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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> subsitution 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-shared --enable-threads=posix \
51    --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-c99 --enable-long-long \
52    --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ \
53    --disable-multilib --disable-libstdcxx-pch \
54    --enable-cloog-backend=isl --disable-isl-version-check --with-system-zlib \
55    --enable-checking=release --enable-libstdcxx-time</userinput></screen>
56
57    <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
58
59<screen os="k"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
60
61    <important os="l">
62      <para>The test suite for GCC is considered
63      critical. Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
64    </important>
65
66   <para os="s1">Increase the stack size prior to running the tests:</para>
67
68<screen os="s2"><userinput remap="test">ulimit -s 32768</userinput></screen>
69
70    <para os="m">Test the results, but do not stop at errors:</para>
71
72<screen os="n"><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen>
73
74    <para os="o">The <parameter>-k</parameter> flag is used to make the test suite
75    run through to completion and not stop at the first failure. The GCC test
76    suite is very comprehensive and is almost guaranteed to generate a few
77    failures. To receive a summary of the test suite results, run:</para>
78
79<screen os="p"><userinput remap="test">../gcc-&gcc-version;/contrib/test_summary</userinput></screen>
80
81    <para os="q">For only the summaries, pipe the output through
82    <userinput>grep -A7 Summ</userinput>.</para>
83
84    <para os="r">A few unexpected failures cannot always be avoided. The
85    GCC developers are usually aware of these issues, but have not
86    resolved them yet.</para>
87
88    <para os="s">Install the package:</para>
89
90<screen os="t"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
91
92    <para os="u">Install the <filename class="headerfile">libiberty</filename> header
93    file that is needed by some packages:</para>
94
95<screen os="v"><userinput>cp -v ../gcc-&gcc-version;/include/libiberty.h /usr/include</userinput></screen>
96
97    <para os="w">Some packages expect the C preprocessor to be installed in the
98    <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory.
99    To support those packages, create this symlink:</para>
100
101<screen os="x"><userinput>ln -sv ../usr/bin/cpp /lib</userinput></screen>
102
103    <para os="y">Many packages use the name <command>cc</command> to call the C
104    compiler. To satisfy those packages, create a symlink:</para>
105
106<screen os="z"><userinput>ln -sv gcc /usr/bin/cc</userinput></screen>
107
108  </sect2>
109
110  <sect2 id="contents-gcc" role="content">
111    <title>Contents of GCC</title>
112
113    <segmentedlist>
114      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
115      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
116      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
117
118      <seglistitem>
119        <seg>c++, cc (link to gcc), cpp, g++, gcc, and gcov</seg>
120        <seg>libasan.[a,so], libgcc.a, libgcc_eh.a, libgcc_s.so, libgcov.a,
121        libgomp.[a,so], libiberty.a, libmudflap.[a,so], libmudflapth.[a,so],
122        libssp.[a,so], libssp_nonshared.a, libstdc++.[a,so], libsupc++.a, and
123        libtsan.[a,so]</seg>
124        <seg>/usr/include/c++, /usr/lib/gcc, /usr/share/gcc-&gcc-version;</seg>
125      </seglistitem>
126    </segmentedlist>
127
128    <variablelist>
129      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
130      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
131      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
132
133      <varlistentry id="cc">
134        <term><command>cc</command></term>
135        <listitem>
136          <para>The C compiler</para>
137          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cc">
138            <primary sortas="b-cc">cc</primary>
139          </indexterm>
140        </listitem>
141      </varlistentry>
142
143      <varlistentry id="cpp">
144        <term><command>cpp</command></term>
145        <listitem>
146          <para>The C preprocessor; it is used by the compiler to expand the
147          #include, #define, and similar statements in the source files</para>
148          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cpp">
149            <primary sortas="b-cpp">cpp</primary>
150          </indexterm>
151        </listitem>
152      </varlistentry>
153
154      <varlistentry id="c">
155        <term><command>c++</command></term>
156        <listitem>
157          <para>The C++ compiler</para>
158          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc c">
159            <primary sortas="b-c++">c++</primary>
160          </indexterm>
161        </listitem>
162      </varlistentry>
163
164      <varlistentry id="g">
165        <term><command>g++</command></term>
166        <listitem>
167          <para>The C++ compiler</para>
168          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc g">
169            <primary sortas="b-g++">g++</primary>
170          </indexterm>
171        </listitem>
172      </varlistentry>
173
174      <varlistentry id="gcc">
175        <term><command>gcc</command></term>
176        <listitem>
177          <para>The C compiler</para>
178          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcc">
179            <primary sortas="b-gcc">gcc</primary>
180          </indexterm>
181        </listitem>
182      </varlistentry>
183
184      <varlistentry id="gcov">
185        <term><command>gcov</command></term>
186        <listitem>
187          <para>A coverage testing tool; it is used to analyze programs to
188          determine where optimizations will have the most effect</para>
189          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcov">
190            <primary sortas="b-gcov">gcov</primary>
191          </indexterm>
192        </listitem>
193      </varlistentry>
194
195      <varlistentry id="libasan">
196        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libasan</filename></term>
197        <listitem>
198          <para>The Address Sanitizer runtime library</para>
199          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libasan">
200            <primary sortas="c-libasan">libasan</primary>
201          </indexterm>
202        </listitem>
203      </varlistentry>
204
205      <varlistentry id="libgcc">
206        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename></term>
207        <listitem>
208          <para>Contains run-time support for <command>gcc</command></para>
209          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgcc">
210            <primary sortas="c-libgcc*">libgcc*</primary>
211          </indexterm>
212        </listitem>
213      </varlistentry>
214
215      <varlistentry id="libgcov">
216        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgcov</filename></term>
217        <listitem>
218          <para>Library that is linked into a program when
219          <command>gcc</command> is instructed to enable profiling</para>
220          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgcov">
221            <primary sortas="c-libgcov">libgcov</primary>
222          </indexterm>
223        </listitem>
224      </varlistentry>
225
226      <varlistentry id="libgomp">
227        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgomp</filename></term>
228        <listitem>
229          <para>GNU implementation of the OpenMP API for multi-platform
230          shared-memory parallel programming in C/C++ and Fortran</para>
231          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgomp">
232            <primary sortas="c-libgomp">libgomp</primary>
233          </indexterm>
234        </listitem>
235      </varlistentry>
236
237      <varlistentry id="libiberty">
238        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libiberty</filename></term>
239        <listitem>
240          <para>Contains routines used by various GNU programs, including
241          <command>getopt</command>, <command>obstack</command>,
242          <command>strerror</command>, <command>strtol</command>, and
243          <command>strtoul</command></para>
244          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libiberty">
245            <primary sortas="c-libiberty">libiberty</primary>
246          </indexterm>
247        </listitem>
248      </varlistentry>
249
250      <varlistentry id="libmudflap">
251        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmudflap</filename></term>
252        <listitem>
253          <para>The libmudflap libraries are used by GCC for instrumenting
254          pointer and array dereferencing operations.</para>
255          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libmudflap">
256            <primary sortas="c-libmudflap*">libmudflap*</primary>
257          </indexterm>
258        </listitem>
259      </varlistentry>
260
261      <varlistentry id="libssp">
262        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libssp</filename></term>
263        <listitem>
264          <para>Contains routines supporting GCC's stack-smashing protection
265          functionality</para>
266          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libssp">
267            <primary sortas="c-libssp*">libssp*</primary>
268          </indexterm>
269        </listitem>
270      </varlistentry>
271
272      <varlistentry id="libstdc">
273        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++</filename></term>
274        <listitem>
275          <para>The standard C++ library</para>
276          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libstdc">
277            <primary sortas="c-libstdc++">libstdc++</primary>
278          </indexterm>
279        </listitem>
280      </varlistentry>
281
282      <varlistentry id="libsupc">
283        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsupc++</filename></term>
284        <listitem>
285          <para>Provides supporting routines for the C++ programming
286          language</para>
287          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libsupc">
288            <primary sortas="c-libsupc++">libsupc++</primary>
289          </indexterm>
290        </listitem>
291      </varlistentry>
292
293      <varlistentry id="libtsan">
294        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libtsan</filename></term>
295        <listitem>
296          <para>The Thread Sanitizer runtime library</para>
297          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libtsan">
298            <primary sortas="c-libtsan">libtsan</primary>
299          </indexterm>
300        </listitem>
301      </varlistentry>
302
303    </variablelist>
304
305  </sect2>
306
307</sect1>
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