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Removed the util-linux and kernel sun disklabel patches and replaced it with a gcc patch that fixes the issue

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/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 <segmentedlist>
24 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25
26 <seglistitem>
27 <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, DejaGNU, Diffutils, Expect, Findutils,
28 Gawk, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, Perl, Sed, Tcl, and Texinfo</seg>
29 </seglistitem>
30 </segmentedlist>
31
32 </sect2>
33
34 <sect2 role="installation">
35 <title>Installation of GCC</title>
36
37 <para os="p1">The following patch fixes an issue where gcc doesn't generate
38 some code properly.</para>
39
40<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gcc-fold_const-patch;</userinput></screen>
41
42 <para os="d">Apply a <command>sed</command> substitution that will suppress the
43 installation of <filename class="libraryfile">libiberty.a</filename>. The
44 version of <filename class="libraryfile">libiberty.a</filename> provided by
45 Binutils will be used instead:</para>
46
47<screen os="e"><userinput>sed -i 's/install_to_$(INSTALL_DEST) //' libiberty/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
48
49 <para os="e1">GCC provides a <command>gccbug</command> script which detects at
50 compile time whether mktemp is present, and hardcodes the result in a test.
51 This will cause the script to fall back to using less random names for
52 temporary files. We will be installing mktemp later, so the following sed
53 will simulate its presence.</para>
54
55<screen os="e2"><userinput>sed -i 's/@have_mktemp_command@/yes/' gcc/gccbug.in</userinput></screen>
56
57 <para os="f">The GCC documentation recommends building GCC outside of the source
58 directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
59
60<screen os="g"><userinput>mkdir -v ../gcc-build
61cd ../gcc-build</userinput></screen>
62
63 <para os="h">Prepare GCC for compilation:</para>
64
65<screen os="i"><userinput>../gcc-&gcc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
66 --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix \
67 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-c99 --enable-long-long \
68 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ \
69 --disable-multilib --disable-libstdcxx-pch</userinput></screen>
70
71 <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
72
73<screen os="k"><userinput>make bootstrap</userinput></screen>
74
75 <important os="l">
76 <para>In this section, the test suite for GCC is considered
77 critical. Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
78 </important>
79
80 <para os="m">Test the results, but do not stop at errors:</para>
81
82<screen os="n"><userinput>make -k check</userinput></screen>
83
84 <para os="o">The <parameter>-k</parameter> flag is used to make the test suite
85 run through to completion and not stop at the first failure. The GCC test
86 suite is very comprehensive and is almost guaranteed to generate a few
87 failures. To receive a summary of the test suite results, run:</para>
88
89<screen os="p"><userinput>../gcc-&gcc-version;/contrib/test_summary</userinput></screen>
90
91 <para os="q">For only the summaries, pipe the output through
92 <userinput>grep -A7 Summ</userinput>.</para>
93
94 <para os="r">A few unexpected failures cannot always be avoided. The
95 GCC developers are usually aware of these issues, but have not
96 resolved them yet.</para>
97
98 <para os="s">Install the package:</para>
99
100<screen os="t"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
101
102 <para os="u">Some packages expect the C preprocessor to be installed in the
103 <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory.
104 To support those packages, create this symlink:</para>
105
106<screen os="v"><userinput>ln -sv ../usr/bin/cpp /lib</userinput></screen>
107
108 <para os="w">Many packages use the name <command>cc</command> to call the C
109 compiler. To satisfy those packages, create a symlink:</para>
110
111<screen os="x"><userinput>ln -sv gcc /usr/bin/cc</userinput></screen>
112
113 </sect2>
114
115 <sect2 id="contents-gcc" role="content">
116 <title>Contents of GCC</title>
117
118 <segmentedlist>
119 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
120 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
121
122 <seglistitem>
123 <seg>c++, cc (link to gcc), cpp, g++, gcc, gccbug, and gcov</seg>
124 <seg>libgcc.a, libgcc_eh.a, libgcc_s.so, libmudflap.[a,so],
125 libmudflapth.[a,so], libstdc++.[a,so], and
126 libsupc++.a</seg>
127 </seglistitem>
128 </segmentedlist>
129
130 <variablelist>
131 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
132 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
133 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
134
135 <varlistentry id="cc">
136 <term><command>cc</command></term>
137 <listitem>
138 <para>The C compiler</para>
139 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cc">
140 <primary sortas="b-cc">cc</primary>
141 </indexterm>
142 </listitem>
143 </varlistentry>
144
145 <varlistentry id="cpp">
146 <term><command>cpp</command></term>
147 <listitem>
148 <para>The C preprocessor; it is used by the compiler to expand the
149 #include, #define, and similar statements in the source files</para>
150 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cpp">
151 <primary sortas="b-cpp">cpp</primary>
152 </indexterm>
153 </listitem>
154 </varlistentry>
155
156 <varlistentry id="c">
157 <term><command>c++</command></term>
158 <listitem>
159 <para>The C++ compiler</para>
160 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc c">
161 <primary sortas="b-c++">c++</primary>
162 </indexterm>
163 </listitem>
164 </varlistentry>
165
166 <varlistentry id="g">
167 <term><command>g++</command></term>
168 <listitem>
169 <para>The C++ compiler</para>
170 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc g">
171 <primary sortas="b-g++">g++</primary>
172 </indexterm>
173 </listitem>
174 </varlistentry>
175
176 <varlistentry id="gcc">
177 <term><command>gcc</command></term>
178 <listitem>
179 <para>The C compiler</para>
180 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcc">
181 <primary sortas="b-gcc">gcc</primary>
182 </indexterm>
183 </listitem>
184 </varlistentry>
185
186 <varlistentry id="gccbug">
187 <term><command>gccbug</command></term>
188 <listitem>
189 <para>A shell script used to help create useful bug reports</para>
190 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gccbug">
191 <primary sortas="b-gccbug">gccbug</primary>
192 </indexterm>
193 </listitem>
194 </varlistentry>
195
196 <varlistentry id="gcov">
197 <term><command>gcov</command></term>
198 <listitem>
199 <para>A coverage testing tool; it is used to analyze programs to
200 determine where optimizations will have the most effect</para>
201 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcov">
202 <primary sortas="b-gcov">gcov</primary>
203 </indexterm>
204 </listitem>
205 </varlistentry>
206
207 <varlistentry id="libgcc">
208 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename></term>
209 <listitem>
210 <para>Contains run-time support for <command>gcc</command></para>
211 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgcc">
212 <primary sortas="c-libgcc*">libgcc*</primary>
213 </indexterm>
214 </listitem>
215 </varlistentry>
216
217 <varlistentry id="libmudflap">
218 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmudflap</filename></term>
219 <listitem>
220 <para>The libmudflap libraries are used by GCC for instrumenting
221 pointer and array dereferencing operations.</para>
222 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libmudflap">
223 <primary sortas="c-libmudflap*">libmudflap*</primary>
224 </indexterm>
225 </listitem>
226 </varlistentry>
227
228 <varlistentry id="libstdc">
229 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++</filename></term>
230 <listitem>
231 <para>The standard C++ library</para>
232 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libstdc">
233 <primary sortas="c-libstdc++">libstdc++</primary>
234 </indexterm>
235 </listitem>
236 </varlistentry>
237
238 <varlistentry id="libsupc">
239 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsupc++</filename></term>
240 <listitem>
241 <para>Provides supporting routines for the C++ programming
242 language</para>
243 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libsupc">
244 <primary sortas="c-libsupc++">libsupc++</primary>
245 </indexterm>
246 </listitem>
247 </varlistentry>
248
249 </variablelist>
250
251 </sect2>
252
253</sect1>
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