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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-gcc" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="gcc.html"?>
10
11 <title>GCC-&gcc-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc">
14 <primary sortas="a-GCC">GCC</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The GCC package contains the GNU compiler collection, which includes
21 the C and C++ compilers.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of GCC</title>
27
28 <para os="p1">The following patch contains a number of updates to the
29 &gcc-version; branch by the GCC developers:</para>
30
31 <screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gcc-branch_update-patch;</userinput></screen>
32
33 <para os="fix1">Apply a <command>sed</command> substitution that will
34 suppress the execution of the <command>fixincludes</command> script:</para>
35
36<screen os="fix2"><userinput>sed -i 's@\./fixinc\.sh@-c true@' gcc/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
37
38 <para os="f">The GCC documentation recommends building GCC outside of the source
39 directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
40
41<screen os="g"><userinput>mkdir -v ../gcc-build
42cd ../gcc-build</userinput></screen>
43
44 <para os="h">Prepare GCC for compilation:</para>
45
46<screen os="i"><userinput>SED=sed CC="gcc -isystem /usr/include" \
47CXX="g++ -isystem /usr/include" \
48LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/lib:/lib" \
49 ../gcc-&gcc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
50 --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-threads=posix \
51 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ \
52 --disable-multilib --disable-libstdcxx-pch \
53 --with-system-zlib --enable-checking=release --enable-libstdcxx-time</userinput></screen>
54
55 <variablelist os="i1">
56 <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
57
58 <varlistentry>
59 <term><parameter>SED=sed</parameter></term>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>This prevents a hard-coded path to
62 <filename>/tools/bin/sed</filename> in the <command>fixincl</command>
63 program.</para>
64 </listitem>
65 </varlistentry>
66
67 </variablelist>
68
69 <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
70
71<screen os="k"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
72
73 <important os="l">
74 <para>Due to GCC's critical role in a properly functioning system,
75 the CLFS developers strongly recommend running the testsuite.</para>
76 </important>
77
78 <para os="s1">Increase the stack size prior to running the tests:</para>
79
80<screen os="s2"><userinput remap="test">ulimit -s 32768</userinput></screen>
81
82 <para os="m">Test the results, but do not stop at errors:</para>
83
84<screen os="n"><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen>
85
86 <para os="o">The <parameter>-k</parameter> flag is used to make the test suite
87 run through to completion and not stop at the first failure. The GCC test
88 suite is very comprehensive and is almost guaranteed to generate a few
89 failures. To receive a summary of the test suite results, run:</para>
90
91<screen os="p"><userinput remap="test">../gcc-&gcc-version;/contrib/test_summary</userinput></screen>
92
93 <para os="q">For only the summaries, pipe the output through
94 <userinput>grep -A7 Summ</userinput>.</para>
95
96 <para os="r">A few unexpected failures cannot always be avoided. The
97 GCC developers are usually aware of these issues, but have not
98 resolved them yet.</para>
99
100 <para os="s">Install the package:</para>
101
102<screen os="t"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
103
104 <para os="u">Install the <filename class="headerfile">libiberty</filename> header
105 file that is needed by some packages:</para>
106
107<screen os="v"><userinput>cp -v ../gcc-&gcc-version;/include/libiberty.h /usr/include</userinput></screen>
108
109 <para os="w">Some packages expect the C preprocessor to be installed in the
110 <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory.
111 To support those packages, create this symlink:</para>
112
113<screen os="x"><userinput>ln -sv ../usr/bin/cpp /lib</userinput></screen>
114
115 <para os="y">Many packages use the name <command>cc</command> to call the C
116 compiler. To satisfy those packages, create a symlink:</para>
117
118<screen os="z"><userinput>ln -sv gcc /usr/bin/cc</userinput></screen>
119
120 <para os="aa">Finally, move a misplaced file:</para>
121
122<screen os="ab"><userinput>mv -v /usr/lib/libstdc++*gdb.py /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
123
124 </sect2>
125
126 <sect2 id="contents-gcc" role="content">
127 <title>Contents of GCC</title>
128
129 <segmentedlist>
130 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
131 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
132 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
133
134 <seglistitem>
135 <seg>c++, cc (link to gcc), cpp, g++, gcc, gcov</seg>
136 <seg>libasan.[a,so], libatomic.[a,so], libgcc.a, libgcc_eh.a, libgcc_s.so, libgcov.a,
137 libgomp.[a,so], libiberty.a, libitm.[a,so], liblto_plugin.so, libmudflap.[a,so], libmudflapth.[a,so],
138 libquadmath.[a,so], libssp.[a,so], libssp_nonshared.a, libstdc++.[a,so], libsupc++.a,
139 libtsan.[a,so]</seg>
140 <seg>/usr/include/c++, /usr/lib/gcc, /usr/share/gcc-&gcc-version;</seg>
141 </seglistitem>
142 </segmentedlist>
143
144 <variablelist>
145 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
146 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
147 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
148
149 <varlistentry id="cc">
150 <term><command>cc</command></term>
151 <listitem>
152 <para>The C compiler</para>
153 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cc">
154 <primary sortas="b-cc">cc</primary>
155 </indexterm>
156 </listitem>
157 </varlistentry>
158
159 <varlistentry id="cpp">
160 <term><command>cpp</command></term>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>The C preprocessor; it is used by the compiler to expand the
163 #include, #define, and similar statements in the source files</para>
164 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cpp">
165 <primary sortas="b-cpp">cpp</primary>
166 </indexterm>
167 </listitem>
168 </varlistentry>
169
170 <varlistentry id="c">
171 <term><command>c++</command></term>
172 <listitem>
173 <para>The C++ compiler</para>
174 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc c">
175 <primary sortas="b-c++">c++</primary>
176 </indexterm>
177 </listitem>
178 </varlistentry>
179
180 <varlistentry id="g">
181 <term><command>g++</command></term>
182 <listitem>
183 <para>The C++ compiler</para>
184 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc g">
185 <primary sortas="b-g++">g++</primary>
186 </indexterm>
187 </listitem>
188 </varlistentry>
189
190 <varlistentry id="gcc">
191 <term><command>gcc</command></term>
192 <listitem>
193 <para>The C compiler</para>
194 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcc">
195 <primary sortas="b-gcc">gcc</primary>
196 </indexterm>
197 </listitem>
198 </varlistentry>
199
200 <varlistentry id="gcov">
201 <term><command>gcov</command></term>
202 <listitem>
203 <para>A coverage testing tool; it is used to analyze programs to
204 determine where optimizations will have the most effect</para>
205 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcov">
206 <primary sortas="b-gcov">gcov</primary>
207 </indexterm>
208 </listitem>
209 </varlistentry>
210
211 <varlistentry id="libasan">
212 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libasan</filename></term>
213 <listitem>
214 <para>The Address Sanitizer runtime library</para>
215 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libasan">
216 <primary sortas="c-libasan">libasan</primary>
217 </indexterm>
218 </listitem>
219 </varlistentry>
220
221 <varlistentry id="libatomic">
222 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libatomic</filename></term>
223 <listitem>
224 <para>A GCC support runtime library for atomic operations not
225 supported by hardware</para>
226 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libatomic">
227 <primary sortas="c-libatomic*">libatomic*</primary>
228 </indexterm>
229 </listitem>
230 </varlistentry>
231
232 <varlistentry id="libgcc">
233 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename></term>
234 <listitem>
235 <para>Contains run-time support for <command>gcc</command></para>
236 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgcc">
237 <primary sortas="c-libgcc*">libgcc*</primary>
238 </indexterm>
239 </listitem>
240 </varlistentry>
241
242 <varlistentry id="libgcov">
243 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgcov</filename></term>
244 <listitem>
245 <para>Library that is linked into a program when
246 <command>gcc</command> is instructed to enable profiling</para>
247 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgcov">
248 <primary sortas="c-libgcov">libgcov</primary>
249 </indexterm>
250 </listitem>
251 </varlistentry>
252
253 <varlistentry id="libgomp">
254 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgomp</filename></term>
255 <listitem>
256 <para>GNU implementation of the OpenMP API for multi-platform
257 shared-memory parallel programming in C/C++ and Fortran</para>
258 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgomp">
259 <primary sortas="c-libgomp">libgomp</primary>
260 </indexterm>
261 </listitem>
262 </varlistentry>
263
264 <varlistentry id="libiberty">
265 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libiberty</filename></term>
266 <listitem>
267 <para>Contains routines used by various GNU programs, including
268 <command>getopt</command>, <command>obstack</command>,
269 <command>strerror</command>, <command>strtol</command>, and
270 <command>strtoul</command></para>
271 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libiberty">
272 <primary sortas="c-libiberty">libiberty</primary>
273 </indexterm>
274 </listitem>
275 </varlistentry>
276
277 <varlistentry id="libitm">
278 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libitm</filename></term>
279 <listitem>
280 <para>The GNU Transactional Memory Library, which provides
281 transaction support for accesses to a process's memory</para>
282 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libitm">
283 <primary sortas="c-libitm*">libitm*</primary>
284 </indexterm>
285 </listitem>
286 </varlistentry>
287
288 <varlistentry id="liblto_plugin">
289 <term><filename class="libraryfile">liblto_plugin</filename></term>
290 <listitem>
291 <para>Runtime library for GCC's link-time optimization plugin</para>
292 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc liblto_plugin">
293 <primary sortas="c-liblto_plugin">liblto_plugin</primary>
294 </indexterm>
295 </listitem>
296 </varlistentry>
297
298 <varlistentry id="libmudflap">
299 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmudflap</filename></term>
300 <listitem>
301 <para>The libmudflap libraries are used by GCC for instrumenting
302 pointer and array dereferencing operations.</para>
303 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libmudflap">
304 <primary sortas="c-libmudflap*">libmudflap*</primary>
305 </indexterm>
306 </listitem>
307 </varlistentry>
308
309 <varlistentry id="libquadmath">
310 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libquadmath</filename></term>
311 <listitem>
312 <para>The GCC Quad-Precision Math Libarary API</para>
313 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libquadmath">
314 <primary sortas="c-libquadmath*">libquadmath*</primary>
315 </indexterm>
316 </listitem>
317 </varlistentry>
318
319 <varlistentry id="libssp">
320 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libssp</filename></term>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>Contains routines supporting GCC's stack-smashing protection
323 functionality</para>
324 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libssp">
325 <primary sortas="c-libssp*">libssp*</primary>
326 </indexterm>
327 </listitem>
328 </varlistentry>
329
330 <varlistentry id="libstdc">
331 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++</filename></term>
332 <listitem>
333 <para>The standard C++ library</para>
334 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libstdc">
335 <primary sortas="c-libstdc++">libstdc++</primary>
336 </indexterm>
337 </listitem>
338 </varlistentry>
339
340 <varlistentry id="libsupc">
341 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsupc++</filename></term>
342 <listitem>
343 <para>Provides supporting routines for the C++ programming
344 language</para>
345 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libsupc">
346 <primary sortas="c-libsupc++">libsupc++</primary>
347 </indexterm>
348 </listitem>
349 </varlistentry>
350
351 <varlistentry id="libtsan">
352 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libtsan</filename></term>
353 <listitem>
354 <para>The Thread Sanitizer runtime library</para>
355 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libtsan">
356 <primary sortas="c-libtsan">libtsan</primary>
357 </indexterm>
358 </listitem>
359 </varlistentry>
360
361 </variablelist>
362
363 </sect2>
364
365</sect1>
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