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- From: lien@lysator.liu.se (Jan Lien)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: gcc install doc
- Message-ID: <1597@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 21:25:11 GMT
- Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
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- Regarding the gcc install files. I have read the README, as well as
- all releasenotes, and the FAQ. Most of the contents seem directed
- to unix gurus, and treats mainly compiler options or if it is ANSI
- compliant. I just want a gcc so I can compile and install programs
- I find in the archives, and maybe later on adjust programs I have
- slightly. A C compiler seems to be essential on a unix system,
- that's why I want it. I might get the fortran to c converter,
- because I have written short programs in fortran before. I am NOT a
- programmer. I DO NOT know C. I do not have the time to learn all
- about C now. If I cannot get gcc to work without much perspiration, I
- will just kick it out - and never learn or use C... Most of the
- people who have replied to me have just said "read the README!". But
- the README does NOT answer the questions I have - if it does, please
- point i out to me, and I will apologize for my stupidity.
-
- By the way, I managed to boot and install linux without much trouble.
- I managed to get mtools on line, and after that emacs, and ka9q.
- Thanks to all those kind souls who provided those packages,
- especially to Jim Winstead, as I had very few problems in that
- installation! This should mean I am not a completely stupid asshole?
-
- What the gcc README does not tell me:
-
- - does not give me any information on what to do about the fact that
- linux truncates filenames longer than 14 characters. The install
- script does not seem to complain about it, when I tested it, now.
- But there should definetly be a remark there about this.
- - where files will end up (new directories, plus most important what
- files go into existing directories).
- - how to uninstall gcc
- - what procedures the install script actually performs: simply
- untar all archives, or does it do something else?
- - does the install script actually check that all files are where
- they should, that it works?
- - I don't understand the final remarks in the install file.
-
- Please get rid of all the -"nostdinc -I" from the Makefiles in
- kernel sources and then do a fresh "make dep".
-
- What is -nostdinc ??? make dep on my linux just gives me
- make: command not found
- - where I find gdb
- - where and how do I find a "make" to install
- - what do I have to do if I decide to move my kernel source to
- another directory
-
- I do not want to have to become a unix guru just to use linux.
- Then I could as well do something productive, like program an old IBM
- 360 with punch cards :-)
-
- This was not a flame, just a comment. I appreciate that HJ has spent
- effort on the gcc compiler. I simply didn't get it working anyway.
- I volunteer to improve the install doc, IF AND ONLY IF, I get to the
- point that understand (or think I understand) how it works.
-