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20 @settitle Prerequisites for GCC
21 @end ifset
22 @ifset downloadhtml
23 @settitle Downloading GCC
24 @end ifset
25 @ifset configurehtml
26 @settitle Installing GCC: Configuration
27 @end ifset
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29 @settitle Installing GCC: Building
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32 @settitle Installing GCC: Testing
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97 * gccinstall: (gccinstall). Installing the GNU Compiler Collection.
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99
100 @c Part 3 Titlepage and Copyright
101 @titlepage
102 @title Installing GCC
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104
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111 @c Part 4 Top node, Master Menu, and/or Table of Contents
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113 @node Top, , , (dir)
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116 @menu
117 * Installing GCC:: This document describes the generic installation
118 procedure for GCC as well as detailing some target
119 specific installation instructions.
120
121 * Specific:: Host/target specific installation notes for GCC.
122 * Binaries:: Where to get pre-compiled binaries.
123
124 * Old:: Old installation documentation.
125
126 * GNU Free Documentation License:: How you can copy and share this manual.
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129 @end ifinfo
130
131 @iftex
132 @contents
133 @end iftex
134
135 @c Part 5 The Body of the Document
136 @c ***Installing GCC**********************************************************
137 @ifnothtml
138 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
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142 @ifnothtml
143 @chapter Installing GCC
144 @end ifnothtml
145
146 The latest version of this document is always available at
147 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/install/,,http://gcc.gnu.org/install/}.
148 It refers to the current development sources, instructions for
149 specific released versions are included with the sources.
150
151 This document describes the generic installation procedure for GCC as well
152 as detailing some target specific installation instructions.
153
154 GCC includes several components that previously were separate distributions
155 with their own installation instructions. This document supersedes all
156 package-specific installation instructions.
157
158 @emph{Before} starting the build/install procedure please check the
159 @ifnothtml
160 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
161 @end ifnothtml
162 @ifhtml
163 @uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
164 @end ifhtml
165 We recommend you browse the entire generic installation instructions before
166 you proceed.
167
168 Lists of successful builds for released versions of GCC are
169 available at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
170 These lists are updated as new information becomes available.
171
172 The installation procedure itself is broken into five steps.
173
174 @ifinfo
175 @menu
176 * Prerequisites::
177 * Downloading the source::
178 * Configuration::
179 * Building::
180 * Testing:: (optional)
181 * Final install::
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188 @item
189 @uref{download.html,,Downloading the source}
190 @item
191 @uref{configure.html,,Configuration}
192 @item
193 @uref{build.html,,Building}
194 @item
195 @uref{test.html,,Testing} (optional)
196 @item
197 @uref{finalinstall.html,,Final install}
198 @end enumerate
199 @end ifhtml
200
201 Please note that GCC does not support @samp{make uninstall} and probably
202 won't do so in the near future as this would open a can of worms. Instead,
203 we suggest that you install GCC into a directory of its own and simply
204 remove that directory when you do not need that specific version of GCC
205 any longer, and, if shared libraries are installed there as well, no
206 more binaries exist that use them.
207
208 @ifhtml
209 There are also some @uref{old.html,,old installation instructions},
210 which are mostly obsolete but still contain some information which has
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224
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
236 GCC requires that various tools and packages be available for use in the
237 build procedure. Modifying GCC sources requires additional tools
238 described below.
239
240 @heading Tools/packages necessary for building GCC
241 @table @asis
242 @item ISO C++98 compiler
243 Necessary to bootstrap GCC, although versions of GCC prior
244 to 4.8 also allow bootstrapping with a ISO C89 compiler and versions
245 of GCC prior to 3.4 also allow bootstrapping with a traditional
246 (K&R) C compiler.
247
248 To build all languages in a cross-compiler or other configuration where
249 3-stage bootstrap is not performed, you need to start with an existing
250 GCC binary (version 3.4 or later) because source code for language
251 frontends other than C might use GCC extensions.
252
253 Note that to bootstrap GCC with versions of GCC earlier than 3.4, you
254 may need to use @option{--disable-stage1-checking}, though
255 bootstrapping the compiler with such earlier compilers is strongly
256 discouraged.
257
258 @item GNAT
259
260 In order to build the Ada compiler (GNAT) you must already have GNAT
261 installed because portions of the Ada frontend are written in Ada (with
262 GNAT extensions.) Refer to the Ada installation instructions for more
263 specific information.
264
265 @item A ``working'' POSIX compatible shell, or GNU bash
266
267 Necessary when running @command{configure} because some
268 @command{/bin/sh} shells have bugs and may crash when configuring the
269 target libraries. In other cases, @command{/bin/sh} or @command{ksh}
270 have disastrous corner-case performance problems. This
271 can cause target @command{configure} runs to literally take days to
272 complete in some cases.
273
274 So on some platforms @command{/bin/ksh} is sufficient, on others it
275 isn't. See the host/target specific instructions for your platform, or
276 use @command{bash} to be sure. Then set @env{CONFIG_SHELL} in your
277 environment to your ``good'' shell prior to running
278 @command{configure}/@command{make}.
279
280 @command{zsh} is not a fully compliant POSIX shell and will not
281 work when configuring GCC@.
282
283 @item A POSIX or SVR4 awk
284
285 Necessary for creating some of the generated source files for GCC@.
286 If in doubt, use a recent GNU awk version, as some of the older ones
287 are broken. GNU awk version 3.1.5 is known to work.
288
289 @item GNU binutils
290
291 Necessary in some circumstances, optional in others. See the
292 host/target specific instructions for your platform for the exact
293 requirements.
294
295 @item gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
296 @itemx bzip2 version 1.0.2 (or later)
297
298 Necessary to uncompress GCC @command{tar} files when source code is
299 obtained via FTP mirror sites.
300
301 @item GNU make version 3.80 (or later)
302
303 You must have GNU make installed to build GCC@.
304
305 @item GNU tar version 1.14 (or later)
306
307 Necessary (only on some platforms) to untar the source code. Many
308 systems' @command{tar} programs will also work, only try GNU
309 @command{tar} if you have problems.
310
311 @item Perl version 5.6.1 (or later)
312
313 Necessary when targeting Darwin, building @samp{libstdc++},
314 and not using @option{--disable-symvers}.
315 Necessary when targeting Solaris 2 with Sun @command{ld} and not using
316 @option{--disable-symvers}. The bundled @command{perl} in Solaris@tie{}8
317 and up works.
318
319 Necessary when regenerating @file{Makefile} dependencies in libiberty.
320 Necessary when regenerating @file{libiberty/functions.texi}.
321 Necessary when generating manpages from Texinfo manuals.
322 Used by various scripts to generate some files included in SVN (mainly
323 Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source tables.
324
325 @item @command{jar}, or InfoZIP (@command{zip} and @command{unzip})
326
327 Necessary to build libgcj, the GCJ runtime.
328
329 @end table
330
331 Several support libraries are necessary to build GCC, some are required,
332 others optional. While any sufficiently new version of required tools
333 usually work, library requirements are generally stricter. Newer
334 versions may work in some cases, but it's safer to use the exact
335 versions documented. We appreciate bug reports about problems with
336 newer versions, though. If your OS vendor provides packages for the
337 support libraries then using those packages may be the simplest way to
338 install the libraries.
339
340 @table @asis
341 @item GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) version 4.3.2 (or later)
342
343 Necessary to build GCC@. If a GMP source distribution is found in a
344 subdirectory of your GCC sources named @file{gmp}, it will be built
345 together with GCC. Alternatively, if GMP is already installed but it
346 is not in your library search path, you will have to configure with the
347 @option{--with-gmp} configure option. See also @option{--with-gmp-lib}
348 and @option{--with-gmp-include}.
349
350 @item MPFR Library version 2.4.2 (or later)
351
352 Necessary to build GCC@. It can be downloaded from
353 @uref{http://www.mpfr.org/}. If an MPFR source distribution is found
354 in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named @file{mpfr}, it will be
355 built together with GCC. Alternatively, if MPFR is already installed
356 but 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}.
359
360 @item MPC Library version 0.8.1 (or later)
361
362 Necessary to build GCC@. It can be downloaded from
363 @uref{http://www.multiprecision.org/}. If an MPC source distribution
364 is found in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named @file{mpc}, it
365 will be built together with GCC. Alternatively, if MPC is already
366 installed 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}.
369
370 @item ISL Library version 0.11.1
371
372 Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations.
373 It can be downloaded from @uref{ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/}
374 as @file{isl-0.11.1.tar.bz2}.
375
376 The @option{--with-isl} configure option should be used if ISL is not
377 installed in your default library search path.
378
379 @item CLooG 0.18.0
380
381 Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations. It can be
382 downloaded from @uref{ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/} as
383 @file{cloog-0.18.0.tar.gz}. The @option{--with-cloog} configure option should
384 be used if CLooG is not installed in your default library search path.
385 CLooG needs to be built against ISL 0.11.1. Use @option{--with-isl=system}
386 to direct CLooG to pick up an already installed ISL, otherwise it will use
387 ISL 0.11.1 as bundled with CLooG. CLooG needs to be configured to use GMP
388 internally, use @option{--with-bits=gmp} to direct it to do that.
389
390 @end table
391
392 @heading Tools/packages necessary for modifying GCC
393 @table @asis
394 @item autoconf version 2.64
395 @itemx GNU m4 version 1.4.6 (or later)
396
397 Necessary when modifying @file{configure.ac}, @file{aclocal.m4}, etc.@:
398 to regenerate @file{configure} and @file{config.in} files.
399
400 @item automake version 1.11.1
401
402 Necessary when modifying a @file{Makefile.am} file to regenerate its
403 associated @file{Makefile.in}.
404
405 Much of GCC does not use automake, so directly edit the @file{Makefile.in}
406 file. Specifically this applies to the @file{gcc}, @file{intl},
407 @file{libcpp}, @file{libiberty}, @file{libobjc} directories as well
408 as any of their subdirectories.
409
410 For directories that use automake, GCC requires the latest release in
411 the 1.11 series, which is currently 1.11.1. When regenerating a directory
412 to a newer version, please update all the directories using an older 1.11
413 to the latest released version.
414
415 @item gettext version 0.14.5 (or later)
416
417 Needed to regenerate @file{gcc.pot}.
418
419 @item gperf version 2.7.2 (or later)
420
421 Necessary 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
425 @item DejaGnu 1.4.4
426 @itemx Expect
427 @itemx Tcl
428
429 Necessary to run the GCC testsuite; see the section on testing for details.
430
431 @item autogen version 5.5.4 (or later) and
432 @itemx guile version 1.4.1 (or later)
433
434 Necessary to regenerate @file{fixinc/fixincl.x} from
435 @file{fixinc/inclhack.def} and @file{fixinc/*.tpl}.
436
437 Necessary to run @samp{make check} for @file{fixinc}.
438
439 Necessary to regenerate the top level @file{Makefile.in} file from
440 @file{Makefile.tpl} and @file{Makefile.def}.
441
442 @item Flex version 2.5.4 (or later)
443
444 Necessary when modifying @file{*.l} files.
445
446 Necessary to build GCC during development because the generated output
447 files are not included in the SVN repository. They are included in
448 releases.
449
450 @item Texinfo version 4.7 (or later)
451
452 Necessary for running @command{makeinfo} when modifying @file{*.texi}
453 files to test your changes.
454
455 Necessary for running @command{make dvi} or @command{make pdf} to
456 create printable documentation in DVI or PDF format. Texinfo version
457 4.8 or later is required for @command{make pdf}.
458
459 Necessary to build GCC documentation during development because the
460 generated output files are not included in the SVN repository. They are
461 included in releases.
462
463 @item @TeX{} (any working version)
464
465 Necessary for running @command{texi2dvi} and @command{texi2pdf}, which
466 are used when running @command{make dvi} or @command{make pdf} to create
467 DVI or PDF files, respectively.
468
469 @item SVN (any version)
470 @itemx SSH (any version)
471
472 Necessary to access the SVN repository. Public releases and weekly
473 snapshots of the development sources are also available via FTP@.
474
475 @item GNU diffutils version 2.7 (or later)
476
477 Useful when submitting patches for the GCC source code.
478
479 @item patch version 2.5.4 (or later)
480
481 Necessary when applying patches, created with @command{diff}, to one's
482 own sources.
483
484 @item ecj1
485 @itemx gjavah
486
487 If you wish to modify @file{.java} files in libjava, you will need to
488 configure with @option{--enable-java-maintainer-mode}, and you will need
489 to have executables named @command{ecj1} and @command{gjavah} in your path.
490 The @command{ecj1} executable should run the Eclipse Java compiler via
491 the GCC-specific entry point. You can download a suitable jar from
492 @uref{ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/}, or by running the script
493 @command{contrib/download_ecj}.
494
495 @item antlr.jar version 2.7.1 (or later)
496 @itemx antlr binary
497
498 If you wish to build the @command{gjdoc} binary in libjava, you will
499 need to have an @file{antlr.jar} library available. The library is
500 searched for in system locations but can be specified with
501 @option{--with-antlr-jar=} instead. When configuring with
502 @option{--enable-java-maintainer-mode}, you will need to have one of
503 the executables named @command{cantlr}, @command{runantlr} or
504 @command{antlr} in your path.
505
506 @end table
507
508 @html
509 <hr />
510 <p>
511 @end html
512 @ifhtml
513 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
514 @end ifhtml
515 @end ifset
516
517 @c ***Downloading the source**************************************************
518 @ifnothtml
519 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
520 @node Downloading the source, Configuration, Prerequisites, Installing GCC
521 @end ifnothtml
522 @ifset downloadhtml
523 @ifnothtml
524 @chapter Downloading GCC
525 @end ifnothtml
526 @cindex Downloading GCC
527 @cindex Downloading the Source
528
529 GCC is distributed via @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html,,SVN} and FTP
530 tarballs compressed with @command{gzip} or
531 @command{bzip2}. It is possible to download a full distribution or specific
532 components.
533
534 Please refer to the @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html,,releases web page}
535 for information on how to obtain GCC@.
536
537 The full distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java,
538 and Ada (in the case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers. The full
539 distribution also includes runtime libraries for C++, Objective-C,
540 Fortran, and Java. In GCC 3.0 and later versions, the GNU compiler
541 testsuites are also included in the full distribution.
542
543 If you choose to download specific components, you must download the core
544 GCC distribution plus any language specific distributions you wish to
545 use. The core distribution includes the C language front end as well as the
546 shared components. Each language has a tarball which includes the language
547 front end as well as the language runtime (when appropriate).
548
549 Unpack the core distribution as well as any language specific
550 distributions in the same directory.
551
552 If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing
553 installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your
554 OS), unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or
555 a separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any
556 components of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler
557 (@file{bfd}, @file{binutils}, @file{gas}, @file{gprof}, @file{ld},
558 @file{opcodes}, @dots{}) to the directory containing the GCC sources.
559
560 Likewise the GMP, MPFR and MPC libraries can be automatically built
561 together with GCC. Unpack the GMP, MPFR and/or MPC source
562 distributions in the directory containing the GCC sources and rename
563 their directories to @file{gmp}, @file{mpfr} and @file{mpc},
564 respectively (or use symbolic links with the same name).
565
566 @html
567 <hr />
568 <p>
569 @end html
570 @ifhtml
571 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
572 @end ifhtml
573 @end ifset
574
575 @c ***Configuration***********************************************************
576 @ifnothtml
577 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
578 @node Configuration, Building, Downloading the source, Installing GCC
579 @end ifnothtml
580 @ifset configurehtml
581 @ifnothtml
582 @chapter Installing GCC: Configuration
583 @end ifnothtml
584 @cindex Configuration
585 @cindex Installing GCC: Configuration
586
587 Like most GNU software, GCC must be configured before it can be built.
588 This document describes the recommended configuration procedure
589 for both native and cross targets.
590
591 We use @var{srcdir} to refer to the toplevel source directory for
592 GCC; we use @var{objdir} to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
593
594 If you obtained the sources via SVN, @var{srcdir} must refer to the top
595 @file{gcc} directory, the one where the @file{MAINTAINERS} file can be
596 found, and not its @file{gcc} subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
597
598 If either @var{srcdir} or @var{objdir} is located on an automounted NFS
599 file system, the shell's built-in @command{pwd} command will return
600 temporary pathnames. Using these can lead to various sorts of build
601 problems. To avoid this issue, set the @env{PWDCMD} environment
602 variable to an automounter-aware @command{pwd} command, e.g.,
603 @command{pawd} or @samp{amq -w}, during the configuration and build
604 phases.
605
606 First, we @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built into a
607 separate directory from the sources which does @strong{not} reside
608 within the source tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building
609 where @var{srcdir} == @var{objdir} should still work, but doesn't
610 get extensive testing; building where @var{objdir} is a subdirectory
611 of @var{srcdir} is unsupported.
612
613 If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
614 different target machine, do @samp{make distclean} to delete all files
615 that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is @file{Makefile};
616 if @samp{make distclean} complains that @file{Makefile} does not exist
617 or issues a message like ``don't know how to make distclean'' it probably
618 means that the directory is already suitably clean. However, with the
619 recommended method of building in a separate @var{objdir}, you should
620 simply use a different @var{objdir} for each target.
621
622 Second, when configuring a native system, either @command{cc} or
623 @command{gcc} must be in your path or you must set @env{CC} in
624 your environment before running configure. Otherwise the configuration
625 scripts may fail.
626
627 @ignore
628 Note that the bootstrap compiler and the resulting GCC must be link
629 compatible, else the bootstrap will fail with linker errors about
630 incompatible object file formats. Several multilibed targets are
631 affected by this requirement, see
632 @ifnothtml
633 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
634 @end ifnothtml
635 @ifhtml
636 @uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
637 @end ifhtml
638 @end ignore
639
640 To configure GCC:
641
642 @smallexample
643 % mkdir @var{objdir}
644 % cd @var{objdir}
645 % @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
646 @end smallexample
647
648 @heading Distributor options
649
650 If you will be distributing binary versions of GCC, with modifications
651 to the source code, you should use the options described in this
652 section to make clear that your version contains modifications.
653
654 @table @code
655 @item --with-pkgversion=@var{version}
656 Specify a string that identifies your package. You may wish
657 to include a build number or build date. This version string will be
658 included in the output of @command{gcc --version}. This suffix does
659 not replace the default version string, only the @samp{GCC} part.
660
661 The default value is @samp{GCC}.
662
663 @item --with-bugurl=@var{url}
664 Specify the URL that users should visit if they wish to report a bug.
665 You are of course welcome to forward bugs reported to you to the FSF,
666 if you determine that they are not bugs in your modifications.
667
668 The default value refers to the FSF's GCC bug tracker.
669
670 @end table
671
672 @heading Target specification
673 @itemize @bullet
674 @item
675 GCC has code to correctly determine the correct value for @var{target}
676 for nearly all native systems. Therefore, we highly recommend you do
677 not provide a configure target when configuring a native compiler.
678
679 @item
680 @var{target} must be specified as @option{--target=@var{target}}
681 when configuring a cross compiler; examples of valid targets would be
682 m68k-elf, sh-elf, etc.
683
684 @item
685 Specifying just @var{target} instead of @option{--target=@var{target}}
686 implies that the host defaults to @var{target}.
687 @end itemize
688
689
690 @heading Options specification
691
692 Use @var{options} to override several configure time options for
693 GCC@. A list of supported @var{options} follows; @samp{configure
694 --help} may list other options, but those not listed below may not
695 work and should not normally be used.
696
697 Note that each @option{--enable} option has a corresponding
698 @option{--disable} option and that each @option{--with} option has a
699 corresponding @option{--without} option.
700
701 @table @code
702 @item --prefix=@var{dirname}
703 Specify the toplevel installation
704 directory. This is the recommended way to install the tools into a directory
705 other than the default. The toplevel installation directory defaults to
706 @file{/usr/local}.
707
708 We @strong{highly} recommend against @var{dirname} being the same or a
709 subdirectory of @var{objdir} or vice versa. If specifying a directory
710 beneath a user's home directory tree, some shells will not expand
711 @var{dirname} correctly if it contains the @samp{~} metacharacter; use
712 @env{$HOME} instead.
713
714 The following standard @command{autoconf} options are supported. Normally you
715 should not need to use these options.
716 @table @code
717 @item --exec-prefix=@var{dirname}
718 Specify the toplevel installation directory for architecture-dependent
719 files. The default is @file{@var{prefix}}.
720
721 @item --bindir=@var{dirname}
722 Specify the installation directory for the executables called by users
723 (such as @command{gcc} and @command{g++}). The default is
724 @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}.
725
726 @item --libdir=@var{dirname}
727 Specify the installation directory for object code libraries and
728 internal data files of GCC@. The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/lib}.
729
730 @item --libexecdir=@var{dirname}
731 Specify the installation directory for internal executables of GCC@.
732 The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/libexec}.
733
734 @item --with-slibdir=@var{dirname}
735 Specify the installation directory for the shared libgcc library. The
736 default is @file{@var{libdir}}.
737
738 @item --datarootdir=@var{dirname}
739 Specify the root of the directory tree for read-only architecture-independent
740 data files referenced by GCC@. The default is @file{@var{prefix}/share}.
741
742 @item --infodir=@var{dirname}
743 Specify the installation directory for documentation in info format.
744 The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}/info}.
745
746 @item --datadir=@var{dirname}
747 Specify the installation directory for some architecture-independent
748 data files referenced by GCC@. The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}}.
749
750 @item --docdir=@var{dirname}
751 Specify the installation directory for documentation files (other
752 than Info) for GCC@. The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}/doc}.
753
754 @item --htmldir=@var{dirname}
755 Specify the installation directory for HTML documentation files.
756 The default is @file{@var{docdir}}.
757
758 @item --pdfdir=@var{dirname}
759 Specify the installation directory for PDF documentation files.
760 The default is @file{@var{docdir}}.
761
762 @item --mandir=@var{dirname}
763 Specify the installation directory for manual pages. The default is
764 @file{@var{datarootdir}/man}. (Note that the manual pages are only extracts
765 from the full GCC manuals, which are provided in Texinfo format. The manpages
766 are derived by an automatic conversion process from parts of the full
767 manual.)
768
769 @item --with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}
770 Specify
771 the installation directory for G++ header files. The default depends
772 on other configuration options, and differs between cross and native
773 configurations.
774
775 @item --with-specs=@var{specs}
776 Specify additional command line driver SPECS.
777 This can be useful if you need to turn on a non-standard feature by
778 default without modifying the compiler's source code, for instance
779 @option{--with-specs=%@{!fcommon:%@{!fno-common:-fno-common@}@}}.
780 @ifnothtml
781 @xref{Spec Files,, Specifying subprocesses and the switches to pass to them,
782 gcc, Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
783 @end ifnothtml
784 @ifhtml
785 See ``Spec Files'' in the main manual
786 @end ifhtml
787
788 @end table
789
790 @item --program-prefix=@var{prefix}
791 GCC supports some transformations of the names of its programs when
792 installing them. This option prepends @var{prefix} to the names of
793 programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). For example, specifying
794 @option{--program-prefix=foo-} would result in @samp{gcc}
795 being installed as @file{/usr/local/bin/foo-gcc}.
796
797 @item --program-suffix=@var{suffix}
798 Appends @var{suffix} to the names of programs to install in @var{bindir}
799 (see above). For example, specifying @option{--program-suffix=-3.1}
800 would result in @samp{gcc} being installed as
801 @file{/usr/local/bin/gcc-3.1}.
802
803 @item --program-transform-name=@var{pattern}
804 Applies the @samp{sed} script @var{pattern} to be applied to the names
805 of programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). @var{pattern} has to
806 consist of one or more basic @samp{sed} editing commands, separated by
807 semicolons. For example, if you want the @samp{gcc} program name to be
808 transformed to the installed program @file{/usr/local/bin/myowngcc} and
809 the @samp{g++} program name to be transformed to
810 @file{/usr/local/bin/gspecial++} without changing other program names,
811 you could use the pattern
812 @option{--program-transform-name='s/^gcc$/myowngcc/; s/^g++$/gspecial++/'}
813 to achieve this effect.
814
815 All three options can be combined and used together, resulting in more
816 complex conversion patterns. As a basic rule, @var{prefix} (and
817 @var{suffix}) are prepended (appended) before further transformations
818 can happen with a special transformation script @var{pattern}.
819
820 As currently implemented, this option only takes effect for native
821 builds; cross compiler binaries' names are not transformed even when a
822 transformation is explicitly asked for by one of these options.
823
824 For native builds, some of the installed programs are also installed
825 with the target alias in front of their name, as in
826 @samp{i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc}. All of the above transformations happen
827 before the target alias is prepended to the name---so, specifying
828 @option{--program-prefix=foo-} and @option{program-suffix=-3.1}, the
829 resulting binary would be installed as
830 @file{/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-foo-gcc-3.1}.
831
832 As a last shortcoming, none of the installed Ada programs are
833 transformed yet, which will be fixed in some time.
834
835 @item --with-local-prefix=@var{dirname}
836 Specify the
837 installation directory for local include files. The default is
838 @file{/usr/local}. Specify this option if you want the compiler to
839 search directory @file{@var{dirname}/include} for locally installed
840 header files @emph{instead} of @file{/usr/local/include}.
841
842 You should specify @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{only} if your
843 site has a different convention (not @file{/usr/local}) for where to put
844 site-specific files.
845
846 The default value for @option{--with-local-prefix} is @file{/usr/local}
847 regardless of the value of @option{--prefix}. Specifying
848 @option{--prefix} has no effect on which directory GCC searches for
849 local header files. This may seem counterintuitive, but actually it is
850 logical.
851
852 The purpose of @option{--prefix} is to specify where to @emph{install
853 GCC}. The local header files in @file{/usr/local/include}---if you put
854 any in that directory---are not part of GCC@. They are part of other
855 programs---perhaps many others. (GCC installs its own header files in
856 another directory which is based on the @option{--prefix} value.)
857
858 Both the local-prefix include directory and the GCC-prefix include
859 directory are part of GCC's ``system include'' directories. Although these
860 two directories are not fixed, they need to be searched in the proper
861 order for the correct processing of the include_next directive. The
862 local-prefix include directory is searched before the GCC-prefix
863 include directory. Another characteristic of system include directories
864 is that pedantic warnings are turned off for headers in these directories.
865
866 Some autoconf macros add @option{-I @var{directory}} options to the
867 compiler command line, to ensure that directories containing installed
868 packages' headers are searched. When @var{directory} is one of GCC's
869 system include directories, GCC will ignore the option so that system
870 directories continue to be processed in the correct order. This
871 may result in a search order different from what was specified but the
872 directory will still be searched.
873
874 GCC automatically searches for ordinary libraries using
875 @env{GCC_EXEC_PREFIX}. Thus, when the same installation prefix is
876 used for both GCC and packages, GCC will automatically search for
877 both headers and libraries. This provides a configuration that is
878 easy to use. GCC behaves in a manner similar to that when it is
879 installed as a system compiler in @file{/usr}.
880
881 Sites that need to install multiple versions of GCC may not want to
882 use the above simple configuration. It is possible to use the
883 @option{--program-prefix}, @option{--program-suffix} and
884 @option{--program-transform-name} options to install multiple versions
885 into a single directory, but it may be simpler to use different prefixes
886 and the @option{--with-local-prefix} option to specify the location of the
887 site-specific files for each version. It will then be necessary for
888 users to specify explicitly the location of local site libraries
889 (e.g., with @env{LIBRARY_PATH}).
890
891 The same value can be used for both @option{--with-local-prefix} and
892 @option{--prefix} provided it is not @file{/usr}. This can be used
893 to avoid the default search of @file{/usr/local/include}.
894
895 @strong{Do not} specify @file{/usr} as the @option{--with-local-prefix}!
896 The directory you use for @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{must not}
897 contain any of the system's standard header files. If it did contain
898 them, certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on
899 certain targets), because this would override and nullify the header
900 file corrections made by the @command{fixincludes} script.
901
902 Indications are that people who use this option use it based on mistaken
903 ideas of what it is for. People use it as if it specified where to
904 install part of GCC@. Perhaps they make this assumption because
905 installing GCC creates the directory.
906
907 @item --with-native-system-header-dir=@var{dirname}
908 Specifies that @var{dirname} is the directory that contains native system
909 header files, rather than @file{/usr/include}. This option is most useful
910 if you are creating a compiler that should be isolated from the system
911 as much as possible. It is most commonly used with the
912 @option{--with-sysroot} option and will cause GCC to search
913 @var{dirname} inside the system root specified by that option.
914
915 @item --enable-shared[=@var{package}[,@dots{}]]
916 Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are supported on
917 the target platform. Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier, shared libraries
918 are enabled by default on all platforms that support shared libraries.
919
920 If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared libraries
921 only for the listed packages. For other packages, only static libraries
922 will be built. Package names currently recognized in the GCC tree are
923 @samp{libgcc} (also known as @samp{gcc}), @samp{libstdc++} (not
924 @samp{libstdc++-v3}), @samp{libffi}, @samp{zlib}, @samp{boehm-gc},
925 @samp{ada}, @samp{libada}, @samp{libjava}, @samp{libgo}, and @samp{libobjc}.
926 Note @samp{libiberty} does not support shared libraries at all.
927
928 Use @option{--disable-shared} to build only static libraries. Note that
929 @option{--disable-shared} does not accept a list of package names as
930 argument, only @option{--enable-shared} does.
931
932 @item @anchor{with-gnu-as}--with-gnu-as
933 Specify that the compiler should assume that the
934 assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify
935 the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if the
936 assembler found is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion may also
937 result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been
938 configured with @option{--with-gnu-as}.) If you have more than one
939 assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option in
940 connection with @option{--with-as=@var{pathname}} or
941 @option{--with-build-time-tools=@var{pathname}}.
942
943 The following systems are the only ones where it makes a difference
944 whether you use the GNU assembler. On any other system,
945 @option{--with-gnu-as} has no effect.
946
947 @itemize @bullet
948 @item @samp{hppa1.0-@var{any}-@var{any}}
949 @item @samp{hppa1.1-@var{any}-@var{any}}
950 @item @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.@var{any}}
951 @item @samp{sparc64-@var{any}-solaris2.@var{any}}
952 @end itemize
953
954 @item @anchor{with-as}--with-as=@var{pathname}
955 Specify that the compiler should use the assembler pointed to by
956 @var{pathname}, rather than the one found by the standard rules to find
957 an assembler, which are:
958 @itemize @bullet
959 @item
960 Unless GCC is being built with a cross compiler, check the
961 @file{@var{libexec}/gcc/@var{target}/@var{version}} directory.
962 @var{libexec} defaults to @file{@var{exec-prefix}/libexec};
963 @var{exec-prefix} defaults to @var{prefix}, which
964 defaults to @file{/usr/local} unless overridden by the
965 @option{--prefix=@var{pathname}} switch described above. @var{target}
966 is the target system triple, such as @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.7}, and
967 @var{version} denotes the GCC version, such as 3.0.
968
969 @item
970 If the target system is the same that you are building on, check
971 operating system specific directories (e.g.@: @file{/usr/ccs/bin} on
972 Sun Solaris 2).
973
974 @item
975 Check in the @env{PATH} for a tool whose name is prefixed by the
976 target system triple.
977
978 @item
979 Check in the @env{PATH} for a tool whose name is not prefixed by the
980 target system triple, if the host and target system triple are
981 the same (in other words, we use a host tool if it can be used for
982 the target as well).
983 @end itemize
984
985 You may want to use @option{--with-as} if no assembler
986 is installed in the directories listed above, or if you have multiple
987 assemblers installed and want to choose one that is not found by the
988 above rules.
989
990 @item @anchor{with-gnu-ld}--with-gnu-ld
991 Same as @uref{#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}}
992 but for the linker.
993
994 @item --with-ld=@var{pathname}
995 Same as @uref{#with-as,,@option{--with-as}}
996 but for the linker.
997
998 @item --with-stabs
999 Specify that stabs debugging
1000 information should be used instead of whatever format the host normally
1001 uses. Normally GCC uses the same debug format as the host system.
1002
1003 On MIPS based systems and on Alphas, you must specify whether you want
1004 GCC to create the normal ECOFF debugging format, or to use BSD-style
1005 stabs passed through the ECOFF symbol table. The normal ECOFF debug
1006 format cannot fully handle languages other than C@. BSD stabs format can
1007 handle other languages, but it only works with the GNU debugger GDB@.
1008
1009 Normally, GCC uses the ECOFF debugging format by default; if you
1010 prefer BSD stabs, specify @option{--with-stabs} when you configure GCC@.
1011
1012 No matter which default you choose when you configure GCC, the user
1013 can use the @option{-gcoff} and @option{-gstabs+} options to specify explicitly
1014 the debug format for a particular compilation.
1015
1016 @option{--with-stabs} is meaningful on the ISC system on the 386, also, if
1017 @option{--with-gas} is used. It selects use of stabs debugging
1018 information embedded in COFF output. This kind of debugging information
1019 supports C++ well; ordinary COFF debugging information does not.
1020
1021 @option{--with-stabs} is also meaningful on 386 systems running SVR4. It
1022 selects use of stabs debugging information embedded in ELF output. The
1023 C++ compiler currently (2.6.0) does not support the DWARF debugging
1024 information normally used on 386 SVR4 platforms; stabs provide a
1025 workable alternative. This requires gas and gdb, as the normal SVR4
1026 tools can not generate or interpret stabs.
1027
1028 @item --with-tls=@var{dialect}
1029 Specify the default TLS dialect, for systems were there is a choice.
1030 For ARM targets, possible values for @var{dialect} are @code{gnu} or
1031 @code{gnu2}, which select between the original GNU dialect and the GNU TLS
1032 descriptor-based dialect.
1033
1034 @item --enable-multiarch
1035 Specify whether to enable or disable multiarch support. The default is
1036 to check for glibc start files in a multiarch location, and enable it
1037 if the files are found. The auto detection is enabled for native builds,
1038 and for cross builds configured with @option{--with-sysroot}, and without
1039 @option{--with-native-system-header-dir}.
1040 More documentation about multiarch can be found at
1041 @uref{http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch}.
1042
1043 @item --disable-multilib
1044 Specify that multiple target
1045 libraries to support different target variants, calling
1046 conventions, etc.@: should not be built. The default is to build a
1047 predefined set of them.
1048
1049 Some targets provide finer-grained control over which multilibs are built
1050 (e.g., @option{--disable-softfloat}):
1051 @table @code
1052 @item arm-*-*
1053 fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
1054
1055 @item m68*-*-*
1056 softfloat, m68881, m68000, m68020.
1057
1058 @item mips*-*-*
1059 single-float, biendian, softfloat.
1060
1061 @item powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*
1062 aix64, pthread, softfloat, powercpu, powerpccpu, powerpcos, biendian,
1063 sysv, aix.
1064
1065 @end table
1066
1067 @item --with-multilib-list=@var{list}
1068 @itemx --without-multilib-list
1069 Specify what multilibs to build.
1070 Currently only implemented for sh*-*-* and x86-64-*-linux*.
1071
1072 @table @code
1073 @item sh*-*-*
1074 @var{list} is a comma separated list of CPU names. These must be of the
1075 form @code{sh*} or @code{m*} (in which case they match the compiler option
1076 for that processor). The list should not contain any endian options -
1077 these are handled by @option{--with-endian}.
1078
1079 If @var{list} is empty, then there will be no multilibs for extra
1080 processors. The multilib for the secondary endian remains enabled.
1081
1082 As a special case, if an entry in the list starts with a @code{!}
1083 (exclamation point), then it is added to the list of excluded multilibs.
1084 Entries of this sort should be compatible with @samp{MULTILIB_EXCLUDES}
1085 (once the leading @code{!} has been stripped).
1086
1087 If @option{--with-multilib-list} is not given, then a default set of
1088 multilibs is selected based on the value of @option{--target}. This is
1089 usually the complete set of libraries, but some targets imply a more
1090 specialized subset.
1091
1092 Example 1: to configure a compiler for SH4A only, but supporting both
1093 endians, with little endian being the default:
1094 @smallexample
1095 --with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big --with-multilib-list=
1096 @end smallexample
1097
1098 Example 2: to configure a compiler for both SH4A and SH4AL-DSP, but with
1099 only little endian SH4AL:
1100 @smallexample
1101 --with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big \
1102 --with-multilib-list=sh4al,!mb/m4al
1103 @end smallexample
1104
1105 @item x86-64-*-linux*
1106 @var{list} is a comma separated list of @code{m32}, @code{m64} and
1107 @code{mx32} to enable 32-bit, 64-bit and x32 run-time libraries,
1108 respectively. If @var{list} is empty, then there will be no multilibs
1109 and only the default run-time library will be enabled.
1110
1111 If @option{--with-multilib-list} is not given, then only 32-bit and
1112 64-bit run-time libraries will be enabled.
1113 @end table
1114
1115 @item --with-endian=@var{endians}
1116 Specify what endians to use.
1117 Currently only implemented for sh*-*-*.
1118
1119 @var{endians} may be one of the following:
1120 @table @code
1121 @item big
1122 Use big endian exclusively.
1123 @item little
1124 Use little endian exclusively.
1125 @item big,little
1126 Use big endian by default. Provide a multilib for little endian.
1127 @item little,big
1128 Use little endian by default. Provide a multilib for big endian.
1129 @end table
1130
1131 @item --enable-threads
1132 Specify that the target
1133 supports threads. This affects the Objective-C compiler and runtime
1134 library, and exception handling for other languages like C++ and Java.
1135 On some systems, this is the default.
1136
1137 In general, the best (and, in many cases, the only known) threading
1138 model available will be configured for use. Beware that on some
1139 systems, GCC has not been taught what threading models are generally
1140 available for the system. In this case, @option{--enable-threads} is an
1141 alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
1142
1143 @item --disable-threads
1144 Specify that threading support should be disabled for the system.
1145 This is an alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
1146
1147 @item --enable-threads=@var{lib}
1148 Specify that
1149 @var{lib} is the thread support library. This affects the Objective-C
1150 compiler and runtime library, and exception handling for other languages
1151 like C++ and Java. The possibilities for @var{lib} are:
1152
1153 @table @code
1154 @item aix
1155 AIX thread support.
1156 @item dce
1157 DCE thread support.
1158 @item lynx
1159 LynxOS thread support.
1160 @item mipssde
1161 MIPS SDE thread support.
1162 @item no
1163 This is an alias for @samp{single}.
1164 @item posix
1165 Generic POSIX/Unix98 thread support.
1166 @item rtems
1167 RTEMS thread support.
1168 @item single
1169 Disable thread support, should work for all platforms.
1170 @item tpf
1171 TPF thread support.
1172 @item vxworks
1173 VxWorks thread support.
1174 @item win32
1175 Microsoft Win32 API thread support.
1176 @end table
1177
1178 @item --enable-tls
1179 Specify that the target supports TLS (Thread Local Storage). Usually
1180 configure can correctly determine if TLS is supported. In cases where
1181 it guesses incorrectly, TLS can be explicitly enabled or disabled with
1182 @option{--enable-tls} or @option{--disable-tls}. This can happen if
1183 the assembler supports TLS but the C library does not, or if the
1184 assumptions made by the configure test are incorrect.
1185
1186 @item --disable-tls
1187 Specify that the target does not support TLS.
1188 This is an alias for @option{--enable-tls=no}.
1189
1190 @item --with-cpu=@var{cpu}
1191 @itemx --with-cpu-32=@var{cpu}
1192 @itemx --with-cpu-64=@var{cpu}
1193 Specify which cpu variant the compiler should generate code for by default.
1194 @var{cpu} will be used as the default value of the @option{-mcpu=} switch.
1195 This option is only supported on some targets, including ARM, i386, M68k,
1196 PowerPC, and SPARC@. The @option{--with-cpu-32} and
1197 @option{--with-cpu-64} options specify separate default CPUs for
1198 32-bit and 64-bit modes; these options are only supported for i386,
1199 x86-64 and PowerPC.
1200
1201 @item --with-schedule=@var{cpu}
1202 @itemx --with-arch=@var{cpu}
1203 @itemx --with-arch-32=@var{cpu}
1204 @itemx --with-arch-64=@var{cpu}
1205 @itemx --with-tune=@var{cpu}
1206 @itemx --with-tune-32=@var{cpu}
1207 @itemx --with-tune-64=@var{cpu}
1208 @itemx --with-abi=@var{abi}
1209 @itemx --with-fpu=@var{type}
1210 @itemx --with-float=@var{type}
1211 These configure options provide default values for the @option{-mschedule=},
1212 @option{-march=}, @option{-mtune=}, @option{-mabi=}, and @option{-mfpu=}
1213 options and for @option{-mhard-float} or @option{-msoft-float}. As with
1214 @option{--with-cpu}, which switches will be accepted and acceptable values
1215 of the arguments depend on the target.
1216
1217 @item --with-mode=@var{mode}
1218 Specify if the compiler should default to @option{-marm} or @option{-mthumb}.
1219 This option is only supported on ARM targets.
1220
1221 @item --with-stack-offset=@var{num}
1222 This option sets the default for the -mstack-offset=@var{num} option,
1223 and will thus generally also control the setting of this option for
1224 libraries. This option is only supported on Epiphany targets.
1225
1226 @item --with-fpmath=@var{isa}
1227 This options sets @option{-mfpmath=sse} by default and specifies the default
1228 ISA for floating-point arithmetics. You can select either @samp{sse} which
1229 enables @option{-msse2} or @samp{avx} which enables @option{-mavx} by default.
1230 This option is only supported on i386 and x86-64 targets.
1231
1232 @item --with-divide=@var{type}
1233 Specify how the compiler should generate code for checking for
1234 division by zero. This option is only supported on the MIPS target.
1235 The possibilities for @var{type} are:
1236 @table @code
1237 @item traps
1238 Division by zero checks use conditional traps (this is the default on
1239 systems that support conditional traps).
1240 @item breaks
1241 Division by zero checks use the break instruction.
1242 @end table
1243
1244 @c If you make --with-llsc the default for additional targets,
1245 @c update the --with-llsc description in the MIPS section below.
1246
1247 @item --with-llsc
1248 On MIPS targets, make @option{-mllsc} the default when no
1249 @option{-mno-llsc} option is passed. This is the default for
1250 Linux-based targets, as the kernel will emulate them if the ISA does
1251 not provide them.
1252
1253 @item --without-llsc
1254 On MIPS targets, make @option{-mno-llsc} the default when no
1255 @option{-mllsc} option is passed.
1256
1257 @item --with-synci
1258 On MIPS targets, make @option{-msynci} the default when no
1259 @option{-mno-synci} option is passed.
1260
1261 @item --without-synci
1262 On MIPS targets, make @option{-mno-synci} the default when no
1263 @option{-msynci} option is passed. This is the default.
1264
1265 @item --with-mips-plt
1266 On MIPS targets, make use of copy relocations and PLTs.
1267 These features are extensions to the traditional
1268 SVR4-based MIPS ABIs and require support from GNU binutils
1269 and the runtime C library.
1270
1271 @item --enable-__cxa_atexit
1272 Define if you want to use __cxa_atexit, rather than atexit, to
1273 register C++ destructors for local statics and global objects.
1274 This is essential for fully standards-compliant handling of
1275 destructors, but requires __cxa_atexit in libc. This option is currently
1276 only available on systems with GNU libc. When enabled, this will cause
1277 @option{-fuse-cxa-atexit} to be passed by default.
1278
1279 @item --enable-gnu-indirect-function
1280 Define if you want to enable the @code{ifunc} attribute. This option is
1281 currently only available on systems with GNU libc on certain targets.
1282
1283 @item --enable-target-optspace
1284 Specify that target
1285 libraries should be optimized for code space instead of code speed.
1286 This is the default for the m32r platform.
1287
1288 @item --with-cpp-install-dir=@var{dirname}
1289 Specify that the user visible @command{cpp} program should be installed
1290 in @file{@var{prefix}/@var{dirname}/cpp}, in addition to @var{bindir}.
1291
1292 @item --enable-comdat
1293 Enable COMDAT group support. This is primarily used to override the
1294 automatically detected value.
1295
1296 @item --enable-initfini-array
1297 Force the use of sections @code{.init_array} and @code{.fini_array}
1298 (instead of @code{.init} and @code{.fini}) for constructors and
1299 destructors. Option @option{--disable-initfini-array} has the
1300 opposite effect. If neither option is specified, the configure script
1301 will try to guess whether the @code{.init_array} and
1302 @code{.fini_array} sections are supported and, if they are, use them.
1303
1304 @item --enable-maintainer-mode
1305 The build rules that regenerate the Autoconf and Automake output files as
1306 well as the GCC master message catalog @file{gcc.pot} are normally
1307 disabled. This is because it can only be rebuilt if the complete source
1308 tree is present. If you have changed the sources and want to rebuild the
1309 catalog, configuring with @option{--enable-maintainer-mode} will enable
1310 this. Note that you need a recent version of the @code{gettext} tools
1311 to do so.
1312
1313 @item --disable-bootstrap
1314 For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
1315 a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when @samp{make} is invoked,
1316 testing that GCC can compile itself correctly. If you want to disable
1317 this process, you can configure with @option{--disable-bootstrap}.
1318
1319 @item --enable-bootstrap
1320 In special cases, you may want to perform a 3-stage build
1321 even if the target and host triplets are different.
1322 This is possible when the host can run code compiled for
1323 the target (e.g.@: host is i686-linux, target is i486-linux).
1324 Starting from GCC 4.2, to do this you have to configure explicitly
1325 with @option{--enable-bootstrap}.
1326
1327 @item --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir
1328 Neither the .c and .h files that are generated from Bison and flex nor the
1329 info manuals and man pages that are built from the .texi files are present
1330 in the SVN development tree. When building GCC from that development tree,
1331 or from one of our snapshots, those generated files are placed in your
1332 build directory, which allows for the source to be in a readonly
1333 directory.
1334
1335 If you configure with @option{--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir} then those
1336 generated files will go into the source directory. This is mainly intended
1337 for generating release or prerelease tarballs of the GCC sources, since it
1338 is not a requirement that the users of source releases to have flex, Bison,
1339 or makeinfo.
1340
1341 @item --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
1342 Specify
1343 that runtime libraries should be installed in the compiler specific
1344 subdirectory (@file{@var{libdir}/gcc}) rather than the usual places. In
1345 addition, @samp{libstdc++}'s include files will be installed into
1346 @file{@var{libdir}} unless you overruled it by using
1347 @option{--with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}}. Using this option is
1348 particularly useful if you intend to use several versions of GCC in
1349 parallel. This is currently supported by @samp{libgfortran},
1350 @samp{libjava}, @samp{libmudflap}, @samp{libstdc++}, and @samp{libobjc}.
1351
1352 @item --enable-languages=@var{lang1},@var{lang2},@dots{}
1353 Specify that only a particular subset of compilers and
1354 their runtime libraries should be built. For a list of valid values for
1355 @var{langN} you can issue the following command in the
1356 @file{gcc} directory of your GCC source tree:@*
1357 @smallexample
1358 grep language= */config-lang.in
1359 @end smallexample
1360 Currently, you can use any of the following:
1361 @code{all}, @code{ada}, @code{c}, @code{c++}, @code{fortran},
1362 @code{go}, @code{java}, @code{objc}, @code{obj-c++}.
1363 Building the Ada compiler has special requirements, see below.
1364 If you do not pass this flag, or specify the option @code{all}, then all
1365 default languages available in the @file{gcc} sub-tree will be configured.
1366 Ada, Go and Objective-C++ are not default languages; the rest are.
1367
1368 @item --enable-stage1-languages=@var{lang1},@var{lang2},@dots{}
1369 Specify that a particular subset of compilers and their runtime
1370 libraries should be built with the system C compiler during stage 1 of
1371 the bootstrap process, rather than only in later stages with the
1372 bootstrapped C compiler. The list of valid values is the same as for
1373 @option{--enable-languages}, and the option @code{all} will select all
1374 of the languages enabled by @option{--enable-languages}. This option is
1375 primarily useful for GCC development; for instance, when a development
1376 version of the compiler cannot bootstrap due to compiler bugs, or when
1377 one is debugging front ends other than the C front end. When this
1378 option is used, one can then build the target libraries for the
1379 specified languages with the stage-1 compiler by using @command{make
1380 stage1-bubble all-target}, or run the testsuite on the stage-1 compiler
1381 for the specified languages using @command{make stage1-start check-gcc}.
1382
1383 @item --disable-libada
1384 Specify that the run-time libraries and tools used by GNAT should not
1385 be built. This can be useful for debugging, or for compatibility with
1386 previous Ada build procedures, when it was required to explicitly
1387 do a @samp{make -C gcc gnatlib_and_tools}.
1388
1389 @item --disable-libssp
1390 Specify that the run-time libraries for stack smashing protection
1391 should not be built.
1392
1393 @item --disable-libquadmath
1394 Specify that the GCC quad-precision math library should not be built.
1395 On some systems, the library is required to be linkable when building
1396 the Fortran front end, unless @option{--disable-libquadmath-support}
1397 is used.
1398
1399 @item --disable-libquadmath-support
1400 Specify that the Fortran front end and @code{libgfortran} do not add
1401 support for @code{libquadmath} on systems supporting it.
1402
1403 @item --disable-libgomp
1404 Specify that the run-time libraries used by GOMP should not be built.
1405
1406 @item --with-dwarf2
1407 Specify that the compiler should
1408 use DWARF 2 debugging information as the default.
1409
1410 @item --enable-targets=all
1411 @itemx --enable-targets=@var{target_list}
1412 Some GCC targets, e.g.@: powerpc64-linux, build bi-arch compilers.
1413 These are compilers that are able to generate either 64-bit or 32-bit
1414 code. Typically, the corresponding 32-bit target, e.g.@:
1415 powerpc-linux for powerpc64-linux, only generates 32-bit code. This
1416 option enables the 32-bit target to be a bi-arch compiler, which is
1417 useful when you want a bi-arch compiler that defaults to 32-bit, and
1418 you are building a bi-arch or multi-arch binutils in a combined tree.
1419 On mips-linux, this will build a tri-arch compiler (ABI o32/n32/64),
1420 defaulted to o32.
1421 Currently, this option only affects sparc-linux, powerpc-linux, x86-linux,
1422 mips-linux and s390-linux.
1423
1424 @item --enable-secureplt
1425 This option enables @option{-msecure-plt} by default for powerpc-linux.
1426 @ifnothtml
1427 @xref{RS/6000 and PowerPC Options,, RS/6000 and PowerPC Options, gcc,
1428 Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1429 @end ifnothtml
1430 @ifhtml
1431 See ``RS/6000 and PowerPC Options'' in the main manual
1432 @end ifhtml
1433
1434 @item --enable-cld
1435 This option enables @option{-mcld} by default for 32-bit x86 targets.
1436 @ifnothtml
1437 @xref{i386 and x86-64 Options,, i386 and x86-64 Options, gcc,
1438 Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1439 @end ifnothtml
1440 @ifhtml
1441 See ``i386 and x86-64 Options'' in the main manual
1442 @end ifhtml
1443
1444 @item --enable-win32-registry
1445 @itemx --enable-win32-registry=@var{key}
1446 @itemx --disable-win32-registry
1447 The @option{--enable-win32-registry} option enables Microsoft Windows-hosted GCC
1448 to look up installations paths in the registry using the following key:
1449
1450 @smallexample
1451 @code{HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Free Software Foundation\@var{key}}
1452 @end smallexample
1453
1454 @var{key} defaults to GCC version number, and can be overridden by the
1455 @option{--enable-win32-registry=@var{key}} option. Vendors and distributors
1456 who use custom installers are encouraged to provide a different key,
1457 perhaps one comprised of vendor name and GCC version number, to
1458 avoid conflict with existing installations. This feature is enabled
1459 by default, and can be disabled by @option{--disable-win32-registry}
1460 option. This option has no effect on the other hosts.
1461
1462 @item --nfp
1463 Specify that the machine does not have a floating point unit. This
1464 option only applies to @samp{m68k-sun-sunos@var{n}}. On any other
1465 system, @option{--nfp} has no effect.
1466
1467 @item --enable-werror
1468 @itemx --disable-werror
1469 @itemx --enable-werror=yes
1470 @itemx --enable-werror=no
1471 When you specify this option, it controls whether certain files in the
1472 compiler are built with @option{-Werror} in bootstrap stage2 and later.
1473 If you don't specify it, @option{-Werror} is turned on for the main
1474 development trunk. However it defaults to off for release branches and
1475 final releases. The specific files which get @option{-Werror} are
1476 controlled by the Makefiles.
1477
1478 @item --enable-checking
1479 @itemx --enable-checking=@var{list}
1480 When you specify this option, the compiler is built to perform internal
1481 consistency checks of the requested complexity. This does not change the
1482 generated code, but adds error checking within the compiler. This will
1483 slow down the compiler and may only work properly if you are building
1484 the compiler with GCC@. This is @samp{yes} by default when building
1485 from SVN or snapshots, but @samp{release} for releases. The default
1486 for building the stage1 compiler is @samp{yes}. More control
1487 over the checks may be had by specifying @var{list}. The categories of
1488 checks available are @samp{yes} (most common checks
1489 @samp{assert,misc,tree,gc,rtlflag,runtime}), @samp{no} (no checks at
1490 all), @samp{all} (all but @samp{valgrind}), @samp{release} (cheapest
1491 checks @samp{assert,runtime}) or @samp{none} (same as @samp{no}).
1492 Individual checks can be enabled with these flags @samp{assert},
1493 @samp{df}, @samp{fold}, @samp{gc}, @samp{gcac} @samp{misc}, @samp{rtl},
1494 @samp{rtlflag}, @samp{runtime}, @samp{tree}, and @samp{valgrind}.
1495
1496 The @samp{valgrind} check requires the external @command{valgrind}
1497 simulator, available from @uref{http://valgrind.org/}. The
1498 @samp{df}, @samp{rtl}, @samp{gcac} and @samp{valgrind} checks are very expensive.
1499 To disable all checking, @samp{--disable-checking} or
1500 @samp{--enable-checking=none} must be explicitly requested. Disabling
1501 assertions will make the compiler and runtime slightly faster but
1502 increase the risk of undetected internal errors causing wrong code to be
1503 generated.
1504
1505 @item --disable-stage1-checking
1506 @itemx --enable-stage1-checking
1507 @itemx --enable-stage1-checking=@var{list}
1508 If no @option{--enable-checking} option is specified the stage1
1509 compiler will be built with @samp{yes} checking enabled, otherwise
1510 the stage1 checking flags are the same as specified by
1511 @option{--enable-checking}. To build the stage1 compiler with
1512 different checking options use @option{--enable-stage1-checking}.
1513 The list of checking options is the same as for @option{--enable-checking}.
1514 If your system is too slow or too small to bootstrap a released compiler
1515 with checking for stage1 enabled, you can use @samp{--disable-stage1-checking}
1516 to disable checking for the stage1 compiler.
1517
1518 @item --enable-coverage
1519 @itemx --enable-coverage=@var{level}
1520 With this option, the compiler is built to collect self coverage
1521 information, every time it is run. This is for internal development
1522 purposes, and only works when the compiler is being built with gcc. The
1523 @var{level} argument controls whether the compiler is built optimized or
1524 not, values are @samp{opt} and @samp{noopt}. For coverage analysis you
1525 want to disable optimization, for performance analysis you want to
1526 enable optimization. When coverage is enabled, the default level is
1527 without optimization.
1528
1529 @item --enable-gather-detailed-mem-stats
1530 When this option is specified more detailed information on memory
1531 allocation is gathered. This information is printed when using
1532 @option{-fmem-report}.
1533
1534 @item --with-gc
1535 @itemx --with-gc=@var{choice}
1536 With this option you can specify the garbage collector implementation
1537 used during the compilation process. @var{choice} can be one of
1538 @samp{page} and @samp{zone}, where @samp{page} is the default.
1539
1540 @item --enable-nls
1541 @itemx --disable-nls
1542 The @option{--enable-nls} option enables Native Language Support (NLS),
1543 which lets GCC output diagnostics in languages other than American
1544 English. Native Language Support is enabled by default if not doing a
1545 canadian cross build. The @option{--disable-nls} option disables NLS@.
1546
1547 @item --with-included-gettext
1548 If NLS is enabled, the @option{--with-included-gettext} option causes the build
1549 procedure to prefer its copy of GNU @command{gettext}.
1550
1551 @item --with-catgets
1552 If NLS is enabled, and if the host lacks @code{gettext} but has the
1553 inferior @code{catgets} interface, the GCC build procedure normally
1554 ignores @code{catgets} and instead uses GCC's copy of the GNU
1555 @code{gettext} library. The @option{--with-catgets} option causes the
1556 build procedure to use the host's @code{catgets} in this situation.
1557
1558 @item --with-libiconv-prefix=@var{dir}
1559 Search for libiconv header files in @file{@var{dir}/include} and
1560 libiconv library files in @file{@var{dir}/lib}.
1561
1562 @item --enable-obsolete
1563 Enable configuration for an obsoleted system. If you attempt to
1564 configure GCC for a system (build, host, or target) which has been
1565 obsoleted, and you do not specify this flag, configure will halt with an
1566 error message.
1567
1568 All support for systems which have been obsoleted in one release of GCC
1569 is removed entirely in the next major release, unless someone steps
1570 forward to maintain the port.
1571
1572 @item --enable-decimal-float
1573 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=yes
1574 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=no
1575 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=bid
1576 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=dpd
1577 @itemx --disable-decimal-float
1578 Enable (or disable) support for the C decimal floating point extension
1579 that is in the IEEE 754-2008 standard. This is enabled by default only
1580 on PowerPC, i386, and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems. Other systems may also
1581 support it, but require the user to specifically enable it. You can
1582 optionally control which decimal floating point format is used (either
1583 @samp{bid} or @samp{dpd}). The @samp{bid} (binary integer decimal)
1584 format is default on i386 and x86_64 systems, and the @samp{dpd}
1585 (densely packed decimal) format is default on PowerPC systems.
1586
1587 @item --enable-fixed-point
1588 @itemx --disable-fixed-point
1589 Enable (or disable) support for C fixed-point arithmetic.
1590 This option is enabled by default for some targets (such as MIPS) which
1591 have hardware-support for fixed-point operations. On other targets, you
1592 may enable this option manually.
1593
1594 @item --with-long-double-128
1595 Specify if @code{long double} type should be 128-bit by default on selected
1596 GNU/Linux architectures. If using @code{--without-long-double-128},
1597 @code{long double} will be by default 64-bit, the same as @code{double} type.
1598 When neither of these configure options are used, the default will be
1599 128-bit @code{long double} when built against GNU C Library 2.4 and later,
1600 64-bit @code{long double} otherwise.
1601
1602 @item --with-gmp=@var{pathname}
1603 @itemx --with-gmp-include=@var{pathname}
1604 @itemx --with-gmp-lib=@var{pathname}
1605 @itemx --with-mpfr=@var{pathname}
1606 @itemx --with-mpfr-include=@var{pathname}
1607 @itemx --with-mpfr-lib=@var{pathname}
1608 @itemx --with-mpc=@var{pathname}
1609 @itemx --with-mpc-include=@var{pathname}
1610 @itemx --with-mpc-lib=@var{pathname}
1611 If you want to build GCC but do not have the GMP library, the MPFR
1612 library and/or the MPC library installed in a standard location and
1613 do not have their sources present in the GCC source tree then you
1614 can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
1615 (@samp{--with-gmp=@var{gmpinstalldir}},
1616 @samp{--with-mpfr=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}},
1617 @samp{--with-mpc=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}}). The
1618 @option{--with-gmp=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1619 @option{--with-gmp-lib=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}/lib} and
1620 @option{--with-gmp-include=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}/include}. Likewise the
1621 @option{--with-mpfr=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1622 @option{--with-mpfr-lib=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}/lib} and
1623 @option{--with-mpfr-include=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}/include}, also the
1624 @option{--with-mpc=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1625 @option{--with-mpc-lib=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}/lib} and
1626 @option{--with-mpc-include=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}/include}. If these
1627 shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
1628 include and lib options directly. You might also need to ensure the
1629 shared libraries can be found by the dynamic linker when building and
1630 using GCC, for example by setting the runtime shared library path
1631 variable (@env{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} on GNU/Linux and Solaris systems).
1632
1633 These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When building
1634 a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1635
1636 @item --with-ppl=@var{pathname}
1637 @itemx --with-ppl-include=@var{pathname}
1638 @itemx --with-ppl-lib=@var{pathname}
1639 @itemx --with-cloog=@var{pathname}
1640 @itemx --with-cloog-include=@var{pathname}
1641 @itemx --with-cloog-lib=@var{pathname}
1642 If you do not have ISL and the CLooG
1643 libraries installed in a standard location and you want to build GCC,
1644 you can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
1645 (@samp{--with-isl=@/@var{islinstalldir}},
1646 @samp{--with-cloog=@/@var{clooginstalldir}}). The
1647 @option{--with-isl=@/@var{islinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1648 @option{--with-isl-lib=@/@var{islinstalldir}/lib} and
1649 @option{--with-isl-include=@/@var{islinstalldir}/include}. Likewise the
1650 @option{--with-cloog=@/@var{clooginstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1651 @option{--with-cloog-lib=@/@var{clooginstalldir}/lib} and
1652 @option{--with-cloog-include=@/@var{clooginstalldir}/include}. If these
1653 shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
1654 include and lib options directly.
1655
1656 These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When building
1657 a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1658
1659 @item --with-host-libstdcxx=@var{linker-args}
1660 If you are linking with a static copy of PPL, you can use this option
1661 to specify how the linker should find the standard C++ library used
1662 internally by PPL. Typical values of @var{linker-args} might be
1663 @samp{-lstdc++} or @samp{-Wl,-Bstatic,-lstdc++,-Bdynamic -lm}. If you are
1664 linking with a shared copy of PPL, you probably do not need this
1665 option; shared library dependencies will cause the linker to search
1666 for the standard C++ library automatically.
1667
1668 @item --with-stage1-ldflags=@var{flags}
1669 This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1670 stage 1 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1671 @option{--disable-bootstrap}. By default no special flags are used.
1672
1673 @item --with-stage1-libs=@var{libs}
1674 This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 1
1675 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1676 @option{--disable-bootstrap}. The default is the argument to
1677 @option{--with-host-libstdcxx}, if specified.
1678
1679 @item --with-boot-ldflags=@var{flags}
1680 This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1681 stage 2 and later when bootstrapping GCC. If neither --with-boot-libs
1682 nor --with-host-libstdcxx is set to a value, then the default is
1683 @samp{-static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc}.
1684
1685 @item --with-boot-libs=@var{libs}
1686 This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 2
1687 and later when bootstrapping GCC. The default is the argument to
1688 @option{--with-host-libstdcxx}, if specified.
1689
1690 @item --with-debug-prefix-map=@var{map}
1691 Convert source directory names using @option{-fdebug-prefix-map} when
1692 building runtime libraries. @samp{@var{map}} is a space-separated
1693 list of maps of the form @samp{@var{old}=@var{new}}.
1694
1695 @item --enable-linker-build-id
1696 Tells GCC to pass @option{--build-id} option to the linker for all final
1697 links (links performed without the @option{-r} or @option{--relocatable}
1698 option), if the linker supports it. If you specify
1699 @option{--enable-linker-build-id}, but your linker does not
1700 support @option{--build-id} option, a warning is issued and the
1701 @option{--enable-linker-build-id} option is ignored. The default is off.
1702
1703 @item --with-linker-hash-style=@var{choice}
1704 Tells GCC to pass @option{--hash-style=@var{choice}} option to the
1705 linker for all final links. @var{choice} can be one of
1706 @samp{sysv}, @samp{gnu}, and @samp{both} where @samp{sysv} is the default.
1707
1708 @item --enable-gnu-unique-object
1709 @itemx --disable-gnu-unique-object
1710 Tells GCC to use the gnu_unique_object relocation for C++ template
1711 static data members and inline function local statics. Enabled by
1712 default for a native toolchain with an assembler that accepts it and
1713 GLIBC 2.11 or above, otherwise disabled.
1714
1715 @item --enable-lto
1716 @itemx --disable-lto
1717 Enable support for link-time optimization (LTO). This is enabled by
1718 default, and may be disabled using @option{--disable-lto}.
1719
1720 @item --with-plugin-ld=@var{pathname}
1721 Enable an alternate linker to be used at link-time optimization (LTO)
1722 link time when @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} is enabled.
1723 This linker should have plugin support such as gold starting with
1724 version 2.20 or GNU ld starting with version 2.21.
1725 See @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} for details.
1726
1727 @item --enable-canonical-system-headers
1728 @itemx --disable-canonical-system-headers
1729 Enable system header path canonicalization for @file{libcpp}. This can
1730 produce shorter header file paths in diagnostics and dependency output
1731 files, but these changed header paths may conflict with some compilation
1732 environments. Enabled by default, and may be disabled using
1733 @option{--disable-canonical-system-headers}.
1734 @end table
1735
1736 @subheading Cross-Compiler-Specific Options
1737 The following options only apply to building cross compilers.
1738
1739 @table @code
1740 @item --with-sysroot
1741 @itemx --with-sysroot=@var{dir}
1742 Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the root of a tree that contains
1743 (a subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
1744 Target system headers, libraries and run-time object files will be
1745 searched for in there. More specifically, this acts as if
1746 @option{--sysroot=@var{dir}} was added to the default options of the built
1747 compiler. The specified directory is not copied into the
1748 install tree, unlike the options @option{--with-headers} and
1749 @option{--with-libs} that this option obsoletes. The default value,
1750 in case @option{--with-sysroot} is not given an argument, is
1751 @option{$@{gcc_tooldir@}/sys-root}. If the specified directory is a
1752 subdirectory of @option{$@{exec_prefix@}}, then it will be found relative to
1753 the GCC binaries if the installation tree is moved.
1754
1755 This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1756 target libraries (which runs on the build system) and the compiler newly
1757 installed with @code{make install}; it does not affect the compiler which is
1758 used to build GCC itself.
1759
1760 If you specify the @option{--with-native-system-header-dir=@var{dirname}}
1761 option then the compiler will search that directory within @var{dirname} for
1762 native system headers rather than the default @file{/usr/include}.
1763
1764 @item --with-build-sysroot
1765 @itemx --with-build-sysroot=@var{dir}
1766 Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the system root (see
1767 @option{--with-sysroot}) while building target libraries, instead of
1768 the directory specified with @option{--with-sysroot}. This option is
1769 only useful when you are already using @option{--with-sysroot}. You
1770 can use @option{--with-build-sysroot} when you are configuring with
1771 @option{--prefix} set to a directory that is different from the one in
1772 which you are installing GCC and your target libraries.
1773
1774 This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1775 target libraries (which runs on the build system); it does not affect
1776 the compiler which is used to build GCC itself.
1777
1778 If you specify the @option{--with-native-system-header-dir=@var{dirname}}
1779 option then the compiler will search that directory within @var{dirname} for
1780 native system headers rather than the default @file{/usr/include}.
1781
1782 @item --with-headers
1783 @itemx --with-headers=@var{dir}
1784 Deprecated in favor of @option{--with-sysroot}.
1785 Specifies that target headers are available when building a cross compiler.
1786 The @var{dir} argument specifies a directory which has the target include
1787 files. These include files will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
1788 directory. @emph{This option with the @var{dir} argument is required} when
1789 building a cross compiler, if @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include}
1790 doesn't pre-exist. If @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include} does
1791 pre-exist, the @var{dir} argument may be omitted. @command{fixincludes}
1792 will be run on these files to make them compatible with GCC@.
1793
1794 @item --without-headers
1795 Tells GCC not use any target headers from a libc when building a cross
1796 compiler. When crossing to GNU/Linux, you need the headers so GCC
1797 can build the exception handling for libgcc.
1798
1799 @item --with-libs
1800 @itemx --with-libs="@var{dir1} @var{dir2} @dots{} @var{dirN}"
1801 Deprecated in favor of @option{--with-sysroot}.
1802 Specifies a list of directories which contain the target runtime
1803 libraries. These libraries will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
1804 directory. If the directory list is omitted, this option has no
1805 effect.
1806
1807 @item --with-newlib
1808 Specifies that @samp{newlib} is
1809 being used as the target C library. This causes @code{__eprintf} to be
1810 omitted from @file{libgcc.a} on the assumption that it will be provided by
1811 @samp{newlib}.
1812
1813 @item --with-avrlibc
1814 Specifies that @samp{AVR-Libc} is
1815 being used as the target C library. This causes float support
1816 functions like @code{__addsf3} to be omitted from @file{libgcc.a} on
1817 the assumption that it will be provided by @file{libm.a}. For more
1818 technical details, cf. @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/PR54461,,PR54461}.
1819 This option is only supported for the AVR target. It is not supported for
1820 RTEMS configurations, which currently use newlib. The option is
1821 supported since version 4.7.2 and is the default in 4.8.0 and newer.
1822
1823 @item --with-build-time-tools=@var{dir}
1824 Specifies where to find the set of target tools (assembler, linker, etc.)
1825 that will be used while building GCC itself. This option can be useful
1826 if the directory layouts are different between the system you are building
1827 GCC on, and the system where you will deploy it.
1828
1829 For example, on an @samp{ia64-hp-hpux} system, you may have the GNU
1830 assembler and linker in @file{/usr/bin}, and the native tools in a
1831 different path, and build a toolchain that expects to find the
1832 native tools in @file{/usr/bin}.
1833
1834 When you use this option, you should ensure that @var{dir} includes
1835 @command{ar}, @command{as}, @command{ld}, @command{nm},
1836 @command{ranlib} and @command{strip} if necessary, and possibly
1837 @command{objdump}. Otherwise, GCC may use an inconsistent set of
1838 tools.
1839 @end table
1840
1841 @subheading Java-Specific Options
1842
1843 The following option applies to the build of the Java front end.
1844
1845 @table @code
1846 @item --disable-libgcj
1847 Specify that the run-time libraries
1848 used by GCJ should not be built. This is useful in case you intend
1849 to use GCJ with some other run-time, or you're going to install it
1850 separately, or it just happens not to build on your particular
1851 machine. In general, if the Java front end is enabled, the GCJ
1852 libraries will be enabled too, unless they're known to not work on
1853 the target platform. If GCJ is enabled but @samp{libgcj} isn't built, you
1854 may need to port it; in this case, before modifying the top-level
1855 @file{configure.in} so that @samp{libgcj} is enabled by default on this platform,
1856 you may use @option{--enable-libgcj} to override the default.
1857
1858 @end table
1859
1860 The following options apply to building @samp{libgcj}.
1861
1862 @subsubheading General Options
1863
1864 @table @code
1865 @item --enable-java-maintainer-mode
1866 By default the @samp{libjava} build will not attempt to compile the
1867 @file{.java} source files to @file{.class}. Instead, it will use the
1868 @file{.class} files from the source tree. If you use this option you
1869 must have executables named @command{ecj1} and @command{gjavah} in your path
1870 for use by the build. You must use this option if you intend to
1871 modify any @file{.java} files in @file{libjava}.
1872
1873 @item --with-java-home=@var{dirname}
1874 This @samp{libjava} option overrides the default value of the
1875 @samp{java.home} system property. It is also used to set
1876 @samp{sun.boot.class.path} to @file{@var{dirname}/lib/rt.jar}. By
1877 default @samp{java.home} is set to @file{@var{prefix}} and
1878 @samp{sun.boot.class.path} to
1879 @file{@var{datadir}/java/libgcj-@var{version}.jar}.
1880
1881 @item --with-ecj-jar=@var{filename}
1882 This option can be used to specify the location of an external jar
1883 file containing the Eclipse Java compiler. A specially modified
1884 version of this compiler is used by @command{gcj} to parse
1885 @file{.java} source files. If this option is given, the
1886 @samp{libjava} build will create and install an @file{ecj1} executable
1887 which uses this jar file at runtime.
1888
1889 If this option is not given, but an @file{ecj.jar} file is found in
1890 the topmost source tree at configure time, then the @samp{libgcj}
1891 build will create and install @file{ecj1}, and will also install the
1892 discovered @file{ecj.jar} into a suitable place in the install tree.
1893
1894 If @file{ecj1} is not installed, then the user will have to supply one
1895 on his path in order for @command{gcj} to properly parse @file{.java}
1896 source files. A suitable jar is available from
1897 @uref{ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/}.
1898
1899 @item --disable-getenv-properties
1900 Don't set system properties from @env{GCJ_PROPERTIES}.
1901
1902 @item --enable-hash-synchronization
1903 Use a global hash table for monitor locks. Ordinarily,
1904 @samp{libgcj}'s @samp{configure} script automatically makes
1905 the correct choice for this option for your platform. Only use
1906 this if you know you need the library to be configured differently.
1907
1908 @item --enable-interpreter
1909 Enable the Java interpreter. The interpreter is automatically
1910 enabled by default on all platforms that support it. This option
1911 is really only useful if you want to disable the interpreter
1912 (using @option{--disable-interpreter}).
1913
1914 @item --disable-java-net
1915 Disable java.net. This disables the native part of java.net only,
1916 using non-functional stubs for native method implementations.
1917
1918 @item --disable-jvmpi
1919 Disable JVMPI support.
1920
1921 @item --disable-libgcj-bc
1922 Disable BC ABI compilation of certain parts of libgcj. By default,
1923 some portions of libgcj are compiled with @option{-findirect-dispatch}
1924 and @option{-fno-indirect-classes}, allowing them to be overridden at
1925 run-time.
1926
1927 If @option{--disable-libgcj-bc} is specified, libgcj is built without
1928 these options. This allows the compile-time linker to resolve
1929 dependencies when statically linking to libgcj. However it makes it
1930 impossible to override the affected portions of libgcj at run-time.
1931
1932 @item --enable-reduced-reflection
1933 Build most of libgcj with @option{-freduced-reflection}. This reduces
1934 the size of libgcj at the expense of not being able to do accurate
1935 reflection on the classes it contains. This option is safe if you
1936 know that code using libgcj will never use reflection on the standard
1937 runtime classes in libgcj (including using serialization, RMI or CORBA).
1938
1939 @item --with-ecos
1940 Enable runtime eCos target support.
1941
1942 @item --without-libffi
1943 Don't use @samp{libffi}. This will disable the interpreter and JNI
1944 support as well, as these require @samp{libffi} to work.
1945
1946 @item --enable-libgcj-debug
1947 Enable runtime debugging code.
1948
1949 @item --enable-libgcj-multifile
1950 If specified, causes all @file{.java} source files to be
1951 compiled into @file{.class} files in one invocation of
1952 @samp{gcj}. This can speed up build time, but is more
1953 resource-intensive. If this option is unspecified or
1954 disabled, @samp{gcj} is invoked once for each @file{.java}
1955 file to compile into a @file{.class} file.
1956
1957 @item --with-libiconv-prefix=DIR
1958 Search for libiconv in @file{DIR/include} and @file{DIR/lib}.
1959
1960 @item --enable-sjlj-exceptions
1961 Force use of the @code{setjmp}/@code{longjmp}-based scheme for exceptions.
1962 @samp{configure} ordinarily picks the correct value based on the platform.
1963 Only use this option if you are sure you need a different setting.
1964
1965 @item --with-system-zlib
1966 Use installed @samp{zlib} rather than that included with GCC@.
1967
1968 @item --with-win32-nlsapi=ansi, unicows or unicode
1969 Indicates how MinGW @samp{libgcj} translates between UNICODE
1970 characters and the Win32 API@.
1971
1972 @item --enable-java-home
1973 If enabled, this creates a JPackage compatible SDK environment during install.
1974 Note that if --enable-java-home is used, --with-arch-directory=ARCH must also
1975 be specified.
1976
1977 @item --with-arch-directory=ARCH
1978 Specifies the name to use for the @file{jre/lib/ARCH} directory in the SDK
1979 environment created when --enable-java-home is passed. Typical names for this
1980 directory include i386, amd64, ia64, etc.
1981
1982 @item --with-os-directory=DIR
1983 Specifies the OS directory for the SDK include directory. This is set to auto
1984 detect, and is typically 'linux'.
1985
1986 @item --with-origin-name=NAME
1987 Specifies the JPackage origin name. This defaults to the 'gcj' in
1988 java-1.5.0-gcj.
1989
1990 @item --with-arch-suffix=SUFFIX
1991 Specifies the suffix for the sdk directory. Defaults to the empty string.
1992 Examples include '.x86_64' in 'java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0.x86_64'.
1993
1994 @item --with-jvm-root-dir=DIR
1995 Specifies where to install the SDK. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm.
1996
1997 @item --with-jvm-jar-dir=DIR
1998 Specifies where to install jars. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm-exports.
1999
2000 @item --with-python-dir=DIR
2001 Specifies where to install the Python modules used for aot-compile. DIR should
2002 not include the prefix used in installation. For example, if the Python modules
2003 are to be installed in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, then
2004 --with-python-dir=/lib/python2.5/site-packages should be passed. If this is
2005 not specified, then the Python modules are installed in $(prefix)/share/python.
2006
2007 @item --enable-aot-compile-rpm
2008 Adds aot-compile-rpm to the list of installed scripts.
2009
2010 @item --enable-browser-plugin
2011 Build the gcjwebplugin web browser plugin.
2012
2013 @item --enable-static-libjava
2014 Build static libraries in libjava. The default is to only build shared
2015 libraries.
2016
2017 @table @code
2018 @item ansi
2019 Use the single-byte @code{char} and the Win32 A functions natively,
2020 translating to and from UNICODE when using these functions. If
2021 unspecified, this is the default.
2022
2023 @item unicows
2024 Use the @code{WCHAR} and Win32 W functions natively. Adds
2025 @code{-lunicows} to @file{libgcj.spec} to link with @samp{libunicows}.
2026 @file{unicows.dll} needs to be deployed on Microsoft Windows 9X machines
2027 running built executables. @file{libunicows.a}, an open-source
2028 import library around Microsoft's @code{unicows.dll}, is obtained from
2029 @uref{http://libunicows.sourceforge.net/}, which also gives details
2030 on getting @file{unicows.dll} from Microsoft.
2031
2032 @item unicode
2033 Use the @code{WCHAR} and Win32 W functions natively. Does @emph{not}
2034 add @code{-lunicows} to @file{libgcj.spec}. The built executables will
2035 only run on Microsoft Windows NT and above.
2036 @end table
2037 @end table
2038
2039 @subsubheading AWT-Specific Options
2040
2041 @table @code
2042 @item --with-x
2043 Use the X Window System.
2044
2045 @item --enable-java-awt=PEER(S)
2046 Specifies the AWT peer library or libraries to build alongside
2047 @samp{libgcj}. If this option is unspecified or disabled, AWT
2048 will be non-functional. Current valid values are @option{gtk} and
2049 @option{xlib}. Multiple libraries should be separated by a
2050 comma (i.e.@: @option{--enable-java-awt=gtk,xlib}).
2051
2052 @item --enable-gtk-cairo
2053 Build the cairo Graphics2D implementation on GTK@.
2054
2055 @item --enable-java-gc=TYPE
2056 Choose garbage collector. Defaults to @option{boehm} if unspecified.
2057
2058 @item --disable-gtktest
2059 Do not try to compile and run a test GTK+ program.
2060
2061 @item --disable-glibtest
2062 Do not try to compile and run a test GLIB program.
2063
2064 @item --with-libart-prefix=PFX
2065 Prefix where libart is installed (optional).
2066
2067 @item --with-libart-exec-prefix=PFX
2068 Exec prefix where libart is installed (optional).
2069
2070 @item --disable-libarttest
2071 Do not try to compile and run a test libart program.
2072
2073 @end table
2074
2075 @subsubheading Overriding @command{configure} test results
2076
2077 Sometimes, it might be necessary to override the result of some
2078 @command{configure} test, for example in order to ease porting to a new
2079 system or work around a bug in a test. The toplevel @command{configure}
2080 script provides three variables for this:
2081
2082 @table @code
2083
2084 @item build_configargs
2085 @cindex @code{build_configargs}
2086 The contents of this variable is passed to all build @command{configure}
2087 scripts.
2088
2089 @item host_configargs
2090 @cindex @code{host_configargs}
2091 The contents of this variable is passed to all host @command{configure}
2092 scripts.
2093
2094 @item target_configargs
2095 @cindex @code{target_configargs}
2096 The contents of this variable is passed to all target @command{configure}
2097 scripts.
2098
2099 @end table
2100
2101 In order to avoid shell and @command{make} quoting issues for complex
2102 overrides, you can pass a setting for @env{CONFIG_SITE} and set
2103 variables in the site file.
2104
2105 @html
2106 <hr />
2107 <p>
2108 @end html
2109 @ifhtml
2110 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2111 @end ifhtml
2112 @end ifset
2113
2114 @c ***Building****************************************************************
2115 @ifnothtml
2116 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2117 @node Building, Testing, Configuration, Installing GCC
2118 @end ifnothtml
2119 @ifset buildhtml
2120 @ifnothtml
2121 @chapter Building
2122 @end ifnothtml
2123 @cindex Installing GCC: Building
2124
2125 Now that GCC is configured, you are ready to build the compiler and
2126 runtime libraries.
2127
2128 Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a
2129 nonzero status) and be ignored by @command{make}. These failures, which
2130 are often due to files that were not found, are expected, and can safely
2131 be ignored.
2132
2133 It is normal to have compiler warnings when compiling certain files.
2134 Unless you are a GCC developer, you can generally ignore these warnings
2135 unless they cause compilation to fail. Developers should attempt to fix
2136 any warnings encountered, however they can temporarily continue past
2137 warnings-as-errors by specifying the configure flag
2138 @option{--disable-werror}.
2139
2140 On certain old systems, defining certain environment variables such as
2141 @env{CC} can interfere with the functioning of @command{make}.
2142
2143 If you encounter seemingly strange errors when trying to build the
2144 compiler in a directory other than the source directory, it could be
2145 because you have previously configured the compiler in the source
2146 directory. Make sure you have done all the necessary preparations.
2147
2148 If you build GCC on a BSD system using a directory stored in an old System
2149 V file system, problems may occur in running @command{fixincludes} if the
2150 System V file system doesn't support symbolic links. These problems
2151 result in a failure to fix the declaration of @code{size_t} in
2152 @file{sys/types.h}. If you find that @code{size_t} is a signed type and
2153 that type mismatches occur, this could be the cause.
2154
2155 The solution is not to use such a directory for building GCC@.
2156
2157 Similarly, when building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify
2158 @file{*.l} files, you need the Flex lexical analyzer generator
2159 installed. If you do not modify @file{*.l} files, releases contain
2160 the Flex-generated files and you do not need Flex installed to build
2161 them. There is still one Flex-based lexical analyzer (part of the
2162 build machinery, not of GCC itself) that is used even if you only
2163 build the C front end.
2164
2165 When building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify Texinfo
2166 documentation, you need version 4.7 or later of Texinfo installed if you
2167 want Info documentation to be regenerated. Releases contain Info
2168 documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in the release.
2169
2170 @section Building a native compiler
2171
2172 For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
2173 a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when @samp{make} is invoked.
2174 This will build the entire GCC system and ensure that it compiles
2175 itself correctly. It can be disabled with the @option{--disable-bootstrap}
2176 parameter to @samp{configure}, but bootstrapping is suggested because
2177 the compiler will be tested more completely and could also have
2178 better performance.
2179
2180 The bootstrapping process will complete the following steps:
2181
2182 @itemize @bullet
2183 @item
2184 Build tools necessary to build the compiler.
2185
2186 @item
2187 Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This includes building
2188 three times the target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils
2189 (bfd, binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes) if they have been
2190 individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source tree before
2191 configuring.
2192
2193 @item
2194 Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.
2195
2196 @item
2197 Build runtime libraries using the stage3 compiler from the previous step.
2198
2199 @end itemize
2200
2201 If you are short on disk space you might consider @samp{make
2202 bootstrap-lean} instead. The sequence of compilation is the
2203 same described above, but object files from the stage1 and
2204 stage2 of the 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler are deleted as
2205 soon as they are no longer needed.
2206
2207 If you wish to use non-default GCC flags when compiling the stage2
2208 and stage3 compilers, set @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} on the command line when
2209 doing @samp{make}. For example, if you want to save additional space
2210 during the bootstrap and in the final installation as well, you can
2211 build the compiler binaries without debugging information as in the
2212 following example. This will save roughly 40% of disk space both for
2213 the bootstrap and the final installation. (Libraries will still contain
2214 debugging information.)
2215
2216 @smallexample
2217 make BOOT_CFLAGS='-O' bootstrap
2218 @end smallexample
2219
2220 You can place non-default optimization flags into @code{BOOT_CFLAGS}; they
2221 are less well tested here than the default of @samp{-g -O2}, but should
2222 still work. In a few cases, you may find that you need to specify special
2223 flags such as @option{-msoft-float} here to complete the bootstrap; or,
2224 if the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may need
2225 to work around this, by choosing @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} to avoid the parts
2226 of the stage1 compiler that were miscompiled, or by using @samp{make
2227 bootstrap4} to increase the number of stages of bootstrap.
2228
2229 @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} does not apply to bootstrapped target libraries.
2230 Since these are always compiled with the compiler currently being
2231 bootstrapped, you can use @code{CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET} to modify their
2232 compilation flags, as for non-bootstrapped target libraries.
2233 Again, if the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may
2234 need to work around this by avoiding non-working parts of the stage1
2235 compiler. Use @code{STAGE1_TFLAGS} to this end.
2236
2237 If you used the flag @option{--enable-languages=@dots{}} to restrict
2238 the compilers to be built, only those you've actually enabled will be
2239 built. This will of course only build those runtime libraries, for
2240 which the particular compiler has been built. Please note,
2241 that re-defining @env{LANGUAGES} when calling @samp{make}
2242 @strong{does not} work anymore!
2243
2244 If the comparison of stage2 and stage3 fails, this normally indicates
2245 that the stage2 compiler has compiled GCC incorrectly, and is therefore
2246 a potentially serious bug which you should investigate and report. (On
2247 a few systems, meaningful comparison of object files is impossible; they
2248 always appear ``different''. If you encounter this problem, you will
2249 need to disable comparison in the @file{Makefile}.)
2250
2251 If you do not want to bootstrap your compiler, you can configure with
2252 @option{--disable-bootstrap}. In particular cases, you may want to
2253 bootstrap your compiler even if the target system is not the same as
2254 the one you are building on: for example, you could build a
2255 @code{powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu} toolchain on a
2256 @code{powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu} host. In this case, pass
2257 @option{--enable-bootstrap} to the configure script.
2258
2259 @code{BUILD_CONFIG} can be used to bring in additional customization
2260 to the build. It can be set to a whitespace-separated list of names.
2261 For each such @code{NAME}, top-level @file{config/@code{NAME}.mk} will
2262 be included by the top-level @file{Makefile}, bringing in any settings
2263 it contains. The default @code{BUILD_CONFIG} can be set using the
2264 configure option @option{--with-build-config=@code{NAME}...}. Some
2265 examples of supported build configurations are:
2266
2267 @table @asis
2268 @item @samp{bootstrap-O1}
2269 Removes any @option{-O}-started option from @code{BOOT_CFLAGS}, and adds
2270 @option{-O1} to it. @samp{BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-O1} is equivalent to
2271 @samp{BOOT_CFLAGS='-g -O1'}.
2272
2273 @item @samp{bootstrap-O3}
2274 Analogous to @code{bootstrap-O1}.
2275
2276 @item @samp{bootstrap-lto}
2277 Enables Link-Time Optimization for host tools during bootstrapping.
2278 @samp{BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-lto} is equivalent to adding
2279 @option{-flto} to @samp{BOOT_CFLAGS}.
2280
2281 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug}
2282 Verifies that the compiler generates the same executable code, whether
2283 or not it is asked to emit debug information. To this end, this
2284 option builds stage2 host programs without debug information, and uses
2285 @file{contrib/compare-debug} to compare them with the stripped stage3
2286 object files. If @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} is overridden so as to not enable
2287 debug information, stage2 will have it, and stage3 won't. This option
2288 is enabled by default when GCC bootstrapping is enabled, if
2289 @code{strip} can turn object files compiled with and without debug
2290 info into identical object files. In addition to better test
2291 coverage, this option makes default bootstraps faster and leaner.
2292
2293 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-big}
2294 Rather than comparing stripped object files, as in
2295 @code{bootstrap-debug}, this option saves internal compiler dumps
2296 during stage2 and stage3 and compares them as well, which helps catch
2297 additional potential problems, but at a great cost in terms of disk
2298 space. It can be specified in addition to @samp{bootstrap-debug}.
2299
2300 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-lean}
2301 This option saves disk space compared with @code{bootstrap-debug-big},
2302 but at the expense of some recompilation. Instead of saving the dumps
2303 of stage2 and stage3 until the final compare, it uses
2304 @option{-fcompare-debug} to generate, compare and remove the dumps
2305 during stage3, repeating the compilation that already took place in
2306 stage2, whose dumps were not saved.
2307
2308 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-lib}
2309 This option tests executable code invariance over debug information
2310 generation on target libraries, just like @code{bootstrap-debug-lean}
2311 tests it on host programs. It builds stage3 libraries with
2312 @option{-fcompare-debug}, and it can be used along with any of the
2313 @code{bootstrap-debug} options above.
2314
2315 There aren't @code{-lean} or @code{-big} counterparts to this option
2316 because most libraries are only build in stage3, so bootstrap compares
2317 would not get significant coverage. Moreover, the few libraries built
2318 in stage2 are used in stage3 host programs, so we wouldn't want to
2319 compile stage2 libraries with different options for comparison purposes.
2320
2321 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-ckovw}
2322 Arranges for error messages to be issued if the compiler built on any
2323 stage is run without the option @option{-fcompare-debug}. This is
2324 useful to verify the full @option{-fcompare-debug} testing coverage. It
2325 must be used along with @code{bootstrap-debug-lean} and
2326 @code{bootstrap-debug-lib}.
2327
2328 @item @samp{bootstrap-time}
2329 Arranges for the run time of each program started by the GCC driver,
2330 built in any stage, to be logged to @file{time.log}, in the top level of
2331 the build tree.
2332
2333 @end table
2334
2335 @section Building a cross compiler
2336
2337 When building a cross compiler, it is not generally possible to do a
2338 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This makes for an interesting problem
2339 as parts of GCC can only be built with GCC@.
2340
2341 To build a cross compiler, we recommend first building and installing a
2342 native compiler. You can then use the native GCC compiler to build the
2343 cross compiler. The installed native compiler needs to be GCC version
2344 2.95 or later.
2345
2346 If the cross compiler is to be built with support for the Java
2347 programming language and the ability to compile .java source files is
2348 desired, the installed native compiler used to build the cross
2349 compiler needs to be the same GCC version as the cross compiler. In
2350 addition the cross compiler needs to be configured with
2351 @option{--with-ecj-jar=@dots{}}.
2352
2353 Assuming you have already installed a native copy of GCC and configured
2354 your cross compiler, issue the command @command{make}, which performs the
2355 following steps:
2356
2357 @itemize @bullet
2358 @item
2359 Build host tools necessary to build the compiler.
2360
2361 @item
2362 Build target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils (bfd,
2363 binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes)
2364 if they have been individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source
2365 tree before configuring.
2366
2367 @item
2368 Build the compiler (single stage only).
2369
2370 @item
2371 Build runtime libraries using the compiler from the previous step.
2372 @end itemize
2373
2374 Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit.
2375
2376 If you are not building GNU binutils in the same source tree as GCC,
2377 you will need a cross-assembler and cross-linker installed before
2378 configuring GCC@. Put them in the directory
2379 @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/bin}. Here is a table of the tools
2380 you should put in this directory:
2381
2382 @table @file
2383 @item as
2384 This should be the cross-assembler.
2385
2386 @item ld
2387 This should be the cross-linker.
2388
2389 @item ar
2390 This should be the cross-archiver: a program which can manipulate
2391 archive files (linker libraries) in the target machine's format.
2392
2393 @item ranlib
2394 This should be a program to construct a symbol table in an archive file.
2395 @end table
2396
2397 The installation of GCC will find these programs in that directory,
2398 and copy or link them to the proper place to for the cross-compiler to
2399 find them when run later.
2400
2401 The easiest way to provide these files is to build the Binutils package.
2402 Configure it with the same @option{--host} and @option{--target}
2403 options that you use for configuring GCC, then build and install
2404 them. They install their executables automatically into the proper
2405 directory. Alas, they do not support all the targets that GCC
2406 supports.
2407
2408 If you are not building a C library in the same source tree as GCC,
2409 you should also provide the target libraries and headers before
2410 configuring GCC, specifying the directories with
2411 @option{--with-sysroot} or @option{--with-headers} and
2412 @option{--with-libs}. Many targets also require ``start files'' such
2413 as @file{crt0.o} and
2414 @file{crtn.o} which are linked into each executable. There may be several
2415 alternatives for @file{crt0.o}, for use with profiling or other
2416 compilation options. Check your target's definition of
2417 @code{STARTFILE_SPEC} to find out what start files it uses.
2418
2419 @section Building in parallel
2420
2421 GNU Make 3.80 and above, which is necessary to build GCC, support
2422 building in parallel. To activate this, you can use @samp{make -j 2}
2423 instead of @samp{make}. You can also specify a bigger number, and
2424 in most cases using a value greater than the number of processors in
2425 your machine will result in fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus
2426 improving overall throughput; this is especially true for slow drives
2427 and network filesystems.
2428
2429 @section Building the Ada compiler
2430
2431 In order to build GNAT, the Ada compiler, you need a working GNAT
2432 compiler (GCC version 4.0 or later).
2433 This includes GNAT tools such as @command{gnatmake} and
2434 @command{gnatlink}, since the Ada front end is written in Ada and
2435 uses some GNAT-specific extensions.
2436
2437 In order to build a cross compiler, it is suggested to install
2438 the new compiler as native first, and then use it to build the cross
2439 compiler.
2440
2441 @command{configure} does not test whether the GNAT installation works
2442 and has a sufficiently recent version; if too old a GNAT version is
2443 installed, the build will fail unless @option{--enable-languages} is
2444 used to disable building the Ada front end.
2445
2446 @env{ADA_INCLUDE_PATH} and @env{ADA_OBJECT_PATH} environment variables
2447 must not be set when building the Ada compiler, the Ada tools, or the
2448 Ada runtime libraries. You can check that your build environment is clean
2449 by verifying that @samp{gnatls -v} lists only one explicit path in each
2450 section.
2451
2452 @section Building with profile feedback
2453
2454 It is possible to use profile feedback to optimize the compiler itself. This
2455 should result in a faster compiler binary. Experiments done on x86 using gcc
2456 3.3 showed approximately 7 percent speedup on compiling C programs. To
2457 bootstrap the compiler with profile feedback, use @code{make profiledbootstrap}.
2458
2459 When @samp{make profiledbootstrap} is run, it will first build a @code{stage1}
2460 compiler. This compiler is used to build a @code{stageprofile} compiler
2461 instrumented to collect execution counts of instruction and branch
2462 probabilities. Then runtime libraries are compiled with profile collected.
2463 Finally a @code{stagefeedback} compiler is built using the information collected.
2464
2465 Unlike standard bootstrap, several additional restrictions apply. The
2466 compiler used to build @code{stage1} needs to support a 64-bit integral type.
2467 It is recommended to only use GCC for this. Also parallel make is currently
2468 not supported since collisions in profile collecting may occur.
2469
2470 @html
2471 <hr />
2472 <p>
2473 @end html
2474 @ifhtml
2475 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2476 @end ifhtml
2477 @end ifset
2478
2479 @c ***Testing*****************************************************************
2480 @ifnothtml
2481 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2482 @node Testing, Final install, Building, Installing GCC
2483 @end ifnothtml
2484 @ifset testhtml
2485 @ifnothtml
2486 @chapter Installing GCC: Testing
2487 @end ifnothtml
2488 @cindex Testing
2489 @cindex Installing GCC: Testing
2490 @cindex Testsuite
2491
2492 Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
2493 compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
2494 been submitted to the
2495 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/,,gcc-testresults mailing list}.
2496 Some of these archived results are linked from the build status lists
2497 at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}, although not everyone who
2498 reports a successful build runs the testsuites and submits the results.
2499 This step is optional and may require you to download additional software,
2500 but it can give you confidence in your new GCC installation or point out
2501 problems before you install and start using your new GCC@.
2502
2503 First, you must have @uref{download.html,,downloaded the testsuites}.
2504 These are part of the full distribution, but if you downloaded the
2505 ``core'' compiler plus any front ends, you must download the testsuites
2506 separately.
2507
2508 Second, you must have the testing tools installed. This includes
2509 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/,,DejaGnu}, Tcl, and Expect;
2510 the DejaGnu site has links to these.
2511
2512 If the directories where @command{runtest} and @command{expect} were
2513 installed are not in the @env{PATH}, you may need to set the following
2514 environment variables appropriately, as in the following example (which
2515 assumes that DejaGnu has been installed under @file{/usr/local}):
2516
2517 @smallexample
2518 TCL_LIBRARY = /usr/local/share/tcl8.0
2519 DEJAGNULIBS = /usr/local/share/dejagnu
2520 @end smallexample
2521
2522 (On systems such as Cygwin, these paths are required to be actual
2523 paths, not mounts or links; presumably this is due to some lack of
2524 portability in the DejaGnu code.)
2525
2526
2527 Finally, you can run the testsuite (which may take a long time):
2528 @smallexample
2529 cd @var{objdir}; make -k check
2530 @end smallexample
2531
2532 This will test various components of GCC, such as compiler
2533 front ends and runtime libraries. While running the testsuite, DejaGnu
2534 might emit some harmless messages resembling
2535 @samp{WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.} or
2536 @samp{WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file} that can be ignored.
2537
2538 If you are testing a cross-compiler, you may want to run the testsuite
2539 on a simulator as described at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/simtest-howto.html}.
2540
2541 @section How can you run the testsuite on selected tests?
2542
2543 In order to run sets of tests selectively, there are targets
2544 @samp{make check-gcc} and language specific @samp{make check-c},
2545 @samp{make check-c++}, @samp{make check-fortran}, @samp{make check-java},
2546 @samp{make check-ada}, @samp{make check-objc}, @samp{make check-obj-c++},
2547 @samp{make check-lto}
2548 in the @file{gcc} subdirectory of the object directory. You can also
2549 just run @samp{make check} in a subdirectory of the object directory.
2550
2551
2552 A more selective way to just run all @command{gcc} execute tests in the
2553 testsuite is to use
2554
2555 @smallexample
2556 make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp @var{other-options}"
2557 @end smallexample
2558
2559 Likewise, in order to run only the @command{g++} ``old-deja'' tests in
2560 the testsuite with filenames matching @samp{9805*}, you would use
2561
2562 @smallexample
2563 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805* @var{other-options}"
2564 @end smallexample
2565
2566 The @file{*.exp} files are located in the testsuite directories of the GCC
2567 source, the most important ones being @file{compile.exp},
2568 @file{execute.exp}, @file{dg.exp} and @file{old-deja.exp}.
2569 To get a list of the possible @file{*.exp} files, pipe the
2570 output of @samp{make check} into a file and look at the
2571 @samp{Running @dots{} .exp} lines.
2572
2573 @section Passing options and running multiple testsuites
2574
2575 You can pass multiple options to the testsuite using the
2576 @samp{--target_board} option of DejaGNU, either passed as part of
2577 @samp{RUNTESTFLAGS}, or directly to @command{runtest} if you prefer to
2578 work outside the makefiles. For example,
2579
2580 @smallexample
2581 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=unix/-O3/-fmerge-constants"
2582 @end smallexample
2583
2584 will run the standard @command{g++} testsuites (``unix'' is the target name
2585 for a standard native testsuite situation), passing
2586 @samp{-O3 -fmerge-constants} to the compiler on every test, i.e.,
2587 slashes separate options.
2588
2589 You can run the testsuites multiple times using combinations of options
2590 with a syntax similar to the brace expansion of popular shells:
2591
2592 @smallexample
2593 @dots{}"--target_board=arm-sim\@{-mhard-float,-msoft-float\@}\@{-O1,-O2,-O3,\@}"
2594 @end smallexample
2595
2596 (Note the empty option caused by the trailing comma in the final group.)
2597 The following will run each testsuite eight times using the @samp{arm-sim}
2598 target, as if you had specified all possible combinations yourself:
2599
2600 @smallexample
2601 --target_board='arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O1 \
2602 arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O2 \
2603 arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O3 \
2604 arm-sim/-mhard-float \
2605 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O1 \
2606 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O2 \
2607 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O3 \
2608 arm-sim/-msoft-float'
2609 @end smallexample
2610
2611 They can be combined as many times as you wish, in arbitrary ways. This
2612 list:
2613
2614 @smallexample
2615 @dots{}"--target_board=unix/-Wextra\@{-O3,-fno-strength\@}\@{-fomit-frame,\@}"
2616 @end smallexample
2617
2618 will generate four combinations, all involving @samp{-Wextra}.
2619
2620 The disadvantage to this method is that the testsuites are run in serial,
2621 which is a waste on multiprocessor systems. For users with GNU Make and
2622 a shell which performs brace expansion, you can run the testsuites in
2623 parallel by having the shell perform the combinations and @command{make}
2624 do the parallel runs. Instead of using @samp{--target_board}, use a
2625 special makefile target:
2626
2627 @smallexample
2628 make -j@var{N} check-@var{testsuite}//@var{test-target}/@var{option1}/@var{option2}/@dots{}
2629 @end smallexample
2630
2631 For example,
2632
2633 @smallexample
2634 make -j3 check-gcc//sh-hms-sim/@{-m1,-m2,-m3,-m3e,-m4@}/@{,-nofpu@}
2635 @end smallexample
2636
2637 will run three concurrent ``make-gcc'' testsuites, eventually testing all
2638 ten combinations as described above. Note that this is currently only
2639 supported in the @file{gcc} subdirectory. (To see how this works, try
2640 typing @command{echo} before the example given here.)
2641
2642
2643 @section Additional testing for Java Class Libraries
2644
2645 The Java runtime tests can be executed via @samp{make check}
2646 in the @file{@var{target}/libjava/testsuite} directory in
2647 the build tree.
2648
2649 The @uref{http://sourceware.org/mauve/,,Mauve Project} provides
2650 a suite of tests for the Java Class Libraries. This suite can be run
2651 as part of libgcj testing by placing the Mauve tree within the libjava
2652 testsuite at @file{libjava/testsuite/libjava.mauve/mauve}, or by
2653 specifying the location of that tree when invoking @samp{make}, as in
2654 @samp{make MAUVEDIR=~/mauve check}.
2655
2656 @section How to interpret test results
2657
2658 The result of running the testsuite are various @file{*.sum} and @file{*.log}
2659 files in the testsuite subdirectories. The @file{*.log} files contain a
2660 detailed log of the compiler invocations and the corresponding
2661 results, the @file{*.sum} files summarize the results. These summaries
2662 contain status codes for all tests:
2663
2664 @itemize @bullet
2665 @item
2666 PASS: the test passed as expected
2667 @item
2668 XPASS: the test unexpectedly passed
2669 @item
2670 FAIL: the test unexpectedly failed
2671 @item
2672 XFAIL: the test failed as expected
2673 @item
2674 UNSUPPORTED: the test is not supported on this platform
2675 @item
2676 ERROR: the testsuite detected an error
2677 @item
2678 WARNING: the testsuite detected a possible problem
2679 @end itemize
2680
2681 It is normal for some tests to report unexpected failures. At the
2682 current time the testing harness does not allow fine grained control
2683 over whether or not a test is expected to fail. This problem should
2684 be fixed in future releases.
2685
2686
2687 @section Submitting test results
2688
2689 If you want to report the results to the GCC project, use the
2690 @file{contrib/test_summary} shell script. Start it in the @var{objdir} with
2691
2692 @smallexample
2693 @var{srcdir}/contrib/test_summary -p your_commentary.txt \
2694 -m gcc-testresults@@gcc.gnu.org |sh
2695 @end smallexample
2696
2697 This script uses the @command{Mail} program to send the results, so
2698 make sure it is in your @env{PATH}. The file @file{your_commentary.txt} is
2699 prepended to the testsuite summary and should contain any special
2700 remarks you have on your results or your build environment. Please
2701 do not edit the testsuite result block or the subject line, as these
2702 messages may be automatically processed.
2703
2704 @html
2705 <hr />
2706 <p>
2707 @end html
2708 @ifhtml
2709 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2710 @end ifhtml
2711 @end ifset
2712
2713 @c ***Final install***********************************************************
2714 @ifnothtml
2715 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2716 @node Final install, , Testing, Installing GCC
2717 @end ifnothtml
2718 @ifset finalinstallhtml
2719 @ifnothtml
2720 @chapter Installing GCC: Final installation
2721 @end ifnothtml
2722
2723 Now that GCC has been built (and optionally tested), you can install it with
2724 @smallexample
2725 cd @var{objdir} && make install
2726 @end smallexample
2727
2728 We strongly recommend to install into a target directory where there is
2729 no previous version of GCC present. Also, the GNAT runtime should not
2730 be stripped, as this would break certain features of the debugger that
2731 depend on this debugging information (catching Ada exceptions for
2732 instance).
2733
2734 That step completes the installation of GCC; user level binaries can
2735 be found in @file{@var{prefix}/bin} where @var{prefix} is the value
2736 you specified with the @option{--prefix} to configure (or
2737 @file{/usr/local} by default). (If you specified @option{--bindir},
2738 that directory will be used instead; otherwise, if you specified
2739 @option{--exec-prefix}, @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin} will be used.)
2740 Headers for the C++ and Java libraries are installed in
2741 @file{@var{prefix}/include}; libraries in @file{@var{libdir}}
2742 (normally @file{@var{prefix}/lib}); internal parts of the compiler in
2743 @file{@var{libdir}/gcc} and @file{@var{libexecdir}/gcc}; documentation
2744 in info format in @file{@var{infodir}} (normally
2745 @file{@var{prefix}/info}).
2746
2747 When installing cross-compilers, GCC's executables
2748 are not only installed into @file{@var{bindir}}, that
2749 is, @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}, but additionally into
2750 @file{@var{exec-prefix}/@var{target-alias}/bin}, if that directory
2751 exists. Typically, such @dfn{tooldirs} hold target-specific
2752 binutils, including assembler and linker.
2753
2754 Installation into a temporary staging area or into a @command{chroot}
2755 jail can be achieved with the command
2756
2757 @smallexample
2758 make DESTDIR=@var{path-to-rootdir} install
2759 @end smallexample
2760
2761 @noindent
2762 where @var{path-to-rootdir} is the absolute path of
2763 a directory relative to which all installation paths will be
2764 interpreted. Note that the directory specified by @code{DESTDIR}
2765 need not exist yet; it will be created if necessary.
2766
2767 There is a subtle point with tooldirs and @code{DESTDIR}:
2768 If you relocate a cross-compiler installation with
2769 e.g.@: @samp{DESTDIR=@var{rootdir}}, then the directory
2770 @file{@var{rootdir}/@var{exec-prefix}/@var{target-alias}/bin} will
2771 be filled with duplicated GCC executables only if it already exists,
2772 it will not be created otherwise. This is regarded as a feature,
2773 not as a bug, because it gives slightly more control to the packagers
2774 using the @code{DESTDIR} feature.
2775
2776 You can install stripped programs and libraries with
2777
2778 @smallexample
2779 make install-strip
2780 @end smallexample
2781
2782 If you are bootstrapping a released version of GCC then please
2783 quickly review the build status page for your release, available from
2784 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
2785 If your system is not listed for the version of GCC that you built,
2786 send a note to
2787 @email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} indicating
2788 that you successfully built and installed GCC@.
2789 Include the following information:
2790
2791 @itemize @bullet
2792 @item
2793 Output from running @file{@var{srcdir}/config.guess}. Do not send
2794 that file itself, just the one-line output from running it.
2795
2796 @item
2797 The output of @samp{gcc -v} for your newly installed @command{gcc}.
2798 This tells us which version of GCC you built and the options you passed to
2799 configure.
2800
2801 @item
2802 Whether you enabled all languages or a subset of them. If you used a
2803 full distribution then this information is part of the configure
2804 options in the output of @samp{gcc -v}, but if you downloaded the
2805 ``core'' compiler plus additional front ends then it isn't apparent
2806 which ones you built unless you tell us about it.
2807
2808 @item
2809 If the build was for GNU/Linux, also include:
2810 @itemize @bullet
2811 @item
2812 The distribution name and version (e.g., Red Hat 7.1 or Debian 2.2.3);
2813 this information should be available from @file{/etc/issue}.
2814
2815 @item
2816 The version of the Linux kernel, available from @samp{uname --version}
2817 or @samp{uname -a}.
2818
2819 @item
2820 The version of glibc you used; for RPM-based systems like Red Hat,
2821 Mandrake, and SuSE type @samp{rpm -q glibc} to get the glibc version,
2822 and on systems like Debian and Progeny use @samp{dpkg -l libc6}.
2823 @end itemize
2824 For other systems, you can include similar information if you think it is
2825 relevant.
2826
2827 @item
2828 Any other information that you think would be useful to people building
2829 GCC on the same configuration. The new entry in the build status list
2830 will include a link to the archived copy of your message.
2831 @end itemize
2832
2833 We'd also like to know if the
2834 @ifnothtml
2835 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}
2836 @end ifnothtml
2837 @ifhtml
2838 @uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}
2839 @end ifhtml
2840 didn't include your host/target information or if that information is
2841 incomplete or out of date. Send a note to
2842 @email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} detailing how the information should be changed.
2843
2844 If you find a bug, please report it following the
2845 @uref{../bugs/,,bug reporting guidelines}.
2846
2847 If you want to print the GCC manuals, do @samp{cd @var{objdir}; make
2848 dvi}. You will need to have @command{texi2dvi} (version at least 4.7)
2849 and @TeX{} installed. This creates a number of @file{.dvi} files in
2850 subdirectories of @file{@var{objdir}}; these may be converted for
2851 printing with programs such as @command{dvips}. Alternately, by using
2852 @samp{make pdf} in place of @samp{make dvi}, you can create documentation
2853 in the form of @file{.pdf} files; this requires @command{texi2pdf}, which
2854 is included with Texinfo version 4.8 and later. You can also
2855 @uref{http://shop.fsf.org/,,buy printed manuals from the
2856 Free Software Foundation}, though such manuals may not be for the most
2857 recent version of GCC@.
2858
2859 If you would like to generate online HTML documentation, do @samp{cd
2860 @var{objdir}; make html} and HTML will be generated for the gcc manuals in
2861 @file{@var{objdir}/gcc/HTML}.
2862
2863 @html
2864 <hr />
2865 <p>
2866 @end html
2867 @ifhtml
2868 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2869 @end ifhtml
2870 @end ifset
2871
2872 @c ***Binaries****************************************************************
2873 @ifnothtml
2874 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2875 @node Binaries, Specific, Installing GCC, Top
2876 @end ifnothtml
2877 @ifset binarieshtml
2878 @ifnothtml
2879 @chapter Installing GCC: Binaries
2880 @end ifnothtml
2881 @cindex Binaries
2882 @cindex Installing GCC: Binaries
2883
2884 We are often asked about pre-compiled versions of GCC@. While we cannot
2885 provide these for all platforms, below you'll find links to binaries for
2886 various platforms where creating them by yourself is not easy due to various
2887 reasons.
2888
2889 Please note that we did not create these binaries, nor do we
2890 support them. If you have any problems installing them, please
2891 contact their makers.
2892
2893 @itemize
2894 @item
2895 AIX:
2896 @itemize
2897 @item
2898 @uref{http://www.bullfreeware.com,,Bull's Freeware and Shareware Archive for AIX};
2899
2900 @item
2901 @uref{http://pware.hvcc.edu,,Hudson Valley Community College Open Source Software for IBM System p};
2902
2903 @item
2904 @uref{http://www.perzl.org/aix/,,AIX 5L and 6 Open Source Packages}.
2905 @end itemize
2906
2907 @item
2908 DOS---@uref{http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/,,DJGPP}.
2909
2910 @item
2911 Renesas H8/300[HS]---@uref{http://h8300-hms.sourceforge.net/,,GNU
2912 Development Tools for the Renesas H8/300[HS] Series}.
2913
2914 @item
2915 HP-UX:
2916 @itemize
2917 @item
2918 @uref{http://hpux.connect.org.uk/,,HP-UX Porting Center};
2919
2920 @item
2921 @uref{ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/gcc_hpux/,,Binaries for HP-UX 11.00 at Aachen University of Technology}.
2922 @end itemize
2923
2924 @item
2925 @uref{http://www.sco.com/skunkware/devtools/index.html#gcc,,SCO
2926 OpenServer/Unixware}.
2927
2928 @item
2929 Solaris 2 (SPARC, Intel):
2930 @itemize
2931 @item
2932 @uref{http://www.sunfreeware.com/,,Sunfreeware}
2933
2934 @item
2935 @uref{http://www.blastwave.org/,,Blastwave}
2936
2937 @item
2938 @uref{http://www.opencsw.org/,,OpenCSW}
2939
2940 @item
2941 @uref{http://jupiterrise.com/tgcware/,,TGCware}
2942 @end itemize
2943
2944 @item
2945 Microsoft Windows:
2946 @itemize
2947 @item
2948 The @uref{http://sourceware.org/cygwin/,,Cygwin} project;
2949 @item
2950 The @uref{http://www.mingw.org/,,MinGW} project.
2951 @end itemize
2952
2953 @item
2954 @uref{ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/packages/by-name/,,The
2955 Written Word} offers binaries for
2956 AIX 4.3.3, 5.1 and 5.2,
2957 GNU/Linux (i386),
2958 HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, and 11.11, and
2959 Solaris/SPARC 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
2960
2961 @item
2962 @uref{http://www.openpkg.org/,,OpenPKG} offers binaries for quite a
2963 number of platforms.
2964
2965 @item
2966 The @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries,,GFortran Wiki} has
2967 links to GNU Fortran binaries for several platforms.
2968 @end itemize
2969
2970 @html
2971 <hr />
2972 <p>
2973 @end html
2974 @ifhtml
2975 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2976 @end ifhtml
2977 @end ifset
2978
2979 @c ***Specific****************************************************************
2980 @ifnothtml
2981 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2982 @node Specific, Old, Binaries, Top
2983 @end ifnothtml
2984 @ifset specifichtml
2985 @ifnothtml
2986 @chapter Host/target specific installation notes for GCC
2987 @end ifnothtml
2988 @cindex Specific
2989 @cindex Specific installation notes
2990 @cindex Target specific installation
2991 @cindex Host specific installation
2992 @cindex Target specific installation notes
2993
2994 Please read this document carefully @emph{before} installing the
2995 GNU Compiler Collection on your machine.
2996
2997 Note that this list of install notes is @emph{not} a list of supported
2998 hosts or targets. Not all supported hosts and targets are listed
2999 here, only the ones that require host-specific or target-specific
3000 information have to.
3001
3002 @ifhtml
3003 @itemize
3004 @item
3005 @uref{#alpha-x-x,,alpha*-*-*}
3006 @item
3007 @uref{#alpha-dec-osf51,,alpha*-dec-osf5.1}
3008 @item
3009 @uref{#amd64-x-solaris210,,amd64-*-solaris2.10}
3010 @item
3011 @uref{#arm-x-eabi,,arm-*-eabi}
3012 @item
3013 @uref{#avr,,avr}
3014 @item
3015 @uref{#bfin,,Blackfin}
3016 @item
3017 @uref{#dos,,DOS}
3018 @item
3019 @uref{#x-x-freebsd,,*-*-freebsd*}
3020 @item
3021 @uref{#h8300-hms,,h8300-hms}
3022 @item
3023 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux,,hppa*-hp-hpux*}
3024 @item
3025 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux10,,hppa*-hp-hpux10}
3026 @item
3027 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux11,,hppa*-hp-hpux11}
3028 @item
3029 @uref{#x-x-linux-gnu,,*-*-linux-gnu}
3030 @item
3031 @uref{#ix86-x-linux,,i?86-*-linux*}
3032 @item
3033 @uref{#ix86-x-solaris289,,i?86-*-solaris2.9}
3034 @item
3035 @uref{#ix86-x-solaris210,,i?86-*-solaris2.10}
3036 @item
3037 @uref{#ia64-x-linux,,ia64-*-linux}
3038 @item
3039 @uref{#ia64-x-hpux,,ia64-*-hpux*}
3040 @item
3041 @uref{#x-ibm-aix,,*-ibm-aix*}
3042 @item
3043 @uref{#iq2000-x-elf,,iq2000-*-elf}
3044 @item
3045 @uref{#lm32-x-elf,,lm32-*-elf}
3046 @item
3047 @uref{#lm32-x-uclinux,,lm32-*-uclinux}
3048 @item
3049 @uref{#m32c-x-elf,,m32c-*-elf}
3050 @item
3051 @uref{#m32r-x-elf,,m32r-*-elf}
3052 @item
3053 @uref{#m68k-x-x,,m68k-*-*}
3054 @item
3055 @uref{#m68k-uclinux,,m68k-uclinux}
3056 @item
3057 @uref{#mep-x-elf,,mep-*-elf}
3058 @item
3059 @uref{#microblaze-x-elf,,microblaze-*-elf}
3060 @item
3061 @uref{#mips-x-x,,mips-*-*}
3062 @item
3063 @uref{#mips-sgi-irix5,,mips-sgi-irix5}
3064 @item
3065 @uref{#mips-sgi-irix6,,mips-sgi-irix6}
3066 @item
3067 @uref{#powerpc-x-x,,powerpc*-*-*}
3068 @item
3069 @uref{#powerpc-x-darwin,,powerpc-*-darwin*}
3070 @item
3071 @uref{#powerpc-x-elf,,powerpc-*-elf}
3072 @item
3073 @uref{#powerpc-x-linux-gnu,,powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*}
3074 @item
3075 @uref{#powerpc-x-netbsd,,powerpc-*-netbsd*}
3076 @item
3077 @uref{#powerpc-x-eabisim,,powerpc-*-eabisim}
3078 @item
3079 @uref{#powerpc-x-eabi,,powerpc-*-eabi}
3080 @item
3081 @uref{#powerpcle-x-elf,,powerpcle-*-elf}
3082 @item
3083 @uref{#powerpcle-x-eabisim,,powerpcle-*-eabisim}
3084 @item
3085 @uref{#powerpcle-x-eabi,,powerpcle-*-eabi}
3086 @item
3087 @uref{#s390-x-linux,,s390-*-linux*}
3088 @item
3089 @uref{#s390x-x-linux,,s390x-*-linux*}
3090 @item
3091 @uref{#s390x-ibm-tpf,,s390x-ibm-tpf*}
3092 @item
3093 @uref{#x-x-solaris2,,*-*-solaris2*}
3094 @item
3095 @uref{#sparc-x-x,,sparc*-*-*}
3096 @item
3097 @uref{#sparc-sun-solaris2,,sparc-sun-solaris2*}
3098 @item
3099 @uref{#sparc-sun-solaris210,,sparc-sun-solaris2.10}
3100 @item
3101 @uref{#sparc-x-linux,,sparc-*-linux*}
3102 @item
3103 @uref{#sparc64-x-solaris2,,sparc64-*-solaris2*}
3104 @item
3105 @uref{#sparcv9-x-solaris2,,sparcv9-*-solaris2*}
3106 @item
3107 @uref{#c6x-x-x,,c6x-*-*}
3108 @item
3109 @uref{#tilegx-x-linux,,tilegx-*-linux*}
3110 @item
3111 @uref{#tilepro-x-linux,,tilepro-*-linux*}
3112 @item
3113 @uref{#x-x-vxworks,,*-*-vxworks*}
3114 @item
3115 @uref{#x86-64-x-x,,x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*}
3116 @item
3117 @uref{#x86-64-x-solaris210,,x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*}
3118 @item
3119 @uref{#xtensa-x-elf,,xtensa*-*-elf}
3120 @item
3121 @uref{#xtensa-x-linux,,xtensa*-*-linux*}
3122 @item
3123 @uref{#windows,,Microsoft Windows}
3124 @item
3125 @uref{#x-x-cygwin,,*-*-cygwin}
3126 @item
3127 @uref{#x-x-interix,,*-*-interix}
3128 @item
3129 @uref{#x-x-mingw32,,*-*-mingw32}
3130 @item
3131 @uref{#os2,,OS/2}
3132 @item
3133 @uref{#older,,Older systems}
3134 @end itemize
3135
3136 @itemize
3137 @item
3138 @uref{#elf,,all ELF targets} (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
3139 @end itemize
3140 @end ifhtml
3141
3142
3143 @html
3144 <!-- -------- host/target specific issues start here ---------------- -->
3145 <hr />
3146 @end html
3147 @heading @anchor{alpha-x-x}alpha*-*-*
3148
3149 This section contains general configuration information for all
3150 alpha-based platforms using ELF (in particular, ignore this section for
3151 DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX and Tru64 UNIX)@. In addition to reading this
3152 section, please read all other sections that match your target.
3153
3154 We require binutils 2.11.2 or newer.
3155 Previous binutils releases had a number of problems with DWARF 2
3156 debugging information, not the least of which is incorrect linking of
3157 shared libraries.
3158
3159 @html
3160 <hr />
3161 @end html
3162 @heading @anchor{alpha-dec-osf51}alpha*-dec-osf5.1
3163 Systems using processors that implement the DEC Alpha architecture and
3164 are running the DEC/Compaq/HP Unix (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX, or Compaq/HP
3165 Tru64 UNIX) operating system, for example the DEC Alpha AXP systems.
3166
3167 Support for Tru64 UNIX V5.1 has been removed in GCC 4.8. As of GCC 4.6,
3168 support for Tru64 UNIX V4.0 and V5.0 has been removed. As of GCC 3.2,
3169 versions before @code{alpha*-dec-osf4} are no longer supported. (These
3170 are the versions which identify themselves as DEC OSF/1.)
3171
3172 @html
3173 <hr />
3174 @end html
3175 @heading @anchor{amd64-x-solaris210}amd64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*
3176
3177 This is a synonym for @samp{x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*}.
3178
3179 @html
3180 <hr />
3181 @end html
3182 @heading @anchor{arm-x-eabi}arm-*-eabi
3183 ARM-family processors. Subtargets that use the ELF object format
3184 require GNU binutils 2.13 or newer. Such subtargets include:
3185 @code{arm-*-netbsdelf}, @code{arm-*-*linux-*}
3186 and @code{arm-*-rtemseabi}.
3187
3188 @html
3189 <hr />
3190 @end html
3191 @heading @anchor{avr}avr
3192
3193 ATMEL AVR-family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
3194 applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
3195 @ifnothtml
3196 @xref{AVR Options,, AVR Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
3197 Collection (GCC)},
3198 @end ifnothtml
3199 @ifhtml
3200 See ``AVR Options'' in the main manual
3201 @end ifhtml
3202 for the list of supported MCU types.
3203
3204 Use @samp{configure --target=avr --enable-languages="c"} to configure GCC@.
3205
3206 Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR tools
3207 can also be obtained from:
3208
3209 @itemize @bullet
3210 @item
3211 @uref{http://www.nongnu.org/avr/,,http://www.nongnu.org/avr/}
3212 @item
3213 @uref{http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/,,http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/}
3214 @end itemize
3215
3216 We @emph{strongly} recommend using binutils 2.13 or newer.
3217
3218 The following error:
3219 @smallexample
3220 Error: register required
3221 @end smallexample
3222
3223 indicates that you should upgrade to a newer version of the binutils.
3224
3225 @html
3226 <hr />
3227 @end html
3228 @heading @anchor{bfin}Blackfin
3229
3230 The Blackfin processor, an Analog Devices DSP.
3231 @ifnothtml
3232 @xref{Blackfin Options,, Blackfin Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
3233 Collection (GCC)},
3234 @end ifnothtml
3235 @ifhtml
3236 See ``Blackfin Options'' in the main manual
3237 @end ifhtml
3238
3239 More information, and a version of binutils with support for this processor,
3240 is available at @uref{http://blackfin.uclinux.org}
3241
3242 @html
3243 <hr />
3244 @end html
3245 @heading @anchor{cr16}CR16
3246
3247 The CR16 CompactRISC architecture is a 16-bit architecture. This architecture is
3248 used in embedded applications.
3249
3250 @ifnothtml
3251 @xref{CR16 Options,, CR16 Options, gcc, Using and Porting the GNU Compiler
3252 Collection (GCC)},
3253 @end ifnothtml
3254
3255 @ifhtml
3256 See ``CR16 Options'' in the main manual for a list of CR16-specific options.
3257 @end ifhtml
3258
3259 Use @samp{configure --target=cr16-elf --enable-languages=c,c++} to configure
3260 GCC@ for building a CR16 elf cross-compiler.
3261
3262 Use @samp{configure --target=cr16-uclinux --enable-languages=c,c++} to configure
3263 GCC@ for building a CR16 uclinux cross-compiler.
3264
3265 @html
3266 <hr />
3267 @end html
3268 @heading @anchor{cris}CRIS
3269
3270 CRIS is the CPU architecture in Axis Communications ETRAX system-on-a-chip
3271 series. These are used in embedded applications.
3272
3273 @ifnothtml
3274 @xref{CRIS Options,, CRIS Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
3275 Collection (GCC)},
3276 @end ifnothtml
3277 @ifhtml
3278 See ``CRIS Options'' in the main manual
3279 @end ifhtml
3280 for a list of CRIS-specific options.
3281
3282 There are a few different CRIS targets:
3283 @table @code
3284 @item cris-axis-elf
3285 Mainly for monolithic embedded systems. Includes a multilib for the
3286 @samp{v10} core used in @samp{ETRAX 100 LX}.
3287 @item cris-axis-linux-gnu
3288 A GNU/Linux port for the CRIS architecture, currently targeting
3289 @samp{ETRAX 100 LX} by default.
3290 @end table
3291
3292 For @code{cris-axis-elf} you need binutils 2.11
3293 or newer. For @code{cris-axis-linux-gnu} you need binutils 2.12 or newer.
3294
3295 Pre-packaged tools can be obtained from
3296 @uref{ftp://ftp.axis.com/@/pub/@/axis/@/tools/@/cris/@/compiler-kit/}. More
3297 information about this platform is available at
3298 @uref{http://developer.axis.com/}.
3299
3300 @html
3301 <hr />
3302 @end html
3303 @heading @anchor{dos}DOS
3304
3305 Please have a look at the @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
3306
3307 You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under
3308 any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete
3309 compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources,
3310 and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.
3311
3312 @html
3313 <hr />
3314 @end html
3315 @heading @anchor{epiphany-x-elf}epiphany-*-elf
3316 Adapteva Epiphany.
3317 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3318
3319 @html
3320 <hr />
3321 @end html
3322 @heading @anchor{x-x-freebsd}*-*-freebsd*
3323
3324 Support for FreeBSD 1 was discontinued in GCC 3.2. Support for
3325 FreeBSD 2 (and any mutant a.out variants of FreeBSD 3) was
3326 discontinued in GCC 4.0.
3327
3328 In order to better utilize FreeBSD base system functionality and match
3329 the configuration of the system compiler, GCC 4.5 and above as well as
3330 GCC 4.4 past 2010-06-20 leverage SSP support in libc (which is present
3331 on FreeBSD 7 or later) and the use of @code{__cxa_atexit} by default
3332 (on FreeBSD 6 or later). The use of @code{dl_iterate_phdr} inside
3333 @file{libgcc_s.so.1} and boehm-gc (on FreeBSD 7 or later) is enabled
3334 by GCC 4.5 and above.
3335
3336 We support FreeBSD using the ELF file format with DWARF 2 debugging
3337 for all CPU architectures. You may use @option{-gstabs} instead of
3338 @option{-g}, if you really want the old debugging format. There are
3339 no known issues with mixing object files and libraries with different
3340 debugging formats. Otherwise, this release of GCC should now match
3341 more of the configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of
3342 GCC@. In particular, @option{--enable-threads} is now configured by
3343 default. However, as a general user, do not attempt to replace the
3344 system compiler with this release. Known to bootstrap and check with
3345 good results on FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE@. In the past, known to bootstrap
3346 and check with good results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4,
3347 4.5, 4.8, 4.9 and 5-CURRENT@.
3348
3349 The version of binutils installed in @file{/usr/bin} probably works
3350 with this release of GCC@. Bootstrapping against the latest GNU
3351 binutils and/or the version found in @file{/usr/ports/devel/binutils} has
3352 been known to enable additional features and improve overall testsuite
3353 results. However, it is currently known that boehm-gc (which itself
3354 is required for java) may not configure properly on FreeBSD prior to
3355 the FreeBSD 7.0 release with GNU binutils after 2.16.1.
3356
3357 @html
3358 <hr />
3359 @end html
3360 @heading @anchor{h8300-hms}h8300-hms
3361 Renesas H8/300 series of processors.
3362
3363 Please have a look at the @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
3364
3365 The calling convention and structure layout has changed in release 2.6.
3366 All code must be recompiled. The calling convention now passes the
3367 first three arguments in function calls in registers. Structures are no
3368 longer a multiple of 2 bytes.
3369
3370 @html
3371 <hr />
3372 @end html
3373 @heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux}hppa*-hp-hpux*
3374 Support for HP-UX version 9 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
3375
3376 We require using gas/binutils on all hppa platforms. Version 2.19 or
3377 later is recommended.
3378
3379 It may be helpful to configure GCC with the
3380 @uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}} and
3381 @option{--with-as=@dots{}} options to ensure that GCC can find GAS@.
3382
3383 The HP assembler should not be used with GCC. It is rarely tested and may
3384 not work. It shouldn't be used with any languages other than C due to its
3385 many limitations.
3386
3387 Specifically, @option{-g} does not work (HP-UX uses a peculiar debugging
3388 format which GCC does not know about). It also inserts timestamps
3389 into each object file it creates, causing the 3-stage comparison test to
3390 fail during a bootstrap. You should be able to continue by saying
3391 @samp{make all-host all-target} after getting the failure from @samp{make}.
3392
3393 Various GCC features are not supported. For example, it does not support weak
3394 symbols or alias definitions. As a result, explicit template instantiations
3395 are required when using C++. This makes it difficult if not impossible to
3396 build many C++ applications.
3397
3398 There are two default scheduling models for instructions. These are
3399 PROCESSOR_7100LC and PROCESSOR_8000. They are selected from the pa-risc
3400 architecture specified for the target machine when configuring.
3401 PROCESSOR_8000 is the default. PROCESSOR_7100LC is selected when
3402 the target is a @samp{hppa1*} machine.
3403
3404 The PROCESSOR_8000 model is not well suited to older processors. Thus,
3405 it is important to completely specify the machine architecture when
3406 configuring if you want a model other than PROCESSOR_8000. The macro
3407 TARGET_SCHED_DEFAULT can be defined in BOOT_CFLAGS if a different
3408 default scheduling model is desired.
3409
3410 As of GCC 4.0, GCC uses the UNIX 95 namespace for HP-UX 10.10
3411 through 11.00, and the UNIX 98 namespace for HP-UX 11.11 and later.
3412 This namespace change might cause problems when bootstrapping with
3413 an earlier version of GCC or the HP compiler as essentially the same
3414 namespace is required for an entire build. This problem can be avoided
3415 in a number of ways. With HP cc, @env{UNIX_STD} can be set to @samp{95}
3416 or @samp{98}. Another way is to add an appropriate set of predefines
3417 to @env{CC}. The description for the @option{munix=} option contains
3418 a list of the predefines used with each standard.
3419
3420 More specific information to @samp{hppa*-hp-hpux*} targets follows.
3421
3422 @html
3423 <hr />
3424 @end html
3425 @heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux10}hppa*-hp-hpux10
3426
3427 For hpux10.20, we @emph{highly} recommend you pick up the latest sed patch
3428 @code{PHCO_19798} from HP@.
3429
3430 The C++ ABI has changed incompatibly in GCC 4.0. COMDAT subspaces are
3431 used for one-only code and data. This resolves many of the previous
3432 problems in using C++ on this target. However, the ABI is not compatible
3433 with the one implemented under HP-UX 11 using secondary definitions.
3434
3435 @html
3436 <hr />
3437 @end html
3438 @heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux11}hppa*-hp-hpux11
3439
3440 GCC 3.0 and up support HP-UX 11. GCC 2.95.x is not supported and cannot
3441 be used to compile GCC 3.0 and up.
3442
3443 The libffi and libjava libraries haven't been ported to 64-bit HP-UX@
3444 and don't build.
3445
3446 Refer to @uref{binaries.html,,binaries} for information about obtaining
3447 precompiled GCC binaries for HP-UX@. Precompiled binaries must be obtained
3448 to build the Ada language as it can't be bootstrapped using C@. Ada is
3449 only available for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime.
3450
3451 Starting with GCC 3.4 an ISO C compiler is required to bootstrap. The
3452 bundled compiler supports only traditional C; you will need either HP's
3453 unbundled compiler, or a binary distribution of GCC@.
3454
3455 It is possible to build GCC 3.3 starting with the bundled HP compiler,
3456 but the process requires several steps. GCC 3.3 can then be used to
3457 build later versions. The fastjar program contains ISO C code and
3458 can't be built with the HP bundled compiler. This problem can be
3459 avoided by not building the Java language. For example, use the
3460 @option{--enable-languages="c,c++,f77,objc"} option in your configure
3461 command.
3462
3463 There are several possible approaches to building the distribution.
3464 Binutils can be built first using the HP tools. Then, the GCC
3465 distribution can be built. The second approach is to build GCC
3466 first using the HP tools, then build binutils, then rebuild GCC@.
3467 There have been problems with various binary distributions, so it
3468 is best not to start from a binary distribution.
3469
3470 On 64-bit capable systems, there are two distinct targets. Different
3471 installation prefixes must be used if both are to be installed on
3472 the same system. The @samp{hppa[1-2]*-hp-hpux11*} target generates code
3473 for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime architecture and uses the HP linker.
3474 The @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target generates 64-bit code for the
3475 PA-RISC 2.0 architecture.
3476
3477 The script config.guess now selects the target type based on the compiler
3478 detected during configuration. You must define @env{PATH} or @env{CC} so
3479 that configure finds an appropriate compiler for the initial bootstrap.
3480 When @env{CC} is used, the definition should contain the options that are
3481 needed whenever @env{CC} is used.
3482
3483 Specifically, options that determine the runtime architecture must be
3484 in @env{CC} to correctly select the target for the build. It is also
3485 convenient to place many other compiler options in @env{CC}. For example,
3486 @env{CC="cc -Ac +DA2.0W -Wp,-H16376 -D_CLASSIC_TYPES -D_HPUX_SOURCE"}
3487 can be used to bootstrap the GCC 3.3 branch with the HP compiler in
3488 64-bit K&R/bundled mode. The @option{+DA2.0W} option will result in
3489 the automatic selection of the @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target. The
3490 macro definition table of cpp needs to be increased for a successful
3491 build with the HP compiler. _CLASSIC_TYPES and _HPUX_SOURCE need to
3492 be defined when building with the bundled compiler, or when using the
3493 @option{-Ac} option. These defines aren't necessary with @option{-Ae}.
3494
3495 It is best to explicitly configure the @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target
3496 with the @option{--with-ld=@dots{}} option. This overrides the standard
3497 search for ld. The two linkers supported on this target require different
3498 commands. The default linker is determined during configuration. As a
3499 result, it's not possible to switch linkers in the middle of a GCC build.
3500 This has been reported to sometimes occur in unified builds of binutils
3501 and GCC@.
3502
3503 A recent linker patch must be installed for the correct operation of
3504 GCC 3.3 and later. @code{PHSS_26559} and @code{PHSS_24304} are the
3505 oldest linker patches that are known to work. They are for HP-UX
3506 11.00 and 11.11, respectively. @code{PHSS_24303}, the companion to
3507 @code{PHSS_24304}, might be usable but it hasn't been tested. These
3508 patches have been superseded. Consult the HP patch database to obtain
3509 the currently recommended linker patch for your system.
3510
3511 The patches are necessary for the support of weak symbols on the
3512 32-bit port, and for the running of initializers and finalizers. Weak
3513 symbols are implemented using SOM secondary definition symbols. Prior
3514 to HP-UX 11, there are bugs in the linker support for secondary symbols.
3515 The patches correct a problem of linker core dumps creating shared
3516 libraries containing secondary symbols, as well as various other
3517 linking issues involving secondary symbols.
3518
3519 GCC 3.3 uses the ELF DT_INIT_ARRAY and DT_FINI_ARRAY capabilities to
3520 run initializers and finalizers on the 64-bit port. The 32-bit port
3521 uses the linker @option{+init} and @option{+fini} options for the same
3522 purpose. The patches correct various problems with the +init/+fini
3523 options, including program core dumps. Binutils 2.14 corrects a
3524 problem on the 64-bit port resulting from HP's non-standard use of
3525 the .init and .fini sections for array initializers and finalizers.
3526
3527 Although the HP and GNU linkers are both supported for the
3528 @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target, it is strongly recommended that the
3529 HP linker be used for link editing on this target.
3530
3531 At this time, the GNU linker does not support the creation of long
3532 branch stubs. As a result, it can't successfully link binaries
3533 containing branch offsets larger than 8 megabytes. In addition,
3534 there are problems linking shared libraries, linking executables
3535 with @option{-static}, and with dwarf2 unwind and exception support.
3536 It also doesn't provide stubs for internal calls to global functions
3537 in shared libraries, so these calls can't be overloaded.
3538
3539 The HP dynamic loader does not support GNU symbol versioning, so symbol
3540 versioning is not supported. It may be necessary to disable symbol
3541 versioning with @option{--disable-symvers} when using GNU ld.
3542
3543 POSIX threads are the default. The optional DCE thread library is not
3544 supported, so @option{--enable-threads=dce} does not work.
3545
3546 @html
3547 <hr />
3548 @end html
3549 @heading @anchor{x-x-linux-gnu}*-*-linux-gnu
3550
3551 Versions of libstdc++-v3 starting with 3.2.1 require bug fixes present
3552 in glibc 2.2.5 and later. More information is available in the
3553 libstdc++-v3 documentation.
3554
3555 @html
3556 <hr />
3557 @end html
3558 @heading @anchor{ix86-x-linux}i?86-*-linux*
3559
3560 As of GCC 3.3, binutils 2.13.1 or later is required for this platform.
3561 See @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/PR10877,,bug 10877} for more information.
3562
3563 If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it is
3564 possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this can be
3565 found on @uref{http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/,,www.bitwizard.nl}.
3566
3567 @html
3568 <hr />
3569 @end html
3570 @heading @anchor{ix86-x-solaris29}i?86-*-solaris2.9
3571 The Sun assembler in Solaris 9 has several bugs and limitations.
3572 While GCC works around them, several features are missing, so it is
3573 @c FIXME: which ones?
3574 recommended to use the GNU assembler instead. There is no bundled
3575 version, but the current version, from GNU binutils 2.22, is known to
3576 work.
3577
3578 Solaris@tie{}2/x86 doesn't support the execution of SSE/SSE2 instructions
3579 before Solaris@tie{}9 4/04, even if the CPU supports them. Programs will
3580 receive @code{SIGILL} if they try. The fix is available both in
3581 Solaris@tie{}9 Update@tie{}6 and kernel patch 112234-12 or newer. To
3582 avoid this problem,
3583 @option{-march} defaults to @samp{pentiumpro} on Solaris 9. If
3584 you have the patch installed, you can configure GCC with an appropriate
3585 @option{--with-arch} option, but need GNU @command{as} for SSE2 support.
3586
3587 @html
3588 <hr />
3589 @end html
3590 @heading @anchor{ix86-x-solaris210}i?86-*-solaris2.10
3591 Use this for Solaris 10 or later on x86 and x86-64 systems. Starting
3592 with GCC 4.7, there is also a 64-bit @samp{amd64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*} or
3593 @samp{x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*} configuration that corresponds to
3594 @samp{sparcv9-sun-solaris2*}.
3595
3596 It is recommended that you configure GCC to use the GNU assembler, in
3597 @file{/usr/sfw/bin/gas}. The versions included in Solaris 10, from GNU
3598 binutils 2.15, and Solaris 11, from GNU binutils 2.19, work fine,
3599 although the current version, from GNU binutils
3600 2.22, is known to work, too. Recent versions of the Sun assembler in
3601 @file{/usr/ccs/bin/as} work almost as well, though.
3602 @c FIXME: as patch requirements?
3603
3604 For linking, the Sun linker, is preferred. If you want to use the GNU
3605 linker instead, which is available in @file{/usr/sfw/bin/gld}, note that
3606 due to a packaging bug the version in Solaris 10, from GNU binutils
3607 2.15, cannot be used, while the version in Solaris 11, from GNU binutils
3608 2.19, works, as does the latest version, from GNU binutils 2.22.
3609
3610 To use GNU @command{as}, configure with the options
3611 @option{--with-gnu-as --with-as=@//usr/@/sfw/@/bin/@/gas}. It may be necessary
3612 to configure with @option{--without-gnu-ld --with-ld=@//usr/@/ccs/@/bin/@/ld} to
3613 guarantee use of Sun @command{ld}.
3614 @c FIXME: why --without-gnu-ld --with-ld?
3615
3616 @html
3617 <hr />
3618 @end html
3619 @heading @anchor{ia64-x-linux}ia64-*-linux
3620 IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family)
3621 running GNU/Linux.
3622
3623 If you are using the installed system libunwind library with
3624 @option{--with-system-libunwind}, then you must use libunwind 0.98 or
3625 later.
3626
3627 None of the following versions of GCC has an ABI that is compatible
3628 with any of the other versions in this list, with the exception that
3629 Red Hat 2.96 and Trillian 000171 are compatible with each other:
3630 3.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0, Red Hat 2.96, and Trillian 000717.
3631 This primarily affects C++ programs and programs that create shared libraries.
3632 GCC 3.1 or later is recommended for compiling linux, the kernel.
3633 As of version 3.1 GCC is believed to be fully ABI compliant, and hence no
3634 more major ABI changes are expected.
3635
3636 @html
3637 <hr />
3638 @end html
3639 @heading @anchor{ia64-x-hpux}ia64-*-hpux*
3640 Building GCC on this target requires the GNU Assembler. The bundled HP
3641 assembler will not work. To prevent GCC from using the wrong assembler,
3642 the option @option{--with-gnu-as} may be necessary.
3643
3644 The GCC libunwind library has not been ported to HPUX@. This means that for
3645 GCC versions 3.2.3 and earlier, @option{--enable-libunwind-exceptions}
3646 is required to build GCC@. For GCC 3.3 and later, this is the default.
3647 For gcc 3.4.3 and later, @option{--enable-libunwind-exceptions} is
3648 removed and the system libunwind library will always be used.
3649
3650 @html
3651 <hr />
3652 <!-- rs6000-ibm-aix*, powerpc-ibm-aix* -->
3653 @end html
3654 @heading @anchor{x-ibm-aix}*-ibm-aix*
3655 Support for AIX version 3 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
3656 Support for AIX version 4.2 and older was discontinued in GCC 4.5.
3657
3658 ``out of memory'' bootstrap failures may indicate a problem with
3659 process resource limits (ulimit). Hard limits are configured in the
3660 @file{/etc/security/limits} system configuration file.
3661
3662 GCC can bootstrap with recent versions of IBM XLC, but bootstrapping
3663 with an earlier release of GCC is recommended. Bootstrapping with XLC
3664 requires a larger data segment, which can be enabled through the
3665 @var{LDR_CNTRL} environment variable, e.g.,
3666
3667 @smallexample
3668 % LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x50000000
3669 % export LDR_CNTRL
3670 @end smallexample
3671
3672 One can start with a pre-compiled version of GCC to build from
3673 sources. One may delete GCC's ``fixed'' header files when starting
3674 with a version of GCC built for an earlier release of AIX.
3675
3676 To speed up the configuration phases of bootstrapping and installing GCC,
3677 one may use GNU Bash instead of AIX @command{/bin/sh}, e.g.,
3678
3679 @smallexample
3680 % CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash
3681 % export CONFIG_SHELL
3682 @end smallexample
3683
3684 and then proceed as described in @uref{build.html,,the build
3685 instructions}, where we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path
3686 to invoke @var{srcdir}/configure.
3687
3688 Because GCC on AIX is built as a 32-bit executable by default,
3689 (although it can generate 64-bit programs) the GMP and MPFR libraries
3690 required by gfortran must be 32-bit libraries. Building GMP and MPFR
3691 as static archive libraries works better than shared libraries.
3692
3693 Errors involving @code{alloca} when building GCC generally are due
3694 to an incorrect definition of @code{CC} in the Makefile or mixing files
3695 compiled with the native C compiler and GCC@. During the stage1 phase of
3696 the build, the native AIX compiler @strong{must} be invoked as @command{cc}
3697 (not @command{xlc}). Once @command{configure} has been informed of
3698 @command{xlc}, one needs to use @samp{make distclean} to remove the
3699 configure cache files and ensure that @env{CC} environment variable
3700 does not provide a definition that will confuse @command{configure}.
3701 If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the problem most likely
3702 is the version of Make (see above).
3703
3704 The native @command{as} and @command{ld} are recommended for
3705 bootstrapping on AIX@. The GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, and GNU
3706 Binutils version 2.20 is the minimum level that supports bootstrap on
3707 AIX 5@. The GNU Assembler has not been updated to support AIX 6@ or
3708 AIX 7. The native AIX tools do interoperate with GCC@.
3709
3710 AIX 5.3 TL10, AIX 6.1 TL05 and AIX 7.1 TL00 introduced an AIX
3711 assembler change that sometimes produces corrupt assembly files
3712 causing AIX linker errors. The bug breaks GCC bootstrap on AIX and
3713 can cause compilation failures with existing GCC installations. An
3714 AIX iFix for AIX 5.3 is available (APAR IZ98385 for AIX 5.3 TL10, APAR
3715 IZ98477 for AIX 5.3 TL11 and IZ98134 for AIX 5.3 TL12). AIX 5.3 TL11 SP8,
3716 AIX 5.3 TL12 SP5, AIX 6.1 TL04 SP11, AIX 6.1 TL05 SP7, AIX 6.1 TL06 SP6,
3717 AIX 6.1 TL07 and AIX 7.1 TL01 should include the fix.
3718
3719 Building @file{libstdc++.a} requires a fix for an AIX Assembler bug
3720 APAR IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1). It also requires a
3721 fix for another AIX Assembler bug and a co-dependent AIX Archiver fix
3722 referenced as APAR IY53606 (AIX 5.2) or as APAR IY54774 (AIX 5.1)
3723
3724 @samp{libstdc++} in GCC 3.4 increments the major version number of the
3725 shared object and GCC installation places the @file{libstdc++.a}
3726 shared library in a common location which will overwrite the and GCC
3727 3.3 version of the shared library. Applications either need to be
3728 re-linked against the new shared library or the GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.3
3729 versions of the @samp{libstdc++} shared object needs to be available
3730 to the AIX runtime loader. The GCC 3.1 @samp{libstdc++.so.4}, if
3731 present, and GCC 3.3 @samp{libstdc++.so.5} shared objects can be
3732 installed for runtime dynamic loading using the following steps to set
3733 the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag in the shared object for @emph{each}
3734 multilib @file{libstdc++.a} installed:
3735
3736 Extract the shared objects from the currently installed
3737 @file{libstdc++.a} archive:
3738 @smallexample
3739 % ar -x libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3740 @end smallexample
3741
3742 Enable the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag so that the shared object will be
3743 available for runtime dynamic loading, but not linking:
3744 @smallexample
3745 % strip -e libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3746 @end smallexample
3747
3748 Archive the runtime-only shared object in the GCC 3.4
3749 @file{libstdc++.a} archive:
3750 @smallexample
3751 % ar -q libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3752 @end smallexample
3753
3754 Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of
3755 duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always
3756 have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable
3757 and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should
3758 not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable
3759 executable.
3760
3761 AIX 4.3 utilizes a ``large format'' archive to support both 32-bit and
3762 64-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1
3763 to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly.
3764 These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during
3765 linking such as ``not a COFF file''. The version of the routines shipped
3766 with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The @option{-g}
3767 option of the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit
3768 objects using the original ``small format''. A correct version of the
3769 routines is shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above.
3770
3771 Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation
3772 overflow severe error when the @option{-bbigtoc} option is used to link
3773 GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC@. A fix
3774 for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC) is
3775 available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3776 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3777 website as PTF U455193.
3778
3779 The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump core
3780 with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC@. A fix for
3781 APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3782 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3783 website as PTF U461879. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above.
3784
3785 The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect object
3786 files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM COMPILER FAILS
3787 TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3788 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3789 website as PTF U453956. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above.
3790
3791 AIX provides National Language Support (NLS)@. Compilers and assemblers
3792 use NLS to support locale-specific representations of various data
3793 formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., @samp{.} vs @samp{,} for
3794 separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where
3795 GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats that the assembler
3796 expects. If one encounters this problem, set the @env{LANG}
3797 environment variable to @samp{C} or @samp{En_US}.
3798
3799 A default can be specified with the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
3800 switch and using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
3801
3802 @html
3803 <hr />
3804 @end html
3805 @heading @anchor{iq2000-x-elf}iq2000-*-elf
3806 Vitesse IQ2000 processors. These are used in embedded
3807 applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
3808
3809 @html
3810 <hr />
3811 @end html
3812 @heading @anchor{lm32-x-elf}lm32-*-elf
3813 Lattice Mico32 processor.
3814 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3815
3816 @html
3817 <hr />
3818 @end html
3819 @heading @anchor{lm32-x-uclinux}lm32-*-uclinux
3820 Lattice Mico32 processor.
3821 This configuration is intended for embedded systems running uClinux.
3822
3823 @html
3824 <hr />
3825 @end html
3826 @heading @anchor{m32c-x-elf}m32c-*-elf
3827 Renesas M32C processor.
3828 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3829
3830 @html
3831 <hr />
3832 @end html
3833 @heading @anchor{m32r-x-elf}m32r-*-elf
3834 Renesas M32R processor.
3835 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3836
3837 @html
3838 <hr />
3839 @end html
3840 @heading @anchor{m68k-x-x}m68k-*-*
3841 By default,
3842 @samp{m68k-*-elf*}, @samp{m68k-*-rtems}, @samp{m68k-*-uclinux} and
3843 @samp{m68k-*-linux}
3844 build libraries for both M680x0 and ColdFire processors. If you only
3845 need the M680x0 libraries, you can omit the ColdFire ones by passing
3846 @option{--with-arch=m68k} to @command{configure}. Alternatively, you
3847 can omit the M680x0 libraries by passing @option{--with-arch=cf} to
3848 @command{configure}. These targets default to 5206 or 5475 code as
3849 appropriate for the target system when
3850 configured with @option{--with-arch=cf} and 68020 code otherwise.
3851
3852 The @samp{m68k-*-netbsd} and
3853 @samp{m68k-*-openbsd} targets also support the @option{--with-arch}
3854 option. They will generate ColdFire CFV4e code when configured with
3855 @option{--with-arch=cf} and 68020 code otherwise.
3856
3857 You can override the default processors listed above by configuring
3858 with @option{--with-cpu=@var{target}}. This @var{target} can either
3859 be a @option{-mcpu} argument or one of the following values:
3860 @samp{m68000}, @samp{m68010}, @samp{m68020}, @samp{m68030},
3861 @samp{m68040}, @samp{m68060}, @samp{m68020-40} and @samp{m68020-60}.
3862
3863 GCC requires at least binutils version 2.17 on these targets.
3864
3865 @html
3866 <hr />
3867 @end html
3868 @heading @anchor{m68k-x-uclinux}m68k-*-uclinux
3869 GCC 4.3 changed the uClinux configuration so that it uses the
3870 @samp{m68k-linux-gnu} ABI rather than the @samp{m68k-elf} ABI.
3871 It also added improved support for C++ and flat shared libraries,
3872 both of which were ABI changes.
3873
3874
3875 @html
3876 <hr />
3877 @end html
3878 @heading @anchor{mep-x-elf}mep-*-elf
3879 Toshiba Media embedded Processor.
3880 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3881
3882 @html
3883 <hr />
3884 @end html
3885 @heading @anchor{microblaze-x-elf}microblaze-*-elf
3886 Xilinx MicroBlaze processor.
3887 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3888
3889 @html
3890 <hr />
3891 @end html
3892 @heading @anchor{mips-x-x}mips-*-*
3893 If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying ``does not have gp
3894 sections for all it's [sic] sectons [sic]'', don't worry about it. This
3895 happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not
3896 really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can
3897 stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.
3898
3899 It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are
3900 optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.
3901
3902 The libstdc++ atomic locking routines for MIPS targets requires MIPS II
3903 and later. A patch went in just after the GCC 3.3 release to
3904 make @samp{mips*-*-*} use the generic implementation instead. You can also
3905 configure for @samp{mipsel-elf} as a workaround. The
3906 @samp{mips*-*-linux*} target continues to use the MIPS II routines. More
3907 work on this is expected in future releases.
3908
3909 @c If you make --with-llsc the default for another target, please also
3910 @c update the description of the --with-llsc option.
3911
3912 The built-in @code{__sync_*} functions are available on MIPS II and
3913 later systems and others that support the @samp{ll}, @samp{sc} and
3914 @samp{sync} instructions. This can be overridden by passing
3915 @option{--with-llsc} or @option{--without-llsc} when configuring GCC.
3916 Since the Linux kernel emulates these instructions if they are
3917 missing, the default for @samp{mips*-*-linux*} targets is
3918 @option{--with-llsc}. The @option{--with-llsc} and
3919 @option{--without-llsc} configure options may be overridden at compile
3920 time by passing the @option{-mllsc} or @option{-mno-llsc} options to
3921 the compiler.
3922
3923 MIPS systems check for division by zero (unless
3924 @option{-mno-check-zero-division} is passed to the compiler) by
3925 generating either a conditional trap or a break instruction. Using
3926 trap results in smaller code, but is only supported on MIPS II and
3927 later. Also, some versions of the Linux kernel have a bug that
3928 prevents trap from generating the proper signal (@code{SIGFPE}). To enable
3929 the use of break, use the @option{--with-divide=breaks}
3930 @command{configure} option when configuring GCC@. The default is to
3931 use traps on systems that support them.
3932
3933 The assembler from GNU binutils 2.17 and earlier has a bug in the way
3934 it sorts relocations for REL targets (o32, o64, EABI). This can cause
3935 bad code to be generated for simple C++ programs. Also the linker
3936 from GNU binutils versions prior to 2.17 has a bug which causes the
3937 runtime linker stubs in very large programs, like @file{libgcj.so}, to
3938 be incorrectly generated. GNU Binutils 2.18 and later (and snapshots
3939 made after Nov. 9, 2006) should be free from both of these problems.
3940
3941 @html
3942 <hr />
3943 @end html
3944 @heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix5}mips-sgi-irix5
3945
3946 Support for IRIX 5 has been removed in GCC 4.6.
3947
3948 @html
3949 <hr />
3950 @end html
3951 @heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix6}mips-sgi-irix6
3952
3953 Support for IRIX 6.5 has been removed in GCC 4.8. Support for IRIX 6
3954 releases before 6.5 has been removed in GCC 4.6, as well as support for
3955 the O32 ABI.
3956
3957 @html
3958 <hr />
3959 @end html
3960 @heading @anchor{moxie-x-elf}moxie-*-elf
3961 The moxie processor.
3962
3963 @html
3964 <hr />
3965 @end html
3966 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-x}powerpc-*-*
3967
3968 You can specify a default version for the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
3969 switch by using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
3970
3971 You will need
3972 @uref{ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils,,binutils 2.15}
3973 or newer for a working GCC@.
3974
3975 @html
3976 <hr />
3977 @end html
3978 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-darwin}powerpc-*-darwin*
3979 PowerPC running Darwin (Mac OS X kernel).
3980
3981 Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer tools,
3982 meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool
3983 binaries are available at
3984 @uref{http://opensource.apple.com/}.
3985
3986 This version of GCC requires at least cctools-590.36. The
3987 cctools-590.36 package referenced from
3988 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html} will not work
3989 on systems older than 10.3.9 (aka darwin7.9.0).
3990
3991 @html
3992 <hr />
3993 @end html
3994 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-elf}powerpc-*-elf
3995 PowerPC system in big endian mode, running System V.4.
3996
3997 @html
3998 <hr />
3999 @end html
4000 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-linux-gnu}powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*
4001
4002 PowerPC system in big endian mode running Linux.
4003
4004 @html
4005 <hr />
4006 @end html
4007 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-netbsd}powerpc-*-netbsd*
4008 PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD@.
4009
4010 @html
4011 <hr />
4012 @end html
4013 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-eabisim}powerpc-*-eabisim
4014 Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the
4015 PSIM simulator.
4016
4017 @html
4018 <hr />
4019 @end html
4020 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-eabi}powerpc-*-eabi
4021 Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode.
4022
4023 @html
4024 <hr />
4025 @end html
4026 @heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-elf}powerpcle-*-elf
4027 PowerPC system in little endian mode, running System V.4.
4028
4029 @html
4030 <hr />
4031 @end html
4032 @heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-eabisim}powerpcle-*-eabisim
4033 Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under
4034 the PSIM simulator.
4035
4036 @html
4037 <hr />
4038 @end html
4039 @heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-eabi}powerpcle-*-eabi
4040 Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode.
4041
4042 @html
4043 <hr />
4044 @end html
4045 @heading @anchor{rl78-x-elf}rl78-*-elf
4046 The Renesas RL78 processor.
4047 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
4048
4049 @html
4050 <hr />
4051 @end html
4052 @heading @anchor{rx-x-elf}rx-*-elf
4053 The Renesas RX processor. See
4054 @uref{http://eu.renesas.com/fmwk.jsp?cnt=rx600_series_landing.jsp&fp=/products/mpumcu/rx_family/rx600_series}
4055 for more information about this processor.
4056
4057 @html
4058 <hr />
4059 @end html
4060 @heading @anchor{s390-x-linux}s390-*-linux*
4061 S/390 system running GNU/Linux for S/390@.
4062
4063 @html
4064 <hr />
4065 @end html
4066 @heading @anchor{s390x-x-linux}s390x-*-linux*
4067 zSeries system (64-bit) running GNU/Linux for zSeries@.
4068
4069 @html
4070 <hr />
4071 @end html
4072 @heading @anchor{s390x-ibm-tpf}s390x-ibm-tpf*
4073 zSeries system (64-bit) running TPF@. This platform is
4074 supported as cross-compilation target only.
4075
4076 @html
4077 <hr />
4078 @end html
4079 @c Please use Solaris 2 to refer to all release of Solaris, starting
4080 @c with 2.0 until 2.6, 7, 8, etc. Solaris 1 was a marketing name for
4081 @c SunOS 4 releases which we don't use to avoid confusion. Solaris
4082 @c alone is too unspecific and must be avoided.
4083 @heading @anchor{x-x-solaris2}*-*-solaris2*
4084
4085 Support for Solaris 8 has removed in GCC 4.8. Support for Solaris 7 has
4086 been removed in GCC 4.6.
4087
4088 Sun does not ship a C compiler with Solaris 2 before Solaris 10, though
4089 you can download the Sun Studio compilers for free. In Solaris 10 and
4090 11, GCC 3.4.3 is available as @command{/usr/sfw/bin/gcc}. Solaris 11
4091 also provides GCC 4.5.2 as @command{/usr/gcc/4.5/bin/gcc}. Alternatively,
4092 you can install a pre-built GCC to bootstrap and install GCC. See the
4093 @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page} for details.
4094
4095 The Solaris 2 @command{/bin/sh} will often fail to configure
4096 @samp{libstdc++-v3}, @samp{boehm-gc} or @samp{libjava}. We therefore
4097 recommend using the following initial sequence of commands
4098
4099 @smallexample
4100 % CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
4101 % export CONFIG_SHELL
4102 @end smallexample
4103
4104 @noindent
4105 and proceed as described in @uref{configure.html,,the configure instructions}.
4106 In addition we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
4107 @command{@var{srcdir}/configure}.
4108
4109 Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these
4110 are needed to use GCC fully, namely @code{SUNWarc},
4111 @code{SUNWbtool}, @code{SUNWesu}, @code{SUNWhea}, @code{SUNWlibm},
4112 @code{SUNWsprot}, and @code{SUNWtoo}. If you did not install all
4113 optional packages when installing Solaris 2, you will need to verify that
4114 the packages that GCC needs are installed.
4115
4116 To check whether an optional package is installed, use
4117 the @command{pkginfo} command. To add an optional package, use the
4118 @command{pkgadd} command. For further details, see the Solaris 2
4119 documentation.
4120
4121 Trying to use the linker and other tools in
4122 @file{/usr/ucb} to install GCC has been observed to cause trouble.
4123 For example, the linker may hang indefinitely. The fix is to remove
4124 @file{/usr/ucb} from your @env{PATH}.
4125
4126 The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Sun tools so, if you
4127 have @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} in your @env{PATH}, we recommend that you place
4128 @file{/usr/bin} before @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} for the duration of the build.
4129
4130 We recommend the use of the Sun assembler or the GNU assembler, in
4131 conjunction with the Sun linker. The GNU @command{as}
4132 versions included in Solaris 10, from GNU binutils 2.15, and Solaris 11,
4133 from GNU binutils 2.19, are known to work. They can be found in
4134 @file{/usr/sfw/bin/gas}. Current versions of GNU binutils (2.22)
4135 are known to work as well. Note that your mileage may vary
4136 if you use a combination of the GNU tools and the Sun tools: while the
4137 combination GNU @command{as} + Sun @command{ld} should reasonably work,
4138 the reverse combination Sun @command{as} + GNU @command{ld} may fail to
4139 build or cause memory corruption at runtime in some cases for C++ programs.
4140 @c FIXME: still?
4141 GNU @command{ld} usually works as well, although the version included in
4142 Solaris 10 cannot be used due to several bugs. Again, the current
4143 version (2.22) is known to work, but generally lacks platform specific
4144 features, so better stay with Sun @command{ld}. To use the LTO linker
4145 plugin (@option{-fuse-linker-plugin}) with GNU @command{ld}, GNU
4146 binutils @emph{must} be configured with @option{--enable-largefile}.
4147
4148 To enable symbol versioning in @samp{libstdc++} with Sun @command{ld},
4149 you need to have any version of GNU @command{c++filt}, which is part of
4150 GNU binutils. @samp{libstdc++} symbol versioning will be disabled if no
4151 appropriate version is found. Sun @command{c++filt} from the Sun Studio
4152 compilers does @emph{not} work.
4153
4154 Sun bug 4296832 turns up when compiling X11 headers with GCC 2.95 or
4155 newer: @command{g++} will complain that types are missing. These headers
4156 assume that omitting the type means @code{int}; this assumption worked for
4157 C90 but is wrong for C++, and is now wrong for C99 also.
4158
4159 Sun bug 4927647 sometimes causes random spurious testsuite failures
4160 related to missing diagnostic output. This bug doesn't affect GCC
4161 itself, rather it is a kernel bug triggered by the @command{expect}
4162 program which is used only by the GCC testsuite driver. When the bug
4163 causes the @command{expect} program to miss anticipated output, extra
4164 testsuite failures appear.
4165
4166 There are patches for Solaris 9 (117171-11 or newer for
4167 SPARC, 117172-11 or newer for Intel) that address this problem.
4168
4169 Thread-local storage (TLS) is supported in Solaris@tie{}9, but requires
4170 some patches. The @samp{libthread} patches provide the
4171 @code{__tls_get_addr} (SPARC, 64-bit x86) resp.@ @code{___tls_get_addr}
4172 (32-bit x86) functions. On Solaris@tie{}9, the necessary support
4173 on SPARC is present since FCS, while 114432-05 or newer is required on
4174 Intel. Additionally, on Solaris@tie{}9/x86, patch 113986-02 or newer is
4175 required for the Sun @command{ld} and runtime linker (@command{ld.so.1})
4176 support, while Solaris@tie{}9/SPARC works since FCS. The linker
4177 patches must be installed even if GNU @command{ld} is used. Sun
4178 @command{as} in Solaris@tie{}9 doesn't support the necessary
4179 relocations, so GNU @command{as} must be used. The @command{configure}
4180 script checks for those prerequisites and automatically enables TLS
4181 support if they are met. Although those minimal patch versions should
4182 work, it is recommended to use the latest patch versions which include
4183 additional bug fixes.
4184
4185 @html
4186 <hr />
4187 @end html
4188 @heading @anchor{sparc-x-x}sparc*-*-*
4189
4190 This section contains general configuration information for all
4191 SPARC-based platforms. In addition to reading this section, please
4192 read all other sections that match your target.
4193
4194 Newer versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4195 library and the MPC library are known to be miscompiled by earlier
4196 versions of GCC on these platforms. We therefore recommend the use
4197 of the exact versions of these libraries listed as minimal versions
4198 in @uref{prerequisites.html,,the prerequisites}.
4199
4200 @html
4201 <hr />
4202 @end html
4203 @heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2}sparc-sun-solaris2*
4204
4205 When GCC is configured to use GNU binutils 2.14 or later, the binaries
4206 produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools;
4207 this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
4208 information.
4209
4210 Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing
4211 64-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later properly supports
4212 this; the @option{-m64} option enables 64-bit code generation.
4213 However, if all you want is code tuned for the UltraSPARC CPU, you
4214 should try the @option{-mtune=ultrasparc} option instead, which produces
4215 code that, unlike full 64-bit code, can still run on non-UltraSPARC
4216 machines.
4217
4218 When configuring on a Solaris 7 or later system that is running a kernel
4219 that supports only 32-bit binaries, one must configure with
4220 @option{--disable-multilib}, since we will not be able to build the
4221 64-bit target libraries.
4222
4223 GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4 trigger code generation bugs in earlier versions of
4224 the GNU compiler (especially GCC 3.0.x versions), which lead to the
4225 miscompilation of the stage1 compiler and the subsequent failure of the
4226 bootstrap process. A workaround is to use GCC 3.2.3 as an intermediary
4227 stage, i.e.@: to bootstrap that compiler with the base compiler and then
4228 use it to bootstrap the final compiler.
4229
4230 GCC 3.4 triggers a code generation bug in versions 5.4 (Sun ONE Studio 7)
4231 and 5.5 (Sun ONE Studio 8) of the Sun compiler, which causes a bootstrap
4232 failure in form of a miscompilation of the stage1 compiler by the Sun
4233 compiler. This is Sun bug 4974440. This is fixed with patch 112760-07.
4234
4235 GCC 3.4 changed the default debugging format from Stabs to DWARF-2 for
4236 32-bit code on Solaris 7 and later. If you use the Sun assembler, this
4237 change apparently runs afoul of Sun bug 4910101 (which is referenced as
4238 an x86-only problem by Sun, probably because they do not use DWARF-2).
4239 A symptom of the problem is that you cannot compile C++ programs like
4240 @command{groff} 1.19.1 without getting messages similar to the following:
4241
4242 @smallexample
4243 ld: warning: relocation error: R_SPARC_UA32: @dots{}
4244 external symbolic relocation against non-allocatable section
4245 .debug_info cannot be processed at runtime: relocation ignored.
4246 @end smallexample
4247
4248 @noindent
4249 To work around this problem, compile with @option{-gstabs+} instead of
4250 plain @option{-g}.
4251
4252 When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4253 library or the MPC library on a Solaris 7 or later system, the canonical
4254 target triplet must be specified as the @command{build} parameter on the
4255 configure line. This target triplet can be obtained by invoking @command{./config.guess} in the toplevel source directory of GCC (and
4256 not that of GMP or MPFR or MPC). For example on a Solaris 9 system:
4257
4258 @smallexample
4259 % ./configure --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 --prefix=xxx
4260 @end smallexample
4261
4262 @html
4263 <hr />
4264 @end html
4265 @heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris210}sparc-sun-solaris2.10
4266
4267 There is a bug in older versions of the Sun assembler which breaks
4268 thread-local storage (TLS). A typical error message is
4269
4270 @smallexample
4271 ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_TLS_LE_HIX22: file /var/tmp//ccamPA1v.o:
4272 symbol <unknown>: bad symbol type SECT: symbol type must be TLS
4273 @end smallexample
4274
4275 @noindent
4276 This bug is fixed in Sun patch 118683-03 or later.
4277
4278 @html
4279 <hr />
4280 @end html
4281 @heading @anchor{sparc-x-linux}sparc-*-linux*
4282
4283 GCC versions 3.0 and higher require binutils 2.11.2 and glibc 2.2.4
4284 or newer on this platform. All earlier binutils and glibc
4285 releases mishandled unaligned relocations on @code{sparc-*-*} targets.
4286
4287
4288 @html
4289 <hr />
4290 @end html
4291 @heading @anchor{sparc64-x-solaris2}sparc64-*-solaris2*
4292
4293 When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4294 library or the MPC library, the canonical target triplet must be specified
4295 as the @command{build} parameter on the configure line. For example
4296 on a Solaris 9 system:
4297
4298 @smallexample
4299 % ./configure --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.9 --prefix=xxx
4300 @end smallexample
4301
4302 The following compiler flags must be specified in the configure
4303 step in order to bootstrap this target with the Sun compiler:
4304
4305 @smallexample
4306 % CC="cc -xarch=v9 -xildoff" @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
4307 @end smallexample
4308
4309 @noindent
4310 @option{-xarch=v9} specifies the SPARC-V9 architecture to the Sun toolchain
4311 and @option{-xildoff} turns off the incremental linker.
4312
4313 @html
4314 <hr />
4315 @end html
4316 @heading @anchor{sparcv9-x-solaris2}sparcv9-*-solaris2*
4317
4318 This is a synonym for @samp{sparc64-*-solaris2*}.
4319
4320 @html
4321 <hr />
4322 @end html
4323 @heading @anchor{c6x-x-x}c6x-*-*
4324
4325 The C6X family of processors. This port requires binutils-2.22 or newer.
4326
4327 @html
4328 <hr />
4329 @end html
4330 @heading @anchor{tilegx-*-linux}tilegx-*-linux*
4331
4332 The TILE-Gx processor running GNU/Linux. This port requires
4333 binutils-2.22 or newer.
4334
4335 @html
4336 <hr />
4337 @end html
4338 @heading @anchor{tilepro-*-linux}tilepro-*-linux*
4339
4340 The TILEPro processor running GNU/Linux. This port requires
4341 binutils-2.22 or newer.
4342
4343 @html
4344 <hr />
4345 @end html
4346 @heading @anchor{x-x-vxworks}*-*-vxworks*
4347 Support for VxWorks is in flux. At present GCC supports @emph{only} the
4348 very recent VxWorks 5.5 (aka Tornado 2.2) release, and only on PowerPC@.
4349 We welcome patches for other architectures supported by VxWorks 5.5.
4350 Support for VxWorks AE would also be welcome; we believe this is merely
4351 a matter of writing an appropriate ``configlette'' (see below). We are
4352 not interested in supporting older, a.out or COFF-based, versions of
4353 VxWorks in GCC 3.
4354
4355 VxWorks comes with an older version of GCC installed in
4356 @file{@var{$WIND_BASE}/host}; we recommend you do not overwrite it.
4357 Choose an installation @var{prefix} entirely outside @var{$WIND_BASE}.
4358 Before running @command{configure}, create the directories @file{@var{prefix}}
4359 and @file{@var{prefix}/bin}. Link or copy the appropriate assembler,
4360 linker, etc.@: into @file{@var{prefix}/bin}, and set your @var{PATH} to
4361 include that directory while running both @command{configure} and
4362 @command{make}.
4363
4364 You must give @command{configure} the
4365 @option{--with-headers=@var{$WIND_BASE}/target/h} switch so that it can
4366 find the VxWorks system headers. Since VxWorks is a cross compilation
4367 target only, you must also specify @option{--target=@var{target}}.
4368 @command{configure} will attempt to create the directory
4369 @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include} and copy files into it;
4370 make sure the user running @command{configure} has sufficient privilege
4371 to do so.
4372
4373 GCC's exception handling runtime requires a special ``configlette''
4374 module, @file{contrib/gthr_supp_vxw_5x.c}. Follow the instructions in
4375 that file to add the module to your kernel build. (Future versions of
4376 VxWorks will incorporate this module.)
4377
4378 @html
4379 <hr />
4380 @end html
4381 @heading @anchor{x86-64-x-x}x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*
4382
4383 GCC supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64 processor
4384 (amd64-*-* is an alias for x86_64-*-*) on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD@.
4385 On GNU/Linux the default is a bi-arch compiler which is able to generate
4386 both 64-bit x86-64 and 32-bit x86 code (via the @option{-m32} switch).
4387
4388 @html
4389 <hr />
4390 @end html
4391 @heading @anchor{x86-64-x-solaris210}x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*
4392
4393 GCC also supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64
4394 processor (@samp{amd64-*-*} is an alias for @samp{x86_64-*-*}) on
4395 Solaris 10 or later. Unlike other systems, without special options a
4396 bi-arch compiler is built which generates 32-bit code by default, but
4397 can generate 64-bit x86-64 code with the @option{-m64} switch. Since
4398 GCC 4.7, there is also configuration that defaults to 64-bit code, but
4399 can generate 32-bit code with @option{-m32}. To configure and build
4400 this way, you have to provide all support libraries like @file{libgmp}
4401 as 64-bit code, configure with @option{--target=x86_64-pc-solaris2.1x}
4402 and @samp{CC=gcc -m64}.
4403
4404 @html
4405 <hr />
4406 @end html
4407 @heading @anchor{xtensa-x-elf}xtensa*-*-elf
4408
4409 This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the
4410 @samp{newlib} C library. It uses ELF but does not support shared
4411 objects. Designed-defined instructions specified via the
4412 Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) language are only supported
4413 through inline assembly.
4414
4415 The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to
4416 building GCC@. The @file{include/xtensa-config.h} header
4417 file contains the configuration information. If you created your
4418 own Xtensa configuration with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the
4419 downloaded files include a customized copy of this header file,
4420 which you can use to replace the default header file.
4421
4422 @html
4423 <hr />
4424 @end html
4425 @heading @anchor{xtensa-x-linux}xtensa*-*-linux*
4426
4427 This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF
4428 shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates
4429 position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the
4430 @option{-fpic} or @option{-fPIC} options are used. In other
4431 respects, this target is the same as the
4432 @uref{#xtensa*-*-elf,,@samp{xtensa*-*-elf}} target.
4433
4434 @html
4435 <hr />
4436 @end html
4437 @heading @anchor{windows}Microsoft Windows
4438
4439 @subheading Intel 16-bit versions
4440 The 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 3.1, are not
4441 supported.
4442
4443 However, the 32-bit port has limited support for Microsoft
4444 Windows 3.11 in the Win32s environment, as a target only. See below.
4445
4446 @subheading Intel 32-bit versions
4447
4448 The 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows
4449 XP, and Windows Vista, are supported by several different target
4450 platforms. These targets differ in which Windows subsystem they target
4451 and which C libraries are used.
4452
4453 @itemize
4454 @item Cygwin @uref{#x-x-cygwin,,*-*-cygwin}: Cygwin provides a user-space
4455 Linux API emulation layer in the Win32 subsystem.
4456 @item Interix @uref{#x-x-interix,,*-*-interix}: The Interix subsystem
4457 provides native support for POSIX.
4458 @item MinGW @uref{#x-x-mingw32,,*-*-mingw32}: MinGW is a native GCC port for
4459 the Win32 subsystem that provides a subset of POSIX.
4460 @item MKS i386-pc-mks: NuTCracker from MKS. See
4461 @uref{http://www.mkssoftware.com/} for more information.
4462 @end itemize
4463
4464 @subheading Intel 64-bit versions
4465
4466 GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64
4467 runtime library, available from @uref{http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/}.
4468 This library should be used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32.
4469
4470 Presently Windows for Itanium is not supported.
4471
4472 @subheading Windows CE
4473
4474 Windows CE is supported as a target only on Hitachi
4475 SuperH (sh-wince-pe), and MIPS (mips-wince-pe).
4476
4477 @subheading Other Windows Platforms
4478
4479 GCC no longer supports Windows NT on the Alpha or PowerPC.
4480
4481 GCC no longer supports the Windows POSIX subsystem. However, it does
4482 support the Interix subsystem. See above.
4483
4484 Old target names including *-*-winnt and *-*-windowsnt are no longer used.
4485
4486 PW32 (i386-pc-pw32) support was never completed, and the project seems to
4487 be inactive. See @uref{http://pw32.sourceforge.net/} for more information.
4488
4489 UWIN support has been removed due to a lack of maintenance.
4490
4491 @html
4492 <hr />
4493 @end html
4494 @heading @anchor{x-x-cygwin}*-*-cygwin
4495
4496 Ports of GCC are included with the
4497 @uref{http://www.cygwin.com/,,Cygwin environment}.
4498
4499 GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build
4500 with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.
4501
4502 The Cygwin native compiler can be configured to target any 32-bit x86
4503 cpu architecture desired; the default is i686-pc-cygwin. It should be
4504 used with as up-to-date a version of binutils as possible; use either
4505 the latest official GNU binutils release in the Cygwin distribution,
4506 or version 2.20 or above if building your own.
4507
4508 @html
4509 <hr />
4510 @end html
4511 @heading @anchor{x-x-interix}*-*-interix
4512
4513 The Interix target is used by OpenNT, Interix, Services For UNIX (SFU),
4514 and Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). Applications compiled
4515 with this target run in the Interix subsystem, which is separate from
4516 the Win32 subsystem. This target was last known to work in GCC 3.3.
4517
4518 @html
4519 <hr />
4520 @end html
4521 @heading @anchor{x-x-mingw32}*-*-mingw32
4522
4523 GCC will build with and support only MinGW runtime 3.12 and later.
4524 Earlier versions of headers are incompatible with the new default semantics
4525 of @code{extern inline} in @code{-std=c99} and @code{-std=gnu99} modes.
4526
4527 @html
4528 <hr />
4529 @end html
4530 @heading @anchor{older}Older systems
4531
4532 GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early
4533 1990s) Unix variants. For the most part, support for these systems
4534 has not been deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for
4535 several years and may suffer from bitrot.
4536
4537 Starting with GCC 3.1, each release has a list of ``obsoleted'' systems.
4538 Support for these systems is still present in that release, but
4539 @command{configure} will fail unless the @option{--enable-obsolete}
4540 option is given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for these
4541 systems will be removed from the next release of GCC@.
4542
4543 Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the
4544 workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the
4545 cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC@. In some cases, to
4546 bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may
4547 require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that
4548 system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in the
4549 vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in the
4550 @file{old-releases} directory on the @uref{../mirrors.html,,GCC mirror
4551 sites}. Header bugs may generally be avoided using
4552 @command{fixincludes}, but bugs or deficiencies in libraries and the
4553 operating system may still cause problems.
4554
4555 Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less
4556 problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast
4557 wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any of
4558 the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last
4559 version before they were removed), patches
4560 @uref{../contribute.html,,following the usual requirements} would be
4561 likely to be accepted, since they should not affect the support for more
4562 modern targets.
4563
4564 For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful,
4565 and are available from @file{pub/binutils/old-releases} on
4566 @uref{http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html,,sourceware.org mirror sites}.
4567
4568 Some of the information on specific systems above relates to
4569 such older systems, but much of the information
4570 about GCC on such systems (which may no longer be applicable to
4571 current GCC) is to be found in the GCC texinfo manual.
4572
4573 @html
4574 <hr />
4575 @end html
4576 @heading @anchor{elf}all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
4577
4578 C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the
4579 @uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-ld,,GNU linker}; duplicate copies of
4580 inlines, vtables and template instantiations will be discarded
4581 automatically.
4582
4583
4584 @html
4585 <hr />
4586 <p>
4587 @end html
4588 @ifhtml
4589 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4590 @end ifhtml
4591 @end ifset
4592
4593 @c ***Old documentation******************************************************
4594 @ifset oldhtml
4595 @include install-old.texi
4596 @html
4597 <hr />
4598 <p>
4599 @end html
4600 @ifhtml
4601 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4602 @end ifhtml
4603 @end ifset
4604
4605 @c ***GFDL********************************************************************
4606 @ifset gfdlhtml
4607 @include fdl.texi
4608 @html
4609 <hr />
4610 <p>
4611 @end html
4612 @ifhtml
4613 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4614 @end ifhtml
4615 @end ifset
4616
4617 @c ***************************************************************************
4618 @c Part 6 The End of the Document
4619 @ifinfo
4620 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
4621 @node Concept Index, , GNU Free Documentation License, Top
4622 @end ifinfo
4623
4624 @ifinfo
4625 @unnumbered Concept Index
4626
4627 @printindex cp
4628
4629 @contents
4630 @end ifinfo
4631 @bye