @file{ecj1} executable
1916which uses this jar file at runtime.
1917
1918If this option is not given, but an @file{ecj.jar} file is found in
1919the topmost source tree at configure time, then the @samp{libgcj}
1920build will create and install @file{ecj1}, and will also install the
1921discovered @file{ecj.jar} into a suitable place in the install tree.
1922
1923If @file{ecj1} is not installed, then the user will have to supply one
1924on his path in order for @command{gcj} to properly parse @file{.java}
1925source files. A suitable jar is available from
1926@uref{ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/}.
1927
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1928@item --disable-getenv-properties
1929Don't set system properties from @env{GCJ_PROPERTIES}.
1930
1931@item --enable-hash-synchronization
8a36672b 1932Use a global hash table for monitor locks. Ordinarily,
c1c3bb0c 1933@samp{libgcj}'s @samp{configure} script automatically makes
8a36672b 1934the correct choice for this option for your platform. Only use
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1935this if you know you need the library to be configured differently.
1936
1937@item --enable-interpreter
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1938Enable the Java interpreter. The interpreter is automatically
1939enabled by default on all platforms that support it. This option
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1940is really only useful if you want to disable the interpreter
1941(using @option{--disable-interpreter}).
1942
1943@item --disable-java-net
8a36672b 1944Disable java.net. This disables the native part of java.net only,
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1945using non-functional stubs for native method implementations.
1946
1947@item --disable-jvmpi
1948Disable JVMPI support.
1949
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1951Disable BC ABI compilation of certain parts of libgcj. By default,
1952some portions of libgcj are compiled with @option{-findirect-dispatch}
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1953and @option{-fno-indirect-classes}, allowing them to be overridden at
1954run-time.
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1955
1956If @option{--disable-libgcj-bc} is specified, libgcj is built without
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1957these options. This allows the compile-time linker to resolve
1958dependencies when statically linking to libgcj. However it makes it
1959impossible to override the affected portions of libgcj at run-time.
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1961@item --enable-reduced-reflection
1962Build most of libgcj with @option{-freduced-reflection}. This reduces
1963the size of libgcj at the expense of not being able to do accurate
1964reflection on the classes it contains. This option is safe if you
1965know that code using libgcj will never use reflection on the standard
1966runtime classes in libgcj (including using serialization, RMI or CORBA).
1967
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1968@item --with-ecos
1969Enable runtime eCos target support.
1970
1971@item --without-libffi
8a36672b 1972Don't use @samp{libffi}. This will disable the interpreter and JNI
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1974
1975@item --enable-libgcj-debug
1976Enable runtime debugging code.
1977
1978@item --enable-libgcj-multifile
1979If specified, causes all @file{.java} source files to be
1980compiled into @file{.class} files in one invocation of
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1982resource-intensive. If this option is unspecified or
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1983disabled, @samp{gcj} is invoked once for each @file{.java}
1984file to compile into a @file{.class} file.
1985
1986@item --with-libiconv-prefix=DIR
1987Search for libiconv in @file{DIR/include} and @file{DIR/lib}.
1988
1989@item --enable-sjlj-exceptions
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1990Force use of the @code{setjmp}/@code{longjmp}-based scheme for exceptions.
1991@samp{configure} ordinarily picks the correct value based on the platform.
1992Only use this option if you are sure you need a different setting.
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1994@item --with-system-zlib
1995Use installed @samp{zlib} rather than that included with GCC@.
1996
1997@item --with-win32-nlsapi=ansi, unicows or unicode
1998Indicates how MinGW @samp{libgcj} translates between UNICODE
8a36672b 1999characters and the Win32 API@.
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2001@item --enable-java-home
2002If enabled, this creates a JPackage compatible SDK environment during install.
2003Note that if --enable-java-home is used, --with-arch-directory=ARCH must also
2004be specified.
2005
2006@item --with-arch-directory=ARCH
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2007Specifies the name to use for the @file{jre/lib/ARCH} directory in the SDK
2008environment created when --enable-java-home is passed. Typical names for this
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2009directory include i386, amd64, ia64, etc.
2010
2011@item --with-os-directory=DIR
2012Specifies the OS directory for the SDK include directory. This is set to auto
2013detect, and is typically 'linux'.
2014
2015@item --with-origin-name=NAME
2016Specifies the JPackage origin name. This defaults to the 'gcj' in
2017java-1.5.0-gcj.
2018
2019@item --with-arch-suffix=SUFFIX
ff2ce160 2020Specifies the suffix for the sdk directory. Defaults to the empty string.
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2021Examples include '.x86_64' in 'java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0.x86_64'.
2022
2023@item --with-jvm-root-dir=DIR
2024Specifies where to install the SDK. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm.
2025
2026@item --with-jvm-jar-dir=DIR
2027Specifies where to install jars. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm-exports.
2028
2029@item --with-python-dir=DIR
2030Specifies where to install the Python modules used for aot-compile. DIR should
2031not include the prefix used in installation. For example, if the Python modules
ff2ce160 2032are to be installed in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, then
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2033--with-python-dir=/lib/python2.5/site-packages should be passed. If this is
2034not specified, then the Python modules are installed in $(prefix)/share/python.
2035
2036@item --enable-aot-compile-rpm
2037Adds aot-compile-rpm to the list of installed scripts.
2038
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2039@item --enable-browser-plugin
2040Build the gcjwebplugin web browser plugin.
2041
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2042@item --enable-static-libjava
2043Build static libraries in libjava. The default is to only build shared
2044libraries.
2045
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2046@table @code
2047@item ansi
2048Use the single-byte @code{char} and the Win32 A functions natively,
8a36672b 2049translating to and from UNICODE when using these functions. If
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2050unspecified, this is the default.
2051
2052@item unicows
8a36672b 2053Use the @code{WCHAR} and Win32 W functions natively. Adds
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2054@code{-lunicows} to @file{libgcj.spec} to link with @samp{libunicows}.
2055@file{unicows.dll} needs to be deployed on Microsoft Windows 9X machines
8a36672b 2056running built executables. @file{libunicows.a}, an open-source
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2057import library around Microsoft's @code{unicows.dll}, is obtained from
2058@uref{http://libunicows.sourceforge.net/}, which also gives details
2059on getting @file{unicows.dll} from Microsoft.
2060
2061@item unicode
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2062Use the @code{WCHAR} and Win32 W functions natively. Does @emph{not}
2063add @code{-lunicows} to @file{libgcj.spec}. The built executables will
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2064only run on Microsoft Windows NT and above.
2065@end table
2066@end table
2067
2068@subsubheading AWT-Specific Options
2069
2070@table @code
2071@item --with-x
2072Use the X Window System.
2073
2074@item --enable-java-awt=PEER(S)
2075Specifies the AWT peer library or libraries to build alongside
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2076@samp{libgcj}. If this option is unspecified or disabled, AWT
2077will be non-functional. Current valid values are @option{gtk} and
2078@option{xlib}. Multiple libraries should be separated by a
431ae0bf 2079comma (i.e.@: @option{--enable-java-awt=gtk,xlib}).
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2080
2081@item --enable-gtk-cairo
8a36672b 2082Build the cairo Graphics2D implementation on GTK@.
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2083
2084@item --enable-java-gc=TYPE
8a36672b 2085Choose garbage collector. Defaults to @option{boehm} if unspecified.
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2086
2087@item --disable-gtktest
2088Do not try to compile and run a test GTK+ program.
2089
2090@item --disable-glibtest
2091Do not try to compile and run a test GLIB program.
2092
2093@item --with-libart-prefix=PFX
2094Prefix where libart is installed (optional).
2095
2096@item --with-libart-exec-prefix=PFX
2097Exec prefix where libart is installed (optional).
2098
2099@item --disable-libarttest
2100Do not try to compile and run a test libart program.
2101
2102@end table
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2104@subsubheading Overriding @command{configure} test results
2105
2106Sometimes, it might be necessary to override the result of some
2107@command{configure} test, for example in order to ease porting to a new
2108system or work around a bug in a test. The toplevel @command{configure}
2109script provides three variables for this:
2110
2111@table @code
2112
2113@item build_configargs
2114@cindex @code{build_configargs}
2115The contents of this variable is passed to all build @command{configure}
2116scripts.
2117
2118@item host_configargs
2119@cindex @code{host_configargs}
2120The contents of this variable is passed to all host @command{configure}
2121scripts.
2122
2123@item target_configargs
2124@cindex @code{target_configargs}
2125The contents of this variable is passed to all target @command{configure}
2126scripts.
2127
2128@end table
2129
2130In order to avoid shell and @command{make} quoting issues for complex
2131overrides, you can pass a setting for @env{CONFIG_SITE} and set
2132variables in the site file.
2133
f42974dc 2134@html
b8db17af 2135<hr />
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2136<p>
2137@end html
2138@ifhtml
2139@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2140@end ifhtml
2141@end ifset
2142
2143@c ***Building****************************************************************
6cfb3f16 2144@ifnothtml
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2145@comment node-name, next, previous, up
2146@node Building, Testing, Configuration, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 2147@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 2148@ifset buildhtml
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2149@ifnothtml
2150@chapter Building
2151@end ifnothtml
2152@cindex Installing GCC: Building
2153
2154Now that GCC is configured, you are ready to build the compiler and
2155runtime libraries.
2156
b8df899a 2157Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a
7ba4ca63 2158nonzero status) and be ignored by @command{make}. These failures, which
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2159are often due to files that were not found, are expected, and can safely
2160be ignored.
2161
2162It is normal to have compiler warnings when compiling certain files.
2163Unless you are a GCC developer, you can generally ignore these warnings
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2164unless they cause compilation to fail. Developers should attempt to fix
2165any warnings encountered, however they can temporarily continue past
2166warnings-as-errors by specifying the configure flag
2167@option{--disable-werror}.
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2168
2169On certain old systems, defining certain environment variables such as
6cfb3f16 2170@env{CC} can interfere with the functioning of @command{make}.
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2171
2172If you encounter seemingly strange errors when trying to build the
2173compiler in a directory other than the source directory, it could be
2174because you have previously configured the compiler in the source
2175directory. Make sure you have done all the necessary preparations.
2176
2177If you build GCC on a BSD system using a directory stored in an old System
4c64396e 2178V file system, problems may occur in running @command{fixincludes} if the
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2179System V file system doesn't support symbolic links. These problems
2180result in a failure to fix the declaration of @code{size_t} in
2181@file{sys/types.h}. If you find that @code{size_t} is a signed type and
2182that type mismatches occur, this could be the cause.
2183
161d7b59 2184The solution is not to use such a directory for building GCC@.
f42974dc 2185
01d419ae 2186Similarly, when building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify
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2187@file{*.l} files, you need the Flex lexical analyzer generator
2188installed. If you do not modify @file{*.l} files, releases contain
2189the Flex-generated files and you do not need Flex installed to build
2190them. There is still one Flex-based lexical analyzer (part of the
2191build machinery, not of GCC itself) that is used even if you only
2192build the C front end.
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80521187 2194When building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify Texinfo
7326a39e 2195documentation, you need version 4.7 or later of Texinfo installed if you
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2196want Info documentation to be regenerated. Releases contain Info
2197documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in the release.
2198
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2199@section Building a native compiler
2200
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2201For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
2202a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when @samp{make} is invoked.
2203This will build the entire GCC system and ensure that it compiles
2204itself correctly. It can be disabled with the @option{--disable-bootstrap}
2205parameter to @samp{configure}, but bootstrapping is suggested because
2206the compiler will be tested more completely and could also have
2207better performance.
2208
2209The bootstrapping process will complete the following steps:
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2211@itemize @bullet
2212@item
80521187 2213Build tools necessary to build the compiler.
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2214
2215@item
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2216Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This includes building
2217three times the target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils
2218(bfd, binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes) if they have been
2219individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source tree before
2220configuring.
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2221
2222@item
2223Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.
2224
2225@item
2226Build runtime libraries using the stage3 compiler from the previous step.
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2228@end itemize
2229
38209993 2230If you are short on disk space you might consider @samp{make
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2231bootstrap-lean} instead. The sequence of compilation is the
2232same described above, but object files from the stage1 and
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2233stage2 of the 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler are deleted as
2234soon as they are no longer needed.
2235
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2236If you wish to use non-default GCC flags when compiling the stage2
2237and stage3 compilers, set @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} on the command line when
2238doing @samp{make}. For example, if you want to save additional space
2239during the bootstrap and in the final installation as well, you can
2240build the compiler binaries without debugging information as in the
2241following example. This will save roughly 40% of disk space both for
2242the bootstrap and the final installation. (Libraries will still contain
2243debugging information.)
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3ab51846 2245@smallexample
98797784 2246make BOOT_CFLAGS='-O' bootstrap
3ab51846 2247@end smallexample
8c085f6f 2248
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2249You can place non-default optimization flags into @code{BOOT_CFLAGS}; they
2250are less well tested here than the default of @samp{-g -O2}, but should
2251still work. In a few cases, you may find that you need to specify special
2252flags such as @option{-msoft-float} here to complete the bootstrap; or,
2253if the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may need
2254to work around this, by choosing @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} to avoid the parts
2255of the stage1 compiler that were miscompiled, or by using @samp{make
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2256bootstrap4} to increase the number of stages of bootstrap.
2257
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2258@code{BOOT_CFLAGS} does not apply to bootstrapped target libraries.
2259Since these are always compiled with the compiler currently being
2260bootstrapped, you can use @code{CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET} to modify their
2261compilation flags, as for non-bootstrapped target libraries.
2262Again, if the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may
2263need to work around this by avoiding non-working parts of the stage1
4a4a4e99 2264compiler. Use @code{STAGE1_TFLAGS} to this end.
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6cfb3f16 2266If you used the flag @option{--enable-languages=@dots{}} to restrict
f42974dc 2267the compilers to be built, only those you've actually enabled will be
767094dd 2268built. This will of course only build those runtime libraries, for
f42974dc 2269which the particular compiler has been built. Please note,
cc11cc9b 2270that re-defining @env{LANGUAGES} when calling @samp{make}
ef88b07d 2271@strong{does not} work anymore!
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f85b8d1a 2273If the comparison of stage2 and stage3 fails, this normally indicates
eea81d3e 2274that the stage2 compiler has compiled GCC incorrectly, and is therefore
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2275a potentially serious bug which you should investigate and report. (On
2276a few systems, meaningful comparison of object files is impossible; they
2277always appear ``different''. If you encounter this problem, you will
2278need to disable comparison in the @file{Makefile}.)
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2280If you do not want to bootstrap your compiler, you can configure with
2281@option{--disable-bootstrap}. In particular cases, you may want to
2282bootstrap your compiler even if the target system is not the same as
2283the one you are building on: for example, you could build a
2284@code{powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu} toolchain on a
2285@code{powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu} host. In this case, pass
2286@option{--enable-bootstrap} to the configure script.
2287
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2288@code{BUILD_CONFIG} can be used to bring in additional customization
2289to the build. It can be set to a whitespace-separated list of names.
2290For each such @code{NAME}, top-level @file{config/@code{NAME}.mk} will
2291be included by the top-level @file{Makefile}, bringing in any settings
2292it contains. The default @code{BUILD_CONFIG} can be set using the
2293configure option @option{--with-build-config=@code{NAME}...}. Some
2294examples of supported build configurations are:
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2296@table @asis
2297@item @samp{bootstrap-O1}
2298Removes any @option{-O}-started option from @code{BOOT_CFLAGS}, and adds
2299@option{-O1} to it. @samp{BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-O1} is equivalent to
2300@samp{BOOT_CFLAGS='-g -O1'}.
2301
2302@item @samp{bootstrap-O3}
2303Analogous to @code{bootstrap-O1}.
2304
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2305@item @samp{bootstrap-lto}
2306Enables Link-Time Optimization for host tools during bootstrapping.
2307@samp{BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-lto} is equivalent to adding
2308@option{-flto} to @samp{BOOT_CFLAGS}.
2309
4a4a4e99 2310@item @samp{bootstrap-debug}
b5b8b0ac 2311Verifies that the compiler generates the same executable code, whether
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2312or not it is asked to emit debug information. To this end, this
2313option builds stage2 host programs without debug information, and uses
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2314@file{contrib/compare-debug} to compare them with the stripped stage3
2315object files. If @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} is overridden so as to not enable
2316debug information, stage2 will have it, and stage3 won't. This option
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2317is enabled by default when GCC bootstrapping is enabled, if
2318@code{strip} can turn object files compiled with and without debug
2319info into identical object files. In addition to better test
2320coverage, this option makes default bootstraps faster and leaner.
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2321
2322@item @samp{bootstrap-debug-big}
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2323Rather than comparing stripped object files, as in
2324@code{bootstrap-debug}, this option saves internal compiler dumps
2325during stage2 and stage3 and compares them as well, which helps catch
2326additional potential problems, but at a great cost in terms of disk
2327space. It can be specified in addition to @samp{bootstrap-debug}.
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2328
2329@item @samp{bootstrap-debug-lean}
2330This option saves disk space compared with @code{bootstrap-debug-big},
2331but at the expense of some recompilation. Instead of saving the dumps
2332of stage2 and stage3 until the final compare, it uses
2333@option{-fcompare-debug} to generate, compare and remove the dumps
2334during stage3, repeating the compilation that already took place in
2335stage2, whose dumps were not saved.
2336
2337@item @samp{bootstrap-debug-lib}
2338This option tests executable code invariance over debug information
2339generation on target libraries, just like @code{bootstrap-debug-lean}
2340tests it on host programs. It builds stage3 libraries with
2341@option{-fcompare-debug}, and it can be used along with any of the
2342@code{bootstrap-debug} options above.
2343
2344There aren't @code{-lean} or @code{-big} counterparts to this option
2345because most libraries are only build in stage3, so bootstrap compares
2346would not get significant coverage. Moreover, the few libraries built
2347in stage2 are used in stage3 host programs, so we wouldn't want to
2348compile stage2 libraries with different options for comparison purposes.
2349
2350@item @samp{bootstrap-debug-ckovw}
2351Arranges for error messages to be issued if the compiler built on any
2352stage is run without the option @option{-fcompare-debug}. This is
2353useful to verify the full @option{-fcompare-debug} testing coverage. It
2354must be used along with @code{bootstrap-debug-lean} and
2355@code{bootstrap-debug-lib}.
2356
2357@item @samp{bootstrap-time}
2358Arranges for the run time of each program started by the GCC driver,
2359built in any stage, to be logged to @file{time.log}, in the top level of
2360the build tree.
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2362@end table
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2364@section Building a cross compiler
2365
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2366When building a cross compiler, it is not generally possible to do a
23673-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This makes for an interesting problem
161d7b59 2368as parts of GCC can only be built with GCC@.
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0b70519f 2370To build a cross compiler, we recommend first building and installing a
f42974dc 2371native compiler. You can then use the native GCC compiler to build the
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2372cross compiler. The installed native compiler needs to be GCC version
23732.95 or later.
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2375If the cross compiler is to be built with support for the Java
2376programming language and the ability to compile .java source files is
2377desired, the installed native compiler used to build the cross
2378compiler needs to be the same GCC version as the cross compiler. In
2379addition the cross compiler needs to be configured with
2380@option{--with-ecj-jar=@dots{}}.
2381
f42974dc 2382Assuming you have already installed a native copy of GCC and configured
6cfb3f16 2383your cross compiler, issue the command @command{make}, which performs the
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2384following steps:
2385
2386@itemize @bullet
2387@item
80521187 2388Build host tools necessary to build the compiler.
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2389
2390@item
2391Build target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils (bfd,
2392binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes)
2393if they have been individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source
2394tree before configuring.
2395
2396@item
2397Build the compiler (single stage only).
2398
2399@item
2400Build runtime libraries using the compiler from the previous step.
2401@end itemize
2402
2403Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit.
2404
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2405If you are not building GNU binutils in the same source tree as GCC,
2406you will need a cross-assembler and cross-linker installed before
2407configuring GCC@. Put them in the directory
2408@file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/bin}. Here is a table of the tools
2409you should put in this directory:
2410
2411@table @file
2412@item as
2413This should be the cross-assembler.
2414
2415@item ld
2416This should be the cross-linker.
2417
2418@item ar
2419This should be the cross-archiver: a program which can manipulate
2420archive files (linker libraries) in the target machine's format.
2421
2422@item ranlib
2423This should be a program to construct a symbol table in an archive file.
2424@end table
2425
2426The installation of GCC will find these programs in that directory,
2427and copy or link them to the proper place to for the cross-compiler to
2428find them when run later.
2429
2430The easiest way to provide these files is to build the Binutils package.
2431Configure it with the same @option{--host} and @option{--target}
2432options that you use for configuring GCC, then build and install
2433them. They install their executables automatically into the proper
2434directory. Alas, they do not support all the targets that GCC
2435supports.
2436
2437If you are not building a C library in the same source tree as GCC,
2438you should also provide the target libraries and headers before
2439configuring GCC, specifying the directories with
2440@option{--with-sysroot} or @option{--with-headers} and
2441@option{--with-libs}. Many targets also require ``start files'' such
2442as @file{crt0.o} and
2443@file{crtn.o} which are linked into each executable. There may be several
2444alternatives for @file{crt0.o}, for use with profiling or other
2445compilation options. Check your target's definition of
2446@code{STARTFILE_SPEC} to find out what start files it uses.
2447
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2448@section Building in parallel
2449
0b70519f 2450GNU Make 3.80 and above, which is necessary to build GCC, support
d7f755c3 2451building in parallel. To activate this, you can use @samp{make -j 2}
ff2ce160 2452instead of @samp{make}. You can also specify a bigger number, and
cc11cc9b
PB
2453in most cases using a value greater than the number of processors in
2454your machine will result in fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus
2455improving overall throughput; this is especially true for slow drives
2456and network filesystems.
f42974dc 2457
e23381df
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2458@section Building the Ada compiler
2459
2460In order to build GNAT, the Ada compiler, you need a working GNAT
1004318e 2461compiler (GCC version 4.0 or later).
cc11cc9b
PB
2462This includes GNAT tools such as @command{gnatmake} and
2463@command{gnatlink}, since the Ada front end is written in Ada and
2464uses some GNAT-specific extensions.
2465
2466In order to build a cross compiler, it is suggested to install
2467the new compiler as native first, and then use it to build the cross
2468compiler.
e23381df 2469
38e23049
JM
2470@command{configure} does not test whether the GNAT installation works
2471and has a sufficiently recent version; if too old a GNAT version is
2472installed, the build will fail unless @option{--enable-languages} is
2473used to disable building the Ada front end.
e23381df 2474
e397a9f1
ST
2475@env{ADA_INCLUDE_PATH} and @env{ADA_OBJECT_PATH} environment variables
2476must not be set when building the Ada compiler, the Ada tools, or the
2477Ada runtime libraries. You can check that your build environment is clean
2478by verifying that @samp{gnatls -v} lists only one explicit path in each
2479section.
2480
8f231b5d
JH
2481@section Building with profile feedback
2482
2483It is possible to use profile feedback to optimize the compiler itself. This
2484should result in a faster compiler binary. Experiments done on x86 using gcc
24853.3 showed approximately 7 percent speedup on compiling C programs. To
cc11cc9b 2486bootstrap the compiler with profile feedback, use @code{make profiledbootstrap}.
8f231b5d
JH
2487
2488When @samp{make profiledbootstrap} is run, it will first build a @code{stage1}
2489compiler. This compiler is used to build a @code{stageprofile} compiler
2490instrumented to collect execution counts of instruction and branch
2491probabilities. Then runtime libraries are compiled with profile collected.
2492Finally a @code{stagefeedback} compiler is built using the information collected.
2493
cc11cc9b 2494Unlike standard bootstrap, several additional restrictions apply. The
8f231b5d
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2495compiler used to build @code{stage1} needs to support a 64-bit integral type.
2496It is recommended to only use GCC for this. Also parallel make is currently
2497not supported since collisions in profile collecting may occur.
2498
f42974dc 2499@html
b8db17af 2500<hr />
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2501<p>
2502@end html
2503@ifhtml
2504@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2505@end ifhtml
2506@end ifset
2507
2508@c ***Testing*****************************************************************
6cfb3f16 2509@ifnothtml
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2510@comment node-name, next, previous, up
2511@node Testing, Final install, Building, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 2512@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 2513@ifset testhtml
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2514@ifnothtml
2515@chapter Installing GCC: Testing
2516@end ifnothtml
2517@cindex Testing
2518@cindex Installing GCC: Testing
2519@cindex Testsuite
2520
f97903cc
JJ
2521Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
2522compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
2523been submitted to the
2524@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/,,gcc-testresults mailing list}.
05253aed
JJ
2525Some of these archived results are linked from the build status lists
2526at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}, although not everyone who
2527reports a successful build runs the testsuites and submits the results.
f97903cc
JJ
2528This step is optional and may require you to download additional software,
2529but it can give you confidence in your new GCC installation or point out
8a36672b 2530problems before you install and start using your new GCC@.
f42974dc 2531
f9047ed3 2532First, you must have @uref{download.html,,downloaded the testsuites}.
f97903cc
JJ
2533These are part of the full distribution, but if you downloaded the
2534``core'' compiler plus any front ends, you must download the testsuites
2535separately.
f42974dc 2536
f97903cc 2537Second, you must have the testing tools installed. This includes
80521187
GP
2538@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/,,DejaGnu}, Tcl, and Expect;
2539the DejaGnu site has links to these.
f42974dc 2540
8cacda7c
GP
2541If the directories where @command{runtest} and @command{expect} were
2542installed are not in the @env{PATH}, you may need to set the following
2543environment variables appropriately, as in the following example (which
2544assumes that DejaGnu has been installed under @file{/usr/local}):
f42974dc 2545
3ab51846 2546@smallexample
98797784
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2547TCL_LIBRARY = /usr/local/share/tcl8.0
2548DEJAGNULIBS = /usr/local/share/dejagnu
3ab51846 2549@end smallexample
f42974dc 2550
8cacda7c 2551(On systems such as Cygwin, these paths are required to be actual
f42974dc 2552paths, not mounts or links; presumably this is due to some lack of
8cacda7c 2553portability in the DejaGnu code.)
ecb7d6b3 2554
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2555
2556Finally, you can run the testsuite (which may take a long time):
3ab51846 2557@smallexample
98797784 2558cd @var{objdir}; make -k check
3ab51846 2559@end smallexample
f42974dc 2560
794aca5d
WB
2561This will test various components of GCC, such as compiler
2562front ends and runtime libraries. While running the testsuite, DejaGnu
2563might emit some harmless messages resembling
daf2f129 2564@samp{WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.} or
794aca5d 2565@samp{WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file} that can be ignored.
06809951 2566
82161911
DD
2567If you are testing a cross-compiler, you may want to run the testsuite
2568on a simulator as described at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/simtest-howto.html}.
2569
962e6e00 2570@section How can you run the testsuite on selected tests?
f42974dc 2571
794aca5d 2572In order to run sets of tests selectively, there are targets
6c6b6634
BRF
2573@samp{make check-gcc} and language specific @samp{make check-c},
2574@samp{make check-c++}, @samp{make check-fortran}, @samp{make check-java},
2575@samp{make check-ada}, @samp{make check-objc}, @samp{make check-obj-c++},
2576@samp{make check-lto}
794aca5d
WB
2577in the @file{gcc} subdirectory of the object directory. You can also
2578just run @samp{make check} in a subdirectory of the object directory.
2579
2580
2581A more selective way to just run all @command{gcc} execute tests in the
2582testsuite is to use
f42974dc 2583
3ab51846 2584@smallexample
98797784 2585make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp @var{other-options}"
3ab51846 2586@end smallexample
f42974dc 2587
794aca5d
WB
2588Likewise, in order to run only the @command{g++} ``old-deja'' tests in
2589the testsuite with filenames matching @samp{9805*}, you would use
f42974dc 2590
3ab51846 2591@smallexample
98797784 2592make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805* @var{other-options}"
3ab51846 2593@end smallexample
f42974dc 2594
6cfb3f16
JM
2595The @file{*.exp} files are located in the testsuite directories of the GCC
2596source, the most important ones being @file{compile.exp},
2597@file{execute.exp}, @file{dg.exp} and @file{old-deja.exp}.
2598To get a list of the possible @file{*.exp} files, pipe the
38209993 2599output of @samp{make check} into a file and look at the
6cfb3f16 2600@samp{Running @dots{} .exp} lines.
f42974dc 2601
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2602@section Passing options and running multiple testsuites
2603
2604You can pass multiple options to the testsuite using the
2605@samp{--target_board} option of DejaGNU, either passed as part of
2606@samp{RUNTESTFLAGS}, or directly to @command{runtest} if you prefer to
2607work outside the makefiles. For example,
2608
3ab51846 2609@smallexample
98797784 2610make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=unix/-O3/-fmerge-constants"
3ab51846 2611@end smallexample
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2612
2613will run the standard @command{g++} testsuites (``unix'' is the target name
2614for a standard native testsuite situation), passing
311c6da4 2615@samp{-O3 -fmerge-constants} to the compiler on every test, i.e.,
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PE
2616slashes separate options.
2617
2618You can run the testsuites multiple times using combinations of options
2619with a syntax similar to the brace expansion of popular shells:
2620
3ab51846 2621@smallexample
98797784 2622@dots{}"--target_board=arm-sim\@{-mhard-float,-msoft-float\@}\@{-O1,-O2,-O3,\@}"
3ab51846 2623@end smallexample
e08737dc
PE
2624
2625(Note the empty option caused by the trailing comma in the final group.)
2626The following will run each testsuite eight times using the @samp{arm-sim}
2627target, as if you had specified all possible combinations yourself:
2628
3ab51846 2629@smallexample
5f11ec71
SE
2630--target_board='arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O1 \
2631 arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O2 \
2632 arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O3 \
2633 arm-sim/-mhard-float \
2634 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O1 \
2635 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O2 \
2636 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O3 \
2637 arm-sim/-msoft-float'
3ab51846 2638@end smallexample
e08737dc
PE
2639
2640They can be combined as many times as you wish, in arbitrary ways. This
2641list:
2642
3ab51846 2643@smallexample
98797784 2644@dots{}"--target_board=unix/-Wextra\@{-O3,-fno-strength\@}\@{-fomit-frame,\@}"
3ab51846 2645@end smallexample
e08737dc
PE
2646
2647will generate four combinations, all involving @samp{-Wextra}.
2648
2649The disadvantage to this method is that the testsuites are run in serial,
2650which is a waste on multiprocessor systems. For users with GNU Make and
2651a shell which performs brace expansion, you can run the testsuites in
2652parallel by having the shell perform the combinations and @command{make}
2653do the parallel runs. Instead of using @samp{--target_board}, use a
2654special makefile target:
2655
3ab51846 2656@smallexample
98797784 2657make -j@var{N} check-@var{testsuite}//@var{test-target}/@var{option1}/@var{option2}/@dots{}
3ab51846 2658@end smallexample
e08737dc
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2659
2660For example,
2661
3ab51846 2662@smallexample
98797784 2663make -j3 check-gcc//sh-hms-sim/@{-m1,-m2,-m3,-m3e,-m4@}/@{,-nofpu@}
3ab51846 2664@end smallexample
e08737dc
PE
2665
2666will run three concurrent ``make-gcc'' testsuites, eventually testing all
2667ten combinations as described above. Note that this is currently only
2668supported in the @file{gcc} subdirectory. (To see how this works, try
2669typing @command{echo} before the example given here.)
2670
2671
2672@section Additional testing for Java Class Libraries
2673
688d8b84
RM
2674The Java runtime tests can be executed via @samp{make check}
2675in the @file{@var{target}/libjava/testsuite} directory in
2676the build tree.
f702e700 2677
4eb3e795 2678The @uref{http://sourceware.org/mauve/,,Mauve Project} provides
f702e700
JJ
2679a suite of tests for the Java Class Libraries. This suite can be run
2680as part of libgcj testing by placing the Mauve tree within the libjava
2681testsuite at @file{libjava/testsuite/libjava.mauve/mauve}, or by
2682specifying the location of that tree when invoking @samp{make}, as in
2683@samp{make MAUVEDIR=~/mauve check}.
2684
f42974dc
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2685@section How to interpret test results
2686
794aca5d 2687The result of running the testsuite are various @file{*.sum} and @file{*.log}
767094dd 2688files in the testsuite subdirectories. The @file{*.log} files contain a
f42974dc 2689detailed log of the compiler invocations and the corresponding
daf2f129
JM
2690results, the @file{*.sum} files summarize the results. These summaries
2691contain status codes for all tests:
f42974dc
DW
2692
2693@itemize @bullet
2694@item
2695PASS: the test passed as expected
2696@item
2697XPASS: the test unexpectedly passed
2698@item
2699FAIL: the test unexpectedly failed
2700@item
2701XFAIL: the test failed as expected
2702@item
2703UNSUPPORTED: the test is not supported on this platform
2704@item
2705ERROR: the testsuite detected an error
2706@item
2707WARNING: the testsuite detected a possible problem
2708@end itemize
2709
38209993 2710It is normal for some tests to report unexpected failures. At the
962e6e00
JM
2711current time the testing harness does not allow fine grained control
2712over whether or not a test is expected to fail. This problem should
2713be fixed in future releases.
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2714
2715
2716@section Submitting test results
2717
2718If you want to report the results to the GCC project, use the
767094dd 2719@file{contrib/test_summary} shell script. Start it in the @var{objdir} with
f42974dc 2720
3ab51846 2721@smallexample
98797784
RW
2722@var{srcdir}/contrib/test_summary -p your_commentary.txt \
2723 -m gcc-testresults@@gcc.gnu.org |sh
3ab51846 2724@end smallexample
f42974dc 2725
6cfb3f16 2726This script uses the @command{Mail} program to send the results, so
767094dd 2727make sure it is in your @env{PATH}. The file @file{your_commentary.txt} is
f42974dc 2728prepended to the testsuite summary and should contain any special
767094dd 2729remarks you have on your results or your build environment. Please
f42974dc 2730do not edit the testsuite result block or the subject line, as these
05c425a9 2731messages may be automatically processed.
f42974dc 2732
aed5964b 2733@html
b8db17af 2734<hr />
aed5964b
JM
2735<p>
2736@end html
2737@ifhtml
2738@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2739@end ifhtml
f42974dc
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2740@end ifset
2741
2742@c ***Final install***********************************************************
6cfb3f16 2743@ifnothtml
f42974dc
DW
2744@comment node-name, next, previous, up
2745@node Final install, , Testing, Installing GCC
6cfb3f16 2746@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 2747@ifset finalinstallhtml
f42974dc
DW
2748@ifnothtml
2749@chapter Installing GCC: Final installation
2750@end ifnothtml
2751
eea81d3e 2752Now that GCC has been built (and optionally tested), you can install it with
3ab51846 2753@smallexample
455c8f48 2754cd @var{objdir} && make install
3ab51846 2755@end smallexample
f42974dc 2756
06809951 2757We strongly recommend to install into a target directory where there is
4b322f43
JB
2758no previous version of GCC present. Also, the GNAT runtime should not
2759be stripped, as this would break certain features of the debugger that
2760depend on this debugging information (catching Ada exceptions for
2761instance).
06809951 2762
f42974dc 2763That step completes the installation of GCC; user level binaries can
8e5f33ff
GK
2764be found in @file{@var{prefix}/bin} where @var{prefix} is the value
2765you specified with the @option{--prefix} to configure (or
2766@file{/usr/local} by default). (If you specified @option{--bindir},
2767that directory will be used instead; otherwise, if you specified
2768@option{--exec-prefix}, @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin} will be used.)
2769Headers for the C++ and Java libraries are installed in
2770@file{@var{prefix}/include}; libraries in @file{@var{libdir}}
2771(normally @file{@var{prefix}/lib}); internal parts of the compiler in
2772@file{@var{libdir}/gcc} and @file{@var{libexecdir}/gcc}; documentation
2773in info format in @file{@var{infodir}} (normally
2774@file{@var{prefix}/info}).
f42974dc 2775
53b50ac1
CC
2776When installing cross-compilers, GCC's executables
2777are not only installed into @file{@var{bindir}}, that
2778is, @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}, but additionally into
2779@file{@var{exec-prefix}/@var{target-alias}/bin}, if that directory
2780exists. Typically, such @dfn{tooldirs} hold target-specific
2781binutils, including assembler and linker.
2782
2783Installation into a temporary staging area or into a @command{chroot}
2784jail can be achieved with the command
2785
3ab51846 2786@smallexample
53b50ac1 2787make DESTDIR=@var{path-to-rootdir} install
3ab51846 2788@end smallexample
53b50ac1 2789
455c8f48
RW
2790@noindent
2791where @var{path-to-rootdir} is the absolute path of
53b50ac1
CC
2792a directory relative to which all installation paths will be
2793interpreted. Note that the directory specified by @code{DESTDIR}
2794need not exist yet; it will be created if necessary.
2795
2796There is a subtle point with tooldirs and @code{DESTDIR}:
2797If you relocate a cross-compiler installation with
2798e.g.@: @samp{DESTDIR=@var{rootdir}}, then the directory
2799@file{@var{rootdir}/@var{exec-prefix}/@var{target-alias}/bin} will
2800be filled with duplicated GCC executables only if it already exists,
2801it will not be created otherwise. This is regarded as a feature,
2802not as a bug, because it gives slightly more control to the packagers
2803using the @code{DESTDIR} feature.
2804
455c8f48
RW
2805You can install stripped programs and libraries with
2806
2807@smallexample
2808make install-strip
2809@end smallexample
2810
cc11cc9b 2811If you are bootstrapping a released version of GCC then please
f97a5bda
JJ
2812quickly review the build status page for your release, available from
2813@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
c5997381
JJ
2814If your system is not listed for the version of GCC that you built,
2815send a note to
eea81d3e 2816@email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} indicating
8a36672b 2817that you successfully built and installed GCC@.
c5997381 2818Include the following information:
f42974dc 2819
c5997381
JJ
2820@itemize @bullet
2821@item
962e6e00 2822Output from running @file{@var{srcdir}/config.guess}. Do not send
c5997381
JJ
2823that file itself, just the one-line output from running it.
2824
2825@item
2dd76960 2826The output of @samp{gcc -v} for your newly installed @command{gcc}.
c5997381
JJ
2827This tells us which version of GCC you built and the options you passed to
2828configure.
2829
2b46bc67
JJ
2830@item
2831Whether you enabled all languages or a subset of them. If you used a
2832full distribution then this information is part of the configure
2833options in the output of @samp{gcc -v}, but if you downloaded the
2834``core'' compiler plus additional front ends then it isn't apparent
2835which ones you built unless you tell us about it.
2836
c5997381
JJ
2837@item
2838If the build was for GNU/Linux, also include:
2839@itemize @bullet
2840@item
2841The distribution name and version (e.g., Red Hat 7.1 or Debian 2.2.3);
2842this information should be available from @file{/etc/issue}.
2843
2844@item
2845The version of the Linux kernel, available from @samp{uname --version}
2846or @samp{uname -a}.
2847
2848@item
2849The version of glibc you used; for RPM-based systems like Red Hat,
b9da07da
JJ
2850Mandrake, and SuSE type @samp{rpm -q glibc} to get the glibc version,
2851and on systems like Debian and Progeny use @samp{dpkg -l libc6}.
c5997381
JJ
2852@end itemize
2853For other systems, you can include similar information if you think it is
2854relevant.
2855
2856@item
2857Any other information that you think would be useful to people building
2858GCC on the same configuration. The new entry in the build status list
2859will include a link to the archived copy of your message.
2860@end itemize
c009f01f
JJ
2861
2862We'd also like to know if the
2863@ifnothtml
2864@ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}
2865@end ifnothtml
2866@ifhtml
2867@uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}
2868@end ifhtml
2869didn't include your host/target information or if that information is
2870incomplete or out of date. Send a note to
962e6e00 2871@email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} detailing how the information should be changed.
f42974dc 2872
962e6e00 2873If you find a bug, please report it following the
c08766bc 2874@uref{../bugs/,,bug reporting guidelines}.
f42974dc 2875
ab130aa5 2876If you want to print the GCC manuals, do @samp{cd @var{objdir}; make
7326a39e 2877dvi}. You will need to have @command{texi2dvi} (version at least 4.7)
ab130aa5
JM
2878and @TeX{} installed. This creates a number of @file{.dvi} files in
2879subdirectories of @file{@var{objdir}}; these may be converted for
cc5c2741
BM
2880printing with programs such as @command{dvips}. Alternately, by using
2881@samp{make pdf} in place of @samp{make dvi}, you can create documentation
2882in the form of @file{.pdf} files; this requires @command{texi2pdf}, which
2883is included with Texinfo version 4.8 and later. You can also
c4331d93 2884@uref{http://shop.fsf.org/,,buy printed manuals from the
ab130aa5 2885Free Software Foundation}, though such manuals may not be for the most
161d7b59 2886recent version of GCC@.
ab130aa5 2887
9d65c5cb 2888If you would like to generate online HTML documentation, do @samp{cd
f995c51f
JW
2889@var{objdir}; make html} and HTML will be generated for the gcc manuals in
2890@file{@var{objdir}/gcc/HTML}.
9d65c5cb 2891
f42974dc 2892@html
b8db17af 2893<hr />
f42974dc
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2894<p>
2895@end html
2896@ifhtml
2897@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2898@end ifhtml
2899@end ifset
2900
2901@c ***Binaries****************************************************************
6cfb3f16 2902@ifnothtml
f42974dc
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2903@comment node-name, next, previous, up
2904@node Binaries, Specific, Installing GCC, Top
6cfb3f16 2905@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 2906@ifset binarieshtml
f42974dc
DW
2907@ifnothtml
2908@chapter Installing GCC: Binaries
2909@end ifnothtml
2910@cindex Binaries
2911@cindex Installing GCC: Binaries
2912
161d7b59 2913We are often asked about pre-compiled versions of GCC@. While we cannot
f42974dc
DW
2914provide these for all platforms, below you'll find links to binaries for
2915various platforms where creating them by yourself is not easy due to various
2916reasons.
2917
2918Please note that we did not create these binaries, nor do we
2919support them. If you have any problems installing them, please
2920contact their makers.
2921
2922@itemize
2923@item
df002c7d
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2924AIX:
2925@itemize
2926@item
ff4c5e7b 2927@uref{http://www.bullfreeware.com,,Bull's Freeware and Shareware Archive for AIX};
df002c7d
DE
2928
2929@item
f3e240e2 2930@uref{http://pware.hvcc.edu,,Hudson Valley Community College Open Source Software for IBM System p};
75dd1ae2
DE
2931
2932@item
8ff51917 2933@uref{http://www.perzl.org/aix/,,AIX 5L and 6 Open Source Packages}.
df002c7d 2934@end itemize
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2935
2936@item
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2937DOS---@uref{http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/,,DJGPP}.
2938
2939@item
71c6b994
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2940Renesas H8/300[HS]---@uref{http://h8300-hms.sourceforge.net/,,GNU
2941Development Tools for the Renesas H8/300[HS] Series}.
f42974dc 2942
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2943@item
2944HP-UX:
2945@itemize
f42974dc 2946@item
58735e03 2947@uref{http://hpux.connect.org.uk/,,HP-UX Porting Center};
f42974dc 2948
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2949@item
2950@uref{ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/gcc_hpux/,,Binaries for HP-UX 11.00 at Aachen University of Technology}.
2951@end itemize
2952
f42974dc 2953@item
38209993 2954@uref{http://www.sco.com/skunkware/devtools/index.html#gcc,,SCO
8d5362b7 2955OpenServer/Unixware}.
f42974dc 2956
8d5362b7 2957@item
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2958Solaris 2 (SPARC, Intel):
2959@itemize
2960@item
2961@uref{http://www.sunfreeware.com/,,Sunfreeware}
2962
2963@item
2964@uref{http://www.blastwave.org/,,Blastwave}
2965
2966@item
2967@uref{http://www.opencsw.org/,,OpenCSW}
2968
2969@item
2970@uref{http://jupiterrise.com/tgcware/,,TGCware}
2971@end itemize
f42974dc 2972
f42974dc 2973@item
05c425a9 2974Microsoft Windows:
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2975@itemize
2976@item
4eb3e795 2977The @uref{http://sourceware.org/cygwin/,,Cygwin} project;
f42974dc 2978@item
cc92b8ab 2979The @uref{http://www.mingw.org/,,MinGW} project.
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2980@end itemize
2981
2982@item
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2983@uref{ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/packages/by-name/,,The
2984Written Word} offers binaries for
75dd1ae2 2985AIX 4.3.3, 5.1 and 5.2,
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2986GNU/Linux (i386),
2987HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, and 11.11, and
75dd1ae2 2988Solaris/SPARC 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
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2989
2990@item
2991@uref{http://www.openpkg.org/,,OpenPKG} offers binaries for quite a
2992number of platforms.
eae50c87
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2993
2994@item
2995The @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries,,GFortran Wiki} has
92922512 2996links to GNU Fortran binaries for several platforms.
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2997@end itemize
2998
f42974dc 2999@html
b8db17af 3000<hr />
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3001<p>
3002@end html
3003@ifhtml
3004@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
3005@end ifhtml
3006@end ifset
3007
3008@c ***Specific****************************************************************
6cfb3f16 3009@ifnothtml
f42974dc 3010@comment node-name, next, previous, up
73e2155a 3011@node Specific, Old, Binaries, Top
6cfb3f16 3012@end ifnothtml
f42974dc 3013@ifset specifichtml
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3014@ifnothtml
3015@chapter Host/target specific installation notes for GCC
3016@end ifnothtml
3017@cindex Specific
3018@cindex Specific installation notes
3019@cindex Target specific installation
3020@cindex Host specific installation
3021@cindex Target specific installation notes
3022
3023Please read this document carefully @emph{before} installing the
3024GNU Compiler Collection on your machine.
3025
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3026Note that this list of install notes is @emph{not} a list of supported
3027hosts or targets. Not all supported hosts and targets are listed
3028here, only the ones that require host-specific or target-specific
a66217a0 3029information have to.
c9936427 3030
ef88b07d 3031@ifhtml
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3032@itemize
3033@item
5a4c9b10 3034@uref{#alpha-x-x,,alpha*-*-*}
f42974dc 3035@item
8c200350 3036@uref{#alpha-dec-osf51,,alpha*-dec-osf5.1}
f42974dc 3037@item
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3038@uref{#amd64-x-solaris210,,amd64-*-solaris2.10}
3039@item
9094e001 3040@uref{#arm-x-eabi,,arm-*-eabi}
b8df899a 3041@item
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3042@uref{#avr,,avr}
3043@item
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3044@uref{#bfin,,Blackfin}
3045@item
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3046@uref{#dos,,DOS}
3047@item
5a4c9b10 3048@uref{#x-x-freebsd,,*-*-freebsd*}
021c4bfd 3049@item
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3050@uref{#h8300-hms,,h8300-hms}
3051@item
5a4c9b10 3052@uref{#hppa-hp-hpux,,hppa*-hp-hpux*}
f42974dc 3053@item
5a4c9b10 3054@uref{#hppa-hp-hpux10,,hppa*-hp-hpux10}
f42974dc 3055@item
5a4c9b10 3056@uref{#hppa-hp-hpux11,,hppa*-hp-hpux11}
f42974dc 3057@item
5a4c9b10 3058@uref{#x-x-linux-gnu,,*-*-linux-gnu}
f42974dc 3059@item
5a4c9b10 3060@uref{#ix86-x-linux,,i?86-*-linux*}
f42974dc 3061@item
7888f266 3062@uref{#ix86-x-solaris289,,i?86-*-solaris2.9}
ae6a0535 3063@item
d8fcd085 3064@uref{#ix86-x-solaris210,,i?86-*-solaris2.10}
8f47c084 3065@item
5a4c9b10 3066@uref{#ia64-x-linux,,ia64-*-linux}
b8df899a 3067@item
5a4c9b10 3068@uref{#ia64-x-hpux,,ia64-*-hpux*}
b499d9ab 3069@item
5a4c9b10 3070@uref{#x-ibm-aix,,*-ibm-aix*}
959a73a4 3071@item
5a4c9b10 3072@uref{#iq2000-x-elf,,iq2000-*-elf}
e3223ea2 3073@item
aa4945c1
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3074@uref{#lm32-x-elf,,lm32-*-elf}
3075@item
3076@uref{#lm32-x-uclinux,,lm32-*-uclinux}
3077@item
38b2d076
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3078@uref{#m32c-x-elf,,m32c-*-elf}
3079@item
5a4c9b10 3080@uref{#m32r-x-elf,,m32r-*-elf}
b8df899a 3081@item
183dc04b
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3082@uref{#m68k-x-x,,m68k-*-*}
3083@item
4529dbf1
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3084@uref{#m68k-uclinux,,m68k-uclinux}
3085@item
e2491744
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3086@uref{#mep-x-elf,,mep-*-elf}
3087@item
80920132
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3088@uref{#microblaze-x-elf,,microblaze-*-elf}
3089@item
5a4c9b10 3090@uref{#mips-x-x,,mips-*-*}
b8df899a 3091@item
b953cc4b 3092@uref{#mips-sgi-irix5,,mips-sgi-irix5}
f42974dc 3093@item
b953cc4b 3094@uref{#mips-sgi-irix6,,mips-sgi-irix6}
f42974dc 3095@item
cd985f66 3096@uref{#powerpc-x-x,,powerpc*-*-*}
4f2b1139 3097@item
5a4c9b10 3098@uref{#powerpc-x-darwin,,powerpc-*-darwin*}
b8df899a 3099@item
cd985f66 3100@uref{#powerpc-x-elf,,powerpc-*-elf}
f42974dc 3101@item
5a4c9b10 3102@uref{#powerpc-x-linux-gnu,,powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*}
edf1b3f3 3103@item
5a4c9b10 3104@uref{#powerpc-x-netbsd,,powerpc-*-netbsd*}
b8df899a 3105@item
5a4c9b10 3106@uref{#powerpc-x-eabisim,,powerpc-*-eabisim}
b8df899a 3107@item
5a4c9b10 3108@uref{#powerpc-x-eabi,,powerpc-*-eabi}
b8df899a 3109@item
cd985f66 3110@uref{#powerpcle-x-elf,,powerpcle-*-elf}
b8df899a 3111@item
5a4c9b10 3112@uref{#powerpcle-x-eabisim,,powerpcle-*-eabisim}
b8df899a 3113@item
5a4c9b10 3114@uref{#powerpcle-x-eabi,,powerpcle-*-eabi}
b8df899a 3115@item
5a4c9b10 3116@uref{#s390-x-linux,,s390-*-linux*}
91abf72d 3117@item
5a4c9b10 3118@uref{#s390x-x-linux,,s390x-*-linux*}
91abf72d 3119@item
5a4c9b10 3120@uref{#s390x-ibm-tpf,,s390x-ibm-tpf*}
8bf06993 3121@item
5a4c9b10 3122@uref{#x-x-solaris2,,*-*-solaris2*}
f42974dc 3123@item
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3124@uref{#sparc-x-x,,sparc*-*-*}
3125@item
5a4c9b10 3126@uref{#sparc-sun-solaris2,,sparc-sun-solaris2*}
f42974dc 3127@item
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3128@uref{#sparc-sun-solaris210,,sparc-sun-solaris2.10}
3129@item
5a4c9b10 3130@uref{#sparc-x-linux,,sparc-*-linux*}
c6fa9728 3131@item
5a4c9b10 3132@uref{#sparc64-x-solaris2,,sparc64-*-solaris2*}
f42974dc 3133@item
5a4c9b10 3134@uref{#sparcv9-x-solaris2,,sparcv9-*-solaris2*}
e403b4bc 3135@item
bcead286
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3136@uref{#c6x-x-x,,c6x-*-*}
3137@item
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3138@uref{#tilegx-x-linux,,tilegx-*-linux*}
3139@item
3140@uref{#tilepro-x-linux,,tilepro-*-linux*}
3141@item
5a4c9b10 3142@uref{#x-x-vxworks,,*-*-vxworks*}
4977bab6 3143@item
d8fcd085 3144@uref{#x86-64-x-x,,x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*}
7e081a0c 3145@item
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3146@uref{#x86-64-x-solaris210,,x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*}
3147@item
6d656178 3148@uref{#xtensa-x-elf,,xtensa*-*-elf}
fd29f6ea 3149@item
6d656178 3150@uref{#xtensa-x-linux,,xtensa*-*-linux*}
fd29f6ea 3151@item
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3152@uref{#windows,,Microsoft Windows}
3153@item
aad416fb
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3154@uref{#x-x-cygwin,,*-*-cygwin}
3155@item
3156@uref{#x-x-interix,,*-*-interix}
3157@item
53e350d3 3158@uref{#x-x-mingw32,,*-*-mingw32}
aad416fb 3159@item
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3160@uref{#os2,,OS/2}
3161@item
3162@uref{#older,,Older systems}
3163@end itemize
3164
3165@itemize
3166@item
d8fcd085 3167@uref{#elf,,all ELF targets} (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
f42974dc 3168@end itemize
ef88b07d 3169@end ifhtml
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3170
3171
3172@html
3173<!-- -------- host/target specific issues start here ---------------- -->
b8db17af 3174<hr />
f42974dc 3175@end html
5a4c9b10 3176@heading @anchor{alpha-x-x}alpha*-*-*
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3177
3178This section contains general configuration information for all
3179alpha-based platforms using ELF (in particular, ignore this section for
161d7b59 3180DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX and Tru64 UNIX)@. In addition to reading this
f2541106 3181section, please read all other sections that match your target.
333e14b0 3182
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3183We require binutils 2.11.2 or newer.
3184Previous binutils releases had a number of problems with DWARF 2
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3185debugging information, not the least of which is incorrect linking of
3186shared libraries.
3187
b8df899a 3188@html
b8db17af 3189<hr />
b8df899a 3190@end html
8c200350 3191@heading @anchor{alpha-dec-osf51}alpha*-dec-osf5.1
b8df899a 3192Systems using processors that implement the DEC Alpha architecture and
92d80770 3193are running the DEC/Compaq/HP Unix (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX, or Compaq/HP
f2541106
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3194Tru64 UNIX) operating system, for example the DEC Alpha AXP systems.
3195
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3196Support for Tru64 UNIX V5.1 has been removed in GCC 4.8. As of GCC 4.6,
3197support for Tru64 UNIX V4.0 and V5.0 has been removed. As of GCC 3.2,
3198versions before @code{alpha*-dec-osf4} are no longer supported. (These
3199are the versions which identify themselves as DEC OSF/1.)
92d80770 3200
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3201@html
3202<hr />
3203@end html
3204@heading @anchor{amd64-x-solaris210}amd64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*
3205
3206This is a synonym for @samp{x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*}.
3207
b8df899a 3208@html
b8db17af 3209<hr />
b8df899a 3210@end html
9094e001 3211@heading @anchor{arm-x-eabi}arm-*-eabi
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3212ARM-family processors. Subtargets that use the ELF object format
3213require GNU binutils 2.13 or newer. Such subtargets include:
9945a876 3214@code{arm-*-netbsdelf}, @code{arm-*-*linux-*}
9094e001 3215and @code{arm-*-rtemseabi}.
34e8290f 3216
f42974dc 3217@html
b8db17af 3218<hr />
f42974dc 3219@end html
ef88b07d 3220@heading @anchor{avr}avr
f42974dc 3221
b8df899a 3222ATMEL AVR-family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
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3223applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
3224@ifnothtml
7f970b70 3225@xref{AVR Options,, AVR Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
ca52d046
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3226Collection (GCC)},
3227@end ifnothtml
98999d8b 3228@ifhtml
ca52d046 3229See ``AVR Options'' in the main manual
98999d8b 3230@end ifhtml
ca52d046 3231for the list of supported MCU types.
b8df899a 3232
161d7b59 3233Use @samp{configure --target=avr --enable-languages="c"} to configure GCC@.
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3234
3235Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR tools
3236can also be obtained from:
3237
3238@itemize @bullet
3239@item
1d7887ca 3240@uref{http://www.nongnu.org/avr/,,http://www.nongnu.org/avr/}
de7999ba 3241@item
d1a86812 3242@uref{http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/,,http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/}
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3243@end itemize
3244
de7999ba 3245We @emph{strongly} recommend using binutils 2.13 or newer.
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3246
3247The following error:
3ab51846 3248@smallexample
98797784 3249Error: register required
3ab51846 3250@end smallexample
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3251
3252indicates that you should upgrade to a newer version of the binutils.
3253
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3254@html
3255<hr />
3256@end html
3257@heading @anchor{bfin}Blackfin
3258
3259The Blackfin processor, an Analog Devices DSP.
3260@ifnothtml
7f970b70
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3261@xref{Blackfin Options,, Blackfin Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
3262Collection (GCC)},
0d4a78eb
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3263@end ifnothtml
3264@ifhtml
3265See ``Blackfin Options'' in the main manual
3266@end ifhtml
3267
3268More information, and a version of binutils with support for this processor,
3269is available at @uref{http://blackfin.uclinux.org}
3270
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3271@html
3272<hr />
3273@end html
3274@heading @anchor{cr16}CR16
3275
3276The CR16 CompactRISC architecture is a 16-bit architecture. This architecture is
3277used in embedded applications.
3278
3279@ifnothtml
3280@xref{CR16 Options,, CR16 Options, gcc, Using and Porting the GNU Compiler
3281Collection (GCC)},
3282@end ifnothtml
3283
3284@ifhtml
3285See ``CR16 Options'' in the main manual for a list of CR16-specific options.
3286@end ifhtml
3287
3288Use @samp{configure --target=cr16-elf --enable-languages=c,c++} to configure
3289GCC@ for building a CR16 elf cross-compiler.
3290
3291Use @samp{configure --target=cr16-uclinux --enable-languages=c,c++} to configure
3292GCC@ for building a CR16 uclinux cross-compiler.
3293
0b85d816 3294@html
b8db17af 3295<hr />
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3296@end html
3297@heading @anchor{cris}CRIS
3298
3299CRIS is the CPU architecture in Axis Communications ETRAX system-on-a-chip
3300series. These are used in embedded applications.
3301
3302@ifnothtml
7f970b70 3303@xref{CRIS Options,, CRIS Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
0b85d816
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3304Collection (GCC)},
3305@end ifnothtml
3306@ifhtml
3307See ``CRIS Options'' in the main manual
3308@end ifhtml
3309for a list of CRIS-specific options.
3310
3311There are a few different CRIS targets:
3312@table @code
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3313@item cris-axis-elf
3314Mainly for monolithic embedded systems. Includes a multilib for the
3315@samp{v10} core used in @samp{ETRAX 100 LX}.
3316@item cris-axis-linux-gnu
3317A GNU/Linux port for the CRIS architecture, currently targeting
3318@samp{ETRAX 100 LX} by default.
3319@end table
3320
cd985f66 3321For @code{cris-axis-elf} you need binutils 2.11
0b85d816
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3322or newer. For @code{cris-axis-linux-gnu} you need binutils 2.12 or newer.
3323
3324Pre-packaged tools can be obtained from
b7ae9eb5 3325@uref{ftp://ftp.axis.com/@/pub/@/axis/@/tools/@/cris/@/compiler-kit/}. More
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3326information about this platform is available at
3327@uref{http://developer.axis.com/}.
3328
f42974dc 3329@html
b8db17af 3330<hr />
f42974dc 3331@end html
ef88b07d 3332@heading @anchor{dos}DOS
f42974dc 3333
962e6e00 3334Please have a look at the @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
f42974dc 3335
f0523f02 3336You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under
f85b8d1a
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3337any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete
3338compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources,
3339and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.
3340
feeeff5c
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3341@html
3342<hr />
3343@end html
3344@heading @anchor{epiphany-x-elf}epiphany-*-elf
3345Adapteva Epiphany.
3346This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3347
021c4bfd 3348@html
b8db17af 3349<hr />
021c4bfd 3350@end html
5a4c9b10 3351@heading @anchor{x-x-freebsd}*-*-freebsd*
021c4bfd 3352
02c8b4f8
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3353Support for FreeBSD 1 was discontinued in GCC 3.2. Support for
3354FreeBSD 2 (and any mutant a.out variants of FreeBSD 3) was
3355discontinued in GCC 4.0.
3356
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3357In order to better utilize FreeBSD base system functionality and match
3358the configuration of the system compiler, GCC 4.5 and above as well as
3359GCC 4.4 past 2010-06-20 leverage SSP support in libc (which is present
3360on FreeBSD 7 or later) and the use of @code{__cxa_atexit} by default
3361(on FreeBSD 6 or later). The use of @code{dl_iterate_phdr} inside
3362@file{libgcc_s.so.1} and boehm-gc (on FreeBSD 7 or later) is enabled
3363by GCC 4.5 and above.
27ed7478 3364
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3365We support FreeBSD using the ELF file format with DWARF 2 debugging
3366for all CPU architectures. You may use @option{-gstabs} instead of
3367@option{-g}, if you really want the old debugging format. There are
021c4bfd 3368no known issues with mixing object files and libraries with different
02c8b4f8
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3369debugging formats. Otherwise, this release of GCC should now match
3370more of the configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of
3371GCC@. In particular, @option{--enable-threads} is now configured by
3372default. However, as a general user, do not attempt to replace the
3373system compiler with this release. Known to bootstrap and check with
3374good results on FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE@. In the past, known to bootstrap
3375and check with good results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4,
33764.5, 4.8, 4.9 and 5-CURRENT@.
3377
3378The version of binutils installed in @file{/usr/bin} probably works
3379with this release of GCC@. Bootstrapping against the latest GNU
f2431d5d 3380binutils and/or the version found in @file{/usr/ports/devel/binutils} has
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LR
3381been known to enable additional features and improve overall testsuite
3382results. However, it is currently known that boehm-gc (which itself
3383is required for java) may not configure properly on FreeBSD prior to
3384the FreeBSD 7.0 release with GNU binutils after 2.16.1.
bc3a44db 3385
f42974dc 3386@html
b8db17af 3387<hr />
f42974dc 3388@end html
ef88b07d 3389@heading @anchor{h8300-hms}h8300-hms
71c6b994 3390Renesas H8/300 series of processors.
f42974dc 3391
962e6e00 3392Please have a look at the @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
f42974dc 3393
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3394The calling convention and structure layout has changed in release 2.6.
3395All code must be recompiled. The calling convention now passes the
3396first three arguments in function calls in registers. Structures are no
3397longer a multiple of 2 bytes.
3398
f42974dc 3399@html
b8db17af 3400<hr />
f42974dc 3401@end html
5a4c9b10 3402@heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux}hppa*-hp-hpux*
6a1dbbaf 3403Support for HP-UX version 9 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
f42974dc 3404
be7659ba
JDA
3405We require using gas/binutils on all hppa platforms. Version 2.19 or
3406later is recommended.
f42974dc 3407
be7659ba 3408It may be helpful to configure GCC with the
38209993 3409@uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}} and
8a36672b 3410@option{--with-as=@dots{}} options to ensure that GCC can find GAS@.
f42974dc 3411
be7659ba
JDA
3412The HP assembler should not be used with GCC. It is rarely tested and may
3413not work. It shouldn't be used with any languages other than C due to its
3414many limitations.
3415
3416Specifically, @option{-g} does not work (HP-UX uses a peculiar debugging
3417format which GCC does not know about). It also inserts timestamps
3418into each object file it creates, causing the 3-stage comparison test to
3419fail during a bootstrap. You should be able to continue by saying
3420@samp{make all-host all-target} after getting the failure from @samp{make}.
3421
3422Various GCC features are not supported. For example, it does not support weak
3423symbols or alias definitions. As a result, explicit template instantiations
3424are required when using C++. This makes it difficult if not impossible to
3425build many C++ applications.
f42974dc 3426
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3427There are two default scheduling models for instructions. These are
3428PROCESSOR_7100LC and PROCESSOR_8000. They are selected from the pa-risc
3429architecture specified for the target machine when configuring.
3430PROCESSOR_8000 is the default. PROCESSOR_7100LC is selected when
3431the target is a @samp{hppa1*} machine.
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3432
3433The PROCESSOR_8000 model is not well suited to older processors. Thus,
3434it is important to completely specify the machine architecture when
3435configuring if you want a model other than PROCESSOR_8000. The macro
3436TARGET_SCHED_DEFAULT can be defined in BOOT_CFLAGS if a different
3437default scheduling model is desired.
3438
25f710ba 3439As of GCC 4.0, GCC uses the UNIX 95 namespace for HP-UX 10.10
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3440through 11.00, and the UNIX 98 namespace for HP-UX 11.11 and later.
3441This namespace change might cause problems when bootstrapping with
3442an earlier version of GCC or the HP compiler as essentially the same
3443namespace is required for an entire build. This problem can be avoided
3444in a number of ways. With HP cc, @env{UNIX_STD} can be set to @samp{95}
3445or @samp{98}. Another way is to add an appropriate set of predefines
3446to @env{CC}. The description for the @option{munix=} option contains
3447a list of the predefines used with each standard.
3448
021c4bfd 3449More specific information to @samp{hppa*-hp-hpux*} targets follows.
f42974dc 3450
f42974dc 3451@html
b8db17af 3452<hr />
f42974dc 3453@end html
5a4c9b10 3454@heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux10}hppa*-hp-hpux10
f42974dc 3455
f9047ed3 3456For hpux10.20, we @emph{highly} recommend you pick up the latest sed patch
7be03a0e 3457@code{PHCO_19798} from HP@.
f42974dc 3458
25f710ba 3459The C++ ABI has changed incompatibly in GCC 4.0. COMDAT subspaces are
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3460used for one-only code and data. This resolves many of the previous
3461problems in using C++ on this target. However, the ABI is not compatible
3462with the one implemented under HP-UX 11 using secondary definitions.
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3463
3464@html
b8db17af 3465<hr />
f42974dc 3466@end html
5a4c9b10 3467@heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux11}hppa*-hp-hpux11
f42974dc 3468
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3469GCC 3.0 and up support HP-UX 11. GCC 2.95.x is not supported and cannot
3470be used to compile GCC 3.0 and up.
f269f54f 3471
be7659ba
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3472The libffi and libjava libraries haven't been ported to 64-bit HP-UX@
3473and don't build.
3474
c5124497 3475Refer to @uref{binaries.html,,binaries} for information about obtaining
8a36672b
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3476precompiled GCC binaries for HP-UX@. Precompiled binaries must be obtained
3477to build the Ada language as it can't be bootstrapped using C@. Ada is
be7659ba 3478only available for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime.
f401d0f5 3479
02809848
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3480Starting with GCC 3.4 an ISO C compiler is required to bootstrap. The
3481bundled compiler supports only traditional C; you will need either HP's
3482unbundled compiler, or a binary distribution of GCC@.
3483
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3484It is possible to build GCC 3.3 starting with the bundled HP compiler,
3485but the process requires several steps. GCC 3.3 can then be used to
3486build later versions. The fastjar program contains ISO C code and
3487can't be built with the HP bundled compiler. This problem can be
3488avoided by not building the Java language. For example, use the
3489@option{--enable-languages="c,c++,f77,objc"} option in your configure
3490command.
08b3d104 3491
c5124497
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3492There are several possible approaches to building the distribution.
3493Binutils can be built first using the HP tools. Then, the GCC
3494distribution can be built. The second approach is to build GCC
8a36672b 3495first using the HP tools, then build binutils, then rebuild GCC@.
c5124497
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3496There have been problems with various binary distributions, so it
3497is best not to start from a binary distribution.
3498
3499On 64-bit capable systems, there are two distinct targets. Different
3500installation prefixes must be used if both are to be installed on
3501the same system. The @samp{hppa[1-2]*-hp-hpux11*} target generates code
3502for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime architecture and uses the HP linker.
3503The @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target generates 64-bit code for the
be7659ba 3504PA-RISC 2.0 architecture.
c5124497
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3505
3506The script config.guess now selects the target type based on the compiler
3507detected during configuration. You must define @env{PATH} or @env{CC} so
3508that configure finds an appropriate compiler for the initial bootstrap.
3509When @env{CC} is used, the definition should contain the options that are
3510needed whenever @env{CC} is used.
3511
3512Specifically, options that determine the runtime architecture must be
3513in @env{CC} to correctly select the target for the build. It is also
f0eb93a8 3514convenient to place many other compiler options in @env{CC}. For example,
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3515@env{CC="cc -Ac +DA2.0W -Wp,-H16376 -D_CLASSIC_TYPES -D_HPUX_SOURCE"}
3516can be used to bootstrap the GCC 3.3 branch with the HP compiler in
351764-bit K&R/bundled mode. The @option{+DA2.0W} option will result in
3518the automatic selection of the @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target. The
3519macro definition table of cpp needs to be increased for a successful
3520build with the HP compiler. _CLASSIC_TYPES and _HPUX_SOURCE need to
3521be defined when building with the bundled compiler, or when using the
3522@option{-Ac} option. These defines aren't necessary with @option{-Ae}.
8c085f6f 3523
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3524It is best to explicitly configure the @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target
3525with the @option{--with-ld=@dots{}} option. This overrides the standard
3526search for ld. The two linkers supported on this target require different
3527commands. The default linker is determined during configuration. As a
3528result, it's not possible to switch linkers in the middle of a GCC build.
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3529This has been reported to sometimes occur in unified builds of binutils
3530and GCC@.
c5124497 3531
c5124497
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3532A recent linker patch must be installed for the correct operation of
3533GCC 3.3 and later. @code{PHSS_26559} and @code{PHSS_24304} are the
3534oldest linker patches that are known to work. They are for HP-UX
353511.00 and 11.11, respectively. @code{PHSS_24303}, the companion to
3536@code{PHSS_24304}, might be usable but it hasn't been tested. These
3537patches have been superseded. Consult the HP patch database to obtain
3538the currently recommended linker patch for your system.
3539
3540The patches are necessary for the support of weak symbols on the
354132-bit port, and for the running of initializers and finalizers. Weak
3542symbols are implemented using SOM secondary definition symbols. Prior
3543to HP-UX 11, there are bugs in the linker support for secondary symbols.
3544The patches correct a problem of linker core dumps creating shared
3545libraries containing secondary symbols, as well as various other
3546linking issues involving secondary symbols.
3547
3548GCC 3.3 uses the ELF DT_INIT_ARRAY and DT_FINI_ARRAY capabilities to
3549run initializers and finalizers on the 64-bit port. The 32-bit port
3550uses the linker @option{+init} and @option{+fini} options for the same
3551purpose. The patches correct various problems with the +init/+fini
3552options, including program core dumps. Binutils 2.14 corrects a
3553problem on the 64-bit port resulting from HP's non-standard use of
3554the .init and .fini sections for array initializers and finalizers.
f401d0f5 3555
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3556Although the HP and GNU linkers are both supported for the
3557@samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target, it is strongly recommended that the
3558HP linker be used for link editing on this target.
3559
3560At this time, the GNU linker does not support the creation of long
3561branch stubs. As a result, it can't successfully link binaries
3562containing branch offsets larger than 8 megabytes. In addition,
3563there are problems linking shared libraries, linking executables
3564with @option{-static}, and with dwarf2 unwind and exception support.
3565It also doesn't provide stubs for internal calls to global functions
3566in shared libraries, so these calls can't be overloaded.
3567
3568The HP dynamic loader does not support GNU symbol versioning, so symbol
3569versioning is not supported. It may be necessary to disable symbol
3570versioning with @option{--disable-symvers} when using GNU ld.
3571
3572POSIX threads are the default. The optional DCE thread library is not
3573supported, so @option{--enable-threads=dce} does not work.
08b3d104 3574
f42974dc 3575@html
b8db17af 3576<hr />
f42974dc 3577@end html
5a4c9b10 3578@heading @anchor{x-x-linux-gnu}*-*-linux-gnu
f42974dc 3579
b818de22 3580Versions of libstdc++-v3 starting with 3.2.1 require bug fixes present
9e80ada7
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3581in glibc 2.2.5 and later. More information is available in the
3582libstdc++-v3 documentation.
3583
f42974dc 3584@html
b8db17af 3585<hr />
f42974dc 3586@end html
5a4c9b10 3587@heading @anchor{ix86-x-linux}i?86-*-linux*
f42974dc 3588
1ea6f4c8
DH
3589As of GCC 3.3, binutils 2.13.1 or later is required for this platform.
3590See @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/PR10877,,bug 10877} for more information.
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3591
3592If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it is
3593possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this can be
3594found on @uref{http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/,,www.bitwizard.nl}.
3595
ae6a0535
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3596@html
3597<hr />
3598@end html
7888f266
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3599@heading @anchor{ix86-x-solaris29}i?86-*-solaris2.9
3600The Sun assembler in Solaris 9 has several bugs and limitations.
ae6a0535
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3601While GCC works around them, several features are missing, so it is
3602@c FIXME: which ones?
3603recommended to use the GNU assembler instead. There is no bundled
493dd43c 3604version, but the current version, from GNU binutils 2.22, is known to
ae6a0535
RO
3605work.
3606
2b0d3573
RW
3607Solaris@tie{}2/x86 doesn't support the execution of SSE/SSE2 instructions
3608before Solaris@tie{}9 4/04, even if the CPU supports them. Programs will
ae6a0535 3609receive @code{SIGILL} if they try. The fix is available both in
7888f266
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3610Solaris@tie{}9 Update@tie{}6 and kernel patch 112234-12 or newer. To
3611avoid this problem,
3612@option{-march} defaults to @samp{pentiumpro} on Solaris 9. If
ae6a0535
RO
3613you have the patch installed, you can configure GCC with an appropriate
3614@option{--with-arch} option, but need GNU @command{as} for SSE2 support.
3615
8f47c084
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3616@html
3617<hr />
3618@end html
d8fcd085 3619@heading @anchor{ix86-x-solaris210}i?86-*-solaris2.10
493dd43c 3620Use this for Solaris 10 or later on x86 and x86-64 systems. Starting
fbdd5d87
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3621with GCC 4.7, there is also a 64-bit @samp{amd64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*} or
3622@samp{x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*} configuration that corresponds to
3623@samp{sparcv9-sun-solaris2*}.
8c5cfa89
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3624
3625It is recommended that you configure GCC to use the GNU assembler, in
3626@file{/usr/sfw/bin/gas}. The versions included in Solaris 10, from GNU
3627binutils 2.15, and Solaris 11, from GNU binutils 2.19, work fine,
dd178909 3628although the current version, from GNU binutils
493dd43c 36292.22, is known to work, too. Recent versions of the Sun assembler in
8c5cfa89
RO
3630@file{/usr/ccs/bin/as} work almost as well, though.
3631@c FIXME: as patch requirements?
3632
3633For linking, the Sun linker, is preferred. If you want to use the GNU
3634linker instead, which is available in @file{/usr/sfw/bin/gld}, note that
3635due to a packaging bug the version in Solaris 10, from GNU binutils
36362.15, cannot be used, while the version in Solaris 11, from GNU binutils
493dd43c 36372.19, works, as does the latest version, from GNU binutils 2.22.
8c5cfa89
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3638
3639To use GNU @command{as}, configure with the options
b7ae9eb5
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3640@option{--with-gnu-as --with-as=@//usr/@/sfw/@/bin/@/gas}. It may be necessary
3641to configure with @option{--without-gnu-ld --with-ld=@//usr/@/ccs/@/bin/@/ld} to
8c5cfa89
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3642guarantee use of Sun @command{ld}.
3643@c FIXME: why --without-gnu-ld --with-ld?
8f47c084 3644
b499d9ab 3645@html
b8db17af 3646<hr />
b499d9ab 3647@end html
5a4c9b10 3648@heading @anchor{ia64-x-linux}ia64-*-linux
b499d9ab
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3649IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family)
3650running GNU/Linux.
3651
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3652If you are using the installed system libunwind library with
3653@option{--with-system-libunwind}, then you must use libunwind 0.98 or
3654later.
bcd11e5e 3655
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JJ
3656None of the following versions of GCC has an ABI that is compatible
3657with any of the other versions in this list, with the exception that
3658Red Hat 2.96 and Trillian 000171 are compatible with each other:
41ca24de 36593.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0, Red Hat 2.96, and Trillian 000717.
b499d9ab 3660This primarily affects C++ programs and programs that create shared libraries.
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DH
3661GCC 3.1 or later is recommended for compiling linux, the kernel.
3662As of version 3.1 GCC is believed to be fully ABI compliant, and hence no
3663more major ABI changes are expected.
b499d9ab 3664
959a73a4
DH
3665@html
3666<hr />
3667@end html
5a4c9b10 3668@heading @anchor{ia64-x-hpux}ia64-*-hpux*
8a36672b
JM
3669Building GCC on this target requires the GNU Assembler. The bundled HP
3670assembler will not work. To prevent GCC from using the wrong assembler,
959a73a4
DH
3671the option @option{--with-gnu-as} may be necessary.
3672
8a36672b 3673The GCC libunwind library has not been ported to HPUX@. This means that for
959a73a4 3674GCC versions 3.2.3 and earlier, @option{--enable-libunwind-exceptions}
8a36672b 3675is required to build GCC@. For GCC 3.3 and later, this is the default.
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3676For gcc 3.4.3 and later, @option{--enable-libunwind-exceptions} is
3677removed and the system libunwind library will always be used.
959a73a4 3678
f42974dc 3679@html
b8db17af 3680<hr />
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3681<!-- rs6000-ibm-aix*, powerpc-ibm-aix* -->
3682@end html
5a4c9b10 3683@heading @anchor{x-ibm-aix}*-ibm-aix*
6a1dbbaf 3684Support for AIX version 3 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
52c0e446 3685Support for AIX version 4.2 and older was discontinued in GCC 4.5.
f42974dc 3686
7cc654b8
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3687``out of memory'' bootstrap failures may indicate a problem with
3688process resource limits (ulimit). Hard limits are configured in the
71fc0c16 3689@file{/etc/security/limits} system configuration file.
7cc654b8 3690
c58c92f5
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3691GCC can bootstrap with recent versions of IBM XLC, but bootstrapping
3692with an earlier release of GCC is recommended. Bootstrapping with XLC
3693requires a larger data segment, which can be enabled through the
3694@var{LDR_CNTRL} environment variable, e.g.,
3695
3696@smallexample
98797784
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3697% LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x50000000
3698% export LDR_CNTRL
c58c92f5
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3699@end smallexample
3700
3701One can start with a pre-compiled version of GCC to build from
3702sources. One may delete GCC's ``fixed'' header files when starting
3703with a version of GCC built for an earlier release of AIX.
3704
e8d8a034
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3705To speed up the configuration phases of bootstrapping and installing GCC,
3706one may use GNU Bash instead of AIX @command{/bin/sh}, e.g.,
3707
3708@smallexample
98797784
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3709% CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash
3710% export CONFIG_SHELL
e8d8a034
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3711@end smallexample
3712
cc11cc9b
PB
3713and then proceed as described in @uref{build.html,,the build
3714instructions}, where we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path
e8d8a034
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3715to invoke @var{srcdir}/configure.
3716
d3a95f27
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3717Because GCC on AIX is built as a 32-bit executable by default,
3718(although it can generate 64-bit programs) the GMP and MPFR libraries
3719required by gfortran must be 32-bit libraries. Building GMP and MPFR
3720as static archive libraries works better than shared libraries.
3721
6cfb3f16 3722Errors involving @code{alloca} when building GCC generally are due
021c4bfd 3723to an incorrect definition of @code{CC} in the Makefile or mixing files
161d7b59 3724compiled with the native C compiler and GCC@. During the stage1 phase of
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3725the build, the native AIX compiler @strong{must} be invoked as @command{cc}
3726(not @command{xlc}). Once @command{configure} has been informed of
3727@command{xlc}, one needs to use @samp{make distclean} to remove the
38209993 3728configure cache files and ensure that @env{CC} environment variable
f42974dc
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3729does not provide a definition that will confuse @command{configure}.
3730If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the problem most likely
3731is the version of Make (see above).
3732
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3733The native @command{as} and @command{ld} are recommended for
3734bootstrapping on AIX@. The GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, and GNU
3735Binutils version 2.20 is the minimum level that supports bootstrap on
3736AIX 5@. The GNU Assembler has not been updated to support AIX 6@ or
3737AIX 7. The native AIX tools do interoperate with GCC@.
df002c7d 3738
daf633ba
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3739AIX 5.3 TL10, AIX 6.1 TL05 and AIX 7.1 TL00 introduced an AIX
3740assembler change that sometimes produces corrupt assembly files
3741causing AIX linker errors. The bug breaks GCC bootstrap on AIX and
3742can cause compilation failures with existing GCC installations. An
3743AIX iFix for AIX 5.3 is available (APAR IZ98385 for AIX 5.3 TL10, APAR
a0bc8f9c
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3744IZ98477 for AIX 5.3 TL11 and IZ98134 for AIX 5.3 TL12). AIX 5.3 TL11 SP8,
3745AIX 5.3 TL12 SP5, AIX 6.1 TL04 SP11, AIX 6.1 TL05 SP7, AIX 6.1 TL06 SP6,
3746AIX 6.1 TL07 and AIX 7.1 TL01 should include the fix.
daf633ba 3747
04d2be8e 3748Building @file{libstdc++.a} requires a fix for an AIX Assembler bug
bb674cef
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3749APAR IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1). It also requires a
3750fix for another AIX Assembler bug and a co-dependent AIX Archiver fix
e4ae5e77 3751referenced as APAR IY53606 (AIX 5.2) or as APAR IY54774 (AIX 5.1)
2705baf5 3752
bb674cef 3753@samp{libstdc++} in GCC 3.4 increments the major version number of the
fdf68669 3754shared object and GCC installation places the @file{libstdc++.a}
bb674cef
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3755shared library in a common location which will overwrite the and GCC
37563.3 version of the shared library. Applications either need to be
3757re-linked against the new shared library or the GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.3
3758versions of the @samp{libstdc++} shared object needs to be available
3759to the AIX runtime loader. The GCC 3.1 @samp{libstdc++.so.4}, if
3760present, and GCC 3.3 @samp{libstdc++.so.5} shared objects can be
3761installed for runtime dynamic loading using the following steps to set
3762the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag in the shared object for @emph{each}
fdf68669
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3763multilib @file{libstdc++.a} installed:
3764
bb674cef
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3765Extract the shared objects from the currently installed
3766@file{libstdc++.a} archive:
3ab51846 3767@smallexample
98797784 3768% ar -x libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3ab51846 3769@end smallexample
fdf68669
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3770
3771Enable the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag so that the shared object will be
3772available for runtime dynamic loading, but not linking:
3ab51846 3773@smallexample
98797784 3774% strip -e libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3ab51846 3775@end smallexample
fdf68669 3776
bb674cef 3777Archive the runtime-only shared object in the GCC 3.4
fdf68669 3778@file{libstdc++.a} archive:
3ab51846 3779@smallexample
98797784 3780% ar -q libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3ab51846 3781@end smallexample
fdf68669 3782
df002c7d
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3783Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of
3784duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always
3785have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable
3786and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should
3787not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable
3788executable.
3789
6cfb3f16 3790AIX 4.3 utilizes a ``large format'' archive to support both 32-bit and
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379164-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1
3792to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly.
3793These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during
6cfb3f16 3794linking such as ``not a COFF file''. The version of the routines shipped
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3795with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The @option{-g}
3796option of the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit
6cfb3f16 3797objects using the original ``small format''. A correct version of the
d5d8d540 3798routines is shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above.
df002c7d 3799
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3800Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation
3801overflow severe error when the @option{-bbigtoc} option is used to link
161d7b59 3802GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC@. A fix
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3803for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC) is
3804available from IBM Customer Support and from its
d5d8d540 3805@uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
f42974dc
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3806website as PTF U455193.
3807
df002c7d 3808The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump core
161d7b59 3809with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC@. A fix for
df002c7d 3810APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
d5d8d540 3811@uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
df002c7d 3812website as PTF U461879. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above.
f42974dc
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3813
3814The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect object
3815files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM COMPILER FAILS
3816TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
d5d8d540 3817@uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
f42974dc
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3818website as PTF U453956. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above.
3819
161d7b59 3820AIX provides National Language Support (NLS)@. Compilers and assemblers
df002c7d 3821use NLS to support locale-specific representations of various data
6cfb3f16 3822formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., @samp{.} vs @samp{,} for
df002c7d
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3823separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where
3824GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats that the assembler
c771326b 3825expects. If one encounters this problem, set the @env{LANG}
6cfb3f16 3826environment variable to @samp{C} or @samp{En_US}.
f42974dc 3827
d5d8d540
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3828A default can be specified with the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
3829switch and using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
f42974dc 3830
6b3d1e47
SC
3831@html
3832<hr />
3833@end html
5a4c9b10 3834@heading @anchor{iq2000-x-elf}iq2000-*-elf
6b3d1e47
SC
3835Vitesse IQ2000 processors. These are used in embedded
3836applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
3837
aa4945c1
JB
3838@html
3839<hr />
3840@end html
3841@heading @anchor{lm32-x-elf}lm32-*-elf
3842Lattice Mico32 processor.
3843This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3844
3845@html
3846<hr />
3847@end html
3848@heading @anchor{lm32-x-uclinux}lm32-*-uclinux
3849Lattice Mico32 processor.
3850This configuration is intended for embedded systems running uClinux.
3851
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3852@html
3853<hr />
3854@end html
3855@heading @anchor{m32c-x-elf}m32c-*-elf
3856Renesas M32C processor.
3857This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3858
b8df899a 3859@html
b8db17af 3860<hr />
b8df899a 3861@end html
5a4c9b10 3862@heading @anchor{m32r-x-elf}m32r-*-elf
25f47a4c 3863Renesas M32R processor.
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JM
3864This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3865
b8df899a 3866@html
b8db17af 3867<hr />
b8df899a 3868@end html
183dc04b 3869@heading @anchor{m68k-x-x}m68k-*-*
52c0e446 3870By default,
368b55f6
NS
3871@samp{m68k-*-elf*}, @samp{m68k-*-rtems}, @samp{m68k-*-uclinux} and
3872@samp{m68k-*-linux}
10e96df4
NS
3873build libraries for both M680x0 and ColdFire processors. If you only
3874need the M680x0 libraries, you can omit the ColdFire ones by passing
3875@option{--with-arch=m68k} to @command{configure}. Alternatively, you
3876can omit the M680x0 libraries by passing @option{--with-arch=cf} to
368b55f6
NS
3877@command{configure}. These targets default to 5206 or 5475 code as
3878appropriate for the target system when
10e96df4
NS
3879configured with @option{--with-arch=cf} and 68020 code otherwise.
3880
368b55f6 3881The @samp{m68k-*-netbsd} and
10e96df4
NS
3882@samp{m68k-*-openbsd} targets also support the @option{--with-arch}
3883option. They will generate ColdFire CFV4e code when configured with
3884@option{--with-arch=cf} and 68020 code otherwise.
3885
3886You can override the default processors listed above by configuring
3887with @option{--with-cpu=@var{target}}. This @var{target} can either
3888be a @option{-mcpu} argument or one of the following values:
3889@samp{m68000}, @samp{m68010}, @samp{m68020}, @samp{m68030},
900ec02d 3890@samp{m68040}, @samp{m68060}, @samp{m68020-40} and @samp{m68020-60}.
59fbf3cb 3891
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3892GCC requires at least binutils version 2.17 on these targets.
3893
4529dbf1
RS
3894@html
3895<hr />
3896@end html
3897@heading @anchor{m68k-x-uclinux}m68k-*-uclinux
3898GCC 4.3 changed the uClinux configuration so that it uses the
3899@samp{m68k-linux-gnu} ABI rather than the @samp{m68k-elf} ABI.
3900It also added improved support for C++ and flat shared libraries,
ebb9f8b0 3901both of which were ABI changes.
4529dbf1 3902
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3903
3904@html
3905<hr />
3906@end html
3907@heading @anchor{mep-x-elf}mep-*-elf
5a99fe3e 3908Toshiba Media embedded Processor.
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3909This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3910
80920132
ME
3911@html
3912<hr />
3913@end html
3914@heading @anchor{microblaze-x-elf}microblaze-*-elf
3915Xilinx MicroBlaze processor.
3916This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3917
b8df899a 3918@html
b8db17af 3919<hr />
b8df899a 3920@end html
5a4c9b10 3921@heading @anchor{mips-x-x}mips-*-*
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JM
3922If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying ``does not have gp
3923sections for all it's [sic] sectons [sic]'', don't worry about it. This
3924happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not
3925really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can
3926stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.
3927
3928It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are
3929optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.
3930
26979a17
PE
3931The libstdc++ atomic locking routines for MIPS targets requires MIPS II
3932and later. A patch went in just after the GCC 3.3 release to
3933make @samp{mips*-*-*} use the generic implementation instead. You can also
3934configure for @samp{mipsel-elf} as a workaround. The
3935@samp{mips*-*-linux*} target continues to use the MIPS II routines. More
3936work on this is expected in future releases.
3937
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3938@c If you make --with-llsc the default for another target, please also
3939@c update the description of the --with-llsc option.
3940
3941The built-in @code{__sync_*} functions are available on MIPS II and
3942later systems and others that support the @samp{ll}, @samp{sc} and
3943@samp{sync} instructions. This can be overridden by passing
3944@option{--with-llsc} or @option{--without-llsc} when configuring GCC.
3945Since the Linux kernel emulates these instructions if they are
3946missing, the default for @samp{mips*-*-linux*} targets is
3947@option{--with-llsc}. The @option{--with-llsc} and
3948@option{--without-llsc} configure options may be overridden at compile
3949time by passing the @option{-mllsc} or @option{-mno-llsc} options to
3950the compiler.
3951
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DD
3952MIPS systems check for division by zero (unless
3953@option{-mno-check-zero-division} is passed to the compiler) by
3954generating either a conditional trap or a break instruction. Using
3955trap results in smaller code, but is only supported on MIPS II and
3956later. Also, some versions of the Linux kernel have a bug that
8a36672b 3957prevents trap from generating the proper signal (@code{SIGFPE}). To enable
9f0df97a 3958the use of break, use the @option{--with-divide=breaks}
8a36672b 3959@command{configure} option when configuring GCC@. The default is to
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3960use traps on systems that support them.
3961
3eb3cf05
DD
3962The assembler from GNU binutils 2.17 and earlier has a bug in the way
3963it sorts relocations for REL targets (o32, o64, EABI). This can cause
3964bad code to be generated for simple C++ programs. Also the linker
3965from GNU binutils versions prior to 2.17 has a bug which causes the
3966runtime linker stubs in very large programs, like @file{libgcj.so}, to
4e2e9e9b
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3967be incorrectly generated. GNU Binutils 2.18 and later (and snapshots
3968made after Nov. 9, 2006) should be free from both of these problems.
549fb079 3969
5fb57097
EB
3970@html
3971<hr />
3972@end html
b953cc4b
RO
3973@heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix5}mips-sgi-irix5
3974
9aaa1ee8 3975Support for IRIX 5 has been removed in GCC 4.6.
c5e1045b 3976
f42974dc 3977@html
b8db17af 3978<hr />
f42974dc 3979@end html
b953cc4b 3980@heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix6}mips-sgi-irix6
f42974dc 3981
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3982Support for IRIX 6.5 has been removed in GCC 4.8. Support for IRIX 6
3983releases before 6.5 has been removed in GCC 4.6, as well as support for
3984the O32 ABI.
93e89068 3985
cceb575c
AG
3986@html
3987<hr />
3988@end html
3989@heading @anchor{moxie-x-elf}moxie-*-elf
0cd6f755 3990The moxie processor.
cceb575c 3991
b8df899a 3992@html
b8db17af 3993<hr />
b8df899a 3994@end html
5a4c9b10 3995@heading @anchor{powerpc-x-x}powerpc-*-*
b8df899a 3996
6cfb3f16
JM
3997You can specify a default version for the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
3998switch by using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
b8df899a 3999
1590a115
NF
4000You will need
4001@uref{ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils,,binutils 2.15}
4002or newer for a working GCC@.
4003
4f2b1139 4004@html
b8db17af 4005<hr />
4f2b1139 4006@end html
5a4c9b10 4007@heading @anchor{powerpc-x-darwin}powerpc-*-darwin*
4f2b1139
SS
4008PowerPC running Darwin (Mac OS X kernel).
4009
4f2b1139
SS
4010Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer tools,
4011meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool
4012binaries are available at
2871536f 4013@uref{http://opensource.apple.com/}.
4f2b1139 4014
80c85ca2
MS
4015This version of GCC requires at least cctools-590.36. The
4016cctools-590.36 package referenced from
4017@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html} will not work
4018on systems older than 10.3.9 (aka darwin7.9.0).
4f2b1139 4019
021c4bfd 4020@html
b8db17af 4021<hr />
021c4bfd 4022@end html
cd985f66 4023@heading @anchor{powerpc-x-elf}powerpc-*-elf
021c4bfd
RO
4024PowerPC system in big endian mode, running System V.4.
4025
f42974dc 4026@html
b8db17af 4027<hr />
f42974dc 4028@end html
5a4c9b10 4029@heading @anchor{powerpc-x-linux-gnu}powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*
f42974dc 4030
1590a115 4031PowerPC system in big endian mode running Linux.
f42974dc 4032
edf1b3f3 4033@html
b8db17af 4034<hr />
edf1b3f3 4035@end html
5a4c9b10 4036@heading @anchor{powerpc-x-netbsd}powerpc-*-netbsd*
f0947430 4037PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD@.
edf1b3f3 4038
b8df899a 4039@html
b8db17af 4040<hr />
b8df899a 4041@end html
5a4c9b10 4042@heading @anchor{powerpc-x-eabisim}powerpc-*-eabisim
b8df899a
JM
4043Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the
4044PSIM simulator.
4045
b8df899a 4046@html
b8db17af 4047<hr />
b8df899a 4048@end html
5a4c9b10 4049@heading @anchor{powerpc-x-eabi}powerpc-*-eabi
b8df899a
JM
4050Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode.
4051
b8df899a 4052@html
b8db17af 4053<hr />
b8df899a 4054@end html
cd985f66 4055@heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-elf}powerpcle-*-elf
b8df899a
JM
4056PowerPC system in little endian mode, running System V.4.
4057
b8df899a 4058@html
b8db17af 4059<hr />
b8df899a 4060@end html
5a4c9b10 4061@heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-eabisim}powerpcle-*-eabisim
b8df899a
JM
4062Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under
4063the PSIM simulator.
4064
4065@html
b8db17af 4066<hr />
b8df899a 4067@end html
5a4c9b10 4068@heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-eabi}powerpcle-*-eabi
b8df899a
JM
4069Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode.
4070
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DD
4071@html
4072<hr />
4073@end html
4074@heading @anchor{rl78-x-elf}rl78-*-elf
4075The Renesas RL78 processor.
4076This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
4077
65a324b4
NC
4078@html
4079<hr />
4080@end html
4081@heading @anchor{rx-x-elf}rx-*-elf
4082The Renesas RX processor. See
4083@uref{http://eu.renesas.com/fmwk.jsp?cnt=rx600_series_landing.jsp&fp=/products/mpumcu/rx_family/rx600_series}
4084for more information about this processor.
4085
91abf72d 4086@html
b8db17af 4087<hr />
91abf72d 4088@end html
5a4c9b10 4089@heading @anchor{s390-x-linux}s390-*-linux*
95fef11f 4090S/390 system running GNU/Linux for S/390@.
91abf72d
HP
4091
4092@html
b8db17af 4093<hr />
91abf72d 4094@end html
5a4c9b10 4095@heading @anchor{s390x-x-linux}s390x-*-linux*
95fef11f 4096zSeries system (64-bit) running GNU/Linux for zSeries@.
91abf72d 4097
8bf06993
UW
4098@html
4099<hr />
4100@end html
5a4c9b10 4101@heading @anchor{s390x-ibm-tpf}s390x-ibm-tpf*
8a36672b 4102zSeries system (64-bit) running TPF@. This platform is
8bf06993
UW
4103supported as cross-compilation target only.
4104
f42974dc 4105@html
b8db17af 4106<hr />
f42974dc 4107@end html
250d5688 4108@c Please use Solaris 2 to refer to all release of Solaris, starting
1460af95 4109@c with 2.0 until 2.6, 7, 8, etc. Solaris 1 was a marketing name for
250d5688
RO
4110@c SunOS 4 releases which we don't use to avoid confusion. Solaris
4111@c alone is too unspecific and must be avoided.
5a4c9b10 4112@heading @anchor{x-x-solaris2}*-*-solaris2*
f42974dc 4113
0baddc45
RO
4114Support for Solaris 9 has been obsoleted in GCC 4.9, but can still be
4115enabled by configuring with @option{--enable-obsolete}. Support will be
4116removed in GCC 4.10. Support for Solaris 8 has removed in GCC 4.8.
4117Support for Solaris 7 has been removed in GCC 4.6.
8c5cfa89 4118
493dd43c
RO
4119Sun does not ship a C compiler with Solaris 2 before Solaris 10, though
4120you can download the Sun Studio compilers for free. In Solaris 10 and
17246516
RO
412111, GCC 3.4.3 is available as @command{/usr/sfw/bin/gcc}. Solaris 11
4122also provides GCC 4.5.2 as @command{/usr/gcc/4.5/bin/gcc}. Alternatively,
8c5cfa89 4123you can install a pre-built GCC to bootstrap and install GCC. See the
dbd210ef 4124@uref{binaries.html,,binaries page} for details.
f42974dc 4125
250d5688 4126The Solaris 2 @command{/bin/sh} will often fail to configure
8c5cfa89 4127@samp{libstdc++-v3}, @samp{boehm-gc} or @samp{libjava}. We therefore
1da1ce3f 4128recommend using the following initial sequence of commands
bc890961
EB
4129
4130@smallexample
98797784
RW
4131% CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
4132% export CONFIG_SHELL
bc890961
EB
4133@end smallexample
4134
8c5cfa89 4135@noindent
1da1ce3f 4136and proceed as described in @uref{configure.html,,the configure instructions}.
37de1373 4137In addition we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
8c5cfa89 4138@command{@var{srcdir}/configure}.
e6855a2d 4139
b8df899a 4140Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these
92441f83 4141are needed to use GCC fully, namely @code{SUNWarc},
dbd210ef
KC
4142@code{SUNWbtool}, @code{SUNWesu}, @code{SUNWhea}, @code{SUNWlibm},
4143@code{SUNWsprot}, and @code{SUNWtoo}. If you did not install all
250d5688 4144optional packages when installing Solaris 2, you will need to verify that
b8df899a
JM
4145the packages that GCC needs are installed.
4146
4147To check whether an optional package is installed, use
dbd210ef 4148the @command{pkginfo} command. To add an optional package, use the
250d5688 4149@command{pkgadd} command. For further details, see the Solaris 2
b8df899a
JM
4150documentation.
4151
250d5688 4152Trying to use the linker and other tools in
b8df899a
JM
4153@file{/usr/ucb} to install GCC has been observed to cause trouble.
4154For example, the linker may hang indefinitely. The fix is to remove
250d5688 4155@file{/usr/ucb} from your @env{PATH}.
f42974dc 4156
bc890961
EB
4157The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Sun tools so, if you
4158have @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} in your @env{PATH}, we recommend that you place
4159@file{/usr/bin} before @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} for the duration of the build.
4160
dd178909
RO
4161We recommend the use of the Sun assembler or the GNU assembler, in
4162conjunction with the Sun linker. The GNU @command{as}
8c5cfa89
RO
4163versions included in Solaris 10, from GNU binutils 2.15, and Solaris 11,
4164from GNU binutils 2.19, are known to work. They can be found in
493dd43c 4165@file{/usr/sfw/bin/gas}. Current versions of GNU binutils (2.22)
dd178909 4166are known to work as well. Note that your mileage may vary
2bd58b1b
EB
4167if you use a combination of the GNU tools and the Sun tools: while the
4168combination GNU @command{as} + Sun @command{ld} should reasonably work,
493dd43c
RO
4169the reverse combination Sun @command{as} + GNU @command{ld} may fail to
4170build or cause memory corruption at runtime in some cases for C++ programs.
8c5cfa89 4171@c FIXME: still?
dd178909 4172GNU @command{ld} usually works as well, although the version included in
8c5cfa89 4173Solaris 10 cannot be used due to several bugs. Again, the current
493dd43c
RO
4174version (2.22) is known to work, but generally lacks platform specific
4175features, so better stay with Sun @command{ld}. To use the LTO linker
4176plugin (@option{-fuse-linker-plugin}) with GNU @command{ld}, GNU
4177binutils @emph{must} be configured with @option{--enable-largefile}.
2c00bd42 4178
c18dc5cc
RO
4179To enable symbol versioning in @samp{libstdc++} with Sun @command{ld},
4180you need to have any version of GNU @command{c++filt}, which is part of
4181GNU binutils. @samp{libstdc++} symbol versioning will be disabled if no
4182appropriate version is found. Sun @command{c++filt} from the Sun Studio
4183compilers does @emph{not} work.
4184
250d5688 4185Sun bug 4296832 turns up when compiling X11 headers with GCC 2.95 or
2bd58b1b
EB
4186newer: @command{g++} will complain that types are missing. These headers
4187assume that omitting the type means @code{int}; this assumption worked for
7e1542b9 4188C90 but is wrong for C++, and is now wrong for C99 also.
250d5688 4189
c7525a64
KG
4190Sun bug 4927647 sometimes causes random spurious testsuite failures
4191related to missing diagnostic output. This bug doesn't affect GCC
4192itself, rather it is a kernel bug triggered by the @command{expect}
4193program which is used only by the GCC testsuite driver. When the bug
4194causes the @command{expect} program to miss anticipated output, extra
4195testsuite failures appear.
4196
7888f266 4197There are patches for Solaris 9 (117171-11 or newer for
c7525a64
KG
4198SPARC, 117172-11 or newer for Intel) that address this problem.
4199
7888f266 4200Thread-local storage (TLS) is supported in Solaris@tie{}9, but requires
16c9d3b1
RO
4201some patches. The @samp{libthread} patches provide the
4202@code{__tls_get_addr} (SPARC, 64-bit x86) resp.@ @code{___tls_get_addr}
7888f266 4203(32-bit x86) functions. On Solaris@tie{}9, the necessary support
2b0d3573 4204on SPARC is present since FCS, while 114432-05 or newer is required on
7888f266
RO
4205Intel. Additionally, on Solaris@tie{}9/x86, patch 113986-02 or newer is
4206required for the Sun @command{ld} and runtime linker (@command{ld.so.1})
4207support, while Solaris@tie{}9/SPARC works since FCS. The linker
16c9d3b1 4208patches must be installed even if GNU @command{ld} is used. Sun
7888f266 4209@command{as} in Solaris@tie{}9 doesn't support the necessary
16c9d3b1
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4210relocations, so GNU @command{as} must be used. The @command{configure}
4211script checks for those prerequisites and automatically enables TLS
4212support if they are met. Although those minimal patch versions should
4213work, it is recommended to use the latest patch versions which include
4214additional bug fixes.
4215
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EB
4216@html
4217<hr />
4218@end html
4219@heading @anchor{sparc-x-x}sparc*-*-*
4220
4221This section contains general configuration information for all
4222SPARC-based platforms. In addition to reading this section, please
4223read all other sections that match your target.
4224
4225Newer versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4226library and the MPC library are known to be miscompiled by earlier
4227versions of GCC on these platforms. We therefore recommend the use
4228of the exact versions of these libraries listed as minimal versions
4229in @uref{prerequisites.html,,the prerequisites}.
4230
dbd210ef 4231@html
b8db17af 4232<hr />
dbd210ef 4233@end html
5a4c9b10 4234@heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2}sparc-sun-solaris2*
dbd210ef 4235
8c5cfa89 4236When GCC is configured to use GNU binutils 2.14 or later, the binaries
1405141b
DN
4237produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools;
4238this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
4239information.
4240
03b272d2 4241Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing
975c6e4e
RO
424264-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later properly supports
4243this; the @option{-m64} option enables 64-bit code generation.
4244However, if all you want is code tuned for the UltraSPARC CPU, you
4245should try the @option{-mtune=ultrasparc} option instead, which produces
4246code that, unlike full 64-bit code, can still run on non-UltraSPARC
edf1c8df 4247machines.
03b272d2 4248
975c6e4e 4249When configuring on a Solaris 7 or later system that is running a kernel
8947df0c
RH
4250that supports only 32-bit binaries, one must configure with
4251@option{--disable-multilib}, since we will not be able to build the
425264-bit target libraries.
3fc602a0 4253
ae81c844
EB
4254GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4 trigger code generation bugs in earlier versions of
4255the GNU compiler (especially GCC 3.0.x versions), which lead to the
4256miscompilation of the stage1 compiler and the subsequent failure of the
4257bootstrap process. A workaround is to use GCC 3.2.3 as an intermediary
431ae0bf 4258stage, i.e.@: to bootstrap that compiler with the base compiler and then
ae81c844
EB
4259use it to bootstrap the final compiler.
4260
94b18ec1
EB
4261GCC 3.4 triggers a code generation bug in versions 5.4 (Sun ONE Studio 7)
4262and 5.5 (Sun ONE Studio 8) of the Sun compiler, which causes a bootstrap
4263failure in form of a miscompilation of the stage1 compiler by the Sun
4264compiler. This is Sun bug 4974440. This is fixed with patch 112760-07.
4265
8c5cfa89 4266GCC 3.4 changed the default debugging format from Stabs to DWARF-2 for
dd48afcd
EB
426732-bit code on Solaris 7 and later. If you use the Sun assembler, this
4268change apparently runs afoul of Sun bug 4910101 (which is referenced as
e4ae5e77 4269an x86-only problem by Sun, probably because they do not use DWARF-2).
dd48afcd
EB
4270A symptom of the problem is that you cannot compile C++ programs like
4271@command{groff} 1.19.1 without getting messages similar to the following:
7c2f2b41
EB
4272
4273@smallexample
4274ld: warning: relocation error: R_SPARC_UA32: @dots{}
4275 external symbolic relocation against non-allocatable section
4276 .debug_info cannot be processed at runtime: relocation ignored.
4277@end smallexample
4278
8c5cfa89 4279@noindent
7c2f2b41
EB
4280To work around this problem, compile with @option{-gstabs+} instead of
4281plain @option{-g}.
1460af95 4282
d191cd06
EB
4283When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4284library or the MPC library on a Solaris 7 or later system, the canonical
4285target triplet must be specified as the @command{build} parameter on the
4286configure line. This target triplet can be obtained by invoking @command{./config.guess} in the toplevel source directory of GCC (and
4287not that of GMP or MPFR or MPC). For example on a Solaris 9 system:
fdbf04c8
EB
4288
4289@smallexample
98797784 4290% ./configure --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 --prefix=xxx
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EB
4291@end smallexample
4292
cb717ac4
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4293@html
4294<hr />
4295@end html
4296@heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris210}sparc-sun-solaris2.10
4297
4298There is a bug in older versions of the Sun assembler which breaks
4299thread-local storage (TLS). A typical error message is
4300
4301@smallexample
4302ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_TLS_LE_HIX22: file /var/tmp//ccamPA1v.o:
4303 symbol <unknown>: bad symbol type SECT: symbol type must be TLS
4304@end smallexample
4305
8c5cfa89 4306@noindent
cb717ac4
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4307This bug is fixed in Sun patch 118683-03 or later.
4308
c6fa9728 4309@html
b8db17af 4310<hr />
c6fa9728 4311@end html
5a4c9b10 4312@heading @anchor{sparc-x-linux}sparc-*-linux*
c6fa9728
JS
4313
4314GCC versions 3.0 and higher require binutils 2.11.2 and glibc 2.2.4
4315or newer on this platform. All earlier binutils and glibc
4316releases mishandled unaligned relocations on @code{sparc-*-*} targets.
4317
4318
f42974dc 4319@html
b8db17af 4320<hr />
f42974dc 4321@end html
5a4c9b10 4322@heading @anchor{sparc64-x-solaris2}sparc64-*-solaris2*
e403b4bc 4323
97996ede
EB
4324When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4325library or the MPC library, the canonical target triplet must be specified
4326as the @command{build} parameter on the configure line. For example
c7392d11 4327on a Solaris 9 system:
b3c9881c
EB
4328
4329@smallexample
98797784 4330% ./configure --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.9 --prefix=xxx
b3c9881c
EB
4331@end smallexample
4332
e403b4bc
CR
4333The following compiler flags must be specified in the configure
4334step in order to bootstrap this target with the Sun compiler:
4335
3ab51846 4336@smallexample
98797784 4337% CC="cc -xarch=v9 -xildoff" @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
3ab51846 4338@end smallexample
e403b4bc 4339
8c5cfa89 4340@noindent
b3c9881c
EB
4341@option{-xarch=v9} specifies the SPARC-V9 architecture to the Sun toolchain
4342and @option{-xildoff} turns off the incremental linker.
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4343
4344@html
4345<hr />
4346@end html
5a4c9b10 4347@heading @anchor{sparcv9-x-solaris2}sparcv9-*-solaris2*
0dc7ee3c 4348
8c5cfa89 4349This is a synonym for @samp{sparc64-*-solaris2*}.
f42974dc 4350
bcead286
BS
4351@html
4352<hr />
4353@end html
4354@heading @anchor{c6x-x-x}c6x-*-*
4355
4356The C6X family of processors. This port requires binutils-2.22 or newer.
4357
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4358@html
4359<hr />
4360@end html
4361@heading @anchor{tilegx-*-linux}tilegx-*-linux*
4362
4363The TILE-Gx processor running GNU/Linux. This port requires
4364binutils-2.22 or newer.
4365
4366@html
4367<hr />
4368@end html
4369@heading @anchor{tilepro-*-linux}tilepro-*-linux*
4370
4371The TILEPro processor running GNU/Linux. This port requires
4372binutils-2.22 or newer.
4373
4977bab6
ZW
4374@html
4375<hr />
4376@end html
5a4c9b10 4377@heading @anchor{x-x-vxworks}*-*-vxworks*
4977bab6 4378Support for VxWorks is in flux. At present GCC supports @emph{only} the
8a36672b 4379very recent VxWorks 5.5 (aka Tornado 2.2) release, and only on PowerPC@.
4977bab6
ZW
4380We welcome patches for other architectures supported by VxWorks 5.5.
4381Support for VxWorks AE would also be welcome; we believe this is merely
4382a matter of writing an appropriate ``configlette'' (see below). We are
4383not interested in supporting older, a.out or COFF-based, versions of
4384VxWorks in GCC 3.
4385
4386VxWorks comes with an older version of GCC installed in
4387@file{@var{$WIND_BASE}/host}; we recommend you do not overwrite it.
4388Choose an installation @var{prefix} entirely outside @var{$WIND_BASE}.
4389Before running @command{configure}, create the directories @file{@var{prefix}}
4390and @file{@var{prefix}/bin}. Link or copy the appropriate assembler,
8a36672b 4391linker, etc.@: into @file{@var{prefix}/bin}, and set your @var{PATH} to
4977bab6
ZW
4392include that directory while running both @command{configure} and
4393@command{make}.
4394
4395You must give @command{configure} the
4396@option{--with-headers=@var{$WIND_BASE}/target/h} switch so that it can
4397find the VxWorks system headers. Since VxWorks is a cross compilation
4398target only, you must also specify @option{--target=@var{target}}.
4399@command{configure} will attempt to create the directory
4400@file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include} and copy files into it;
4401make sure the user running @command{configure} has sufficient privilege
4402to do so.
4403
4404GCC's exception handling runtime requires a special ``configlette''
4405module, @file{contrib/gthr_supp_vxw_5x.c}. Follow the instructions in
4406that file to add the module to your kernel build. (Future versions of
daf2f129 4407VxWorks will incorporate this module.)
4977bab6 4408
7e081a0c
AJ
4409@html
4410<hr />
4411@end html
d8fcd085 4412@heading @anchor{x86-64-x-x}x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*
7e081a0c
AJ
4413
4414GCC supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64 processor
8a36672b 4415(amd64-*-* is an alias for x86_64-*-*) on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD@.
7e081a0c
AJ
4416On GNU/Linux the default is a bi-arch compiler which is able to generate
4417both 64-bit x86-64 and 32-bit x86 code (via the @option{-m32} switch).
4418
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4419@html
4420<hr />
4421@end html
d559a95c 4422@heading @anchor{x86-64-x-solaris210}x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*
fbdd5d87
RO
4423
4424GCC also supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64
4425processor (@samp{amd64-*-*} is an alias for @samp{x86_64-*-*}) on
4426Solaris 10 or later. Unlike other systems, without special options a
4427bi-arch compiler is built which generates 32-bit code by default, but
4428can generate 64-bit x86-64 code with the @option{-m64} switch. Since
4429GCC 4.7, there is also configuration that defaults to 64-bit code, but
4430can generate 32-bit code with @option{-m32}. To configure and build
4431this way, you have to provide all support libraries like @file{libgmp}
4432as 64-bit code, configure with @option{--target=x86_64-pc-solaris2.1x}
4433and @samp{CC=gcc -m64}.
4434
fd29f6ea 4435@html
b8db17af 4436<hr />
fd29f6ea 4437@end html
6d656178 4438@heading @anchor{xtensa-x-elf}xtensa*-*-elf
fd29f6ea
BW
4439
4440This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the
4441@samp{newlib} C library. It uses ELF but does not support shared
4442objects. Designed-defined instructions specified via the
4443Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) language are only supported
4444through inline assembly.
4445
4446The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to
e677f70c 4447building GCC@. The @file{include/xtensa-config.h} header
fd29f6ea
BW
4448file contains the configuration information. If you created your
4449own Xtensa configuration with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the
4450downloaded files include a customized copy of this header file,
4451which you can use to replace the default header file.
4452
4453@html
b8db17af 4454<hr />
fd29f6ea 4455@end html
6d656178 4456@heading @anchor{xtensa-x-linux}xtensa*-*-linux*
fd29f6ea
BW
4457
4458This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF
4459shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates
4460position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the
4461@option{-fpic} or @option{-fPIC} options are used. In other
f282ffb3 4462respects, this target is the same as the
6d656178 4463@uref{#xtensa*-*-elf,,@samp{xtensa*-*-elf}} target.
fd29f6ea 4464
f42974dc 4465@html
b8db17af 4466<hr />
f42974dc 4467@end html
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4468@heading @anchor{windows}Microsoft Windows
4469
4470@subheading Intel 16-bit versions
ff2ce160 4471The 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 3.1, are not
aad416fb
AL
4472supported.
4473
ff2ce160 4474However, the 32-bit port has limited support for Microsoft
aad416fb
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4475Windows 3.11 in the Win32s environment, as a target only. See below.
4476
4477@subheading Intel 32-bit versions
4478
ff2ce160
MS
4479The 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows
4480XP, and Windows Vista, are supported by several different target
4481platforms. These targets differ in which Windows subsystem they target
aad416fb
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4482and which C libraries are used.
4483
4484@itemize
ff2ce160 4485@item Cygwin @uref{#x-x-cygwin,,*-*-cygwin}: Cygwin provides a user-space
aad416fb 4486Linux API emulation layer in the Win32 subsystem.
ff2ce160 4487@item Interix @uref{#x-x-interix,,*-*-interix}: The Interix subsystem
aad416fb 4488provides native support for POSIX.
ff2ce160 4489@item MinGW @uref{#x-x-mingw32,,*-*-mingw32}: MinGW is a native GCC port for
aad416fb 4490the Win32 subsystem that provides a subset of POSIX.
ff2ce160 4491@item MKS i386-pc-mks: NuTCracker from MKS. See
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4492@uref{http://www.mkssoftware.com/} for more information.
4493@end itemize
4494
4495@subheading Intel 64-bit versions
4496
4497GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64
4498runtime library, available from @uref{http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/}.
4499This library should be used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32.
4500
4501Presently Windows for Itanium is not supported.
4502
4503@subheading Windows CE
4504
9094e001 4505Windows CE is supported as a target only on Hitachi
aad416fb
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4506SuperH (sh-wince-pe), and MIPS (mips-wince-pe).
4507
4508@subheading Other Windows Platforms
4509
4510GCC no longer supports Windows NT on the Alpha or PowerPC.
4511
ff2ce160 4512GCC no longer supports the Windows POSIX subsystem. However, it does
aad416fb
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4513support the Interix subsystem. See above.
4514
4515Old target names including *-*-winnt and *-*-windowsnt are no longer used.
4516
ff2ce160 4517PW32 (i386-pc-pw32) support was never completed, and the project seems to
aad416fb
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4518be inactive. See @uref{http://pw32.sourceforge.net/} for more information.
4519
4520UWIN support has been removed due to a lack of maintenance.
4521
4522@html
4523<hr />
4524@end html
4525@heading @anchor{x-x-cygwin}*-*-cygwin
f42974dc 4526
5b65d351 4527Ports of GCC are included with the
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DW
4528@uref{http://www.cygwin.com/,,Cygwin environment}.
4529
5b65d351
GP
4530GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build
4531with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.
ccc1ce6e 4532
977f7997
DK
4533The Cygwin native compiler can be configured to target any 32-bit x86
4534cpu architecture desired; the default is i686-pc-cygwin. It should be
4535used with as up-to-date a version of binutils as possible; use either
4536the latest official GNU binutils release in the Cygwin distribution,
4537or version 2.20 or above if building your own.
aad416fb
AL
4538
4539@html
4540<hr />
4541@end html
4542@heading @anchor{x-x-interix}*-*-interix
4543
ff2ce160
MS
4544The Interix target is used by OpenNT, Interix, Services For UNIX (SFU),
4545and Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). Applications compiled
4546with this target run in the Interix subsystem, which is separate from
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AL
4547the Win32 subsystem. This target was last known to work in GCC 3.3.
4548
aad416fb
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4549@html
4550<hr />
4551@end html
4552@heading @anchor{x-x-mingw32}*-*-mingw32
4553
4554GCC will build with and support only MinGW runtime 3.12 and later.
fa692084
JJ
4555Earlier versions of headers are incompatible with the new default semantics
4556of @code{extern inline} in @code{-std=c99} and @code{-std=gnu99} modes.
4557
f42974dc 4558@html
b8db17af 4559<hr />
f42974dc 4560@end html
ef88b07d 4561@heading @anchor{older}Older systems
f9047ed3
JM
4562
4563GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early
45641990s) Unix variants. For the most part, support for these systems
4565has not been deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for
c7bdf0a6 4566several years and may suffer from bitrot.
f9047ed3 4567
c7bdf0a6 4568Starting with GCC 3.1, each release has a list of ``obsoleted'' systems.
9340544b
ZW
4569Support for these systems is still present in that release, but
4570@command{configure} will fail unless the @option{--enable-obsolete}
c7bdf0a6
ZW
4571option is given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for these
4572systems will be removed from the next release of GCC@.
f9047ed3
JM
4573
4574Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the
4575workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the
161d7b59 4576cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC@. In some cases, to
f9047ed3
JM
4577bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may
4578require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that
c7bdf0a6
ZW
4579system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in the
4580vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in the
4581@file{old-releases} directory on the @uref{../mirrors.html,,GCC mirror
4582sites}. Header bugs may generally be avoided using
4583@command{fixincludes}, but bugs or deficiencies in libraries and the
4584operating system may still cause problems.
4585
4586Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less
4587problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast
4588wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any of
80521187 4589the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last
c7bdf0a6
ZW
4590version before they were removed), patches
4591@uref{../contribute.html,,following the usual requirements} would be
4592likely to be accepted, since they should not affect the support for more
4593modern targets.
f9047ed3
JM
4594
4595For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful,
021c4bfd 4596and are available from @file{pub/binutils/old-releases} on
4eb3e795 4597@uref{http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html,,sourceware.org mirror sites}.
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JM
4598
4599Some of the information on specific systems above relates to
4600such older systems, but much of the information
4601about GCC on such systems (which may no longer be applicable to
f42974dc 4602current GCC) is to be found in the GCC texinfo manual.
f9047ed3 4603
f42974dc 4604@html
b8db17af 4605<hr />
f42974dc 4606@end html
d8fcd085 4607@heading @anchor{elf}all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
f42974dc 4608
38209993
LG
4609C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the
4610@uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-ld,,GNU linker}; duplicate copies of
4611inlines, vtables and template instantiations will be discarded
4612automatically.
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4613
4614
4615@html
b8db17af 4616<hr />
f42974dc
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4617<p>
4618@end html
4619@ifhtml
4620@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4621@end ifhtml
4622@end ifset
4623
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4624@c ***Old documentation******************************************************
4625@ifset oldhtml
4626@include install-old.texi
4627@html
b8db17af 4628<hr />
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4629<p>
4630@end html
4631@ifhtml
4632@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4633@end ifhtml
4634@end ifset
4635
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4636@c ***GFDL********************************************************************
4637@ifset gfdlhtml
4638@include fdl.texi
4639@html
b8db17af 4640<hr />
aed5964b
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4641<p>
4642@end html
4643@ifhtml
4644@uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4645@end ifhtml
4646@end ifset
4647
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4648@c ***************************************************************************
4649@c Part 6 The End of the Document
4650@ifinfo
4651@comment node-name, next, previous, up
aed5964b 4652@node Concept Index, , GNU Free Documentation License, Top
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4653@end ifinfo
4654
4655@ifinfo
4656@unnumbered Concept Index
4657
4658@printindex cp
4659
4660@contents
4661@end ifinfo
4662@bye