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This file documents the installation of the GNU compiler. Copyright
(C) 1988, 1989, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. You may copy,
distribute, and modify it freely as long as you preserve this copyright
notice and permission notice.
Installing GNU CC
*****************
Here is the procedure for installing GNU CC on a Unix system.
You cannot install GNU C by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile
under any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete
compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources,
and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.
1. If you have built GNU CC previously in the same directory for a
different target machine, do `make distclean' to delete all files
that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is
`Makefile'; if `make distclean' complains that `Makefile' does not
exist, it probably means that the directory is already suitably
clean.
2. On a System V release 4 system, make sure `/usr/bin' precedes
`/usr/ucb' in `PATH'. The `cc' command in `/usr/ucb' uses
libraries which have bugs.
3. Specify the host and target machine configurations. You do this by
running the file `configure' with appropriate arguments.
If you are building a compiler to produce code for the machine it
runs on, specify just one machine type, with the `--target'
option; the host type will default to be the same as the target.
(For information on building a cross-compiler, see *Note
Cross-Compiler::.) Here is an example:
configure --target=sparc-sun-sunos4.1
If you run `configure' without specifying configuration arguments,
`configure' tries to guess the type of host you are on, and uses
that configuration type for both host and target. So you don't
need to specify a configuration, for building a native compiler,
unless `configure' cannot figure out what your configuration is.
A configuration name may be canonical or it may be more or less
abbreviated.
A canonical configuration name has three parts, separated by
dashes. It looks like this: `CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM'. (The three
parts may themselves contain dashes; `configure' can figure out
which dashes serve which purpose.) For example,
`m68k-sun-sunos4.1' specifies a Sun 3.
You can also replace parts of the configuration by nicknames or
aliases. For example, `sun3' stands for `m68k-sun', so
`sun3-sunos4.1' is another way to specify a Sun 3. You can also
use simply `sun3-sunos', since the version of SunOS is assumed by
default to be version 4. `sun3-bsd' also works, since `configure'
knows that the only BSD variant on a Sun 3 is SunOS.
You can specify a version number after any of the system types,
and some of the CPU types. In most cases, the version is
irrelevant, and will be ignored. So you might as well specify the
version if you know it.
Here are the possible CPU types:
a29k, alpha, arm, cN, clipper, elxsi, h8300, hppa1.0, hppa1.1,
i370, i386, i486, i860, i960, m68000, m68k, m88k, mips,
ns32k, pyramid, romp, rs6000, sh, sparc, sparclite, vax,
we32k.
Here are the recognized company names. As you can see, customary
abbreviations are used rather than the longer official names.
alliant, altos, apollo, att, bull, cbm, convergent, convex,
crds, dec, dg, dolphin, elxsi, encore, harris, hitachi, hp,
ibm, intergraph, isi, mips, motorola, ncr, next, ns, omron,
plexus, sequent, sgi, sony, sun, tti, unicom.
The company name is meaningful only to disambiguate when the rest
of the information supplied is insufficient. You can omit it,
writing just `CPU-SYSTEM', if it is not needed. For example,
`vax-ultrix4.2' is equivalent to `vax-dec-ultrix4.2'.
Here is a list of system types:
aix, acis, aos, bsd, clix, ctix, dgux, dynix, genix, hpux,
isc, linux, luna, lynxos, mach, minix, newsos, osf, osfrose,
riscos, sco, solaris, sunos, sysv, ultrix, unos, vms.
You can omit the system type; then `configure' guesses the
operating system from the CPU and company.
You can add a version number to the system type; this may or may
not make a difference. For example, you can write `bsd4.3' or
`bsd4.4' to distinguish versions of BSD. In practice, the version
number is most needed for `sysv3' and `sysv4', which are often
treated differently.
If you specify an impossible combination such as `i860-dg-vms',
then you may get an error message from `configure', or it may
ignore part of the information and do the best it can with the
rest. `configure' always prints the canonical name for the
alternative that it used.
Often a particular model of machine has a name. Many machine
names are recognized as aliases for CPU/company combinations.
Thus, the machine name `sun3', mentioned above, is an alias for
`m68k-sun'. Sometimes we accept a company name as a machine name,
when the name is popularly used for a particular machine. Here is
a table of the known machine names:
3300, 3b1, 3bN, 7300, altos3068, altos, apollo68, att-7300,
balance, convex-cN, crds, decstation-3100, decstation, delta,
encore, fx2800, gmicro, hp7NN, hp8NN, hp9k2NN, hp9k3NN,
hp9k7NN, hp9k8NN, iris4d, iris, isi68, m3230, magnum, merlin,
miniframe, mmax, news-3600, news800, news, next, pbd, pc532,
pmax, ps2, risc-news, rtpc, sun2, sun386i, sun386, sun3,
sun4, symmetry, tower-32, tower.
Remember that a machine name specifies both the cpu type and the
company name.
There are four additional options you can specify independently to
describe variant hardware and software configurations. These are
`--with-gnu-as', `--with-gnu-ld', `--with-stabs' and `--nfp'.
`--with-gnu-as'
If you will use GNU CC with the GNU assembler (GAS), you
should declare this by using the `--with-gnu-as' option when
you run `configure'.
Using this option does not install GAS. It only modifies the
output of GNU CC to work with GAS. Building and installing
GAS is up to you.
Conversely, if you *do not* wish to use GAS and do not specify
`--with-gnu-as' when building GNU CC, it is up to you to make
sure that GAS is not installed. GNU CC searches for a
program named `as' in various directories; if the program it
finds is GAS, then it runs GAS. If you are not sure where
GNU CC finds the assembler it is using, try specifying `-v'
when you run it.
The systems where it makes a difference whether you use GAS
are
`hppa1.0-ANY-ANY', `hppa1.1-ANY-ANY', `i386-ANY-sysv',
`i386-ANY-isc',
`i860-ANY-bsd', `m68k-bull-sysv', `m68k-hp-hpux',
`m68k-sony-bsd',
`m68k-altos-sysv', `m68000-hp-hpux', `m68000-att-sysv', and
`mips-ANY'). On any other system, `--with-gnu-as' has no
effect.
On the systems listed above (except for the HP-PA and for ISC
on the 386), if you use GAS, you should also use the GNU
linker (and specify `--with-gnu-ld').
`--with-gnu-ld'
Specify the option `--with-gnu-ld' if you plan to use the GNU
linker with GNU CC.
This option does not cause the GNU linker to be installed; it
just modifies the behavior of GNU CC to work with the GNU
linker. Specifically, it inhibits the installation of
`collect2', a program which otherwise serves as a front-end
for the system's linker on most configurations.
`--with-stabs'
On MIPS based systems and on Alphas, you must specify whether
you want GNU CC to create the normal ECOFF debugging format,
or to use BSD-style stabs passed through the ECOFF symbol
table. The normal ECOFF debug format cannot fully handle
languages other than C. BSD stabs format can handle other
languages, but it only works with the GNU debugger GDB.
Normally, GNU CC uses the ECOFF debugging format by default;
if you prefer BSD stabs, specify `--with-stabs' when you
configure GNU CC.
No matter which default you choose when you configure GNU CC,
the user can use the `-gcoff' and `-gstabs+' options to
specify explicitly the debug format for a particular
compilation.
`--with-stabs' is meaningful on the ISC system on the 386,
also, if `--with-gas' is used. It selects use of stabs
debugging information embedded in COFF output. This kind of
debugging information supports C++ well; ordinary COFF
debugging information does not.
`--nfp'
On certain systems, you must specify whether the machine has
a floating point unit. These systems include
`m68k-sun-sunosN' and `m68k-isi-bsd'. On any other system,
`--nfp' currently has no effect, though perhaps there are
other systems where it could usefully make a difference.
If you want to install your own homemade configuration files, you
can use `local' as the company name to access them. If you use
configuration `CPU-local', the configuration name without the cpu
prefix is used to form the configuration file names.
Thus, if you specify `m68k-local', configuration uses files
`local.md', `local.h', `local.c', `xm-local.h', `t-local', and
`x-local', all in the directory `config/m68k'.
Here is a list of configurations that have special treatment or
special things you must know:
`alpha-*-osf1'
Systems using processors that implement the DEC Alpha
architecture and are running the OSF/1 operating system, for
example the DEC Alpha AXP systems. (VMS on the Alpha is not
currently supported by GNU CC.)
Objective C and C++ do not yet work on the Alpha. We hope to
support C++ in version 2.6.
GNU CC writes a `.verstamp' directive to the assembler output
file unless it is built as a cross-compiler. It gets the
version to use from the system header file
`/usr/include/stamp.h'. If you install a new version of
OSF/1, you should rebuild GCC to pick up the new version
stamp.
Note that since the Alpha is a 64-bit architecture,
cross-compilers from 32-bit machines will not generate as
efficient code as that generated when the compiler is running
on a 64-bit machine because many optimizations that depend on
being able to represent a word on the target in an integral
value on the host cannot be performed. Building
cross-compilers on the Alpha for 32-bit machines has only
been tested in a few cases and may not work properly.
`make compare' may fail on some versions of OSF/1 unless you
add `-save-temps' to `CFLAGS'. The same problem occurs on
Irix version 5.1.1. On these systems, the name of the
assembler input file is stored in the object file, and that
makes comparison fail if it differs between the `stage1' and
`stage2' compilations. The option `-save-temps' forces a
fixed name to be used for the assembler input file, instead
of a randomly chosen name in `/tmp'.
GNU CC now supports both the native (ECOFF) debugging format
used by DBX and GDB and an encapsulated STABS format for use
only with GDB. See the discussion of the `--with-stabs'
option of `configure' above for more information on these
formats and how to select them.
There is a bug in DEC's assembler that produces incorrect
line numbers for ECOFF format when the `.align' directive is
used. To work around this problem, GNU CC will not emit such
alignment directives even if optimization is being performed
if it is writing ECOFF format debugging information.
Unfortunately, this has the very undesirable side-effect that
code addresses when `-O' is specified are different depending
on whether or not `-g' is also specified.
To avoid this behavior, specify `-gstabs+' and use GDB
instead of DBX. DEC is now aware of this problem with the
assembler and hopes to provide a fix shortly.
`a29k'
AMD Am29k-family processors. These are normally used in
embedded applications. There are no standard Unix
configurations. This configuration corresponds to AMD's
standard calling sequence and binary interface and is
compatible with other 29k tools.
You may need to make a variant of the file `a29k.h' for your
particular configuration.
`a29k-*-bsd'
AMD Am29050 used in a system running a variant of BSD Unix.
`elxsi-elxsi-bsd'
The Elxsi's C compiler has known limitations that prevent it
from compiling GNU C. Please contact `mrs@cygnus.com' for
more details.
`hppa*-*-*'
Using GAS is highly recommended for all HP-PA configurations.
See *Note PA Install:: for the special procedures needed to
compile GNU CC for the HP-PA.
`i386-*-sco'
Compilation with RCC is recommended. Also, it may be a good
idea to link with GNU malloc instead of the malloc that comes
with the system.
`i386-*-sco3.2.4'
Use this configuration for SCO release 3.2 version 4.
`i386-*-isc'
It may be good idea to link with GNU malloc instead of the
malloc that comes with the system.
`i386-*-esix'
It may be good idea to link with GNU malloc instead of the
malloc that comes with the system.
`i386-ibm-aix'
You need to use GAS version 2.1 or later, and and LD from GNU
binutils version 2.2 or later.
`i386-sequent'
Go to the Berkeley universe before compiling. In addition,
you probably need to create a file named `string.h'
containing just one line: `#include <strings.h>'.
`i386-sun-sunos4'
You may find that you need another version of GNU CC to begin
bootstrapping with, since the current version when built with
the system's own compiler seems to get an infinite loop
compiling part of `libgcc2.c'. GNU CC version 2 compiled
with GNU CC (any version) seems not to have this problem.
`i860-intel-osf1'
This is the Paragon. If you have version 1.0 of the
operating system, you need to take special steps to build GNU
CC due to peculiarities of the system. Newer system versions
have no problem. See the section `Installation Problems' in
the GNU CC Manual.
`m68000-att'
AT&T 3b1, a.k.a. 7300 PC. Special procedures are needed to
compile GNU CC with this machine's standard C compiler, due
to bugs in that compiler. *Note 3b1 Install::. You can
bootstrap it more easily with previous versions of GNU CC if
you have them.
`m68000-hp-bsd'
HP 9000 series 200 running BSD. Note that the C compiler
that comes with this system cannot compile GNU CC; contact
`law@cs.utah.edu' to get binaries of GNU CC for bootstrapping.
`m68k-altos'
Altos 3068. You must use the GNU assembler, linker and
debugger. Also, you must fix a kernel bug. Details in the
file `README.ALTOS'.
`m68k-bull-sysv'
Bull DPX/2 series 200 and 300 with BOS-2.00.45 up to
BOS-2.01. GNU CC works either with native assembler or GNU
assembler. You can use GNU assembler with native coff
generation by providing `--gas' to the configure script or
use GNU assembler with dbx-in-coff encapsulation by providing
`--gas --stabs'. For any problem with native assembler or for
availability of the DPX/2 port of GAS, contact
`F.Pierresteguy@frcl.bull.fr'.
`m68k-hp-hpux'
HP 9000 series 300 or 400 running HP-UX. HP-UX version 8.0
has a bug in the assembler that prevents compilation of GNU
CC. To fix it, get patch PHCO_0800 from HP.
In addition, `--gas' does not currently work with this
configuration. Changes in HP-UX have broken the library
conversion tool and the linker.
`m68k-sun'
Sun 3. We do not provide a configuration file to use the Sun
FPA by default, because programs that establish signal
handlers for floating point traps inherently cannot work with
the FPA.
`m88k-*-svr3'
Motorola m88k running the AT&T/Unisoft/Motorola V.3 reference
port. These systems tend to use the Green Hills C, revision
1.8.5, as the standard C compiler. There are apparently bugs
in this compiler that result in object files differences
between stage 2 and stage 3. If this happens, make the stage
4 compiler and compare it to the stage 3 compiler. If the
stage 3 and stage 4 object files are identical, this suggests
you encountered a problem with the standard C compiler; the
stage 3 and 4 compilers may be usable.
It is best, however, to use an older version of GNU CC for
bootstrapping if you have one.
`m88k-*-dgux'
Motorola m88k running DG/UX. To build native or cross
compilers on DG/UX, you must first change to the 88open BCS
software development environment. This is done by issuing
this command:
eval `sde-target m88kbcs`
`m88k-tektronix-sysv3'
Tektronix XD88 running UTekV 3.2e. Do not turn on
optimization while building stage1 if you bootstrap with the
buggy Green Hills compiler. Also, The bundled LAI System V
NFS is buggy so if you build in an NFS mounted directory,
start from a fresh reboot, or avoid NFS all together.
Otherwise you may have trouble getting clean comparisons
between stages.
`mips-mips-bsd'
MIPS machines running the MIPS operating system in BSD mode.
It's possible that some old versions of the system lack the
functions `memcpy', `memcmp', and `memset'. If your system
lacks these, you must remove or undo the definition of
`TARGET_MEM_FUNCTIONS' in `mips-bsd.h'.
`mips-sgi-*'
Silicon Graphics MIPS machines running IRIX. In order to
compile GCC on an SGI the "c.hdr.lib" option must be
installed from the CD-ROM supplied from Silicon Graphics.
This is found on the 2nd CD in release 4.0.1.
`mips-sony-sysv'
Sony MIPS NEWS. This works in NEWSOS 5.0.1, but not in 5.0.2
(which uses ELF instead of COFF). Support for 5.0.2 will
probably be provided soon by volunteers. In particular, the
linker does not like the code generated by GCC when shared
libraries are linked in.
`ns32k-encore'
Encore ns32000 system. Encore systems are supported only
under BSD.
`ns32k-*-genix'
National Semiconductor ns32000 system. Genix has bugs in
`alloca' and `malloc'; you must get the compiled versions of
these from GNU Emacs.
`ns32k-sequent'
Go to the Berkeley universe before compiling. In addition,
you probably need to create a file named `string.h'
containing just one line: `#include <strings.h>'.
`ns32k-utek'
UTEK ns32000 system ("merlin"). The C compiler that comes
with this system cannot compile GNU CC; contact
`tektronix!reed!mason' to get binaries of GNU CC for
bootstrapping.
`romp-*-aos'
`romp-*-mach'
The only operating systems supported for the IBM RT PC are
AOS and MACH. GNU CC does not support AIX running on the RT.
We recommend you compile GNU CC with an earlier version of
itself; if you compile GNU CC with `hc', the Metaware
compiler, it will work, but you will get mismatches between
the stage 2 and stage 3 compilers in various files. These
errors are minor differences in some floating-point constants
and can be safely ignored; the stage 3 compiler is correct.
`rs6000-*-aix'
*Read the file `README.RS6000' for information on how to get
a fix for problems in the IBM assembler that interfere with
GNU CC.* You must either obtain the new assembler or avoid
using the `-g' switch. Note that `Makefile.in' uses `-g' by
default when compiling `libgcc2.c'.
The PowerPC and POWER2 architectures are now supported, but
have not been extensively tested due to lack of appropriate
systems. Only AIX is supported on the PowerPC.
Objective C does not work on this architecture.
XLC version 1.3.0.0 will miscompile `jump.c'. XLC version
1.3.0.1 or later fixes this problem. We do not yet have a
PTF number for this fix.
`vax-dec-ultrix'
Don't try compiling with Vax C (`vcc'). It produces
incorrect code in some cases (for example, when `alloca' is
used).
Meanwhile, compiling `cp-parse.c' with pcc does not work
because of an internal table size limitation in that
compiler. To avoid this problem, compile just the GNU C
compiler first, and use it to recompile building all the
languages that you want to run.
Here we spell out what files will be set up by `configure'.
Normally you need not be concerned with these files.
* A symbolic link named `config.h' is made to the top-level
config file for the machine you plan to run the compiler on
(*note The Configuration File: (gcc.info)Config.). This file
is responsible for defining information about the host
machine. It includes `tm.h'.
The top-level config file is located in the subdirectory
`config'. Its name is always `xm-SOMETHING.h'; usually
`xm-MACHINE.h', but there are some exceptions.
If your system does not support symbolic links, you might
want to set up `config.h' to contain a `#include' command
which refers to the appropriate file.
* A symbolic link named `tconfig.h' is made to the top-level
config file for your target machine. This is used for
compiling certain programs to run on that machine.
* A symbolic link named `tm.h' is made to the
machine-description macro file for your target machine. It
should be in the subdirectory `config' and its name is often
`MACHINE.h'.
* A symbolic link named `md' will be made to the machine
description pattern file. It should be in the `config'
subdirectory and its name should be `MACHINE.md'; but MACHINE
is often not the same as the name used in the `tm.h' file
because the `md' files are more general.
* A symbolic link named `aux-output.c' will be made to the
output subroutine file for your machine. It should be in the
`config' subdirectory and its name should be `MACHINE.c'.
* The command file `configure' also constructs the file
`Makefile' by adding some text to the template file
`Makefile.in'. The additional text comes from files in the
`config' directory, named `t-TARGET' and `x-HOST'. If these
files do not exist, it means nothing needs to be added for a
given target or host.
4. The standard directory for installing GNU CC is `/usr/local/lib'.
If you want to install its files somewhere else, specify
`--prefix=DIR' when you run `configure'. Here DIR is a directory
name to use instead of `/usr/local' for all purposes with one
exception: the directory `/usr/local/include' is searched for
header files no matter where you install the compiler.
5. Specify `--local-prefix=DIR' if you want the compiler to search
directory `DIR/include' for header files *instead* of
`/usr/local/include'. (This is for systems that have different
conventions for where to put site-specific things.)
Unless you have a convention other than `/usr/local' for
site-specific files, it is a bad idea to specify `--local-prefix'.
6. Make sure the Bison parser generator is installed. (This is
unnecessary if the Bison output files `c-parse.c' and `cexp.c' are
more recent than `c-parse.y' and `cexp.y' and you do not plan to
change the `.y' files.)
Bison versions older than Sept 8, 1988 will produce incorrect
output for `c-parse.c'.
7. If you have chosen a configuration for GNU CC which requires other
GNU tools (such as GAS or the GNU linker) instead of the standard
system tools, install the required tools in the build directory
under the names `as', `ld' or whatever is appropriate. This will
enable the compiler to find the proper tools for compilation of
the program `enquire'.
Alternatively, you can do subsequent compilation using a value of
the `PATH' environment variable such that the necessary GNU tools
come before the standard system tools.
8. Build the compiler. Just type `make LANGUAGES=c' in the compiler
directory.
`LANGUAGES=c' specifies that only the C compiler should be
compiled. The makefile normally builds compilers for all the
supported languages; currently, C, C++ and Objective C. However,
C is the only language that is sure to work when you build with
other non-GNU C compilers. In addition, building anything but C
at this stage is a waste of time.
In general, you can specify the languages to build by typing the
argument `LANGUAGES="LIST"', where LIST is one or more words from
the list `c', `c++', and `objective-c'.
Ignore any warnings you may see about "statement not reached" in
`insn-emit.c'; they are normal. Also, warnings about "unknown
escape sequence" are normal in `genopinit.c' and perhaps some
other files. Any other compilation errors may represent bugs in
the port to your machine or operating system, and should be
investigated and reported.
Some commercial compilers fail to compile GNU CC because they have
bugs or limitations. For example, the Microsoft compiler is said
to run out of macro space. Some Ultrix compilers run out of
expression space; then you need to break up the statement where
the problem happens.
If you are building with a previous GNU C compiler, do not use
`CC=gcc' on the make command or by editing the Makefile. Instead,
use a full pathname to specify the compiler, such as
`CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc'. This is because make might execute the
`gcc' in the current directory before all of the compiler
components have been built.
9. If you are building a cross-compiler, stop here. *Note
Cross-Compiler::.
10. Move the first-stage object files and executables into a
subdirectory with this command:
make stage1
The files are moved into a subdirectory named `stage1'. Once
installation is complete, you may wish to delete these files with
`rm -r stage1'.
11. If you have chosen a configuration for GNU CC which requires other
GNU tools (such as GAS or the GNU linker) instead of the standard
system tools, install the required tools in the `stage1'
subdirectory under the names `as', `ld' or whatever is
appropriate. This will enable the stage 1 compiler to find the
proper tools in the following stage.
Alternatively, you can do subsequent compilation using a value of
the `PATH' environment variable such that the necessary GNU tools
come before the standard system tools.
12. Recompile the compiler with itself, with this command:
make CC="stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/" CFLAGS="-g -O"
This is called making the stage 2 compiler.
The command shown above builds compilers for all the supported
languages. If you don't want them all, you can specify the
languages to build by typing the argument `LANGUAGES="LIST"'. LIST
should contain one or more words from the list `c', `c++',
`objective-c', and `proto'. Separate the words with spaces.
`proto' stands for the programs `protoize' and `unprotoize'; they
are not a separate language, but you use `LANGUAGES' to enable or
disable their installation.
If you are going to build the stage 3 compiler, then you might
want to build only the C language in stage 2.
Once you have built the stage 2 compiler, if you are short of disk
space, you can delete the subdirectory `stage1'.
On a 68000 or 68020 system lacking floating point hardware, unless
you have selected a `tm.h' file that expects by default that there
is no such hardware, do this instead:
make CC="stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/" CFLAGS="-g -O -msoft-float"
13. If you wish to test the compiler by compiling it with itself one
more time, install any other necessary GNU tools (such as GAS or
the GNU linker) in the `stage2' subdirectory as you did in the
`stage1' subdirectory, then do this:
make stage2
make CC="stage2/xgcc -Bstage2/" CFLAGS="-g -O"
This is called making the stage 3 compiler. Aside from the `-B'
option, the compiler options should be the same as when you made
the stage 2 compiler. But the `LANGUAGES' option need not be the
same. The command shown above builds compilers for all the
supported languages; if you don't want them all, you can specify
the languages to build by typing the argument `LANGUAGES="LIST"',
as described above.
Then compare the latest object files with the stage 2 object
files--they ought to be identical, aside from time stamps (if any).
On some systems, meaningful comparison of object files is
impossible; they always appear "different." This is currently
true on Solaris and probably on all systems that use ELF object
file format. Some other systems where this is so are listed below.
Use this command to compare the files:
make compare
This will mention any object files that differ between stage 2 and
stage 3. Any difference, no matter how innocuous, indicates that
the stage 2 compiler has compiled GNU CC incorrectly, and is
therefore a potentially serious bug which you should investigate
and report.
If your system does not put time stamps in the object files, then
this is a faster way to compare them (using the Bourne shell):
for file in *.o; do
cmp $file stage2/$file
done
If you have built the compiler with the `-mno-mips-tfile' option on
MIPS machines, you will not be able to compare the files.
The Alpha stores file names of internal temporary files in the
object files and `make compare' does not know how to ignore them,
so normally you cannot compare on the Alpha. However, if you use
the `-save-temps' option when compiling *both* stage 2 and stage
3, this causes the same file names to be used in both stages; then
you can do the comparison.
14. Build the Objective C library (if you have built the Objective C
compiler). Here is the command to do this:
make objc-runtime CC="stage2/xgcc -Bstage2/" CFLAGS="-g -O"
15. Install the compiler driver, the compiler's passes and run-time
support with `make install'. Use the same value for `CC',
`CFLAGS' and `LANGUAGES' that you used when compiling the files
that are being installed. One reason this is necessary is that
some versions of Make have bugs and recompile files gratuitously
when you do this step. If you use the same variable values, those
files will be recompiled properly.
For example, if you have built the stage 2 compiler, you can use
the following command:
make install CC="stage2/xgcc -Bstage2/" CFLAGS="-g -O" LANGUAGES="LIST"
This copies the files `cc1', `cpp' and `libgcc.a' to files `cc1',
`cpp' and `libgcc.a' in the directory
`/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/TARGET/VERSION', which is where the
compiler driver program looks for them. Here TARGET is the target
machine type specified when you ran `configure', and VERSION is
the version number of GNU CC. This naming scheme permits various
versions and/or cross-compilers to coexist.
This also copies the driver program `xgcc' into
`/usr/local/bin/gcc', so that it appears in typical execution
search paths.
On some systems, this command causes recompilation of some files.
This is usually due to bugs in `make'. You should either ignore
this problem, or use GNU Make.
*Warning: there is a bug in `alloca' in the Sun library. To avoid
this bug, be sure to install the executables of GNU CC that were
compiled by GNU CC. (That is, the executables from stage 2 or 3,
not stage 1.) They use `alloca' as a built-in function and never
the one in the library.*
(It is usually better to install GNU CC executables from stage 2
or 3, since they usually run faster than the ones compiled with
some other compiler.)
16. Install the Objective C library (if you are installing the
Objective C compiler). Here is the command to do this:
make install-libobjc CC="stage2/xgcc -Bstage2/" CFLAGS="-g -O"
17. If you're going to use C++, it's likely that you need to also
install the libg++ distribution. It should be available from the
same place where you got the GNU C distribution. Just as GNU C
does not distribute a C runtime library, it also does not include
a C++ run-time library. All I/O functionality, special class
libraries, etc., are available in the libg++ distribution.
Compilation in a Separate Directory
===================================
If you wish to build the object files and executables in a directory
other than the one containing the source files, here is what you must
do differently:
1. Make sure you have a version of Make that supports the `VPATH'
feature. (GNU Make supports it, as do Make versions on most BSD
systems.)
2. If you have ever run `configure' in the source directory, you must
undo the configuration. Do this by running:
make distclean
3. Go to the directory in which you want to build the compiler before
running `configure':
mkdir gcc-sun3
cd gcc-sun3
On systems that do not support symbolic links, this directory must
be on the same file system as the source code directory.
4. Specify where to find `configure' when you run it:
../gcc/configure ...
This also tells `configure' where to find the compiler sources;
`configure' takes the directory from the file name that was used to
invoke it. But if you want to be sure, you can specify the source
directory with the `--srcdir' option, like this:
../gcc/configure --srcdir=../gcc sun3
The directory you specify with `--srcdir' need not be the same as
the one that `configure' is found in.
Now, you can run `make' in that directory. You need not repeat the
configuration steps shown above, when ordinary source files change. You
must, however, run `configure' again when the configuration files
change, if your system does not support symbolic links.
Building and Installing a Cross-Compiler
========================================
GNU CC can function as a cross-compiler for many machines, but not
all.
* Cross-compilers for the Mips as target using the Mips assembler
currently do not work, because the auxiliary programs
`mips-tdump.c' and `mips-tfile.c' can't be compiled on anything
but a Mips. It does work to cross compile for a Mips if you use
the GNU assembler and linker.
* Cross-compilers between machines with different floating point
formats have not all been made to work. GNU CC now has a floating
point emulator with which these can work, but each target machine
description needs to be updated to take advantage of it.
* Cross-compilation between machines of different word sizes has not
really been addressed yet.
Since GNU CC generates assembler code, you probably need a
cross-assembler that GNU CC can run, in order to produce object files.
If you want to link on other than the target machine, you need a
cross-linker as well. You also need header files and libraries suitable
for the target machine that you can install on the host machine.
Steps of Cross-Compilation
--------------------------
To compile and run a program using a cross-compiler involves several
steps:
* Run the cross-compiler on the host machine to produce assembler
files for the target machine. This requires header files for the
target machine.
* Assemble the files produced by the cross-compiler. You can do this
either with an assembler on the target machine, or with a
cross-assembler on the host machine.
* Link those files to make an executable. You can do this either
with a linker on the target machine, or with a cross-linker on the
host machine. Whichever machine you use, you need libraries and
certain startup files (typically `crt....o') for the target
machine.
It is most convenient to do all of these steps on the same host
machine, since then you can do it all with a single invocation of GNU
CC. This requires a suitable cross-assembler and cross-linker. For
some targets, the GNU assembler and linker are available.
Configuring a Cross-Compiler
----------------------------
To build GNU CC as a cross-compiler, you start out by running
`configure'. You must specify two different configurations, the host
and the target. Use the `--host=HOST' option for the host and
`--target=TARGET' to specify the target type. For example, here is how
to configure for a cross-compiler that runs on a hypothetical Intel 386
system and produces code for an HP 68030 system running BSD:
configure --target=m68k-hp-bsd4.3 --host=i386-bozotheclone-bsd4.3
Tools and Libraries for a Cross-Compiler
----------------------------------------
If you have a cross-assembler and cross-linker available, you should
install them now. Put them in the directory `/usr/local/TARGET/bin'.
Here is a table of the tools you should put in this directory:
`as'
This should be the cross-assembler.
`ld'
This should be the cross-linker.
`ar'
This should be the cross-archiver: a program which can manipulate
archive files (linker libraries) in the target machine's format.
`ranlib'
This should be a program to construct a symbol table in an archive
file.
The installation of GNU CC will find these programs in that
directory, and copy or link them to the proper place to for the
cross-compiler to find them when run later.
The easiest way to provide these files is to build the Binutils
package and GAS. Configure them with the same `--host' and `--target'
options that you use for configuring GNU CC, then build and install
them. They install their executables automatically into the proper
directory. Alas, they do not support all the targets that GNU CC
supports.
If you want to install libraries to use with the cross-compiler,
such as a standard C library, put them in the directory
`/usr/local/TARGET/lib'; installation of GNU CC copies all all the
files in that subdirectory into the proper place for GNU CC to find
them and link with them. Here's an example of copying some libraries
from a target machine:
ftp TARGET-MACHINE
lcd /usr/local/TARGET/lib
cd /lib
get libc.a
cd /usr/lib
get libg.a
get libm.a
quit
The precise set of libraries you'll need, and their locations on the
target machine, vary depending on its operating system.
Many targets require "start files" such as `crt0.o' and `crtn.o'
which are linked into each executable; these too should be placed in
`/usr/local/TARGET/lib'. There may be several alternatives for
`crt0.o', for use with profiling or other compilation options. Check
your target's definition of `STARTFILE_SPEC' to find out what start
files it uses. Here's an example of copying these files from a target
machine:
ftp TARGET-MACHINE
lcd /usr/local/TARGET/lib
prompt
cd /lib
mget *crt*.o
cd /usr/lib
mget *crt*.o
quit
`libgcc.a' and Cross-Compilers
------------------------------
Code compiled by GNU CC uses certain runtime support functions
implicitly. Some of these functions can be compiled successfully with
GNU CC itself, but a few cannot be. These problem functions are in the
source file `libgcc1.c'; the library made from them is called
`libgcc1.a'.
When you build a native compiler, these functions are compiled with
some other compiler-the one that you use for bootstrapping GNU CC.
Presumably it knows how to open code these operations, or else knows how
to call the run-time emulation facilities that the machine comes with.
But this approach doesn't work for building a cross-compiler. The
compiler that you use for building knows about the host system, not the
target system.
So, when you build a cross-compiler you have to supply a suitable
library `libgcc1.a' that does the job it is expected to do.
To compile `libgcc1.c' with the cross-compiler itself does not work.
The functions in this file are supposed to implement arithmetic
operations that GNU CC does not know how to open code, for your target
machine. If these functions are compiled with GNU CC itself, they will
compile into infinite recursion.
On any given target, most of these functions are not needed. If GNU
CC can open code an arithmetic operation, it will not call these
functions to perform the operation. It is possible that on your target
machine, none of these functions is needed. If so, you can supply an
empty library as `libgcc1.a'.
Many targets need library support only for multiplication and
division. If you are linking with a library that contains functions for
multiplication and division, you can tell GNU CC to call them directly
by defining the macros `MULSI3_LIBCALL', and the like. These macros
need to be defined in the target description macro file. For some
targets, they are defined already. This may be sufficient to avoid the
need for libgcc1.a; if so, you can supply an empty library.
Some targets do not have floating point instructions; they need other
functions in `libgcc1.a', which do floating arithmetic. Recent
versions of GNU CC have a file which emulates floating point. With a
certain amount of work, you should be able to construct a floating
point emulator that can be used as `libgcc1.a'. Perhaps future
versions will contain code to do this automatically and conveniently.
That depends on whether someone wants to implement it.
If your target system has another C compiler, you can configure GNU
CC as a native compiler on that machine, build just `libgcc1.a' with
`make libgcc1.a' on that machine, and use the resulting file with the
cross-compiler. To do this, execute the following on the target
machine:
cd TARGET-BUILD-DIR
configure --host=sparc --target=sun3
make libgcc1.a
And then this on the host machine:
ftp TARGET-MACHINE
binary
cd TARGET-BUILD-DIR
get libgcc1.a
quit
Another way to provide the functions you need in `libgcc1.a' is to
define the appropriate `perform_...' macros for those functions. If
these definitions do not use the C arithmetic operators that they are
meant to implement, you should be able to compile them with the
cross-compiler you are building. (If these definitions already exist
for your target file, then you are all set.)
To build `libgcc1.a' using the perform macros, use
`LIBGCC1=libgcc1.a OLDCC=./xgcc' when building the compiler.
Otherwise, you should place your replacement library under the name
`libgcc1.a' in the directory in which you will build the
cross-compiler, before you run `make'.
Cross-Compilers and Header Files
--------------------------------
If you are cross-compiling a standalone program or a program for an
embedded system, then you may not need any header files except the few
that are part of GNU CC (and those of your program). However, if you
intend to link your program with a standard C library such as `libc.a',
then you probably need to compile with the header files that go with
the library you use.
The GNU C compiler does not come with these files, because (1) they
are system-specific, and (2) they belong in a C library, not in a
compiler.
If the GNU C library supports your target machine, then you can get
the header files from there (assuming you actually use the GNU library
when you link your program).
If your target machine comes with a C compiler, it probably comes
with suitable header files also. If you make these files accessible
from the host machine, the cross-compiler can use them also.
Otherwise, you're on your own in finding header files to use when
cross-compiling.
When you have found suitable header files, put them in
`/usr/local/TARGET/include', before building the cross compiler. Then
installation will run fixincludes properly and install the corrected
versions of the header files where the compiler will use them.
Provide the header files before you build the cross-compiler, because
the build stage actually runs the cross-compiler to produce parts of
`libgcc.a'. (These are the parts that *can* be compiled with GNU CC.)
Some of them need suitable header files.
Here's an example showing how to copy the header files from a target
machine. On the target machine, do this:
(cd /usr/include; tar cf - .) > tarfile
Then, on the host machine, do this:
ftp TARGET-MACHINE
lcd /usr/local/TARGET/include
get tarfile
quit
tar xf tarfile
Actually Building the Cross-Compiler
------------------------------------
Now you can proceed just as for compiling a single-machine compiler
through the step of building stage 1. If you have not provided some
sort of `libgcc1.a', then compilation will give up at the point where
it needs that file, printing a suitable error message. If you do
provide `libgcc1.a', then building the compiler will automatically
compile and link a test program called `cross-test'; if you get errors
in the linking, it means that not all of the necessary routines in
`libgcc1.a' are available.
If you are making a cross-compiler for an embedded system, and there
is no `stdio.h' header for it, then the compilation of `enquire' will
probably fail. The job of `enquire' is to run on the target machine
and figure out by experiment the nature of its floating point
representation. `enquire' records its findings in the header file
`float.h'. If you can't produce this file by running `enquire' on the
target machine, then you will need to come up with a suitable `float.h'
in some other way (or else, avoid using it in your programs).
Do not try to build stage 2 for a cross-compiler. It doesn't work to
rebuild GNU CC as a cross-compiler using the cross-compiler, because
that would produce a program that runs on the target machine, not on the
host. For example, if you compile a 386-to-68030 cross-compiler with
itself, the result will not be right either for the 386 (because it was
compiled into 68030 code) or for the 68030 (because it was configured
for a 386 as the host). If you want to compile GNU CC into 68030 code,
whether you compile it on a 68030 or with a cross-compiler on a 386, you
must specify a 68030 as the host when you configure it.
To install the cross-compiler, use `make install', as usual.
Installing on the HP Precision Architecture
===========================================
There are two variants of this CPU, called 1.0 and 1.1, which have
different machine descriptions. You must use the right one for your
machine. All 7NN machines and 8N7 machines use 1.1, while all other
8NN machines use 1.0.
The easiest way to handle this problem is to use `configure hpNNN'
or `configure hpNNN-hpux', where NNN is the model number of the
machine. Then `configure' will figure out if the machine is a 1.0 or
1.1. Use `uname -a' to find out the model number of your machine.
`-g' does not work on HP-UX, since that system uses a peculiar
debugging format which GNU CC does not know about. There are
preliminary versions of GAS and GDB for the HP-PA which do work with
GNU CC for debugging. You can get them by anonymous ftp from
`jaguar.cs.utah.edu' `dist' subdirectory. You would need to install
GAS in the file
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/CONFIGURATION/GCCVERSION/as
where CONFIGURATION is the configuration name (perhaps `hpNNN-hpux')
and GCCVERSION is the GNU CC version number. Do this *before* starting
the build process, otherwise you will get errors from the HPUX
assembler while building `libgcc2.a'. The command
make install-dir
will create the necessary directory hierarchy so you can install GAS
before building GCC.
If you obtained GAS before October 6, 1992 it is highly recommended
you get a new one to avoid several bugs which have been discovered
recently.
To enable debugging, configure GNU CC with the `--gas' option before
building.
It has been reported that GNU CC produces invalid assembly code for
1.1 machines running HP-UX 8.02 when using the HP assembler. Typically
the errors look like this:
as: bug.s @line#15 [err#1060]
Argument 0 or 2 in FARG upper
- lookahead = ARGW1=FR,RTNVAL=GR
as: foo.s @line#28 [err#1060]
Argument 0 or 2 in FARG upper
- lookahead = ARGW1=FR
You can check the version of HP-UX you are running by executing the
command `uname -r'. If you are indeed running HP-UX 8.02 on a PA and
using the HP assembler then configure GCC with "hpNNN-hpux8.02".
Installing GNU CC on the Sun
============================
On Solaris (version 2.1), do not use the linker or other tools in
`/usr/ucb' to build GNU CC. Use `/usr/ccs/bin'.
Make sure the environment variable `FLOAT_OPTION' is not set when
you compile `libgcc.a'. If this option were set to `f68881' when
`libgcc.a' is compiled, the resulting code would demand to be linked
with a special startup file and would not link properly without special
pains.
The GNU compiler does not really support the Super SPARC processor
that is used in SPARC Station 10 and similar class machines. You can
get code that runs by specifying `sparc' as the cpu type; however, its
performance is not very good, and may vary widely according to the
compiler version and optimization options used. This is because the
instruction scheduling parameters designed for the Sparc are not correct
for the Super SPARC. Implementing scheduling parameters for the Super
SPARC might be a good project for someone who is willing to learn a
great deal about instruction scheduling in GNU CC.
There is a bug in `alloca' in certain versions of the Sun library.
To avoid this bug, install the binaries of GNU CC that were compiled by
GNU CC. They use `alloca' as a built-in function and never the one in
the library.
Some versions of the Sun compiler crash when compiling GNU CC. The
problem is a segmentation fault in cpp. This problem seems to be due to
the bulk of data in the environment variables. You may be able to avoid
it by using the following command to compile GNU CC with Sun CC:
make CC="TERMCAP=x OBJS=x LIBFUNCS=x STAGESTUFF=x cc"
Installing GNU CC on the 3b1
============================
Installing GNU CC on the 3b1 is difficult if you do not already have
GNU CC running, due to bugs in the installed C compiler. However, the
following procedure might work. We are unable to test it.
1. Comment out the `#include "config.h"' line on line 37 of `cccp.c'
and do `make cpp'. This makes a preliminary version of GNU cpp.
2. Save the old `/lib/cpp' and copy the preliminary GNU cpp to that
file name.
3. Undo your change in `cccp.c', or reinstall the original version,
and do `make cpp' again.
4. Copy this final version of GNU cpp into `/lib/cpp'.
5. Replace every occurrence of `obstack_free' in the file `tree.c'
with `_obstack_free'.
6. Run `make' to get the first-stage GNU CC.
7. Reinstall the original version of `/lib/cpp'.
8. Now you can compile GNU CC with itself and install it in the normal
fashion.
Installing GNU CC on Unos
=========================
Use `configure unos' for building on Unos.
The Unos assembler is named `casm' instead of `as'. For some
strange reason linking `/bin/as' to `/bin/casm' changes the behavior,
and does not work. So, when installing GNU CC, you should install the
following script as `as' in the subdirectory where the passes of GCC
are installed:
#!/bin/sh
casm $*
The default Unos library is named `libunos.a' instead of `libc.a'.
To allow GNU CC to function, either change all references to `-lc' in
`gcc.c' to `-lunos' or link `/lib/libc.a' to `/lib/libunos.a'.
When compiling GNU CC with the standard compiler, to overcome bugs in
the support of `alloca', do not use `-O' when making stage 2. Then use
the stage 2 compiler with `-O' to make the stage 3 compiler. This
compiler will have the same characteristics as the usual stage 2
compiler on other systems. Use it to make a stage 4 compiler and
compare that with stage 3 to verify proper compilation.
(Perhaps simply defining `ALLOCA' in `x-crds' as described in the
comments there will make the above paragraph superfluous. Please
inform us of whether this works.)
Unos uses memory segmentation instead of demand paging, so you will
need a lot of memory. 5 Mb is barely enough if no other tasks are
running. If linking `cc1' fails, try putting the object files into a
library and linking from that library.
Installing GNU CC on VMS
========================
The VMS version of GNU CC is distributed in a backup saveset
containing both source code and precompiled binaries.
To install the `gcc' command so you can use the compiler easily, in
the same manner as you use the VMS C compiler, you must install the VMS
CLD file for GNU CC as follows:
1. Define the VMS logical names `GNU_CC' and `GNU_CC_INCLUDE' to
point to the directories where the GNU CC executables
(`gcc-cpp.exe', `gcc-cc1.exe', etc.) and the C include files are
kept respectively. This should be done with the commands:
$ assign /system /translation=concealed -
disk:[gcc.] gnu_cc
$ assign /system /translation=concealed -
disk:[gcc.include.] gnu_cc_include
with the appropriate disk and directory names. These commands can
be placed in your system startup file so they will be executed
whenever the machine is rebooted. You may, if you choose, do this
via the `GCC_INSTALL.COM' script in the `[GCC]' directory.
2. Install the `GCC' command with the command line:
$ set command /table=sys$common:[syslib]dcltables -
/output=sys$common:[syslib]dcltables gnu_cc:[000000]gcc
$ install replace sys$common:[syslib]dcltables
3. To install the help file, do the following:
$ library/help sys$library:helplib.hlb gcc.hlp
Now you can invoke the compiler with a command like `gcc /verbose
file.c', which is equivalent to the command `gcc -v -c file.c' in
Unix.
If you wish to use GNU C++ you must first install GNU CC, and then
perform the following steps:
1. Define the VMS logical name `GNU_GXX_INCLUDE' to point to the
directory where the preprocessor will search for the C++ header
files. This can be done with the command:
$ assign /system /translation=concealed -
disk:[gcc.gxx_include.] gnu_gxx_include
with the appropriate disk and directory name. If you are going to
be using libg++, this is where the libg++ install procedure will
install the libg++ header files.
2. Obtain the file `gcc-cc1plus.exe', and place this in the same
directory that `gcc-cc1.exe' is kept.
The GNU C++ compiler can be invoked with a command like `gcc /plus
/verbose file.cc', which is equivalent to the command `g++ -v -c
file.cc' in Unix.
We try to put corresponding binaries and sources on the VMS
distribution tape. But sometimes the binaries will be from an older
version than the sources, because we don't always have time to update
them. (Use the `/version' option to determine the version number of
the binaries and compare it with the source file `version.c' to tell
whether this is so.) In this case, you should use the binaries you get
to recompile the sources. If you must recompile, here is how:
1. Execute the command procedure `vmsconfig.com' to set up the files
`tm.h', `config.h', `aux-output.c', and `md.', and to create files
`tconfig.h' and `hconfig.h'. This procedure also creates several
linker option files used by `make-cc1.com' and a data file used by
`make-l2.com'.
$ @vmsconfig.com
2. Setup the logical names and command tables as defined above. In
addition, define the VMS logical name `GNU_BISON' to point at the
to the directories where the Bison executable is kept. This
should be done with the command:
$ assign /system /translation=concealed -
disk:[bison.] gnu_bison
You may, if you choose, use the `INSTALL_BISON.COM' script in the
`[BISON]' directory.
3. Install the `BISON' command with the command line:
$ set command /table=sys$common:[syslib]dcltables -
/output=sys$common:[syslib]dcltables -
gnu_bison:[000000]bison
$ install replace sys$common:[syslib]dcltables
4. Type `@make-gcc' to recompile everything (alternatively, submit
the file `make-gcc.com' to a batch queue). If you wish to build
the GNU C++ compiler as well as the GNU CC compiler, you must
first edit `make-gcc.com' and follow the instructions that appear
in the comments.
5. In order to use GCC, you need a library of functions which GCC
compiled code will call to perform certain tasks, and these
functions are defined in the file `libgcc2.c'. To compile this
you should use the command procedure `make-l2.com', which will
generate the library `libgcc2.olb'. `libgcc2.olb' should be built
using the compiler built from the same distribution that
`libgcc2.c' came from, and `make-gcc.com' will automatically do
all of this for you.
To install the library, use the following commands:
$ library gnu_cc:[000000]gcclib/delete=(new,eprintf)
$ library gnu_cc:[000000]gcclib/delete=L_*
$ library libgcc2/extract=*/output=libgcc2.obj
$ library gnu_cc:[000000]gcclib libgcc2.obj
The first command simply removes old modules that will be replaced
with modules from `libgcc2' under different module names. The
modules `new' and `eprintf' may not actually be present in your
`gcclib.olb'--if the VMS librarian complains about those modules
not being present, simply ignore the message and continue on with
the next command. The second command removes the modules that
came from the previous version of the library `libgcc2.c'.
Whenever you update the compiler on your system, you should also
update the library with the above procedure.
6. You may wish to build GCC in such a way that no files are written
to the directory where the source files reside. An example would
be the when the source files are on a read-only disk. In these
cases, execute the following DCL commands (substituting your
actual path names):
$ assign dua0:[gcc.build_dir.]/translation=concealed, -
dua1:[gcc.source_dir.]/translation=concealed gcc_build
$ set default gcc_build:[000000]
where the directory `dua1:[gcc.source_dir]' contains the source
code, and the directory `dua0:[gcc.build_dir]' is meant to contain
all of the generated object files and executables. Once you have
done this, you can proceed building GCC as described above. (Keep
in mind that `gcc_build' is a rooted logical name, and thus the
device names in each element of the search list must be an actual
physical device name rather than another rooted logical name).
7. *If you are building GNU CC with a previous version of GNU CC, you
also should check to see that you have the newest version of the
assembler*. In particular, GNU CC version 2 treats global constant
variables slightly differently from GNU CC version 1, and GAS
version 1.38.1 does not have the patches required to work with GCC
version 2. If you use GAS 1.38.1, then `extern const' variables
will not have the read-only bit set, and the linker will generate
warning messages about mismatched psect attributes for these
variables. These warning messages are merely a nuisance, and can
safely be ignored.
If you are compiling with a version of GNU CC older than 1.33,
specify `/DEFINE=("inline=")' as an option in all the
compilations. This requires editing all the `gcc' commands in
`make-cc1.com'. (The older versions had problems supporting
`inline'.) Once you have a working 1.33 or newer GNU CC, you can
change this file back.
8. If you want to build GNU CC with the VAX C compiler, you will need
to make minor changes in `make-cccp.com' and `make-cc1.com' to
choose alternate definitions of `CC', `CFLAGS', and `LIBS'. See
comments in those files. However, you must also have a working
version of the GNU assembler (GNU as, aka GAS) as it is used as
the back-end for GNU CC to produce binary object modules and is
not included in the GNU CC sources. GAS is also needed to compile
`libgcc2' in order to build `gcclib' (see above); `make-l2.com'
expects to be able to find it operational in
`gnu_cc:[000000]gnu-as.exe'.
To use GNU CC on VMS, you need the VMS driver programs `gcc.exe',
`gcc.com', and `gcc.cld'. They are distributed with the VMS
binaries (`gcc-vms') rather than the GNU CC sources. GAS is also
included in `gcc-vms', as is Bison.
Once you have successfully built GNU CC with VAX C, you should use
the resulting compiler to rebuild itself. Before doing this, be
sure to restore the `CC', `CFLAGS', and `LIBS' definitions in
`make-cccp.com' and `make-cc1.com'. The second generation
compiler will be able to take advantage of many optimizations that
must be suppressed when building with other compilers.
Under previous versions of GNU CC, the generated code would
occasionally give strange results when linked with the sharable
`VAXCRTL' library. Now this should work.
Even with this version, however, GNU CC itself should not be linked
with the sharable `VAXCRTL'. The version of `qsort' in `VAXCRTL' has a
bug (known to be present in VMS versions V4.6 through V5.5) which
causes the compiler to fail.
The executables are generated by `make-cc1.com' and `make-cccp.com'
use the object library version of `VAXCRTL' in order to make use of the
`qsort' routine in `gcclib.olb'. If you wish to link the compiler
executables with the shareable image version of `VAXCRTL', you should
edit the file `tm.h' (created by `vmsconfig.com') to define the macro
`QSORT_WORKAROUND'.
`QSORT_WORKAROUND' is always defined when GNU CC is compiled with
VAX C, to avoid a problem in case `gcclib.olb' is not yet available.
Installing GNU CC on the WE32K
==============================
These computers are also known as the 3b2, 3b5, 3b20 and other
similar names. (However, the 3b1 is actually a 68000; see *Note 3b1
Install::.)
Don't use `-g' when compiling with the system's compiler. The
system's linker seems to be unable to handle such a large program with
debugging information.
The system's compiler runs out of capacity when compiling `stmt.c'
in GNU CC. You can work around this by building `cpp' in GNU CC first,
then use that instead of the system's preprocessor with the system's C
compiler to compile `stmt.c'. Here is how:
mv /lib/cpp /lib/cpp.att
cp cpp /lib/cpp.gnu
echo '/lib/cpp.gnu -traditional ${1+"$@"}' > /lib/cpp
chmod +x /lib/cpp
The system's compiler produces bad code for some of the GNU CC
optimization files. So you must build the stage 2 compiler without
optimization. Then build a stage 3 compiler with optimization. That
executable should work. Here are the necessary commands:
make LANGUAGES=c CC=stage1/xgcc CFLAGS="-Bstage1/ -g"
make stage2
make CC=stage2/xgcc CFLAGS="-Bstage2/ -g -O"
You may need to raise the ULIMIT setting to build a C++ compiler, as
the file `cc1plus' is larger than one megabyte.
Installing GNU CC on the MIPS
=============================
See *Note Installation:: about whether to use either of the options
`--with-stabs' or `--with-gnu-as'.
The MIPS C compiler needs to be told to increase its table size for
switch statements with the `-Wf,-XNg1500' option in order to compile
`cp-parse.c'. If you use the `-O2' optimization option, you also need
to use `-Olimit 3000'. Both of these options are automatically
generated in the `Makefile' that the shell script `configure' builds.
If you override the `CC' make variable and use the MIPS compilers, you
may need to add `-Wf,-XNg1500 -Olimit 3000'.
MIPS computers running RISC-OS can support four different
personalities: default, BSD 4.3, System V.3, and System V.4 (older
versions of RISC-OS don't support V.4). To configure GCC for these
platforms use the following configurations:
`mips-mips-riscos`rev''
Default configuration for RISC-OS, revision `rev'.
`mips-mips-riscos`rev'bsd'
BSD 4.3 configuration for RISC-OS, revision `rev'.
`mips-mips-riscos`rev'sysv4'
System V.4 configuration for RISC-OS, revision `rev'.
`mips-mips-riscos`rev'sysv'
System V.3 configuration for RISC-OS, revision `rev'.
The revision `rev' mentioned above is the revision of RISC-OS to
use. You must reconfigure GCC when going from a RISC-OS revision 4 to
RISC-OS revision 5. This has the effect of avoiding a linker bug.
DECstations can support three different personalities: Ultrix, DEC
OSF/1, and OSF/rose. To configure GCC for these platforms use the
following configurations:
`decstation-ultrix'
Ultrix configuration.
`decstation-osf1'
Dec's version of OSF/1.
`decstation-osfrose'
Open Software Foundation reference port of OSF/1 which uses the
OSF/rose object file format instead of ECOFF. Normally, you would
not select this configuration.
On Irix version 4.0.5F, and perhaps on some other versions as well,
there is an assembler bug that reorders instructions incorrectly. To
work around it, specify the target configuration `mips-sgi-irix4loser'.
This configuration inhibits assembler optimization.
You can turn off assembler optimization in a compiler configured with
target `mips-sgi-irix4' using the `-noasmopt' option. This compiler
option passes the option `-O0' to the assembler, to inhibit reordering.
The `-noasmopt' option can be useful for testing whether a problem
is due to erroneous assembler reordering. Even if a problem does not go
away with `-noasmopt', it may still be due to assembler
reordering--perhaps GNU CC itself was miscompiled as a result.
We know this is inconvenient, but it's the best that can be done at
the last minute.
`collect2'
==========
Many target systems do not have support in the assembler and linker
for "constructors"--initialization functions to be called before the
official "start" of `main'. On such systems, GNU CC uses a utility
called `collect2' to arrange to call these functions at start time.
The program `collect2' works by linking the program once and looking
through the linker output file for symbols with particular names
indicating they are constructor functions. If it finds any, it creates
a new temporary `.c' file containing a table of them, compiles it, and
links the program a second time including that file.
The actual calls to the constructors are carried out by a subroutine
called `__main', which is called (automatically) at the beginning of
the body of `main' (provided `main' was compiled with GNU CC).
The program `collect2' is installed as `ld' in the directory where
the passes of the compiler are installed. When `collect2' needs to
find the *real* `ld', it tries the following file names:
* `gld' in the directories listed in the compiler's search
directories.
* `gld' in the directories listed in the environment variable `PATH'.
* `real-ld' in the compiler's search directories.
* `real-ld' in `PATH'.
* `ld' in `PATH'.
"The compiler's search directories" means all the directories where
`gcc' searches for passes of the compiler. This includes directories
that you specify with `-B'.
Cross-compilers search a little differently:
* `gld' in the compiler's search directories.
* `TARGET-gld' in `PATH'.
* `real-ld' in the compiler's search directories.
* `TARGET-real-ld' in `PATH'.
* `TARGET-ld' in `PATH'.
`collect2' does not search for `ld' using the compiler's search
directories, because if it did, it would find itself--not the real
`ld'--and this could lead to infinite recursion. However, the
directory where `collect2' is installed might happen to be in `PATH'.
That could lead `collect2' to invoke itself anyway. when looking for
`ld'.
To prevent this, `collect2' explicitly avoids running `ld' using the
file name under which `collect2' itself was invoked. In fact, it
remembers up to two such names--in case one copy of `collect2' finds
another copy (or version) of `collect2' installed as `ld' in a second
place in the search path.
If two file names to avoid are not sufficient, you may still
encounter an infinite recursion of `collect2' processes. When this
happens. check all the files installed as `ld' in any of the
directories searched, and straighten out the situation.
(In a future version, we will probably change `collect2' to avoid
any reinvocation of a file from which any parent `collect2' was run.)
Standard Header File Directories
================================
`GCC_INCLUDE_DIR' means the same thing for native and cross. It is
where GNU CC stores its private include files, and also where GNU CC
stores the fixed include files. A cross compiled GNU CC runs
`fixincludes' on the header files in `$(tooldir)/include'. (If the
cross compilation header files need to be fixed, they must be installed
before GNU CC is built. If the cross compilation header files are
already suitable for ANSI C and GNU CC, nothing special need be done).
`GPLUS_INCLUDE_DIR' means the same thing for native and cross. It
is where `g++' looks first for header files. `libg++' installs only
target independent header files in that directory.
`LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR' is used only for a native compiler. It is
normally `/usr/local/include'. GNU CC searches this directory so that
users can install header files in `/usr/local/include'.
`CROSS_INCLUDE_DIR' is used only for a cross compiler. GNU CC
doesn't install anything there.
`TOOL_INCLUDE_DIR' is used for both native and cross compilers. It
is the place for other packages to install header files that GNU CC will
use. For a cross-compiler, this is the equivalent of `/usr/include'.
When you build a cross-compiler, `fixincludes' processes any header
files in this directory.