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Last change on this file since 738b268 was 0f06076, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r3371@server (orig r1554): chris | 2006-05-10 14:03:44 -0700
Removed dependency info from individual package instructions

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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 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of GCC</title>
27
28 <para os="p1">The following patch fixes an issue where gcc doesn't generate
29 some code properly:</para>
30
31<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gcc-PR26763-patch;</userinput></screen>
32
33 <para os="p3">The following patch fixes the searching of multilib dirs for
34 specs file:</para>
35
36<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gcc-PR20425-patch;</userinput></screen>
37
38 <para os="d">Apply a <command>sed</command> substitution that will suppress the
39 installation of <filename class="libraryfile">libiberty.a</filename>. The
40 version of <filename class="libraryfile">libiberty.a</filename> provided by
41 Binutils will be used instead:</para>
42
43<screen os="e"><userinput>sed -i 's/install_to_$(INSTALL_DEST) //' libiberty/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
44
45 <para os="e1">GCC provides a <command>gccbug</command> script which detects at
46 compile time whether mktemp is present, and hardcodes the result in a test.
47 If mktemp is not found, the script will fall back to using less
48 random names for temporary files. We will be installing mktemp
49 later, so the following sed will simulate its presence:</para>
50
51<screen os="e2"><userinput>sed -i 's/@have_mktemp_command@/yes/' gcc/gccbug.in</userinput></screen>
52
53 <para os="f">The GCC documentation recommends building GCC outside of the source
54 directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
55
56<screen os="g"><userinput>mkdir -v ../gcc-build
57cd ../gcc-build</userinput></screen>
58
59 <para os="h">Prepare GCC for compilation:</para>
60
61<screen os="i"><userinput>../gcc-&gcc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
62 --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix \
63 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-c99 --enable-long-long \
64 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ \
65 --disable-multilib --disable-libstdcxx-pch</userinput></screen>
66
67 <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
68
69<screen os="k"><userinput>make bootstrap</userinput></screen>
70
71 <important os="l">
72 <para>In this section, the test suite for GCC is considered
73 critical. Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
74 </important>
75
76 <para os="m">Test the results, but do not stop at errors:</para>
77
78<screen os="n"><userinput>make -k check</userinput></screen>
79
80 <para os="o">The <parameter>-k</parameter> flag is used to make the test suite
81 run through to completion and not stop at the first failure. The GCC test
82 suite is very comprehensive and is almost guaranteed to generate a few
83 failures. To receive a summary of the test suite results, run:</para>
84
85<screen os="p"><userinput>../gcc-&gcc-version;/contrib/test_summary</userinput></screen>
86
87 <para os="q">For only the summaries, pipe the output through
88 <userinput>grep -A7 Summ</userinput>.</para>
89
90 <para os="r">A few unexpected failures cannot always be avoided. The
91 GCC developers are usually aware of these issues, but have not
92 resolved them yet.</para>
93
94 <para os="s">Install the package:</para>
95
96<screen os="t"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
97
98 <para os="u">Some packages expect the C preprocessor to be installed in the
99 <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory.
100 To support those packages, create this symlink:</para>
101
102<screen os="v"><userinput>ln -sv ../usr/bin/cpp /lib</userinput></screen>
103
104 <para os="w">Many packages use the name <command>cc</command> to call the C
105 compiler. To satisfy those packages, create a symlink:</para>
106
107<screen os="x"><userinput>ln -sv gcc /usr/bin/cc</userinput></screen>
108
109 </sect2>
110
111 <sect2 id="contents-gcc" role="content">
112 <title>Contents of GCC</title>
113
114 <segmentedlist>
115 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
116 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
117
118 <seglistitem>
119 <seg>c++, cc (link to gcc), cpp, g++, gcc, gccbug, and gcov</seg>
120 <seg>libgcc.a, libgcc_eh.a, libgcc_s.so, libmudflap.[a,so],
121 libmudflapth.[a,so], libstdc++.[a,so], and
122 libsupc++.a</seg>
123 </seglistitem>
124 </segmentedlist>
125
126 <variablelist>
127 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
128 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
129 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
130
131 <varlistentry id="cc">
132 <term><command>cc</command></term>
133 <listitem>
134 <para>The C compiler</para>
135 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cc">
136 <primary sortas="b-cc">cc</primary>
137 </indexterm>
138 </listitem>
139 </varlistentry>
140
141 <varlistentry id="cpp">
142 <term><command>cpp</command></term>
143 <listitem>
144 <para>The C preprocessor; it is used by the compiler to expand the
145 #include, #define, and similar statements in the source files</para>
146 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cpp">
147 <primary sortas="b-cpp">cpp</primary>
148 </indexterm>
149 </listitem>
150 </varlistentry>
151
152 <varlistentry id="c">
153 <term><command>c++</command></term>
154 <listitem>
155 <para>The C++ compiler</para>
156 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc c">
157 <primary sortas="b-c++">c++</primary>
158 </indexterm>
159 </listitem>
160 </varlistentry>
161
162 <varlistentry id="g">
163 <term><command>g++</command></term>
164 <listitem>
165 <para>The C++ compiler</para>
166 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc g">
167 <primary sortas="b-g++">g++</primary>
168 </indexterm>
169 </listitem>
170 </varlistentry>
171
172 <varlistentry id="gcc">
173 <term><command>gcc</command></term>
174 <listitem>
175 <para>The C compiler</para>
176 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcc">
177 <primary sortas="b-gcc">gcc</primary>
178 </indexterm>
179 </listitem>
180 </varlistentry>
181
182 <varlistentry id="gccbug">
183 <term><command>gccbug</command></term>
184 <listitem>
185 <para>A shell script used to help create useful bug reports</para>
186 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gccbug">
187 <primary sortas="b-gccbug">gccbug</primary>
188 </indexterm>
189 </listitem>
190 </varlistentry>
191
192 <varlistentry id="gcov">
193 <term><command>gcov</command></term>
194 <listitem>
195 <para>A coverage testing tool; it is used to analyze programs to
196 determine where optimizations will have the most effect</para>
197 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcov">
198 <primary sortas="b-gcov">gcov</primary>
199 </indexterm>
200 </listitem>
201 </varlistentry>
202
203 <varlistentry id="libgcc">
204 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename></term>
205 <listitem>
206 <para>Contains run-time support for <command>gcc</command></para>
207 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgcc">
208 <primary sortas="c-libgcc*">libgcc*</primary>
209 </indexterm>
210 </listitem>
211 </varlistentry>
212
213 <varlistentry id="libmudflap">
214 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmudflap</filename></term>
215 <listitem>
216 <para>The libmudflap libraries are used by GCC for instrumenting
217 pointer and array dereferencing operations.</para>
218 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libmudflap">
219 <primary sortas="c-libmudflap*">libmudflap*</primary>
220 </indexterm>
221 </listitem>
222 </varlistentry>
223
224 <varlistentry id="libstdc">
225 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++</filename></term>
226 <listitem>
227 <para>The standard C++ library</para>
228 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libstdc">
229 <primary sortas="c-libstdc++">libstdc++</primary>
230 </indexterm>
231 </listitem>
232 </varlistentry>
233
234 <varlistentry id="libsupc">
235 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsupc++</filename></term>
236 <listitem>
237 <para>Provides supporting routines for the C++ programming
238 language</para>
239 <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libsupc">
240 <primary sortas="c-libsupc++">libsupc++</primary>
241 </indexterm>
242 </listitem>
243 </varlistentry>
244
245 </variablelist>
246
247 </sect2>
248
249</sect1>
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