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104 @c Part 3 Titlepage and Copyright
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122 procedure for GCC as well as detailing some target
123 specific installation instructions.
124
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139 @c Part 5 The Body of the Document
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149
150 The latest version of this document is always available at
151 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/install/,,http://gcc.gnu.org/install/}.
152
153 This document describes the generic installation procedure for GCC as well
154 as detailing some target specific installation instructions.
155
156 GCC includes several components that previously were separate distributions
157 with their own installation instructions. This document supersedes all
158 package specific installation instructions.
159
160 @emph{Before} starting the build/install procedure please check the
161 @ifnothtml
162 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
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167 We recommend you browse the entire generic installation instructions before
168 you proceed.
169
170 Lists of successful builds for released versions of GCC are
171 available at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
172 These lists are updated as new information becomes available.
173
174 The installation procedure itself is broken into five steps.
175
176 @ifinfo
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203 Please note that GCC does not support @samp{make uninstall} and probably
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205 we suggest that you install GCC into a directory of its own and simply
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207 any longer, and, if shared libraries are installed there as well, no
208 more binaries exist that use them.
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227 @c ***Prerequisites**************************************************
228 @ifnothtml
229 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
230 @node Prerequisites, Downloading the source, , Installing GCC
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233 @ifnothtml
234 @chapter Prerequisites
235 @end ifnothtml
236 @cindex Prerequisites
237
238 GCC requires that various tools and packages be available for use in the
239 build procedure. Modifying GCC sources requires additional tools
240 described below.
241
242 @heading Tools/packages necessary for building GCC
243 @table @asis
244 @item ISO C90 compiler
245 Necessary to bootstrap GCC, although versions of GCC prior
246 to 3.4 also allow bootstrapping with a traditional (K&R) C compiler.
247
248 To build all languages in a cross-compiler or other configuration where
249 3-stage bootstrap is not performed, you need to start with an existing
250 GCC binary (version 2.95 or later) because source code for language
251 frontends other than C might use GCC extensions.
252
253 @item GNAT
254
255 In order to build the Ada compiler (GNAT) you must already have GNAT
256 installed because portions of the Ada frontend are written in Ada (with
257 GNAT extensions.) Refer to the Ada installation instructions for more
258 specific information.
259
260 @item A ``working'' POSIX compatible shell, or GNU bash
261
262 Necessary when running @command{configure} because some
263 @command{/bin/sh} shells have bugs and may crash when configuring the
264 target libraries. In other cases, @command{/bin/sh} or @command{ksh}
265 have disastrous corner-case performance problems. This
266 can cause target @command{configure} runs to literally take days to
267 complete in some cases.
268
269 So on some platforms @command{/bin/ksh} is sufficient, on others it
270 isn't. See the host/target specific instructions for your platform, or
271 use @command{bash} to be sure. Then set @env{CONFIG_SHELL} in your
272 environment to your ``good'' shell prior to running
273 @command{configure}/@command{make}.
274
275 @command{zsh} is not a fully compliant POSIX shell and will not
276 work when configuring GCC@.
277
278 @item A POSIX or SVR4 awk
279
280 Necessary for creating some of the generated source files for GCC@.
281 If in doubt, use a recent GNU awk version, as some of the older ones
282 are broken. GNU awk version 3.1.5 is known to work.
283
284 @item GNU binutils
285
286 Necessary in some circumstances, optional in others. See the
287 host/target specific instructions for your platform for the exact
288 requirements.
289
290 @item gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
291 @itemx bzip2 version 1.0.2 (or later)
292
293 Necessary to uncompress GCC @command{tar} files when source code is
294 obtained via FTP mirror sites.
295
296 @item GNU make version 3.80 (or later)
297
298 You must have GNU make installed to build GCC@.
299
300 @item GNU tar version 1.14 (or later)
301
302 Necessary (only on some platforms) to untar the source code. Many
303 systems' @command{tar} programs will also work, only try GNU
304 @command{tar} if you have problems.
305
306 @item Perl version 5.6.1 (or later)
307
308 Necessary when targetting Darwin, building @samp{libstdc++},
309 and not using @option{--disable-symvers}.
310 Necessary when targetting Solaris 2 with Sun @command{ld} and not using
311 @option{--disable-symvers}. The bundled @command{perl} in Solaris@tie{}8
312 and up works.
313
314 Necessary when regenerating @file{Makefile} dependencies in libiberty.
315 Necessary when regenerating @file{libiberty/functions.texi}.
316 Necessary when generating manpages from Texinfo manuals.
317 Used by various scripts to generate some files included in SVN (mainly
318 Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source tables.
319
320 @item @command{jar}, or InfoZIP (@command{zip} and @command{unzip})
321
322 Necessary to build libgcj, the GCJ runtime.
323
324 @end table
325
326 Several support libraries are necessary to build GCC, some are required,
327 others optional. While any sufficiently new version of required tools
328 usually work, library requirements are generally stricter. Newer
329 versions may work in some cases, but it's safer to use the exact
330 versions documented. We appreciate bug reports about problems with
331 newer versions, though.
332
333 @table @asis
334 @item GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) version 4.3.2 (or later)
335
336 Necessary to build GCC@. If you do not have it installed in your
337 library search path, you will have to configure with the
338 @option{--with-gmp} configure option. See also @option{--with-gmp-lib}
339 and @option{--with-gmp-include}. Alternatively, if a GMP source
340 distribution is found in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named
341 @file{gmp}, it will be built together with GCC@.
342
343 @item MPFR Library version 2.4.2 (or later)
344
345 Necessary to build GCC@. It can be downloaded from
346 @uref{http://www.mpfr.org/}. The @option{--with-mpfr} configure
347 option should be used if your MPFR Library is not installed in your
348 default library search path. See also @option{--with-mpfr-lib} and
349 @option{--with-mpfr-include}. Alternatively, if a MPFR source
350 distribution is found in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named
351 @file{mpfr}, it will be built together with GCC@.
352
353 @item MPC Library version 0.8.1 (or later)
354
355 Necessary to build GCC@. It can be downloaded from
356 @uref{http://www.multiprecision.org/}. The @option{--with-mpc}
357 configure option should be used if your MPC Library is not installed
358 in your default library search path. See also @option{--with-mpc-lib}
359 and @option{--with-mpc-include}. Alternatively, if an MPC source
360 distribution is found in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named
361 @file{mpc}, it will be built together with GCC@.
362
363 @item Parma Polyhedra Library (PPL) version 0.11
364
365 Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations.
366 It can be downloaded from @uref{http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/Download/}.
367
368 The @option{--with-ppl} configure option should be used if PPL is not
369 installed in your default library search path.
370
371 @item CLooG-PPL version 0.15 or CLooG 0.16
372
373 Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations. There
374 are two versions available. CLooG-PPL 0.15 as well as CLooG 0.16.
375 The former is the default right now. It can be downloaded from
376 @uref{ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/} as
377 @file{cloog-ppl-0.15.tar.gz}.
378
379 CLooG 0.16 support is still in testing stage, but will be the
380 default in future GCC releases. It is also available at
381 @uref{ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/} as
382 @file{cloog-0.16.1.tar.gz}. To use it add the additional configure
383 option @option{--enable-cloog-backend=isl}. Even if CLooG 0.16
384 does not use PPL, PPL is still required for Graphite.
385
386 In both cases @option{--with-cloog} configure option should be used
387 if CLooG is not installed in your default library search path.
388
389 @end table
390
391 @heading Tools/packages necessary for modifying GCC
392 @table @asis
393 @item autoconf version 2.64
394 @itemx GNU m4 version 1.4.6 (or later)
395
396 Necessary when modifying @file{configure.ac}, @file{aclocal.m4}, etc.@:
397 to regenerate @file{configure} and @file{config.in} files.
398
399 @item automake version 1.11.1
400
401 Necessary when modifying a @file{Makefile.am} file to regenerate its
402 associated @file{Makefile.in}.
403
404 Much of GCC does not use automake, so directly edit the @file{Makefile.in}
405 file. Specifically this applies to the @file{gcc}, @file{intl},
406 @file{libcpp}, @file{libiberty}, @file{libobjc} directories as well
407 as any of their subdirectories.
408
409 For directories that use automake, GCC requires the latest release in
410 the 1.11 series, which is currently 1.11.1. When regenerating a directory
411 to a newer version, please update all the directories using an older 1.11
412 to the latest released version.
413
414 @item gettext version 0.14.5 (or later)
415
416 Needed to regenerate @file{gcc.pot}.
417
418 @item gperf version 2.7.2 (or later)
419
420 Necessary when modifying @command{gperf} input files, e.g.@:
421 @file{gcc/cp/cfns.gperf} to regenerate its associated header file, e.g.@:
422 @file{gcc/cp/cfns.h}.
423
424 @item DejaGnu 1.4.4
425 @itemx Expect
426 @itemx Tcl
427
428 Necessary to run the GCC testsuite; see the section on testing for details.
429
430 @item autogen version 5.5.4 (or later) and
431 @itemx guile version 1.4.1 (or later)
432
433 Necessary to regenerate @file{fixinc/fixincl.x} from
434 @file{fixinc/inclhack.def} and @file{fixinc/*.tpl}.
435
436 Necessary to run @samp{make check} for @file{fixinc}.
437
438 Necessary to regenerate the top level @file{Makefile.in} file from
439 @file{Makefile.tpl} and @file{Makefile.def}.
440
441 @item Flex version 2.5.4 (or later)
442
443 Necessary when modifying @file{*.l} files.
444
445 Necessary to build GCC during development because the generated output
446 files are not included in the SVN repository. They are included in
447 releases.
448
449 @item Texinfo version 4.7 (or later)
450
451 Necessary for running @command{makeinfo} when modifying @file{*.texi}
452 files to test your changes.
453
454 Necessary for running @command{make dvi} or @command{make pdf} to
455 create printable documentation in DVI or PDF format. Texinfo version
456 4.8 or later is required for @command{make pdf}.
457
458 Necessary to build GCC documentation during development because the
459 generated output files are not included in the SVN repository. They are
460 included in releases.
461
462 @item @TeX{} (any working version)
463
464 Necessary for running @command{texi2dvi} and @command{texi2pdf}, which
465 are used when running @command{make dvi} or @command{make pdf} to create
466 DVI or PDF files, respectively.
467
468 @item SVN (any version)
469 @itemx SSH (any version)
470
471 Necessary to access the SVN repository. Public releases and weekly
472 snapshots of the development sources are also available via FTP@.
473
474 @item GNU diffutils version 2.7 (or later)
475
476 Useful when submitting patches for the GCC source code.
477
478 @item patch version 2.5.4 (or later)
479
480 Necessary when applying patches, created with @command{diff}, to one's
481 own sources.
482
483 @item ecj1
484 @itemx gjavah
485
486 If you wish to modify @file{.java} files in libjava, you will need to
487 configure with @option{--enable-java-maintainer-mode}, and you will need
488 to have executables named @command{ecj1} and @command{gjavah} in your path.
489 The @command{ecj1} executable should run the Eclipse Java compiler via
490 the GCC-specific entry point. You can download a suitable jar from
491 @uref{ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/}, or by running the script
492 @command{contrib/download_ecj}.
493
494 @item antlr.jar version 2.7.1 (or later)
495 @itemx antlr binary
496
497 If you wish to build the @command{gjdoc} binary in libjava, you will
498 need to have an @file{antlr.jar} library available. The library is
499 searched in system locations but can be configured with
500 @option{--with-antlr-jar=} instead. When configuring with
501 @option{--enable-java-maintainer-mode}, you will need to have one of
502 the executables named @command{cantlr}, @command{runantlr} or
503 @command{antlr} in your path.
504
505 @end table
506
507 @html
508 <hr />
509 <p>
510 @end html
511 @ifhtml
512 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
513 @end ifhtml
514 @end ifset
515
516 @c ***Downloading the source**************************************************
517 @ifnothtml
518 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
519 @node Downloading the source, Configuration, Prerequisites, Installing GCC
520 @end ifnothtml
521 @ifset downloadhtml
522 @ifnothtml
523 @chapter Downloading GCC
524 @end ifnothtml
525 @cindex Downloading GCC
526 @cindex Downloading the Source
527
528 GCC is distributed via @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html,,SVN} and FTP
529 tarballs compressed with @command{gzip} or
530 @command{bzip2}. It is possible to download a full distribution or specific
531 components.
532
533 Please refer to the @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html,,releases web page}
534 for information on how to obtain GCC@.
535
536 The full distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java,
537 and Ada (in the case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers. The full
538 distribution also includes runtime libraries for C++, Objective-C,
539 Fortran, and Java. In GCC 3.0 and later versions, the GNU compiler
540 testsuites are also included in the full distribution.
541
542 If you choose to download specific components, you must download the core
543 GCC distribution plus any language specific distributions you wish to
544 use. The core distribution includes the C language front end as well as the
545 shared components. Each language has a tarball which includes the language
546 front end as well as the language runtime (when appropriate).
547
548 Unpack the core distribution as well as any language specific
549 distributions in the same directory.
550
551 If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing
552 installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your
553 OS), unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or
554 a separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any
555 components of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler
556 (@file{bfd}, @file{binutils}, @file{gas}, @file{gprof}, @file{ld},
557 @file{opcodes}, @dots{}) to the directory containing the GCC sources.
558
559 Likewise the GMP, MPFR and MPC libraries can be automatically built
560 together with GCC. Unpack the GMP, MPFR and/or MPC source
561 distributions in the directory containing the GCC sources and rename
562 their directories to @file{gmp}, @file{mpfr} and @file{mpc},
563 respectively (or use symbolic links with the same name).
564
565 @html
566 <hr />
567 <p>
568 @end html
569 @ifhtml
570 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
571 @end ifhtml
572 @end ifset
573
574 @c ***Configuration***********************************************************
575 @ifnothtml
576 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
577 @node Configuration, Building, Downloading the source, Installing GCC
578 @end ifnothtml
579 @ifset configurehtml
580 @ifnothtml
581 @chapter Installing GCC: Configuration
582 @end ifnothtml
583 @cindex Configuration
584 @cindex Installing GCC: Configuration
585
586 Like most GNU software, GCC must be configured before it can be built.
587 This document describes the recommended configuration procedure
588 for both native and cross targets.
589
590 We use @var{srcdir} to refer to the toplevel source directory for
591 GCC; we use @var{objdir} to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
592
593 If you obtained the sources via SVN, @var{srcdir} must refer to the top
594 @file{gcc} directory, the one where the @file{MAINTAINERS} file can be
595 found, and not its @file{gcc} subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
596
597 If either @var{srcdir} or @var{objdir} is located on an automounted NFS
598 file system, the shell's built-in @command{pwd} command will return
599 temporary pathnames. Using these can lead to various sorts of build
600 problems. To avoid this issue, set the @env{PWDCMD} environment
601 variable to an automounter-aware @command{pwd} command, e.g.,
602 @command{pawd} or @samp{amq -w}, during the configuration and build
603 phases.
604
605 First, we @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built into a
606 separate directory from the sources which does @strong{not} reside
607 within the source tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building
608 where @var{srcdir} == @var{objdir} should still work, but doesn't
609 get extensive testing; building where @var{objdir} is a subdirectory
610 of @var{srcdir} is unsupported.
611
612 If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
613 different target machine, do @samp{make distclean} to delete all files
614 that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is @file{Makefile};
615 if @samp{make distclean} complains that @file{Makefile} does not exist
616 or issues a message like ``don't know how to make distclean'' it probably
617 means that the directory is already suitably clean. However, with the
618 recommended method of building in a separate @var{objdir}, you should
619 simply use a different @var{objdir} for each target.
620
621 Second, when configuring a native system, either @command{cc} or
622 @command{gcc} must be in your path or you must set @env{CC} in
623 your environment before running configure. Otherwise the configuration
624 scripts may fail.
625
626 @ignore
627 Note that the bootstrap compiler and the resulting GCC must be link
628 compatible, else the bootstrap will fail with linker errors about
629 incompatible object file formats. Several multilibed targets are
630 affected by this requirement, see
631 @ifnothtml
632 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
633 @end ifnothtml
634 @ifhtml
635 @uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
636 @end ifhtml
637 @end ignore
638
639 To configure GCC:
640
641 @smallexample
642 % mkdir @var{objdir}
643 % cd @var{objdir}
644 % @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
645 @end smallexample
646
647 @heading Distributor options
648
649 If you will be distributing binary versions of GCC, with modifications
650 to the source code, you should use the options described in this
651 section to make clear that your version contains modifications.
652
653 @table @code
654 @item --with-pkgversion=@var{version}
655 Specify a string that identifies your package. You may wish
656 to include a build number or build date. This version string will be
657 included in the output of @command{gcc --version}. This suffix does
658 not replace the default version string, only the @samp{GCC} part.
659
660 The default value is @samp{GCC}.
661
662 @item --with-bugurl=@var{url}
663 Specify the URL that users should visit if they wish to report a bug.
664 You are of course welcome to forward bugs reported to you to the FSF,
665 if you determine that they are not bugs in your modifications.
666
667 The default value refers to the FSF's GCC bug tracker.
668
669 @end table
670
671 @heading Target specification
672 @itemize @bullet
673 @item
674 GCC has code to correctly determine the correct value for @var{target}
675 for nearly all native systems. Therefore, we highly recommend you do
676 not provide a configure target when configuring a native compiler.
677
678 @item
679 @var{target} must be specified as @option{--target=@var{target}}
680 when configuring a cross compiler; examples of valid targets would be
681 m68k-elf, sh-elf, etc.
682
683 @item
684 Specifying just @var{target} instead of @option{--target=@var{target}}
685 implies that the host defaults to @var{target}.
686 @end itemize
687
688
689 @heading Options specification
690
691 Use @var{options} to override several configure time options for
692 GCC@. A list of supported @var{options} follows; @samp{configure
693 --help} may list other options, but those not listed below may not
694 work and should not normally be used.
695
696 Note that each @option{--enable} option has a corresponding
697 @option{--disable} option and that each @option{--with} option has a
698 corresponding @option{--without} option.
699
700 @table @code
701 @item --prefix=@var{dirname}
702 Specify the toplevel installation
703 directory. This is the recommended way to install the tools into a directory
704 other than the default. The toplevel installation directory defaults to
705 @file{/usr/local}.
706
707 We @strong{highly} recommend against @var{dirname} being the same or a
708 subdirectory of @var{objdir} or vice versa. If specifying a directory
709 beneath a user's home directory tree, some shells will not expand
710 @var{dirname} correctly if it contains the @samp{~} metacharacter; use
711 @env{$HOME} instead.
712
713 The following standard @command{autoconf} options are supported. Normally you
714 should not need to use these options.
715 @table @code
716 @item --exec-prefix=@var{dirname}
717 Specify the toplevel installation directory for architecture-dependent
718 files. The default is @file{@var{prefix}}.
719
720 @item --bindir=@var{dirname}
721 Specify the installation directory for the executables called by users
722 (such as @command{gcc} and @command{g++}). The default is
723 @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}.
724
725 @item --libdir=@var{dirname}
726 Specify the installation directory for object code libraries and
727 internal data files of GCC@. The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/lib}.
728
729 @item --libexecdir=@var{dirname}
730 Specify the installation directory for internal executables of GCC@.
731 The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/libexec}.
732
733 @item --with-slibdir=@var{dirname}
734 Specify the installation directory for the shared libgcc library. The
735 default is @file{@var{libdir}}.
736
737 @item --datarootdir=@var{dirname}
738 Specify the root of the directory tree for read-only architecture-independent
739 data files referenced by GCC@. The default is @file{@var{prefix}/share}.
740
741 @item --infodir=@var{dirname}
742 Specify the installation directory for documentation in info format.
743 The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}/info}.
744
745 @item --datadir=@var{dirname}
746 Specify the installation directory for some architecture-independent
747 data files referenced by GCC@. The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}}.
748
749 @item --docdir=@var{dirname}
750 Specify the installation directory for documentation files (other
751 than Info) for GCC@. The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}/doc}.
752
753 @item --htmldir=@var{dirname}
754 Specify the installation directory for HTML documentation files.
755 The default is @file{@var{docdir}}.
756
757 @item --pdfdir=@var{dirname}
758 Specify the installation directory for PDF documentation files.
759 The default is @file{@var{docdir}}.
760
761 @item --mandir=@var{dirname}
762 Specify the installation directory for manual pages. The default is
763 @file{@var{datarootdir}/man}. (Note that the manual pages are only extracts
764 from the full GCC manuals, which are provided in Texinfo format. The manpages
765 are derived by an automatic conversion process from parts of the full
766 manual.)
767
768 @item --with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}
769 Specify
770 the installation directory for G++ header files. The default depends
771 on other configuration options, and differs between cross and native
772 configurations.
773
774 @item --with-specs=@var{specs}
775 Specify additional command line driver SPECS.
776 This can be useful if you need to turn on a non-standard feature by
777 default without modifying the compiler's source code, for instance
778 @option{--with-specs=%@{!fcommon:%@{!fno-common:-fno-common@}@}}.
779 @ifnothtml
780 @xref{Spec Files,, Specifying subprocesses and the switches to pass to them,
781 gcc, Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
782 @end ifnothtml
783 @ifhtml
784 See ``Spec Files'' in the main manual
785 @end ifhtml
786
787 @end table
788
789 @item --program-prefix=@var{prefix}
790 GCC supports some transformations of the names of its programs when
791 installing them. This option prepends @var{prefix} to the names of
792 programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). For example, specifying
793 @option{--program-prefix=foo-} would result in @samp{gcc}
794 being installed as @file{/usr/local/bin/foo-gcc}.
795
796 @item --program-suffix=@var{suffix}
797 Appends @var{suffix} to the names of programs to install in @var{bindir}
798 (see above). For example, specifying @option{--program-suffix=-3.1}
799 would result in @samp{gcc} being installed as
800 @file{/usr/local/bin/gcc-3.1}.
801
802 @item --program-transform-name=@var{pattern}
803 Applies the @samp{sed} script @var{pattern} to be applied to the names
804 of programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). @var{pattern} has to
805 consist of one or more basic @samp{sed} editing commands, separated by
806 semicolons. For example, if you want the @samp{gcc} program name to be
807 transformed to the installed program @file{/usr/local/bin/myowngcc} and
808 the @samp{g++} program name to be transformed to
809 @file{/usr/local/bin/gspecial++} without changing other program names,
810 you could use the pattern
811 @option{--program-transform-name='s/^gcc$/myowngcc/; s/^g++$/gspecial++/'}
812 to achieve this effect.
813
814 All three options can be combined and used together, resulting in more
815 complex conversion patterns. As a basic rule, @var{prefix} (and
816 @var{suffix}) are prepended (appended) before further transformations
817 can happen with a special transformation script @var{pattern}.
818
819 As currently implemented, this option only takes effect for native
820 builds; cross compiler binaries' names are not transformed even when a
821 transformation is explicitly asked for by one of these options.
822
823 For native builds, some of the installed programs are also installed
824 with the target alias in front of their name, as in
825 @samp{i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc}. All of the above transformations happen
826 before the target alias is prepended to the name---so, specifying
827 @option{--program-prefix=foo-} and @option{program-suffix=-3.1}, the
828 resulting binary would be installed as
829 @file{/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-foo-gcc-3.1}.
830
831 As a last shortcoming, none of the installed Ada programs are
832 transformed yet, which will be fixed in some time.
833
834 @item --with-local-prefix=@var{dirname}
835 Specify the
836 installation directory for local include files. The default is
837 @file{/usr/local}. Specify this option if you want the compiler to
838 search directory @file{@var{dirname}/include} for locally installed
839 header files @emph{instead} of @file{/usr/local/include}.
840
841 You should specify @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{only} if your
842 site has a different convention (not @file{/usr/local}) for where to put
843 site-specific files.
844
845 The default value for @option{--with-local-prefix} is @file{/usr/local}
846 regardless of the value of @option{--prefix}. Specifying
847 @option{--prefix} has no effect on which directory GCC searches for
848 local header files. This may seem counterintuitive, but actually it is
849 logical.
850
851 The purpose of @option{--prefix} is to specify where to @emph{install
852 GCC}. The local header files in @file{/usr/local/include}---if you put
853 any in that directory---are not part of GCC@. They are part of other
854 programs---perhaps many others. (GCC installs its own header files in
855 another directory which is based on the @option{--prefix} value.)
856
857 Both the local-prefix include directory and the GCC-prefix include
858 directory are part of GCC's ``system include'' directories. Although these
859 two directories are not fixed, they need to be searched in the proper
860 order for the correct processing of the include_next directive. The
861 local-prefix include directory is searched before the GCC-prefix
862 include directory. Another characteristic of system include directories
863 is that pedantic warnings are turned off for headers in these directories.
864
865 Some autoconf macros add @option{-I @var{directory}} options to the
866 compiler command line, to ensure that directories containing installed
867 packages' headers are searched. When @var{directory} is one of GCC's
868 system include directories, GCC will ignore the option so that system
869 directories continue to be processed in the correct order. This
870 may result in a search order different from what was specified but the
871 directory will still be searched.
872
873 GCC automatically searches for ordinary libraries using
874 @env{GCC_EXEC_PREFIX}. Thus, when the same installation prefix is
875 used for both GCC and packages, GCC will automatically search for
876 both headers and libraries. This provides a configuration that is
877 easy to use. GCC behaves in a manner similar to that when it is
878 installed as a system compiler in @file{/usr}.
879
880 Sites that need to install multiple versions of GCC may not want to
881 use the above simple configuration. It is possible to use the
882 @option{--program-prefix}, @option{--program-suffix} and
883 @option{--program-transform-name} options to install multiple versions
884 into a single directory, but it may be simpler to use different prefixes
885 and the @option{--with-local-prefix} option to specify the location of the
886 site-specific files for each version. It will then be necessary for
887 users to specify explicitly the location of local site libraries
888 (e.g., with @env{LIBRARY_PATH}).
889
890 The same value can be used for both @option{--with-local-prefix} and
891 @option{--prefix} provided it is not @file{/usr}. This can be used
892 to avoid the default search of @file{/usr/local/include}.
893
894 @strong{Do not} specify @file{/usr} as the @option{--with-local-prefix}!
895 The directory you use for @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{must not}
896 contain any of the system's standard header files. If it did contain
897 them, certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on
898 certain targets), because this would override and nullify the header
899 file corrections made by the @command{fixincludes} script.
900
901 Indications are that people who use this option use it based on mistaken
902 ideas of what it is for. People use it as if it specified where to
903 install part of GCC@. Perhaps they make this assumption because
904 installing GCC creates the directory.
905
906 @item --enable-shared[=@var{package}[,@dots{}]]
907 Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are supported on
908 the target platform. Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier, shared libraries
909 are enabled by default on all platforms that support shared libraries.
910
911 If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared libraries
912 only for the listed packages. For other packages, only static libraries
913 will be built. Package names currently recognized in the GCC tree are
914 @samp{libgcc} (also known as @samp{gcc}), @samp{libstdc++} (not
915 @samp{libstdc++-v3}), @samp{libffi}, @samp{zlib}, @samp{boehm-gc},
916 @samp{ada}, @samp{libada}, @samp{libjava}, @samp{libgo}, and @samp{libobjc}.
917 Note @samp{libiberty} does not support shared libraries at all.
918
919 Use @option{--disable-shared} to build only static libraries. Note that
920 @option{--disable-shared} does not accept a list of package names as
921 argument, only @option{--enable-shared} does.
922
923 @item @anchor{with-gnu-as}--with-gnu-as
924 Specify that the compiler should assume that the
925 assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify
926 the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if the
927 assembler found is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion may also
928 result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been
929 configured with @option{--with-gnu-as}.) If you have more than one
930 assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option in
931 connection with @option{--with-as=@var{pathname}} or
932 @option{--with-build-time-tools=@var{pathname}}.
933
934 The following systems are the only ones where it makes a difference
935 whether you use the GNU assembler. On any other system,
936 @option{--with-gnu-as} has no effect.
937
938 @itemize @bullet
939 @item @samp{hppa1.0-@var{any}-@var{any}}
940 @item @samp{hppa1.1-@var{any}-@var{any}}
941 @item @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.@var{any}}
942 @item @samp{sparc64-@var{any}-solaris2.@var{any}}
943 @end itemize
944
945 @item @anchor{with-as}--with-as=@var{pathname}
946 Specify that the compiler should use the assembler pointed to by
947 @var{pathname}, rather than the one found by the standard rules to find
948 an assembler, which are:
949 @itemize @bullet
950 @item
951 Unless GCC is being built with a cross compiler, check the
952 @file{@var{libexec}/gcc/@var{target}/@var{version}} directory.
953 @var{libexec} defaults to @file{@var{exec-prefix}/libexec};
954 @var{exec-prefix} defaults to @var{prefix}, which
955 defaults to @file{/usr/local} unless overridden by the
956 @option{--prefix=@var{pathname}} switch described above. @var{target}
957 is the target system triple, such as @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.7}, and
958 @var{version} denotes the GCC version, such as 3.0.
959
960 @item
961 If the target system is the same that you are building on, check
962 operating system specific directories (e.g.@: @file{/usr/ccs/bin} on
963 Sun Solaris 2).
964
965 @item
966 Check in the @env{PATH} for a tool whose name is prefixed by the
967 target system triple.
968
969 @item
970 Check in the @env{PATH} for a tool whose name is not prefixed by the
971 target system triple, if the host and target system triple are
972 the same (in other words, we use a host tool if it can be used for
973 the target as well).
974 @end itemize
975
976 You may want to use @option{--with-as} if no assembler
977 is installed in the directories listed above, or if you have multiple
978 assemblers installed and want to choose one that is not found by the
979 above rules.
980
981 @item @anchor{with-gnu-ld}--with-gnu-ld
982 Same as @uref{#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}}
983 but for the linker.
984
985 @item --with-ld=@var{pathname}
986 Same as @uref{#with-as,,@option{--with-as}}
987 but for the linker.
988
989 @item --with-stabs
990 Specify that stabs debugging
991 information should be used instead of whatever format the host normally
992 uses. Normally GCC uses the same debug format as the host system.
993
994 On MIPS based systems and on Alphas, you must specify whether you want
995 GCC to create the normal ECOFF debugging format, or to use BSD-style
996 stabs passed through the ECOFF symbol table. The normal ECOFF debug
997 format cannot fully handle languages other than C@. BSD stabs format can
998 handle other languages, but it only works with the GNU debugger GDB@.
999
1000 Normally, GCC uses the ECOFF debugging format by default; if you
1001 prefer BSD stabs, specify @option{--with-stabs} when you configure GCC@.
1002
1003 No matter which default you choose when you configure GCC, the user
1004 can use the @option{-gcoff} and @option{-gstabs+} options to specify explicitly
1005 the debug format for a particular compilation.
1006
1007 @option{--with-stabs} is meaningful on the ISC system on the 386, also, if
1008 @option{--with-gas} is used. It selects use of stabs debugging
1009 information embedded in COFF output. This kind of debugging information
1010 supports C++ well; ordinary COFF debugging information does not.
1011
1012 @option{--with-stabs} is also meaningful on 386 systems running SVR4. It
1013 selects use of stabs debugging information embedded in ELF output. The
1014 C++ compiler currently (2.6.0) does not support the DWARF debugging
1015 information normally used on 386 SVR4 platforms; stabs provide a
1016 workable alternative. This requires gas and gdb, as the normal SVR4
1017 tools can not generate or interpret stabs.
1018
1019 @item --with-tls=@var{dialect}
1020 Specify the default TLS dialect, for systems were there is a choice.
1021 For ARM targets, possible values for @var{dialect} are @code{gnu} or
1022 @code{gnu2}, which select between the original GNU dialect and the GNU TLS
1023 descriptor-based dialect.
1024
1025 @item --disable-multilib
1026 Specify that multiple target
1027 libraries to support different target variants, calling
1028 conventions, etc.@: should not be built. The default is to build a
1029 predefined set of them.
1030
1031 Some targets provide finer-grained control over which multilibs are built
1032 (e.g., @option{--disable-softfloat}):
1033 @table @code
1034 @item arm-*-*
1035 fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
1036
1037 @item m68*-*-*
1038 softfloat, m68881, m68000, m68020.
1039
1040 @item mips*-*-*
1041 single-float, biendian, softfloat.
1042
1043 @item powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*
1044 aix64, pthread, softfloat, powercpu, powerpccpu, powerpcos, biendian,
1045 sysv, aix.
1046
1047 @end table
1048
1049 @item --with-multilib-list=@var{list}
1050 @itemx --without-multilib-list
1051 Specify what multilibs to build.
1052 Currently only implemented for sh*-*-* and x86-64-*-linux*.
1053
1054 @table @code
1055 @item sh*-*-*
1056 @var{list} is a comma separated list of CPU names. These must be of the
1057 form @code{sh*} or @code{m*} (in which case they match the compiler option
1058 for that processor). The list should not contain any endian options -
1059 these are handled by @option{--with-endian}.
1060
1061 If @var{list} is empty, then there will be no multilibs for extra
1062 processors. The multilib for the secondary endian remains enabled.
1063
1064 As a special case, if an entry in the list starts with a @code{!}
1065 (exclamation point), then it is added to the list of excluded multilibs.
1066 Entries of this sort should be compatible with @samp{MULTILIB_EXCLUDES}
1067 (once the leading @code{!} has been stripped).
1068
1069 If @option{--with-multilib-list} is not given, then a default set of
1070 multilibs is selected based on the value of @option{--target}. This is
1071 usually the complete set of libraries, but some targets imply a more
1072 specialized subset.
1073
1074 Example 1: to configure a compiler for SH4A only, but supporting both
1075 endians, with little endian being the default:
1076 @smallexample
1077 --with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big --with-multilib-list=
1078 @end smallexample
1079
1080 Example 2: to configure a compiler for both SH4A and SH4AL-DSP, but with
1081 only little endian SH4AL:
1082 @smallexample
1083 --with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big \
1084 --with-multilib-list=sh4al,!mb/m4al
1085 @end smallexample
1086
1087 @item x86-64-*-linux*
1088 @var{list} is a comma separated list of @code{m32}, @code{m64} and
1089 @code{mx32} to enable 32-bit, 64-bit and x32 run-time libraries,
1090 respectively. If @var{list} is empty, then there will be no multilibs
1091 and only the default run-time library will be enabled.
1092
1093 If @option{--with-multilib-list} is not given, then only 32-bit and
1094 64-bit run-time libraries will be enabled.
1095 @end table
1096
1097 @item --with-endian=@var{endians}
1098 Specify what endians to use.
1099 Currently only implemented for sh*-*-*.
1100
1101 @var{endians} may be one of the following:
1102 @table @code
1103 @item big
1104 Use big endian exclusively.
1105 @item little
1106 Use little endian exclusively.
1107 @item big,little
1108 Use big endian by default. Provide a multilib for little endian.
1109 @item little,big
1110 Use little endian by default. Provide a multilib for big endian.
1111 @end table
1112
1113 @item --enable-threads
1114 Specify that the target
1115 supports threads. This affects the Objective-C compiler and runtime
1116 library, and exception handling for other languages like C++ and Java.
1117 On some systems, this is the default.
1118
1119 In general, the best (and, in many cases, the only known) threading
1120 model available will be configured for use. Beware that on some
1121 systems, GCC has not been taught what threading models are generally
1122 available for the system. In this case, @option{--enable-threads} is an
1123 alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
1124
1125 @item --disable-threads
1126 Specify that threading support should be disabled for the system.
1127 This is an alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
1128
1129 @item --enable-threads=@var{lib}
1130 Specify that
1131 @var{lib} is the thread support library. This affects the Objective-C
1132 compiler and runtime library, and exception handling for other languages
1133 like C++ and Java. The possibilities for @var{lib} are:
1134
1135 @table @code
1136 @item aix
1137 AIX thread support.
1138 @item dce
1139 DCE thread support.
1140 @item lynx
1141 LynxOS thread support.
1142 @item mipssde
1143 MIPS SDE thread support.
1144 @item no
1145 This is an alias for @samp{single}.
1146 @item posix
1147 Generic POSIX/Unix98 thread support.
1148 @item posix95
1149 Generic POSIX/Unix95 thread support.
1150 @item rtems
1151 RTEMS thread support.
1152 @item single
1153 Disable thread support, should work for all platforms.
1154 @item tpf
1155 TPF thread support.
1156 @item vxworks
1157 VxWorks thread support.
1158 @item win32
1159 Microsoft Win32 API thread support.
1160 @end table
1161
1162 @item --enable-tls
1163 Specify that the target supports TLS (Thread Local Storage). Usually
1164 configure can correctly determine if TLS is supported. In cases where
1165 it guesses incorrectly, TLS can be explicitly enabled or disabled with
1166 @option{--enable-tls} or @option{--disable-tls}. This can happen if
1167 the assembler supports TLS but the C library does not, or if the
1168 assumptions made by the configure test are incorrect.
1169
1170 @item --disable-tls
1171 Specify that the target does not support TLS.
1172 This is an alias for @option{--enable-tls=no}.
1173
1174 @item --with-cpu=@var{cpu}
1175 @itemx --with-cpu-32=@var{cpu}
1176 @itemx --with-cpu-64=@var{cpu}
1177 Specify which cpu variant the compiler should generate code for by default.
1178 @var{cpu} will be used as the default value of the @option{-mcpu=} switch.
1179 This option is only supported on some targets, including ARM, i386, M68k,
1180 PowerPC, and SPARC@. The @option{--with-cpu-32} and
1181 @option{--with-cpu-64} options specify separate default CPUs for
1182 32-bit and 64-bit modes; these options are only supported for i386,
1183 x86-64 and PowerPC.
1184
1185 @item --with-schedule=@var{cpu}
1186 @itemx --with-arch=@var{cpu}
1187 @itemx --with-arch-32=@var{cpu}
1188 @itemx --with-arch-64=@var{cpu}
1189 @itemx --with-tune=@var{cpu}
1190 @itemx --with-tune-32=@var{cpu}
1191 @itemx --with-tune-64=@var{cpu}
1192 @itemx --with-abi=@var{abi}
1193 @itemx --with-fpu=@var{type}
1194 @itemx --with-float=@var{type}
1195 These configure options provide default values for the @option{-mschedule=},
1196 @option{-march=}, @option{-mtune=}, @option{-mabi=}, and @option{-mfpu=}
1197 options and for @option{-mhard-float} or @option{-msoft-float}. As with
1198 @option{--with-cpu}, which switches will be accepted and acceptable values
1199 of the arguments depend on the target.
1200
1201 @item --with-mode=@var{mode}
1202 Specify if the compiler should default to @option{-marm} or @option{-mthumb}.
1203 This option is only supported on ARM targets.
1204
1205 @item --with-fpmath=@var{isa}
1206 This options sets @option{-mfpmath=sse} by default and specifies the default
1207 ISA for floating-point arithmetics. You can select either @samp{sse} which
1208 enables @option{-msse2} or @samp{avx} which enables @option{-mavx} by default.
1209 This option is only supported on i386 and x86-64 targets.
1210
1211 @item --with-divide=@var{type}
1212 Specify how the compiler should generate code for checking for
1213 division by zero. This option is only supported on the MIPS target.
1214 The possibilities for @var{type} are:
1215 @table @code
1216 @item traps
1217 Division by zero checks use conditional traps (this is the default on
1218 systems that support conditional traps).
1219 @item breaks
1220 Division by zero checks use the break instruction.
1221 @end table
1222
1223 @c If you make --with-llsc the default for additional targets,
1224 @c update the --with-llsc description in the MIPS section below.
1225
1226 @item --with-llsc
1227 On MIPS targets, make @option{-mllsc} the default when no
1228 @option{-mno-lsc} option is passed. This is the default for
1229 Linux-based targets, as the kernel will emulate them if the ISA does
1230 not provide them.
1231
1232 @item --without-llsc
1233 On MIPS targets, make @option{-mno-llsc} the default when no
1234 @option{-mllsc} option is passed.
1235
1236 @item --with-synci
1237 On MIPS targets, make @option{-msynci} the default when no
1238 @option{-mno-synci} option is passed.
1239
1240 @item --without-synci
1241 On MIPS targets, make @option{-mno-synci} the default when no
1242 @option{-msynci} option is passed. This is the default.
1243
1244 @item --with-mips-plt
1245 On MIPS targets, make use of copy relocations and PLTs.
1246 These features are extensions to the traditional
1247 SVR4-based MIPS ABIs and require support from GNU binutils
1248 and the runtime C library.
1249
1250 @item --enable-__cxa_atexit
1251 Define if you want to use __cxa_atexit, rather than atexit, to
1252 register C++ destructors for local statics and global objects.
1253 This is essential for fully standards-compliant handling of
1254 destructors, but requires __cxa_atexit in libc. This option is currently
1255 only available on systems with GNU libc. When enabled, this will cause
1256 @option{-fuse-cxa-atexit} to be passed by default.
1257
1258 @item --enable-gnu-indirect-function
1259 Define if you want to enable the @code{ifunc} attribute. This option is
1260 currently only available on systems with GNU libc on certain targets.
1261
1262 @item --enable-target-optspace
1263 Specify that target
1264 libraries should be optimized for code space instead of code speed.
1265 This is the default for the m32r platform.
1266
1267 @item --with-cpp-install-dir=@var{dirname}
1268 Specify that the user visible @command{cpp} program should be installed
1269 in @file{@var{prefix}/@var{dirname}/cpp}, in addition to @var{bindir}.
1270
1271 @item --enable-comdat
1272 Enable COMDAT group support. This is primarily used to override the
1273 automatically detected value.
1274
1275 @item --enable-initfini-array
1276 Force the use of sections @code{.init_array} and @code{.fini_array}
1277 (instead of @code{.init} and @code{.fini}) for constructors and
1278 destructors. Option @option{--disable-initfini-array} has the
1279 opposite effect. If neither option is specified, the configure script
1280 will try to guess whether the @code{.init_array} and
1281 @code{.fini_array} sections are supported and, if they are, use them.
1282
1283 @item --enable-build-with-cxx
1284 Build GCC using a C++ compiler rather than a C compiler. This is an
1285 experimental option which may become the default in a later release.
1286
1287 @item --enable-build-poststage1-with-cxx
1288 When bootstrapping, build stages 2 and 3 of GCC using a C++ compiler
1289 rather than a C compiler. Stage 1 is still built with a C compiler.
1290 This is an experimental option which may become the default in a later
1291 release. This is enabled by default and may be disabled using
1292 @option{--disable-build-poststage1-with-cxx}.
1293
1294 @item --enable-maintainer-mode
1295 The build rules that regenerate the Autoconf and Automake output files as
1296 well as the GCC master message catalog @file{gcc.pot} are normally
1297 disabled. This is because it can only be rebuilt if the complete source
1298 tree is present. If you have changed the sources and want to rebuild the
1299 catalog, configuring with @option{--enable-maintainer-mode} will enable
1300 this. Note that you need a recent version of the @code{gettext} tools
1301 to do so.
1302
1303 @item --disable-bootstrap
1304 For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
1305 a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when @samp{make} is invoked,
1306 testing that GCC can compile itself correctly. If you want to disable
1307 this process, you can configure with @option{--disable-bootstrap}.
1308
1309 @item --enable-bootstrap
1310 In special cases, you may want to perform a 3-stage build
1311 even if the target and host triplets are different.
1312 This is possible when the host can run code compiled for
1313 the target (e.g.@: host is i686-linux, target is i486-linux).
1314 Starting from GCC 4.2, to do this you have to configure explicitly
1315 with @option{--enable-bootstrap}.
1316
1317 @item --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir
1318 Neither the .c and .h files that are generated from Bison and flex nor the
1319 info manuals and man pages that are built from the .texi files are present
1320 in the SVN development tree. When building GCC from that development tree,
1321 or from one of our snapshots, those generated files are placed in your
1322 build directory, which allows for the source to be in a readonly
1323 directory.
1324
1325 If you configure with @option{--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir} then those
1326 generated files will go into the source directory. This is mainly intended
1327 for generating release or prerelease tarballs of the GCC sources, since it
1328 is not a requirement that the users of source releases to have flex, Bison,
1329 or makeinfo.
1330
1331 @item --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
1332 Specify
1333 that runtime libraries should be installed in the compiler specific
1334 subdirectory (@file{@var{libdir}/gcc}) rather than the usual places. In
1335 addition, @samp{libstdc++}'s include files will be installed into
1336 @file{@var{libdir}} unless you overruled it by using
1337 @option{--with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}}. Using this option is
1338 particularly useful if you intend to use several versions of GCC in
1339 parallel. This is currently supported by @samp{libgfortran},
1340 @samp{libjava}, @samp{libmudflap}, @samp{libstdc++}, and @samp{libobjc}.
1341
1342 @item --enable-languages=@var{lang1},@var{lang2},@dots{}
1343 Specify that only a particular subset of compilers and
1344 their runtime libraries should be built. For a list of valid values for
1345 @var{langN} you can issue the following command in the
1346 @file{gcc} directory of your GCC source tree:@*
1347 @smallexample
1348 grep language= */config-lang.in
1349 @end smallexample
1350 Currently, you can use any of the following:
1351 @code{all}, @code{ada}, @code{c}, @code{c++}, @code{fortran},
1352 @code{go}, @code{java}, @code{objc}, @code{obj-c++}.
1353 Building the Ada compiler has special requirements, see below.
1354 If you do not pass this flag, or specify the option @code{all}, then all
1355 default languages available in the @file{gcc} sub-tree will be configured.
1356 Ada, Go and Objective-C++ are not default languages; the rest are.
1357
1358 @item --enable-stage1-languages=@var{lang1},@var{lang2},@dots{}
1359 Specify that a particular subset of compilers and their runtime
1360 libraries should be built with the system C compiler during stage 1 of
1361 the bootstrap process, rather than only in later stages with the
1362 bootstrapped C compiler. The list of valid values is the same as for
1363 @option{--enable-languages}, and the option @code{all} will select all
1364 of the languages enabled by @option{--enable-languages}. This option is
1365 primarily useful for GCC development; for instance, when a development
1366 version of the compiler cannot bootstrap due to compiler bugs, or when
1367 one is debugging front ends other than the C front end. When this
1368 option is used, one can then build the target libraries for the
1369 specified languages with the stage-1 compiler by using @command{make
1370 stage1-bubble all-target}, or run the testsuite on the stage-1 compiler
1371 for the specified languages using @command{make stage1-start check-gcc}.
1372
1373 @item --disable-libada
1374 Specify that the run-time libraries and tools used by GNAT should not
1375 be built. This can be useful for debugging, or for compatibility with
1376 previous Ada build procedures, when it was required to explicitly
1377 do a @samp{make -C gcc gnatlib_and_tools}.
1378
1379 @item --disable-libssp
1380 Specify that the run-time libraries for stack smashing protection
1381 should not be built.
1382
1383 @item --disable-libquadmath
1384 Specify that the GCC quad-precision math library should not be built.
1385 On some systems, the library is required to be linkable when building
1386 the Fortran front end, unless @option{--disable-libquadmath-support}
1387 is used.
1388
1389 @item --disable-libquadmath-support
1390 Specify that the Fortran front end and @code{libgfortran} do not add
1391 support for @code{libquadmath} on systems supporting it.
1392
1393 @item --disable-libgomp
1394 Specify that the run-time libraries used by GOMP should not be built.
1395
1396 @item --with-dwarf2
1397 Specify that the compiler should
1398 use DWARF 2 debugging information as the default.
1399
1400 @item --enable-targets=all
1401 @itemx --enable-targets=@var{target_list}
1402 Some GCC targets, e.g.@: powerpc64-linux, build bi-arch compilers.
1403 These are compilers that are able to generate either 64-bit or 32-bit
1404 code. Typically, the corresponding 32-bit target, e.g.@:
1405 powerpc-linux for powerpc64-linux, only generates 32-bit code. This
1406 option enables the 32-bit target to be a bi-arch compiler, which is
1407 useful when you want a bi-arch compiler that defaults to 32-bit, and
1408 you are building a bi-arch or multi-arch binutils in a combined tree.
1409 On mips-linux, this will build a tri-arch compiler (ABI o32/n32/64),
1410 defaulted to o32.
1411 Currently, this option only affects sparc-linux, powerpc-linux, x86-linux,
1412 mips-linux and s390-linux.
1413
1414 @item --enable-secureplt
1415 This option enables @option{-msecure-plt} by default for powerpc-linux.
1416 @ifnothtml
1417 @xref{RS/6000 and PowerPC Options,, RS/6000 and PowerPC Options, gcc,
1418 Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1419 @end ifnothtml
1420 @ifhtml
1421 See ``RS/6000 and PowerPC Options'' in the main manual
1422 @end ifhtml
1423
1424 @item --enable-cld
1425 This option enables @option{-mcld} by default for 32-bit x86 targets.
1426 @ifnothtml
1427 @xref{i386 and x86-64 Options,, i386 and x86-64 Options, gcc,
1428 Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1429 @end ifnothtml
1430 @ifhtml
1431 See ``i386 and x86-64 Options'' in the main manual
1432 @end ifhtml
1433
1434 @item --enable-win32-registry
1435 @itemx --enable-win32-registry=@var{key}
1436 @itemx --disable-win32-registry
1437 The @option{--enable-win32-registry} option enables Microsoft Windows-hosted GCC
1438 to look up installations paths in the registry using the following key:
1439
1440 @smallexample
1441 @code{HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Free Software Foundation\@var{key}}
1442 @end smallexample
1443
1444 @var{key} defaults to GCC version number, and can be overridden by the
1445 @option{--enable-win32-registry=@var{key}} option. Vendors and distributors
1446 who use custom installers are encouraged to provide a different key,
1447 perhaps one comprised of vendor name and GCC version number, to
1448 avoid conflict with existing installations. This feature is enabled
1449 by default, and can be disabled by @option{--disable-win32-registry}
1450 option. This option has no effect on the other hosts.
1451
1452 @item --nfp
1453 Specify that the machine does not have a floating point unit. This
1454 option only applies to @samp{m68k-sun-sunos@var{n}}. On any other
1455 system, @option{--nfp} has no effect.
1456
1457 @item --enable-werror
1458 @itemx --disable-werror
1459 @itemx --enable-werror=yes
1460 @itemx --enable-werror=no
1461 When you specify this option, it controls whether certain files in the
1462 compiler are built with @option{-Werror} in bootstrap stage2 and later.
1463 If you don't specify it, @option{-Werror} is turned on for the main
1464 development trunk. However it defaults to off for release branches and
1465 final releases. The specific files which get @option{-Werror} are
1466 controlled by the Makefiles.
1467
1468 @item --enable-checking
1469 @itemx --enable-checking=@var{list}
1470 When you specify this option, the compiler is built to perform internal
1471 consistency checks of the requested complexity. This does not change the
1472 generated code, but adds error checking within the compiler. This will
1473 slow down the compiler and may only work properly if you are building
1474 the compiler with GCC@. This is @samp{yes} by default when building
1475 from SVN or snapshots, but @samp{release} for releases. The default
1476 for building the stage1 compiler is @samp{yes}. More control
1477 over the checks may be had by specifying @var{list}. The categories of
1478 checks available are @samp{yes} (most common checks
1479 @samp{assert,misc,tree,gc,rtlflag,runtime}), @samp{no} (no checks at
1480 all), @samp{all} (all but @samp{valgrind}), @samp{release} (cheapest
1481 checks @samp{assert,runtime}) or @samp{none} (same as @samp{no}).
1482 Individual checks can be enabled with these flags @samp{assert},
1483 @samp{df}, @samp{fold}, @samp{gc}, @samp{gcac} @samp{misc}, @samp{rtl},
1484 @samp{rtlflag}, @samp{runtime}, @samp{tree}, and @samp{valgrind}.
1485
1486 The @samp{valgrind} check requires the external @command{valgrind}
1487 simulator, available from @uref{http://valgrind.org/}. The
1488 @samp{df}, @samp{rtl}, @samp{gcac} and @samp{valgrind} checks are very expensive.
1489 To disable all checking, @samp{--disable-checking} or
1490 @samp{--enable-checking=none} must be explicitly requested. Disabling
1491 assertions will make the compiler and runtime slightly faster but
1492 increase the risk of undetected internal errors causing wrong code to be
1493 generated.
1494
1495 @item --disable-stage1-checking
1496 @itemx --enable-stage1-checking
1497 @itemx --enable-stage1-checking=@var{list}
1498 If no @option{--enable-checking} option is specified the stage1
1499 compiler will be built with @samp{yes} checking enabled, otherwise
1500 the stage1 checking flags are the same as specified by
1501 @option{--enable-checking}. To build the stage1 compiler with
1502 different checking options use @option{--enable-stage1-checking}.
1503 The list of checking options is the same as for @option{--enable-checking}.
1504 If your system is too slow or too small to bootstrap a released compiler
1505 with checking for stage1 enabled, you can use @samp{--disable-stage1-checking}
1506 to disable checking for the stage1 compiler.
1507
1508 @item --enable-coverage
1509 @itemx --enable-coverage=@var{level}
1510 With this option, the compiler is built to collect self coverage
1511 information, every time it is run. This is for internal development
1512 purposes, and only works when the compiler is being built with gcc. The
1513 @var{level} argument controls whether the compiler is built optimized or
1514 not, values are @samp{opt} and @samp{noopt}. For coverage analysis you
1515 want to disable optimization, for performance analysis you want to
1516 enable optimization. When coverage is enabled, the default level is
1517 without optimization.
1518
1519 @item --enable-gather-detailed-mem-stats
1520 When this option is specified more detailed information on memory
1521 allocation is gathered. This information is printed when using
1522 @option{-fmem-report}.
1523
1524 @item --with-gc
1525 @itemx --with-gc=@var{choice}
1526 With this option you can specify the garbage collector implementation
1527 used during the compilation process. @var{choice} can be one of
1528 @samp{page} and @samp{zone}, where @samp{page} is the default.
1529
1530 @item --enable-nls
1531 @itemx --disable-nls
1532 The @option{--enable-nls} option enables Native Language Support (NLS),
1533 which lets GCC output diagnostics in languages other than American
1534 English. Native Language Support is enabled by default if not doing a
1535 canadian cross build. The @option{--disable-nls} option disables NLS@.
1536
1537 @item --with-included-gettext
1538 If NLS is enabled, the @option{--with-included-gettext} option causes the build
1539 procedure to prefer its copy of GNU @command{gettext}.
1540
1541 @item --with-catgets
1542 If NLS is enabled, and if the host lacks @code{gettext} but has the
1543 inferior @code{catgets} interface, the GCC build procedure normally
1544 ignores @code{catgets} and instead uses GCC's copy of the GNU
1545 @code{gettext} library. The @option{--with-catgets} option causes the
1546 build procedure to use the host's @code{catgets} in this situation.
1547
1548 @item --with-libiconv-prefix=@var{dir}
1549 Search for libiconv header files in @file{@var{dir}/include} and
1550 libiconv library files in @file{@var{dir}/lib}.
1551
1552 @item --enable-obsolete
1553 Enable configuration for an obsoleted system. If you attempt to
1554 configure GCC for a system (build, host, or target) which has been
1555 obsoleted, and you do not specify this flag, configure will halt with an
1556 error message.
1557
1558 All support for systems which have been obsoleted in one release of GCC
1559 is removed entirely in the next major release, unless someone steps
1560 forward to maintain the port.
1561
1562 @item --enable-decimal-float
1563 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=yes
1564 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=no
1565 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=bid
1566 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=dpd
1567 @itemx --disable-decimal-float
1568 Enable (or disable) support for the C decimal floating point extension
1569 that is in the IEEE 754-2008 standard. This is enabled by default only
1570 on PowerPC, i386, and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems. Other systems may also
1571 support it, but require the user to specifically enable it. You can
1572 optionally control which decimal floating point format is used (either
1573 @samp{bid} or @samp{dpd}). The @samp{bid} (binary integer decimal)
1574 format is default on i386 and x86_64 systems, and the @samp{dpd}
1575 (densely packed decimal) format is default on PowerPC systems.
1576
1577 @item --enable-fixed-point
1578 @itemx --disable-fixed-point
1579 Enable (or disable) support for C fixed-point arithmetic.
1580 This option is enabled by default for some targets (such as MIPS) which
1581 have hardware-support for fixed-point operations. On other targets, you
1582 may enable this option manually.
1583
1584 @item --with-long-double-128
1585 Specify if @code{long double} type should be 128-bit by default on selected
1586 GNU/Linux architectures. If using @code{--without-long-double-128},
1587 @code{long double} will be by default 64-bit, the same as @code{double} type.
1588 When neither of these configure options are used, the default will be
1589 128-bit @code{long double} when built against GNU C Library 2.4 and later,
1590 64-bit @code{long double} otherwise.
1591
1592 @item --with-gmp=@var{pathname}
1593 @itemx --with-gmp-include=@var{pathname}
1594 @itemx --with-gmp-lib=@var{pathname}
1595 @itemx --with-mpfr=@var{pathname}
1596 @itemx --with-mpfr-include=@var{pathname}
1597 @itemx --with-mpfr-lib=@var{pathname}
1598 @itemx --with-mpc=@var{pathname}
1599 @itemx --with-mpc-include=@var{pathname}
1600 @itemx --with-mpc-lib=@var{pathname}
1601 If you do not have GMP (the GNU Multiple Precision library), the MPFR
1602 library and/or the MPC library installed in a standard location and
1603 you want to build GCC, you can explicitly specify the directory where
1604 they are installed (@samp{--with-gmp=@var{gmpinstalldir}},
1605 @samp{--with-mpfr=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}},
1606 @samp{--with-mpc=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}}). The
1607 @option{--with-gmp=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1608 @option{--with-gmp-lib=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}/lib} and
1609 @option{--with-gmp-include=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}/include}. Likewise the
1610 @option{--with-mpfr=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1611 @option{--with-mpfr-lib=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}/lib} and
1612 @option{--with-mpfr-include=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}/include}, also the
1613 @option{--with-mpc=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1614 @option{--with-mpc-lib=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}/lib} and
1615 @option{--with-mpc-include=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}/include}. If these
1616 shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
1617 include and lib options directly. You might also need to ensure the
1618 shared libraries can be found by the dynamic linker when building and
1619 using GCC, for example by setting the runtime shared library path
1620 variable (@env{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} on GNU/Linux and Solaris systems).
1621
1622 These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When building
1623 a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1624
1625 @item --with-ppl=@var{pathname}
1626 @itemx --with-ppl-include=@var{pathname}
1627 @itemx --with-ppl-lib=@var{pathname}
1628 @itemx --with-cloog=@var{pathname}
1629 @itemx --with-cloog-include=@var{pathname}
1630 @itemx --with-cloog-lib=@var{pathname}
1631 If you do not have PPL (the Parma Polyhedra Library) and the CLooG
1632 libraries installed in a standard location and you want to build GCC,
1633 you can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
1634 (@samp{--with-ppl=@/@var{pplinstalldir}},
1635 @samp{--with-cloog=@/@var{clooginstalldir}}). The
1636 @option{--with-ppl=@/@var{pplinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1637 @option{--with-ppl-lib=@/@var{pplinstalldir}/lib} and
1638 @option{--with-ppl-include=@/@var{pplinstalldir}/include}. Likewise the
1639 @option{--with-cloog=@/@var{clooginstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1640 @option{--with-cloog-lib=@/@var{clooginstalldir}/lib} and
1641 @option{--with-cloog-include=@/@var{clooginstalldir}/include}. If these
1642 shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
1643 include and lib options directly.
1644
1645 These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When building
1646 a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1647
1648 @item --with-host-libstdcxx=@var{linker-args}
1649 If you are linking with a static copy of PPL, you can use this option
1650 to specify how the linker should find the standard C++ library used
1651 internally by PPL. Typical values of @var{linker-args} might be
1652 @samp{-lstdc++} or @samp{-Wl,-Bstatic,-lstdc++,-Bdynamic -lm}. If you are
1653 linking with a shared copy of PPL, you probably do not need this
1654 option; shared library dependencies will cause the linker to search
1655 for the standard C++ library automatically.
1656
1657 @item --with-stage1-ldflags=@var{flags}
1658 This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1659 stage 1 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1660 @option{--disable-bootstrap}. By default no special flags are used.
1661
1662 @item --with-stage1-libs=@var{libs}
1663 This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 1
1664 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1665 @option{--disable-bootstrap}. The default is the argument to
1666 @option{--with-host-libstdcxx}, if specified.
1667
1668 @item --with-boot-ldflags=@var{flags}
1669 This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1670 stage 2 and later when bootstrapping GCC. If neither --with-boot-libs
1671 nor --with-host-libstdcxx is set to a value, then the default is
1672 @samp{-static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc}.
1673
1674 @item --with-boot-libs=@var{libs}
1675 This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 2
1676 and later when bootstrapping GCC. The default is the argument to
1677 @option{--with-host-libstdcxx}, if specified.
1678
1679 @item --with-debug-prefix-map=@var{map}
1680 Convert source directory names using @option{-fdebug-prefix-map} when
1681 building runtime libraries. @samp{@var{map}} is a space-separated
1682 list of maps of the form @samp{@var{old}=@var{new}}.
1683
1684 @item --enable-linker-build-id
1685 Tells GCC to pass @option{--build-id} option to the linker for all final
1686 links (links performed without the @option{-r} or @option{--relocatable}
1687 option), if the linker supports it. If you specify
1688 @option{--enable-linker-build-id}, but your linker does not
1689 support @option{--build-id} option, a warning is issued and the
1690 @option{--enable-linker-build-id} option is ignored. The default is off.
1691
1692 @item --with-linker-hash-style=@var{choice}
1693 Tells GCC to pass @option{--hash-style=@var{choice}} option to the
1694 linker for all final links. @var{choice} can be one of
1695 @samp{sysv}, @samp{gnu}, and @samp{both} where @samp{sysv} is the default.
1696
1697 @item --enable-gnu-unique-object
1698 @itemx --disable-gnu-unique-object
1699 Tells GCC to use the gnu_unique_object relocation for C++ template
1700 static data members and inline function local statics. Enabled by
1701 default for a native toolchain with an assembler that accepts it and
1702 GLIBC 2.11 or above, otherwise disabled.
1703
1704 @item --enable-lto
1705 @itemx --disable-lto
1706 Enable support for link-time optimization (LTO). This is enabled by
1707 default, and may be disabled using @option{--disable-lto}.
1708
1709 @item --with-plugin-ld=@var{pathname}
1710 Enable an alternate linker to be used at link-time optimization (LTO)
1711 link time when @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} is enabled.
1712 This linker should have plugin support such as gold starting with
1713 version 2.20 or GNU ld starting with version 2.21.
1714 See @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} for details.
1715 @end table
1716
1717 @subheading Cross-Compiler-Specific Options
1718 The following options only apply to building cross compilers.
1719
1720 @table @code
1721 @item --with-sysroot
1722 @itemx --with-sysroot=@var{dir}
1723 Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the root of a tree that contains
1724 (a subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
1725 Target system headers, libraries and run-time object files will be
1726 searched in there. More specifically, this acts as if
1727 @option{--sysroot=@var{dir}} was added to the default options of the built
1728 compiler. The specified directory is not copied into the
1729 install tree, unlike the options @option{--with-headers} and
1730 @option{--with-libs} that this option obsoletes. The default value,
1731 in case @option{--with-sysroot} is not given an argument, is
1732 @option{$@{gcc_tooldir@}/sys-root}. If the specified directory is a
1733 subdirectory of @option{$@{exec_prefix@}}, then it will be found relative to
1734 the GCC binaries if the installation tree is moved.
1735
1736 This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1737 target libraries (which runs on the build system) and the compiler newly
1738 installed with @code{make install}; it does not affect the compiler which is
1739 used to build GCC itself.
1740
1741 @item --with-build-sysroot
1742 @itemx --with-build-sysroot=@var{dir}
1743 Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the system root (see
1744 @option{--with-sysroot}) while building target libraries, instead of
1745 the directory specified with @option{--with-sysroot}. This option is
1746 only useful when you are already using @option{--with-sysroot}. You
1747 can use @option{--with-build-sysroot} when you are configuring with
1748 @option{--prefix} set to a directory that is different from the one in
1749 which you are installing GCC and your target libraries.
1750
1751 This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1752 target libraries (which runs on the build system); it does not affect
1753 the compiler which is used to build GCC itself.
1754
1755 @item --with-headers
1756 @itemx --with-headers=@var{dir}
1757 Deprecated in favor of @option{--with-sysroot}.
1758 Specifies that target headers are available when building a cross compiler.
1759 The @var{dir} argument specifies a directory which has the target include
1760 files. These include files will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
1761 directory. @emph{This option with the @var{dir} argument is required} when
1762 building a cross compiler, if @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include}
1763 doesn't pre-exist. If @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include} does
1764 pre-exist, the @var{dir} argument may be omitted. @command{fixincludes}
1765 will be run on these files to make them compatible with GCC@.
1766
1767 @item --without-headers
1768 Tells GCC not use any target headers from a libc when building a cross
1769 compiler. When crossing to GNU/Linux, you need the headers so GCC
1770 can build the exception handling for libgcc.
1771
1772 @item --with-libs
1773 @itemx --with-libs="@var{dir1} @var{dir2} @dots{} @var{dirN}"
1774 Deprecated in favor of @option{--with-sysroot}.
1775 Specifies a list of directories which contain the target runtime
1776 libraries. These libraries will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
1777 directory. If the directory list is omitted, this option has no
1778 effect.
1779
1780 @item --with-newlib
1781 Specifies that @samp{newlib} is
1782 being used as the target C library. This causes @code{__eprintf} to be
1783 omitted from @file{libgcc.a} on the assumption that it will be provided by
1784 @samp{newlib}.
1785
1786 @item --with-build-time-tools=@var{dir}
1787 Specifies where to find the set of target tools (assembler, linker, etc.)
1788 that will be used while building GCC itself. This option can be useful
1789 if the directory layouts are different between the system you are building
1790 GCC on, and the system where you will deploy it.
1791
1792 For example, on an @samp{ia64-hp-hpux} system, you may have the GNU
1793 assembler and linker in @file{/usr/bin}, and the native tools in a
1794 different path, and build a toolchain that expects to find the
1795 native tools in @file{/usr/bin}.
1796
1797 When you use this option, you should ensure that @var{dir} includes
1798 @command{ar}, @command{as}, @command{ld}, @command{nm},
1799 @command{ranlib} and @command{strip} if necessary, and possibly
1800 @command{objdump}. Otherwise, GCC may use an inconsistent set of
1801 tools.
1802 @end table
1803
1804 @subheading Java-Specific Options
1805
1806 The following option applies to the build of the Java front end.
1807
1808 @table @code
1809 @item --disable-libgcj
1810 Specify that the run-time libraries
1811 used by GCJ should not be built. This is useful in case you intend
1812 to use GCJ with some other run-time, or you're going to install it
1813 separately, or it just happens not to build on your particular
1814 machine. In general, if the Java front end is enabled, the GCJ
1815 libraries will be enabled too, unless they're known to not work on
1816 the target platform. If GCJ is enabled but @samp{libgcj} isn't built, you
1817 may need to port it; in this case, before modifying the top-level
1818 @file{configure.in} so that @samp{libgcj} is enabled by default on this platform,
1819 you may use @option{--enable-libgcj} to override the default.
1820
1821 @end table
1822
1823 The following options apply to building @samp{libgcj}.
1824
1825 @subsubheading General Options
1826
1827 @table @code
1828 @item --enable-java-maintainer-mode
1829 By default the @samp{libjava} build will not attempt to compile the
1830 @file{.java} source files to @file{.class}. Instead, it will use the
1831 @file{.class} files from the source tree. If you use this option you
1832 must have executables named @command{ecj1} and @command{gjavah} in your path
1833 for use by the build. You must use this option if you intend to
1834 modify any @file{.java} files in @file{libjava}.
1835
1836 @item --with-java-home=@var{dirname}
1837 This @samp{libjava} option overrides the default value of the
1838 @samp{java.home} system property. It is also used to set
1839 @samp{sun.boot.class.path} to @file{@var{dirname}/lib/rt.jar}. By
1840 default @samp{java.home} is set to @file{@var{prefix}} and
1841 @samp{sun.boot.class.path} to
1842 @file{@var{datadir}/java/libgcj-@var{version}.jar}.
1843
1844 @item --with-ecj-jar=@var{filename}
1845 This option can be used to specify the location of an external jar
1846 file containing the Eclipse Java compiler. A specially modified
1847 version of this compiler is used by @command{gcj} to parse
1848 @file{.java} source files. If this option is given, the
1849 @samp{libjava} build will create and install an @file{ecj1} executable
1850 which uses this jar file at runtime.
1851
1852 If this option is not given, but an @file{ecj.jar} file is found in
1853 the topmost source tree at configure time, then the @samp{libgcj}
1854 build will create and install @file{ecj1}, and will also install the
1855 discovered @file{ecj.jar} into a suitable place in the install tree.
1856
1857 If @file{ecj1} is not installed, then the user will have to supply one
1858 on his path in order for @command{gcj} to properly parse @file{.java}
1859 source files. A suitable jar is available from
1860 @uref{ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/}.
1861
1862 @item --disable-getenv-properties
1863 Don't set system properties from @env{GCJ_PROPERTIES}.
1864
1865 @item --enable-hash-synchronization
1866 Use a global hash table for monitor locks. Ordinarily,
1867 @samp{libgcj}'s @samp{configure} script automatically makes
1868 the correct choice for this option for your platform. Only use
1869 this if you know you need the library to be configured differently.
1870
1871 @item --enable-interpreter
1872 Enable the Java interpreter. The interpreter is automatically
1873 enabled by default on all platforms that support it. This option
1874 is really only useful if you want to disable the interpreter
1875 (using @option{--disable-interpreter}).
1876
1877 @item --disable-java-net
1878 Disable java.net. This disables the native part of java.net only,
1879 using non-functional stubs for native method implementations.
1880
1881 @item --disable-jvmpi
1882 Disable JVMPI support.
1883
1884 @item --disable-libgcj-bc
1885 Disable BC ABI compilation of certain parts of libgcj. By default,
1886 some portions of libgcj are compiled with @option{-findirect-dispatch}
1887 and @option{-fno-indirect-classes}, allowing them to be overridden at
1888 run-time.
1889
1890 If @option{--disable-libgcj-bc} is specified, libgcj is built without
1891 these options. This allows the compile-time linker to resolve
1892 dependencies when statically linking to libgcj. However it makes it
1893 impossible to override the affected portions of libgcj at run-time.
1894
1895 @item --enable-reduced-reflection
1896 Build most of libgcj with @option{-freduced-reflection}. This reduces
1897 the size of libgcj at the expense of not being able to do accurate
1898 reflection on the classes it contains. This option is safe if you
1899 know that code using libgcj will never use reflection on the standard
1900 runtime classes in libgcj (including using serialization, RMI or CORBA).
1901
1902 @item --with-ecos
1903 Enable runtime eCos target support.
1904
1905 @item --without-libffi
1906 Don't use @samp{libffi}. This will disable the interpreter and JNI
1907 support as well, as these require @samp{libffi} to work.
1908
1909 @item --enable-libgcj-debug
1910 Enable runtime debugging code.
1911
1912 @item --enable-libgcj-multifile
1913 If specified, causes all @file{.java} source files to be
1914 compiled into @file{.class} files in one invocation of
1915 @samp{gcj}. This can speed up build time, but is more
1916 resource-intensive. If this option is unspecified or
1917 disabled, @samp{gcj} is invoked once for each @file{.java}
1918 file to compile into a @file{.class} file.
1919
1920 @item --with-libiconv-prefix=DIR
1921 Search for libiconv in @file{DIR/include} and @file{DIR/lib}.
1922
1923 @item --enable-sjlj-exceptions
1924 Force use of the @code{setjmp}/@code{longjmp}-based scheme for exceptions.
1925 @samp{configure} ordinarily picks the correct value based on the platform.
1926 Only use this option if you are sure you need a different setting.
1927
1928 @item --with-system-zlib
1929 Use installed @samp{zlib} rather than that included with GCC@.
1930
1931 @item --with-win32-nlsapi=ansi, unicows or unicode
1932 Indicates how MinGW @samp{libgcj} translates between UNICODE
1933 characters and the Win32 API@.
1934
1935 @item --enable-java-home
1936 If enabled, this creates a JPackage compatible SDK environment during install.
1937 Note that if --enable-java-home is used, --with-arch-directory=ARCH must also
1938 be specified.
1939
1940 @item --with-arch-directory=ARCH
1941 Specifies the name to use for the @file{jre/lib/ARCH} directory in the SDK
1942 environment created when --enable-java-home is passed. Typical names for this
1943 directory include i386, amd64, ia64, etc.
1944
1945 @item --with-os-directory=DIR
1946 Specifies the OS directory for the SDK include directory. This is set to auto
1947 detect, and is typically 'linux'.
1948
1949 @item --with-origin-name=NAME
1950 Specifies the JPackage origin name. This defaults to the 'gcj' in
1951 java-1.5.0-gcj.
1952
1953 @item --with-arch-suffix=SUFFIX
1954 Specifies the suffix for the sdk directory. Defaults to the empty string.
1955 Examples include '.x86_64' in 'java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0.x86_64'.
1956
1957 @item --with-jvm-root-dir=DIR
1958 Specifies where to install the SDK. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm.
1959
1960 @item --with-jvm-jar-dir=DIR
1961 Specifies where to install jars. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm-exports.
1962
1963 @item --with-python-dir=DIR
1964 Specifies where to install the Python modules used for aot-compile. DIR should
1965 not include the prefix used in installation. For example, if the Python modules
1966 are to be installed in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, then
1967 --with-python-dir=/lib/python2.5/site-packages should be passed. If this is
1968 not specified, then the Python modules are installed in $(prefix)/share/python.
1969
1970 @item --enable-aot-compile-rpm
1971 Adds aot-compile-rpm to the list of installed scripts.
1972
1973 @item --enable-browser-plugin
1974 Build the gcjwebplugin web browser plugin.
1975
1976 @item --enable-static-libjava
1977 Build static libraries in libjava. The default is to only build shared
1978 libraries.
1979
1980 @table @code
1981 @item ansi
1982 Use the single-byte @code{char} and the Win32 A functions natively,
1983 translating to and from UNICODE when using these functions. If
1984 unspecified, this is the default.
1985
1986 @item unicows
1987 Use the @code{WCHAR} and Win32 W functions natively. Adds
1988 @code{-lunicows} to @file{libgcj.spec} to link with @samp{libunicows}.
1989 @file{unicows.dll} needs to be deployed on Microsoft Windows 9X machines
1990 running built executables. @file{libunicows.a}, an open-source
1991 import library around Microsoft's @code{unicows.dll}, is obtained from
1992 @uref{http://libunicows.sourceforge.net/}, which also gives details
1993 on getting @file{unicows.dll} from Microsoft.
1994
1995 @item unicode
1996 Use the @code{WCHAR} and Win32 W functions natively. Does @emph{not}
1997 add @code{-lunicows} to @file{libgcj.spec}. The built executables will
1998 only run on Microsoft Windows NT and above.
1999 @end table
2000 @end table
2001
2002 @subsubheading AWT-Specific Options
2003
2004 @table @code
2005 @item --with-x
2006 Use the X Window System.
2007
2008 @item --enable-java-awt=PEER(S)
2009 Specifies the AWT peer library or libraries to build alongside
2010 @samp{libgcj}. If this option is unspecified or disabled, AWT
2011 will be non-functional. Current valid values are @option{gtk} and
2012 @option{xlib}. Multiple libraries should be separated by a
2013 comma (i.e.@: @option{--enable-java-awt=gtk,xlib}).
2014
2015 @item --enable-gtk-cairo
2016 Build the cairo Graphics2D implementation on GTK@.
2017
2018 @item --enable-java-gc=TYPE
2019 Choose garbage collector. Defaults to @option{boehm} if unspecified.
2020
2021 @item --disable-gtktest
2022 Do not try to compile and run a test GTK+ program.
2023
2024 @item --disable-glibtest
2025 Do not try to compile and run a test GLIB program.
2026
2027 @item --with-libart-prefix=PFX
2028 Prefix where libart is installed (optional).
2029
2030 @item --with-libart-exec-prefix=PFX
2031 Exec prefix where libart is installed (optional).
2032
2033 @item --disable-libarttest
2034 Do not try to compile and run a test libart program.
2035
2036 @end table
2037
2038 @subsubheading Overriding @command{configure} test results
2039
2040 Sometimes, it might be necessary to override the result of some
2041 @command{configure} test, for example in order to ease porting to a new
2042 system or work around a bug in a test. The toplevel @command{configure}
2043 script provides three variables for this:
2044
2045 @table @code
2046
2047 @item build_configargs
2048 @cindex @code{build_configargs}
2049 The contents of this variable is passed to all build @command{configure}
2050 scripts.
2051
2052 @item host_configargs
2053 @cindex @code{host_configargs}
2054 The contents of this variable is passed to all host @command{configure}
2055 scripts.
2056
2057 @item target_configargs
2058 @cindex @code{target_configargs}
2059 The contents of this variable is passed to all target @command{configure}
2060 scripts.
2061
2062 @end table
2063
2064 In order to avoid shell and @command{make} quoting issues for complex
2065 overrides, you can pass a setting for @env{CONFIG_SITE} and set
2066 variables in the site file.
2067
2068 @html
2069 <hr />
2070 <p>
2071 @end html
2072 @ifhtml
2073 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2074 @end ifhtml
2075 @end ifset
2076
2077 @c ***Building****************************************************************
2078 @ifnothtml
2079 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2080 @node Building, Testing, Configuration, Installing GCC
2081 @end ifnothtml
2082 @ifset buildhtml
2083 @ifnothtml
2084 @chapter Building
2085 @end ifnothtml
2086 @cindex Installing GCC: Building
2087
2088 Now that GCC is configured, you are ready to build the compiler and
2089 runtime libraries.
2090
2091 Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a
2092 nonzero status) and be ignored by @command{make}. These failures, which
2093 are often due to files that were not found, are expected, and can safely
2094 be ignored.
2095
2096 It is normal to have compiler warnings when compiling certain files.
2097 Unless you are a GCC developer, you can generally ignore these warnings
2098 unless they cause compilation to fail. Developers should attempt to fix
2099 any warnings encountered, however they can temporarily continue past
2100 warnings-as-errors by specifying the configure flag
2101 @option{--disable-werror}.
2102
2103 On certain old systems, defining certain environment variables such as
2104 @env{CC} can interfere with the functioning of @command{make}.
2105
2106 If you encounter seemingly strange errors when trying to build the
2107 compiler in a directory other than the source directory, it could be
2108 because you have previously configured the compiler in the source
2109 directory. Make sure you have done all the necessary preparations.
2110
2111 If you build GCC on a BSD system using a directory stored in an old System
2112 V file system, problems may occur in running @command{fixincludes} if the
2113 System V file system doesn't support symbolic links. These problems
2114 result in a failure to fix the declaration of @code{size_t} in
2115 @file{sys/types.h}. If you find that @code{size_t} is a signed type and
2116 that type mismatches occur, this could be the cause.
2117
2118 The solution is not to use such a directory for building GCC@.
2119
2120 Similarly, when building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify
2121 @file{*.l} files, you need the Flex lexical analyzer generator
2122 installed. If you do not modify @file{*.l} files, releases contain
2123 the Flex-generated files and you do not need Flex installed to build
2124 them. There is still one Flex-based lexical analyzer (part of the
2125 build machinery, not of GCC itself) that is used even if you only
2126 build the C front end.
2127
2128 When building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify Texinfo
2129 documentation, you need version 4.7 or later of Texinfo installed if you
2130 want Info documentation to be regenerated. Releases contain Info
2131 documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in the release.
2132
2133 @section Building a native compiler
2134
2135 For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
2136 a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when @samp{make} is invoked.
2137 This will build the entire GCC system and ensure that it compiles
2138 itself correctly. It can be disabled with the @option{--disable-bootstrap}
2139 parameter to @samp{configure}, but bootstrapping is suggested because
2140 the compiler will be tested more completely and could also have
2141 better performance.
2142
2143 The bootstrapping process will complete the following steps:
2144
2145 @itemize @bullet
2146 @item
2147 Build tools necessary to build the compiler.
2148
2149 @item
2150 Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This includes building
2151 three times the target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils
2152 (bfd, binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes) if they have been
2153 individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source tree before
2154 configuring.
2155
2156 @item
2157 Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.
2158
2159 @item
2160 Build runtime libraries using the stage3 compiler from the previous step.
2161
2162 @end itemize
2163
2164 If you are short on disk space you might consider @samp{make
2165 bootstrap-lean} instead. The sequence of compilation is the
2166 same described above, but object files from the stage1 and
2167 stage2 of the 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler are deleted as
2168 soon as they are no longer needed.
2169
2170 If you wish to use non-default GCC flags when compiling the stage2
2171 and stage3 compilers, set @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} on the command line when
2172 doing @samp{make}. For example, if you want to save additional space
2173 during the bootstrap and in the final installation as well, you can
2174 build the compiler binaries without debugging information as in the
2175 following example. This will save roughly 40% of disk space both for
2176 the bootstrap and the final installation. (Libraries will still contain
2177 debugging information.)
2178
2179 @smallexample
2180 make BOOT_CFLAGS='-O' bootstrap
2181 @end smallexample
2182
2183 You can place non-default optimization flags into @code{BOOT_CFLAGS}; they
2184 are less well tested here than the default of @samp{-g -O2}, but should
2185 still work. In a few cases, you may find that you need to specify special
2186 flags such as @option{-msoft-float} here to complete the bootstrap; or,
2187 if the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may need
2188 to work around this, by choosing @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} to avoid the parts
2189 of the stage1 compiler that were miscompiled, or by using @samp{make
2190 bootstrap4} to increase the number of stages of bootstrap.
2191
2192 @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} does not apply to bootstrapped target libraries.
2193 Since these are always compiled with the compiler currently being
2194 bootstrapped, you can use @code{CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET} to modify their
2195 compilation flags, as for non-bootstrapped target libraries.
2196 Again, if the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may
2197 need to work around this by avoiding non-working parts of the stage1
2198 compiler. Use @code{STAGE1_TFLAGS} to this end.
2199
2200 If you used the flag @option{--enable-languages=@dots{}} to restrict
2201 the compilers to be built, only those you've actually enabled will be
2202 built. This will of course only build those runtime libraries, for
2203 which the particular compiler has been built. Please note,
2204 that re-defining @env{LANGUAGES} when calling @samp{make}
2205 @strong{does not} work anymore!
2206
2207 If the comparison of stage2 and stage3 fails, this normally indicates
2208 that the stage2 compiler has compiled GCC incorrectly, and is therefore
2209 a potentially serious bug which you should investigate and report. (On
2210 a few systems, meaningful comparison of object files is impossible; they
2211 always appear ``different''. If you encounter this problem, you will
2212 need to disable comparison in the @file{Makefile}.)
2213
2214 If you do not want to bootstrap your compiler, you can configure with
2215 @option{--disable-bootstrap}. In particular cases, you may want to
2216 bootstrap your compiler even if the target system is not the same as
2217 the one you are building on: for example, you could build a
2218 @code{powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu} toolchain on a
2219 @code{powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu} host. In this case, pass
2220 @option{--enable-bootstrap} to the configure script.
2221
2222 @code{BUILD_CONFIG} can be used to bring in additional customization
2223 to the build. It can be set to a whitespace-separated list of names.
2224 For each such @code{NAME}, top-level @file{config/@code{NAME}.mk} will
2225 be included by the top-level @file{Makefile}, bringing in any settings
2226 it contains. The default @code{BUILD_CONFIG} can be set using the
2227 configure option @option{--with-build-config=@code{NAME}...}. Some
2228 examples of supported build configurations are:
2229
2230 @table @asis
2231 @item @samp{bootstrap-O1}
2232 Removes any @option{-O}-started option from @code{BOOT_CFLAGS}, and adds
2233 @option{-O1} to it. @samp{BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-O1} is equivalent to
2234 @samp{BOOT_CFLAGS='-g -O1'}.
2235
2236 @item @samp{bootstrap-O3}
2237 Analogous to @code{bootstrap-O1}.
2238
2239 @item @samp{bootstrap-lto}
2240 Enables Link-Time Optimization for host tools during bootstrapping.
2241 @samp{BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-lto} is equivalent to adding
2242 @option{-flto} to @samp{BOOT_CFLAGS}.
2243
2244 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug}
2245 Verifies that the compiler generates the same executable code, whether
2246 or not it is asked to emit debug information. To this end, this
2247 option builds stage2 host programs without debug information, and uses
2248 @file{contrib/compare-debug} to compare them with the stripped stage3
2249 object files. If @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} is overridden so as to not enable
2250 debug information, stage2 will have it, and stage3 won't. This option
2251 is enabled by default when GCC bootstrapping is enabled, if
2252 @code{strip} can turn object files compiled with and without debug
2253 info into identical object files. In addition to better test
2254 coverage, this option makes default bootstraps faster and leaner.
2255
2256 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-big}
2257 Rather than comparing stripped object files, as in
2258 @code{bootstrap-debug}, this option saves internal compiler dumps
2259 during stage2 and stage3 and compares them as well, which helps catch
2260 additional potential problems, but at a great cost in terms of disk
2261 space. It can be specified in addition to @samp{bootstrap-debug}.
2262
2263 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-lean}
2264 This option saves disk space compared with @code{bootstrap-debug-big},
2265 but at the expense of some recompilation. Instead of saving the dumps
2266 of stage2 and stage3 until the final compare, it uses
2267 @option{-fcompare-debug} to generate, compare and remove the dumps
2268 during stage3, repeating the compilation that already took place in
2269 stage2, whose dumps were not saved.
2270
2271 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-lib}
2272 This option tests executable code invariance over debug information
2273 generation on target libraries, just like @code{bootstrap-debug-lean}
2274 tests it on host programs. It builds stage3 libraries with
2275 @option{-fcompare-debug}, and it can be used along with any of the
2276 @code{bootstrap-debug} options above.
2277
2278 There aren't @code{-lean} or @code{-big} counterparts to this option
2279 because most libraries are only build in stage3, so bootstrap compares
2280 would not get significant coverage. Moreover, the few libraries built
2281 in stage2 are used in stage3 host programs, so we wouldn't want to
2282 compile stage2 libraries with different options for comparison purposes.
2283
2284 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-ckovw}
2285 Arranges for error messages to be issued if the compiler built on any
2286 stage is run without the option @option{-fcompare-debug}. This is
2287 useful to verify the full @option{-fcompare-debug} testing coverage. It
2288 must be used along with @code{bootstrap-debug-lean} and
2289 @code{bootstrap-debug-lib}.
2290
2291 @item @samp{bootstrap-time}
2292 Arranges for the run time of each program started by the GCC driver,
2293 built in any stage, to be logged to @file{time.log}, in the top level of
2294 the build tree.
2295
2296 @end table
2297
2298 @section Building a cross compiler
2299
2300 When building a cross compiler, it is not generally possible to do a
2301 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This makes for an interesting problem
2302 as parts of GCC can only be built with GCC@.
2303
2304 To build a cross compiler, we recommend first building and installing a
2305 native compiler. You can then use the native GCC compiler to build the
2306 cross compiler. The installed native compiler needs to be GCC version
2307 2.95 or later.
2308
2309 If the cross compiler is to be built with support for the Java
2310 programming language and the ability to compile .java source files is
2311 desired, the installed native compiler used to build the cross
2312 compiler needs to be the same GCC version as the cross compiler. In
2313 addition the cross compiler needs to be configured with
2314 @option{--with-ecj-jar=@dots{}}.
2315
2316 Assuming you have already installed a native copy of GCC and configured
2317 your cross compiler, issue the command @command{make}, which performs the
2318 following steps:
2319
2320 @itemize @bullet
2321 @item
2322 Build host tools necessary to build the compiler.
2323
2324 @item
2325 Build target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils (bfd,
2326 binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes)
2327 if they have been individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source
2328 tree before configuring.
2329
2330 @item
2331 Build the compiler (single stage only).
2332
2333 @item
2334 Build runtime libraries using the compiler from the previous step.
2335 @end itemize
2336
2337 Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit.
2338
2339 If you are not building GNU binutils in the same source tree as GCC,
2340 you will need a cross-assembler and cross-linker installed before
2341 configuring GCC@. Put them in the directory
2342 @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/bin}. Here is a table of the tools
2343 you should put in this directory:
2344
2345 @table @file
2346 @item as
2347 This should be the cross-assembler.
2348
2349 @item ld
2350 This should be the cross-linker.
2351
2352 @item ar
2353 This should be the cross-archiver: a program which can manipulate
2354 archive files (linker libraries) in the target machine's format.
2355
2356 @item ranlib
2357 This should be a program to construct a symbol table in an archive file.
2358 @end table
2359
2360 The installation of GCC will find these programs in that directory,
2361 and copy or link them to the proper place to for the cross-compiler to
2362 find them when run later.
2363
2364 The easiest way to provide these files is to build the Binutils package.
2365 Configure it with the same @option{--host} and @option{--target}
2366 options that you use for configuring GCC, then build and install
2367 them. They install their executables automatically into the proper
2368 directory. Alas, they do not support all the targets that GCC
2369 supports.
2370
2371 If you are not building a C library in the same source tree as GCC,
2372 you should also provide the target libraries and headers before
2373 configuring GCC, specifying the directories with
2374 @option{--with-sysroot} or @option{--with-headers} and
2375 @option{--with-libs}. Many targets also require ``start files'' such
2376 as @file{crt0.o} and
2377 @file{crtn.o} which are linked into each executable. There may be several
2378 alternatives for @file{crt0.o}, for use with profiling or other
2379 compilation options. Check your target's definition of
2380 @code{STARTFILE_SPEC} to find out what start files it uses.
2381
2382 @section Building in parallel
2383
2384 GNU Make 3.80 and above, which is necessary to build GCC, support
2385 building in parallel. To activate this, you can use @samp{make -j 2}
2386 instead of @samp{make}. You can also specify a bigger number, and
2387 in most cases using a value greater than the number of processors in
2388 your machine will result in fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus
2389 improving overall throughput; this is especially true for slow drives
2390 and network filesystems.
2391
2392 @section Building the Ada compiler
2393
2394 In order to build GNAT, the Ada compiler, you need a working GNAT
2395 compiler (GCC version 4.0 or later).
2396 This includes GNAT tools such as @command{gnatmake} and
2397 @command{gnatlink}, since the Ada front end is written in Ada and
2398 uses some GNAT-specific extensions.
2399
2400 In order to build a cross compiler, it is suggested to install
2401 the new compiler as native first, and then use it to build the cross
2402 compiler.
2403
2404 @command{configure} does not test whether the GNAT installation works
2405 and has a sufficiently recent version; if too old a GNAT version is
2406 installed, the build will fail unless @option{--enable-languages} is
2407 used to disable building the Ada front end.
2408
2409 @env{ADA_INCLUDE_PATH} and @env{ADA_OBJECT_PATH} environment variables
2410 must not be set when building the Ada compiler, the Ada tools, or the
2411 Ada runtime libraries. You can check that your build environment is clean
2412 by verifying that @samp{gnatls -v} lists only one explicit path in each
2413 section.
2414
2415 @section Building with profile feedback
2416
2417 It is possible to use profile feedback to optimize the compiler itself. This
2418 should result in a faster compiler binary. Experiments done on x86 using gcc
2419 3.3 showed approximately 7 percent speedup on compiling C programs. To
2420 bootstrap the compiler with profile feedback, use @code{make profiledbootstrap}.
2421
2422 When @samp{make profiledbootstrap} is run, it will first build a @code{stage1}
2423 compiler. This compiler is used to build a @code{stageprofile} compiler
2424 instrumented to collect execution counts of instruction and branch
2425 probabilities. Then runtime libraries are compiled with profile collected.
2426 Finally a @code{stagefeedback} compiler is built using the information collected.
2427
2428 Unlike standard bootstrap, several additional restrictions apply. The
2429 compiler used to build @code{stage1} needs to support a 64-bit integral type.
2430 It is recommended to only use GCC for this. Also parallel make is currently
2431 not supported since collisions in profile collecting may occur.
2432
2433 @html
2434 <hr />
2435 <p>
2436 @end html
2437 @ifhtml
2438 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2439 @end ifhtml
2440 @end ifset
2441
2442 @c ***Testing*****************************************************************
2443 @ifnothtml
2444 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2445 @node Testing, Final install, Building, Installing GCC
2446 @end ifnothtml
2447 @ifset testhtml
2448 @ifnothtml
2449 @chapter Installing GCC: Testing
2450 @end ifnothtml
2451 @cindex Testing
2452 @cindex Installing GCC: Testing
2453 @cindex Testsuite
2454
2455 Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
2456 compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
2457 been submitted to the
2458 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/,,gcc-testresults mailing list}.
2459 Some of these archived results are linked from the build status lists
2460 at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}, although not everyone who
2461 reports a successful build runs the testsuites and submits the results.
2462 This step is optional and may require you to download additional software,
2463 but it can give you confidence in your new GCC installation or point out
2464 problems before you install and start using your new GCC@.
2465
2466 First, you must have @uref{download.html,,downloaded the testsuites}.
2467 These are part of the full distribution, but if you downloaded the
2468 ``core'' compiler plus any front ends, you must download the testsuites
2469 separately.
2470
2471 Second, you must have the testing tools installed. This includes
2472 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/,,DejaGnu}, Tcl, and Expect;
2473 the DejaGnu site has links to these.
2474
2475 If the directories where @command{runtest} and @command{expect} were
2476 installed are not in the @env{PATH}, you may need to set the following
2477 environment variables appropriately, as in the following example (which
2478 assumes that DejaGnu has been installed under @file{/usr/local}):
2479
2480 @smallexample
2481 TCL_LIBRARY = /usr/local/share/tcl8.0
2482 DEJAGNULIBS = /usr/local/share/dejagnu
2483 @end smallexample
2484
2485 (On systems such as Cygwin, these paths are required to be actual
2486 paths, not mounts or links; presumably this is due to some lack of
2487 portability in the DejaGnu code.)
2488
2489
2490 Finally, you can run the testsuite (which may take a long time):
2491 @smallexample
2492 cd @var{objdir}; make -k check
2493 @end smallexample
2494
2495 This will test various components of GCC, such as compiler
2496 front ends and runtime libraries. While running the testsuite, DejaGnu
2497 might emit some harmless messages resembling
2498 @samp{WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.} or
2499 @samp{WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file} that can be ignored.
2500
2501 If you are testing a cross-compiler, you may want to run the testsuite
2502 on a simulator as described at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/simtest-howto.html}.
2503
2504 @section How can you run the testsuite on selected tests?
2505
2506 In order to run sets of tests selectively, there are targets
2507 @samp{make check-gcc} and @samp{make check-g++}
2508 in the @file{gcc} subdirectory of the object directory. You can also
2509 just run @samp{make check} in a subdirectory of the object directory.
2510
2511
2512 A more selective way to just run all @command{gcc} execute tests in the
2513 testsuite is to use
2514
2515 @smallexample
2516 make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp @var{other-options}"
2517 @end smallexample
2518
2519 Likewise, in order to run only the @command{g++} ``old-deja'' tests in
2520 the testsuite with filenames matching @samp{9805*}, you would use
2521
2522 @smallexample
2523 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805* @var{other-options}"
2524 @end smallexample
2525
2526 The @file{*.exp} files are located in the testsuite directories of the GCC
2527 source, the most important ones being @file{compile.exp},
2528 @file{execute.exp}, @file{dg.exp} and @file{old-deja.exp}.
2529 To get a list of the possible @file{*.exp} files, pipe the
2530 output of @samp{make check} into a file and look at the
2531 @samp{Running @dots{} .exp} lines.
2532
2533 @section Passing options and running multiple testsuites
2534
2535 You can pass multiple options to the testsuite using the
2536 @samp{--target_board} option of DejaGNU, either passed as part of
2537 @samp{RUNTESTFLAGS}, or directly to @command{runtest} if you prefer to
2538 work outside the makefiles. For example,
2539
2540 @smallexample
2541 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=unix/-O3/-fmerge-constants"
2542 @end smallexample
2543
2544 will run the standard @command{g++} testsuites (``unix'' is the target name
2545 for a standard native testsuite situation), passing
2546 @samp{-O3 -fmerge-constants} to the compiler on every test, i.e.,
2547 slashes separate options.
2548
2549 You can run the testsuites multiple times using combinations of options
2550 with a syntax similar to the brace expansion of popular shells:
2551
2552 @smallexample
2553 @dots{}"--target_board=arm-sim\@{-mhard-float,-msoft-float\@}\@{-O1,-O2,-O3,\@}"
2554 @end smallexample
2555
2556 (Note the empty option caused by the trailing comma in the final group.)
2557 The following will run each testsuite eight times using the @samp{arm-sim}
2558 target, as if you had specified all possible combinations yourself:
2559
2560 @smallexample
2561 --target_board=arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O1
2562 --target_board=arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O2
2563 --target_board=arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O3
2564 --target_board=arm-sim/-mhard-float
2565 --target_board=arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O1
2566 --target_board=arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O2
2567 --target_board=arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O3
2568 --target_board=arm-sim/-msoft-float
2569 @end smallexample
2570
2571 They can be combined as many times as you wish, in arbitrary ways. This
2572 list:
2573
2574 @smallexample
2575 @dots{}"--target_board=unix/-Wextra\@{-O3,-fno-strength\@}\@{-fomit-frame,\@}"
2576 @end smallexample
2577
2578 will generate four combinations, all involving @samp{-Wextra}.
2579
2580 The disadvantage to this method is that the testsuites are run in serial,
2581 which is a waste on multiprocessor systems. For users with GNU Make and
2582 a shell which performs brace expansion, you can run the testsuites in
2583 parallel by having the shell perform the combinations and @command{make}
2584 do the parallel runs. Instead of using @samp{--target_board}, use a
2585 special makefile target:
2586
2587 @smallexample
2588 make -j@var{N} check-@var{testsuite}//@var{test-target}/@var{option1}/@var{option2}/@dots{}
2589 @end smallexample
2590
2591 For example,
2592
2593 @smallexample
2594 make -j3 check-gcc//sh-hms-sim/@{-m1,-m2,-m3,-m3e,-m4@}/@{,-nofpu@}
2595 @end smallexample
2596
2597 will run three concurrent ``make-gcc'' testsuites, eventually testing all
2598 ten combinations as described above. Note that this is currently only
2599 supported in the @file{gcc} subdirectory. (To see how this works, try
2600 typing @command{echo} before the example given here.)
2601
2602
2603 @section Additional testing for Java Class Libraries
2604
2605 The Java runtime tests can be executed via @samp{make check}
2606 in the @file{@var{target}/libjava/testsuite} directory in
2607 the build tree.
2608
2609 The @uref{http://sourceware.org/mauve/,,Mauve Project} provides
2610 a suite of tests for the Java Class Libraries. This suite can be run
2611 as part of libgcj testing by placing the Mauve tree within the libjava
2612 testsuite at @file{libjava/testsuite/libjava.mauve/mauve}, or by
2613 specifying the location of that tree when invoking @samp{make}, as in
2614 @samp{make MAUVEDIR=~/mauve check}.
2615
2616 @section How to interpret test results
2617
2618 The result of running the testsuite are various @file{*.sum} and @file{*.log}
2619 files in the testsuite subdirectories. The @file{*.log} files contain a
2620 detailed log of the compiler invocations and the corresponding
2621 results, the @file{*.sum} files summarize the results. These summaries
2622 contain status codes for all tests:
2623
2624 @itemize @bullet
2625 @item
2626 PASS: the test passed as expected
2627 @item
2628 XPASS: the test unexpectedly passed
2629 @item
2630 FAIL: the test unexpectedly failed
2631 @item
2632 XFAIL: the test failed as expected
2633 @item
2634 UNSUPPORTED: the test is not supported on this platform
2635 @item
2636 ERROR: the testsuite detected an error
2637 @item
2638 WARNING: the testsuite detected a possible problem
2639 @end itemize
2640
2641 It is normal for some tests to report unexpected failures. At the
2642 current time the testing harness does not allow fine grained control
2643 over whether or not a test is expected to fail. This problem should
2644 be fixed in future releases.
2645
2646
2647 @section Submitting test results
2648
2649 If you want to report the results to the GCC project, use the
2650 @file{contrib/test_summary} shell script. Start it in the @var{objdir} with
2651
2652 @smallexample
2653 @var{srcdir}/contrib/test_summary -p your_commentary.txt \
2654 -m gcc-testresults@@gcc.gnu.org |sh
2655 @end smallexample
2656
2657 This script uses the @command{Mail} program to send the results, so
2658 make sure it is in your @env{PATH}. The file @file{your_commentary.txt} is
2659 prepended to the testsuite summary and should contain any special
2660 remarks you have on your results or your build environment. Please
2661 do not edit the testsuite result block or the subject line, as these
2662 messages may be automatically processed.
2663
2664 @html
2665 <hr />
2666 <p>
2667 @end html
2668 @ifhtml
2669 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2670 @end ifhtml
2671 @end ifset
2672
2673 @c ***Final install***********************************************************
2674 @ifnothtml
2675 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2676 @node Final install, , Testing, Installing GCC
2677 @end ifnothtml
2678 @ifset finalinstallhtml
2679 @ifnothtml
2680 @chapter Installing GCC: Final installation
2681 @end ifnothtml
2682
2683 Now that GCC has been built (and optionally tested), you can install it with
2684 @smallexample
2685 cd @var{objdir} && make install
2686 @end smallexample
2687
2688 We strongly recommend to install into a target directory where there is
2689 no previous version of GCC present. Also, the GNAT runtime should not
2690 be stripped, as this would break certain features of the debugger that
2691 depend on this debugging information (catching Ada exceptions for
2692 instance).
2693
2694 That step completes the installation of GCC; user level binaries can
2695 be found in @file{@var{prefix}/bin} where @var{prefix} is the value
2696 you specified with the @option{--prefix} to configure (or
2697 @file{/usr/local} by default). (If you specified @option{--bindir},
2698 that directory will be used instead; otherwise, if you specified
2699 @option{--exec-prefix}, @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin} will be used.)
2700 Headers for the C++ and Java libraries are installed in
2701 @file{@var{prefix}/include}; libraries in @file{@var{libdir}}
2702 (normally @file{@var{prefix}/lib}); internal parts of the compiler in
2703 @file{@var{libdir}/gcc} and @file{@var{libexecdir}/gcc}; documentation
2704 in info format in @file{@var{infodir}} (normally
2705 @file{@var{prefix}/info}).
2706
2707 When installing cross-compilers, GCC's executables
2708 are not only installed into @file{@var{bindir}}, that
2709 is, @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}, but additionally into
2710 @file{@var{exec-prefix}/@var{target-alias}/bin}, if that directory
2711 exists. Typically, such @dfn{tooldirs} hold target-specific
2712 binutils, including assembler and linker.
2713
2714 Installation into a temporary staging area or into a @command{chroot}
2715 jail can be achieved with the command
2716
2717 @smallexample
2718 make DESTDIR=@var{path-to-rootdir} install
2719 @end smallexample
2720
2721 @noindent
2722 where @var{path-to-rootdir} is the absolute path of
2723 a directory relative to which all installation paths will be
2724 interpreted. Note that the directory specified by @code{DESTDIR}
2725 need not exist yet; it will be created if necessary.
2726
2727 There is a subtle point with tooldirs and @code{DESTDIR}:
2728 If you relocate a cross-compiler installation with
2729 e.g.@: @samp{DESTDIR=@var{rootdir}}, then the directory
2730 @file{@var{rootdir}/@var{exec-prefix}/@var{target-alias}/bin} will
2731 be filled with duplicated GCC executables only if it already exists,
2732 it will not be created otherwise. This is regarded as a feature,
2733 not as a bug, because it gives slightly more control to the packagers
2734 using the @code{DESTDIR} feature.
2735
2736 You can install stripped programs and libraries with
2737
2738 @smallexample
2739 make install-strip
2740 @end smallexample
2741
2742 If you are bootstrapping a released version of GCC then please
2743 quickly review the build status page for your release, available from
2744 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
2745 If your system is not listed for the version of GCC that you built,
2746 send a note to
2747 @email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} indicating
2748 that you successfully built and installed GCC@.
2749 Include the following information:
2750
2751 @itemize @bullet
2752 @item
2753 Output from running @file{@var{srcdir}/config.guess}. Do not send
2754 that file itself, just the one-line output from running it.
2755
2756 @item
2757 The output of @samp{gcc -v} for your newly installed @command{gcc}.
2758 This tells us which version of GCC you built and the options you passed to
2759 configure.
2760
2761 @item
2762 Whether you enabled all languages or a subset of them. If you used a
2763 full distribution then this information is part of the configure
2764 options in the output of @samp{gcc -v}, but if you downloaded the
2765 ``core'' compiler plus additional front ends then it isn't apparent
2766 which ones you built unless you tell us about it.
2767
2768 @item
2769 If the build was for GNU/Linux, also include:
2770 @itemize @bullet
2771 @item
2772 The distribution name and version (e.g., Red Hat 7.1 or Debian 2.2.3);
2773 this information should be available from @file{/etc/issue}.
2774
2775 @item
2776 The version of the Linux kernel, available from @samp{uname --version}
2777 or @samp{uname -a}.
2778
2779 @item
2780 The version of glibc you used; for RPM-based systems like Red Hat,
2781 Mandrake, and SuSE type @samp{rpm -q glibc} to get the glibc version,
2782 and on systems like Debian and Progeny use @samp{dpkg -l libc6}.
2783 @end itemize
2784 For other systems, you can include similar information if you think it is
2785 relevant.
2786
2787 @item
2788 Any other information that you think would be useful to people building
2789 GCC on the same configuration. The new entry in the build status list
2790 will include a link to the archived copy of your message.
2791 @end itemize
2792
2793 We'd also like to know if the
2794 @ifnothtml
2795 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}
2796 @end ifnothtml
2797 @ifhtml
2798 @uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}
2799 @end ifhtml
2800 didn't include your host/target information or if that information is
2801 incomplete or out of date. Send a note to
2802 @email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} detailing how the information should be changed.
2803
2804 If you find a bug, please report it following the
2805 @uref{../bugs/,,bug reporting guidelines}.
2806
2807 If you want to print the GCC manuals, do @samp{cd @var{objdir}; make
2808 dvi}. You will need to have @command{texi2dvi} (version at least 4.7)
2809 and @TeX{} installed. This creates a number of @file{.dvi} files in
2810 subdirectories of @file{@var{objdir}}; these may be converted for
2811 printing with programs such as @command{dvips}. Alternately, by using
2812 @samp{make pdf} in place of @samp{make dvi}, you can create documentation
2813 in the form of @file{.pdf} files; this requires @command{texi2pdf}, which
2814 is included with Texinfo version 4.8 and later. You can also
2815 @uref{http://shop.fsf.org/,,buy printed manuals from the
2816 Free Software Foundation}, though such manuals may not be for the most
2817 recent version of GCC@.
2818
2819 If you would like to generate online HTML documentation, do @samp{cd
2820 @var{objdir}; make html} and HTML will be generated for the gcc manuals in
2821 @file{@var{objdir}/gcc/HTML}.
2822
2823 @html
2824 <hr />
2825 <p>
2826 @end html
2827 @ifhtml
2828 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2829 @end ifhtml
2830 @end ifset
2831
2832 @c ***Binaries****************************************************************
2833 @ifnothtml
2834 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2835 @node Binaries, Specific, Installing GCC, Top
2836 @end ifnothtml
2837 @ifset binarieshtml
2838 @ifnothtml
2839 @chapter Installing GCC: Binaries
2840 @end ifnothtml
2841 @cindex Binaries
2842 @cindex Installing GCC: Binaries
2843
2844 We are often asked about pre-compiled versions of GCC@. While we cannot
2845 provide these for all platforms, below you'll find links to binaries for
2846 various platforms where creating them by yourself is not easy due to various
2847 reasons.
2848
2849 Please note that we did not create these binaries, nor do we
2850 support them. If you have any problems installing them, please
2851 contact their makers.
2852
2853 @itemize
2854 @item
2855 AIX:
2856 @itemize
2857 @item
2858 @uref{http://www.bullfreeware.com,,Bull's Freeware and Shareware Archive for AIX};
2859
2860 @item
2861 @uref{http://pware.hvcc.edu,,Hudson Valley Community College Open Source Software for IBM System p};
2862
2863 @item
2864 @uref{http://www.perzl.org/aix/,,AIX 5L and 6 Open Source Packages}.
2865 @end itemize
2866
2867 @item
2868 DOS---@uref{http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/,,DJGPP}.
2869
2870 @item
2871 Renesas H8/300[HS]---@uref{http://h8300-hms.sourceforge.net/,,GNU
2872 Development Tools for the Renesas H8/300[HS] Series}.
2873
2874 @item
2875 HP-UX:
2876 @itemize
2877 @item
2878 @uref{http://hpux.connect.org.uk/,,HP-UX Porting Center};
2879
2880 @item
2881 @uref{ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/gcc_hpux/,,Binaries for HP-UX 11.00 at Aachen University of Technology}.
2882 @end itemize
2883
2884 @item
2885 @uref{http://www.sco.com/skunkware/devtools/index.html#gcc,,SCO
2886 OpenServer/Unixware}.
2887
2888 @item
2889 Solaris 2 (SPARC, Intel):
2890 @itemize
2891 @item
2892 @uref{http://www.sunfreeware.com/,,Sunfreeware}
2893
2894 @item
2895 @uref{http://www.blastwave.org/,,Blastwave}
2896
2897 @item
2898 @uref{http://www.opencsw.org/,,OpenCSW}
2899
2900 @item
2901 @uref{http://jupiterrise.com/tgcware/,,TGCware}
2902 @end itemize
2903
2904 @item
2905 SGI IRIX:
2906 @itemize
2907 @item
2908 @uref{http://nekochan.net/,,Nekoware}
2909
2910 @item
2911 @uref{http://jupiterrise.com/tgcware/,,TGCware}
2912 @end itemize
2913
2914 @item
2915 Microsoft Windows:
2916 @itemize
2917 @item
2918 The @uref{http://sourceware.org/cygwin/,,Cygwin} project;
2919 @item
2920 The @uref{http://www.mingw.org/,,MinGW} project.
2921 @end itemize
2922
2923 @item
2924 @uref{ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/packages/by-name/,,The
2925 Written Word} offers binaries for
2926 AIX 4.3.3, 5.1 and 5.2,
2927 IRIX 6.5,
2928 Tru64 UNIX 4.0D and 5.1,
2929 GNU/Linux (i386),
2930 HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, and 11.11, and
2931 Solaris/SPARC 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
2932
2933 @item
2934 @uref{http://www.openpkg.org/,,OpenPKG} offers binaries for quite a
2935 number of platforms.
2936
2937 @item
2938 The @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries,,GFortran Wiki} has
2939 links to GNU Fortran binaries for several platforms.
2940 @end itemize
2941
2942 @html
2943 <hr />
2944 <p>
2945 @end html
2946 @ifhtml
2947 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2948 @end ifhtml
2949 @end ifset
2950
2951 @c ***Specific****************************************************************
2952 @ifnothtml
2953 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2954 @node Specific, Old, Binaries, Top
2955 @end ifnothtml
2956 @ifset specifichtml
2957 @ifnothtml
2958 @chapter Host/target specific installation notes for GCC
2959 @end ifnothtml
2960 @cindex Specific
2961 @cindex Specific installation notes
2962 @cindex Target specific installation
2963 @cindex Host specific installation
2964 @cindex Target specific installation notes
2965
2966 Please read this document carefully @emph{before} installing the
2967 GNU Compiler Collection on your machine.
2968
2969 Note that this list of install notes is @emph{not} a list of supported
2970 hosts or targets. Not all supported hosts and targets are listed
2971 here, only the ones that require host-specific or target-specific
2972 information are.
2973
2974 @ifhtml
2975 @itemize
2976 @item
2977 @uref{#alpha-x-x,,alpha*-*-*}
2978 @item
2979 @uref{#alpha-dec-osf51,,alpha*-dec-osf5.1}
2980 @item
2981 @uref{#amd64-x-solaris210,,amd64-*-solaris2.10}
2982 @item
2983 @uref{#arm-x-elf,,arm-*-elf}
2984 @item
2985 @uref{#avr,,avr}
2986 @item
2987 @uref{#bfin,,Blackfin}
2988 @item
2989 @uref{#dos,,DOS}
2990 @item
2991 @uref{#x-x-freebsd,,*-*-freebsd*}
2992 @item
2993 @uref{#h8300-hms,,h8300-hms}
2994 @item
2995 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux,,hppa*-hp-hpux*}
2996 @item
2997 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux10,,hppa*-hp-hpux10}
2998 @item
2999 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux11,,hppa*-hp-hpux11}
3000 @item
3001 @uref{#x-x-linux-gnu,,*-*-linux-gnu}
3002 @item
3003 @uref{#ix86-x-linux,,i?86-*-linux*}
3004 @item
3005 @uref{#ix86-x-solaris289,,i?86-*-solaris2.[89]}
3006 @item
3007 @uref{#ix86-x-solaris210,,i?86-*-solaris2.10}
3008 @item
3009 @uref{#ia64-x-linux,,ia64-*-linux}
3010 @item
3011 @uref{#ia64-x-hpux,,ia64-*-hpux*}
3012 @item
3013 @uref{#x-ibm-aix,,*-ibm-aix*}
3014 @item
3015 @uref{#iq2000-x-elf,,iq2000-*-elf}
3016 @item
3017 @uref{#lm32-x-elf,,lm32-*-elf}
3018 @item
3019 @uref{#lm32-x-uclinux,,lm32-*-uclinux}
3020 @item
3021 @uref{#m32c-x-elf,,m32c-*-elf}
3022 @item
3023 @uref{#m32r-x-elf,,m32r-*-elf}
3024 @item
3025 @uref{#m68k-x-x,,m68k-*-*}
3026 @item
3027 @uref{#m68k-uclinux,,m68k-uclinux}
3028 @item
3029 @uref{#mep-x-elf,,mep-*-elf}
3030 @item
3031 @uref{#microblaze-x-elf,,microblaze-*-elf}
3032 @item
3033 @uref{#mips-x-x,,mips-*-*}
3034 @item
3035 @uref{#mips-sgi-irix5,,mips-sgi-irix5}
3036 @item
3037 @uref{#mips-sgi-irix6,,mips-sgi-irix6}
3038 @item
3039 @uref{#powerpc-x-x,,powerpc*-*-*}
3040 @item
3041 @uref{#powerpc-x-darwin,,powerpc-*-darwin*}
3042 @item
3043 @uref{#powerpc-x-elf,,powerpc-*-elf}
3044 @item
3045 @uref{#powerpc-x-linux-gnu,,powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*}
3046 @item
3047 @uref{#powerpc-x-netbsd,,powerpc-*-netbsd*}
3048 @item
3049 @uref{#powerpc-x-eabisim,,powerpc-*-eabisim}
3050 @item
3051 @uref{#powerpc-x-eabi,,powerpc-*-eabi}
3052 @item
3053 @uref{#powerpcle-x-elf,,powerpcle-*-elf}
3054 @item
3055 @uref{#powerpcle-x-eabisim,,powerpcle-*-eabisim}
3056 @item
3057 @uref{#powerpcle-x-eabi,,powerpcle-*-eabi}
3058 @item
3059 @uref{#s390-x-linux,,s390-*-linux*}
3060 @item
3061 @uref{#s390x-x-linux,,s390x-*-linux*}
3062 @item
3063 @uref{#s390x-ibm-tpf,,s390x-ibm-tpf*}
3064 @item
3065 @uref{#x-x-solaris2,,*-*-solaris2*}
3066 @item
3067 @uref{#sparc-x-x,,sparc*-*-*}
3068 @item
3069 @uref{#sparc-sun-solaris2,,sparc-sun-solaris2*}
3070 @item
3071 @uref{#sparc-sun-solaris210,,sparc-sun-solaris2.10}
3072 @item
3073 @uref{#sparc-x-linux,,sparc-*-linux*}
3074 @item
3075 @uref{#sparc64-x-solaris2,,sparc64-*-solaris2*}
3076 @item
3077 @uref{#sparcv9-x-solaris2,,sparcv9-*-solaris2*}
3078 @item
3079 @uref{#c6x-x-x,,c6x-*-*}
3080 @item
3081 @uref{#x-x-vxworks,,*-*-vxworks*}
3082 @item
3083 @uref{#x86-64-x-x,,x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*}
3084 @item
3085 @uref{#x86-64-x-solaris210,,x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*}
3086 @item
3087 @uref{#xtensa-x-elf,,xtensa*-*-elf}
3088 @item
3089 @uref{#xtensa-x-linux,,xtensa*-*-linux*}
3090 @item
3091 @uref{#windows,,Microsoft Windows}
3092 @item
3093 @uref{#x-x-cygwin,,*-*-cygwin}
3094 @item
3095 @uref{#x-x-interix,,*-*-interix}
3096 @item
3097 @uref{#x-x-mingw32,,*-*-mingw32}
3098 @item
3099 @uref{#os2,,OS/2}
3100 @item
3101 @uref{#older,,Older systems}
3102 @end itemize
3103
3104 @itemize
3105 @item
3106 @uref{#elf,,all ELF targets} (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
3107 @end itemize
3108 @end ifhtml
3109
3110
3111 @html
3112 <!-- -------- host/target specific issues start here ---------------- -->
3113 <hr />
3114 @end html
3115 @heading @anchor{alpha-x-x}alpha*-*-*
3116
3117 This section contains general configuration information for all
3118 alpha-based platforms using ELF (in particular, ignore this section for
3119 DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX and Tru64 UNIX)@. In addition to reading this
3120 section, please read all other sections that match your target.
3121
3122 We require binutils 2.11.2 or newer.
3123 Previous binutils releases had a number of problems with DWARF 2
3124 debugging information, not the least of which is incorrect linking of
3125 shared libraries.
3126
3127 @html
3128 <hr />
3129 @end html
3130 @heading @anchor{alpha-dec-osf51}alpha*-dec-osf5.1
3131 Systems using processors that implement the DEC Alpha architecture and
3132 are running the DEC/Compaq/HP Unix (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX, or Compaq/HP
3133 Tru64 UNIX) operating system, for example the DEC Alpha AXP systems.
3134
3135 Support for Tru64 UNIX V5.1 has been obsoleted in GCC 4.7, but can still
3136 be enabled by configuring with @option{--enable-obsolete}. Support will
3137 be removed in GCC 4.8. As of GCC 4.6, support for Tru64 UNIX V4.0 and
3138 V5.0 has been removed. As of GCC 3.2, versions before
3139 @code{alpha*-dec-osf4} are no longer supported. (These are the versions
3140 which identify themselves as DEC OSF/1.)
3141
3142 On Tru64 UNIX, virtual memory exhausted bootstrap failures
3143 may be fixed by reconfiguring Kernel Virtual Memory and Swap parameters
3144 per the @command{/usr/sbin/sys_check} Tuning Suggestions,
3145 or applying the patch in
3146 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00822.html}. Depending on
3147 the OS version used, you need a data segment size between 512 MB and
3148 1 GB, so simply use @command{ulimit -Sd unlimited}.
3149
3150 As of GNU binutils 2.21, neither GNU @command{as} nor GNU @command{ld}
3151 are supported on Tru64 UNIX, so you must not configure GCC with
3152 @option{--with-gnu-as} or @option{--with-gnu-ld}.
3153
3154 Cross-compilers for the Tru64 UNIX target currently do not work because
3155 the auxiliary programs @command{mips-tdump} and @command{mips-tfile} can't
3156 be compiled on anything but Tru64 UNIX.
3157
3158 GCC writes a @samp{.verstamp} directive to the assembler output file
3159 unless it is built as a cross-compiler. It gets the version to use from
3160 the system header file @file{/usr/include/stamp.h}. If you install a
3161 new version of Tru64 UNIX, you should rebuild GCC to pick up the new version
3162 stamp.
3163
3164 GCC now supports both the native (ECOFF) debugging format used by DBX
3165 and GDB and an encapsulated STABS format for use only with GDB@. See the
3166 discussion of the @option{--with-stabs} option of @file{configure} above
3167 for more information on these formats and how to select them.
3168 @c FIXME: does this work at all? If so, perhaps make default.
3169
3170 There is a bug in DEC's assembler that produces incorrect line numbers
3171 for ECOFF format when the @samp{.align} directive is used. To work
3172 around this problem, GCC will not emit such alignment directives
3173 while writing ECOFF format debugging information even if optimization is
3174 being performed. Unfortunately, this has the very undesirable
3175 side-effect that code addresses when @option{-O} is specified are
3176 different depending on whether or not @option{-g} is also specified.
3177
3178 To avoid this behavior, specify @option{-gstabs+} and use GDB instead of
3179 DBX@. DEC is now aware of this problem with the assembler and hopes to
3180 provide a fix shortly.
3181
3182 @c FIXME: still applicable?
3183
3184 @html
3185 <hr />
3186 @end html
3187 @heading @anchor{amd64-x-solaris210}amd64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*
3188
3189 This is a synonym for @samp{x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*}.
3190
3191 @html
3192 <hr />
3193 @end html
3194 @heading @anchor{arm-x-elf}arm-*-elf
3195 ARM-family processors. Subtargets that use the ELF object format
3196 require GNU binutils 2.13 or newer. Such subtargets include:
3197 @code{arm-*-freebsd}, @code{arm-*-netbsdelf}, @code{arm-*-*linux}
3198 and @code{arm-*-rtems}.
3199
3200 @html
3201 <hr />
3202 @end html
3203 @heading @anchor{avr}avr
3204
3205 ATMEL AVR-family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
3206 applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
3207 @ifnothtml
3208 @xref{AVR Options,, AVR Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
3209 Collection (GCC)},
3210 @end ifnothtml
3211 @ifhtml
3212 See ``AVR Options'' in the main manual
3213 @end ifhtml
3214 for the list of supported MCU types.
3215
3216 Use @samp{configure --target=avr --enable-languages="c"} to configure GCC@.
3217
3218 Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR tools
3219 can also be obtained from:
3220
3221 @itemize @bullet
3222 @item
3223 @uref{http://www.nongnu.org/avr/,,http://www.nongnu.org/avr/}
3224 @item
3225 @uref{http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/,,http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/}
3226 @end itemize
3227
3228 We @emph{strongly} recommend using binutils 2.13 or newer.
3229
3230 The following error:
3231 @smallexample
3232 Error: register required
3233 @end smallexample
3234
3235 indicates that you should upgrade to a newer version of the binutils.
3236
3237 @html
3238 <hr />
3239 @end html
3240 @heading @anchor{bfin}Blackfin
3241
3242 The Blackfin processor, an Analog Devices DSP.
3243 @ifnothtml
3244 @xref{Blackfin Options,, Blackfin Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
3245 Collection (GCC)},
3246 @end ifnothtml
3247 @ifhtml
3248 See ``Blackfin Options'' in the main manual
3249 @end ifhtml
3250
3251 More information, and a version of binutils with support for this processor,
3252 is available at @uref{http://blackfin.uclinux.org}
3253
3254 @html
3255 <hr />
3256 @end html
3257 @heading @anchor{cris}CRIS
3258
3259 CRIS is the CPU architecture in Axis Communications ETRAX system-on-a-chip
3260 series. These are used in embedded applications.
3261
3262 @ifnothtml
3263 @xref{CRIS Options,, CRIS Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
3264 Collection (GCC)},
3265 @end ifnothtml
3266 @ifhtml
3267 See ``CRIS Options'' in the main manual
3268 @end ifhtml
3269 for a list of CRIS-specific options.
3270
3271 There are a few different CRIS targets:
3272 @table @code
3273 @item cris-axis-elf
3274 Mainly for monolithic embedded systems. Includes a multilib for the
3275 @samp{v10} core used in @samp{ETRAX 100 LX}.
3276 @item cris-axis-linux-gnu
3277 A GNU/Linux port for the CRIS architecture, currently targeting
3278 @samp{ETRAX 100 LX} by default.
3279 @end table
3280
3281 For @code{cris-axis-elf} you need binutils 2.11
3282 or newer. For @code{cris-axis-linux-gnu} you need binutils 2.12 or newer.
3283
3284 Pre-packaged tools can be obtained from
3285 @uref{ftp://ftp.axis.com/@/pub/@/axis/@/tools/@/cris/@/compiler-kit/}. More
3286 information about this platform is available at
3287 @uref{http://developer.axis.com/}.
3288
3289 @html
3290 <hr />
3291 @end html
3292 @heading @anchor{dos}DOS
3293
3294 Please have a look at the @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
3295
3296 You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under
3297 any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete
3298 compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources,
3299 and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.
3300
3301 @html
3302 <hr />
3303 @end html
3304 @heading @anchor{x-x-freebsd}*-*-freebsd*
3305
3306 Support for FreeBSD 1 was discontinued in GCC 3.2. Support for
3307 FreeBSD 2 (and any mutant a.out variants of FreeBSD 3) was
3308 discontinued in GCC 4.0.
3309
3310 In order to better utilize FreeBSD base system functionality and match
3311 the configuration of the system compiler, GCC 4.5 and above as well as
3312 GCC 4.4 past 2010-06-20 leverage SSP support in libc (which is present
3313 on FreeBSD 7 or later) and the use of @code{__cxa_atexit} by default
3314 (on FreeBSD 6 or later). The use of @code{dl_iterate_phdr} inside
3315 @file{libgcc_s.so.1} and boehm-gc (on FreeBSD 7 or later) is enabled
3316 by GCC 4.5 and above.
3317
3318 We support FreeBSD using the ELF file format with DWARF 2 debugging
3319 for all CPU architectures. You may use @option{-gstabs} instead of
3320 @option{-g}, if you really want the old debugging format. There are
3321 no known issues with mixing object files and libraries with different
3322 debugging formats. Otherwise, this release of GCC should now match
3323 more of the configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of
3324 GCC@. In particular, @option{--enable-threads} is now configured by
3325 default. However, as a general user, do not attempt to replace the
3326 system compiler with this release. Known to bootstrap and check with
3327 good results on FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE@. In the past, known to bootstrap
3328 and check with good results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4,
3329 4.5, 4.8, 4.9 and 5-CURRENT@.
3330
3331 The version of binutils installed in @file{/usr/bin} probably works
3332 with this release of GCC@. Bootstrapping against the latest GNU
3333 binutils and/or the version found in @file{/usr/ports/devel/binutils} has
3334 been known to enable additional features and improve overall testsuite
3335 results. However, it is currently known that boehm-gc (which itself
3336 is required for java) may not configure properly on FreeBSD prior to
3337 the FreeBSD 7.0 release with GNU binutils after 2.16.1.
3338
3339 @html
3340 <hr />
3341 @end html
3342 @heading @anchor{h8300-hms}h8300-hms
3343 Renesas H8/300 series of processors.
3344
3345 Please have a look at the @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
3346
3347 The calling convention and structure layout has changed in release 2.6.
3348 All code must be recompiled. The calling convention now passes the
3349 first three arguments in function calls in registers. Structures are no
3350 longer a multiple of 2 bytes.
3351
3352 @html
3353 <hr />
3354 @end html
3355 @heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux}hppa*-hp-hpux*
3356 Support for HP-UX version 9 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
3357
3358 We require using gas/binutils on all hppa platforms. Version 2.19 or
3359 later is recommended.
3360
3361 It may be helpful to configure GCC with the
3362 @uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}} and
3363 @option{--with-as=@dots{}} options to ensure that GCC can find GAS@.
3364
3365 The HP assembler should not be used with GCC. It is rarely tested and may
3366 not work. It shouldn't be used with any languages other than C due to its
3367 many limitations.
3368
3369 Specifically, @option{-g} does not work (HP-UX uses a peculiar debugging
3370 format which GCC does not know about). It also inserts timestamps
3371 into each object file it creates, causing the 3-stage comparison test to
3372 fail during a bootstrap. You should be able to continue by saying
3373 @samp{make all-host all-target} after getting the failure from @samp{make}.
3374
3375 Various GCC features are not supported. For example, it does not support weak
3376 symbols or alias definitions. As a result, explicit template instantiations
3377 are required when using C++. This makes it difficult if not impossible to
3378 build many C++ applications.
3379
3380 There are two default scheduling models for instructions. These are
3381 PROCESSOR_7100LC and PROCESSOR_8000. They are selected from the pa-risc
3382 architecture specified for the target machine when configuring.
3383 PROCESSOR_8000 is the default. PROCESSOR_7100LC is selected when
3384 the target is a @samp{hppa1*} machine.
3385
3386 The PROCESSOR_8000 model is not well suited to older processors. Thus,
3387 it is important to completely specify the machine architecture when
3388 configuring if you want a model other than PROCESSOR_8000. The macro
3389 TARGET_SCHED_DEFAULT can be defined in BOOT_CFLAGS if a different
3390 default scheduling model is desired.
3391
3392 As of GCC 4.0, GCC uses the UNIX 95 namespace for HP-UX 10.10
3393 through 11.00, and the UNIX 98 namespace for HP-UX 11.11 and later.
3394 This namespace change might cause problems when bootstrapping with
3395 an earlier version of GCC or the HP compiler as essentially the same
3396 namespace is required for an entire build. This problem can be avoided
3397 in a number of ways. With HP cc, @env{UNIX_STD} can be set to @samp{95}
3398 or @samp{98}. Another way is to add an appropriate set of predefines
3399 to @env{CC}. The description for the @option{munix=} option contains
3400 a list of the predefines used with each standard.
3401
3402 More specific information to @samp{hppa*-hp-hpux*} targets follows.
3403
3404 @html
3405 <hr />
3406 @end html
3407 @heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux10}hppa*-hp-hpux10
3408
3409 For hpux10.20, we @emph{highly} recommend you pick up the latest sed patch
3410 @code{PHCO_19798} from HP@.
3411
3412 The C++ ABI has changed incompatibly in GCC 4.0. COMDAT subspaces are
3413 used for one-only code and data. This resolves many of the previous
3414 problems in using C++ on this target. However, the ABI is not compatible
3415 with the one implemented under HP-UX 11 using secondary definitions.
3416
3417 @html
3418 <hr />
3419 @end html
3420 @heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux11}hppa*-hp-hpux11
3421
3422 GCC 3.0 and up support HP-UX 11. GCC 2.95.x is not supported and cannot
3423 be used to compile GCC 3.0 and up.
3424
3425 The libffi and libjava libraries haven't been ported to 64-bit HP-UX@
3426 and don't build.
3427
3428 Refer to @uref{binaries.html,,binaries} for information about obtaining
3429 precompiled GCC binaries for HP-UX@. Precompiled binaries must be obtained
3430 to build the Ada language as it can't be bootstrapped using C@. Ada is
3431 only available for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime.
3432
3433 Starting with GCC 3.4 an ISO C compiler is required to bootstrap. The
3434 bundled compiler supports only traditional C; you will need either HP's
3435 unbundled compiler, or a binary distribution of GCC@.
3436
3437 It is possible to build GCC 3.3 starting with the bundled HP compiler,
3438 but the process requires several steps. GCC 3.3 can then be used to
3439 build later versions. The fastjar program contains ISO C code and
3440 can't be built with the HP bundled compiler. This problem can be
3441 avoided by not building the Java language. For example, use the
3442 @option{--enable-languages="c,c++,f77,objc"} option in your configure
3443 command.
3444
3445 There are several possible approaches to building the distribution.
3446 Binutils can be built first using the HP tools. Then, the GCC
3447 distribution can be built. The second approach is to build GCC
3448 first using the HP tools, then build binutils, then rebuild GCC@.
3449 There have been problems with various binary distributions, so it
3450 is best not to start from a binary distribution.
3451
3452 On 64-bit capable systems, there are two distinct targets. Different
3453 installation prefixes must be used if both are to be installed on
3454 the same system. The @samp{hppa[1-2]*-hp-hpux11*} target generates code
3455 for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime architecture and uses the HP linker.
3456 The @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target generates 64-bit code for the
3457 PA-RISC 2.0 architecture.
3458
3459 The script config.guess now selects the target type based on the compiler
3460 detected during configuration. You must define @env{PATH} or @env{CC} so
3461 that configure finds an appropriate compiler for the initial bootstrap.
3462 When @env{CC} is used, the definition should contain the options that are
3463 needed whenever @env{CC} is used.
3464
3465 Specifically, options that determine the runtime architecture must be
3466 in @env{CC} to correctly select the target for the build. It is also
3467 convenient to place many other compiler options in @env{CC}. For example,
3468 @env{CC="cc -Ac +DA2.0W -Wp,-H16376 -D_CLASSIC_TYPES -D_HPUX_SOURCE"}
3469 can be used to bootstrap the GCC 3.3 branch with the HP compiler in
3470 64-bit K&R/bundled mode. The @option{+DA2.0W} option will result in
3471 the automatic selection of the @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target. The
3472 macro definition table of cpp needs to be increased for a successful
3473 build with the HP compiler. _CLASSIC_TYPES and _HPUX_SOURCE need to
3474 be defined when building with the bundled compiler, or when using the
3475 @option{-Ac} option. These defines aren't necessary with @option{-Ae}.
3476
3477 It is best to explicitly configure the @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target
3478 with the @option{--with-ld=@dots{}} option. This overrides the standard
3479 search for ld. The two linkers supported on this target require different
3480 commands. The default linker is determined during configuration. As a
3481 result, it's not possible to switch linkers in the middle of a GCC build.
3482 This has been reported to sometimes occur in unified builds of binutils
3483 and GCC@.
3484
3485 A recent linker patch must be installed for the correct operation of
3486 GCC 3.3 and later. @code{PHSS_26559} and @code{PHSS_24304} are the
3487 oldest linker patches that are known to work. They are for HP-UX
3488 11.00 and 11.11, respectively. @code{PHSS_24303}, the companion to
3489 @code{PHSS_24304}, might be usable but it hasn't been tested. These
3490 patches have been superseded. Consult the HP patch database to obtain
3491 the currently recommended linker patch for your system.
3492
3493 The patches are necessary for the support of weak symbols on the
3494 32-bit port, and for the running of initializers and finalizers. Weak
3495 symbols are implemented using SOM secondary definition symbols. Prior
3496 to HP-UX 11, there are bugs in the linker support for secondary symbols.
3497 The patches correct a problem of linker core dumps creating shared
3498 libraries containing secondary symbols, as well as various other
3499 linking issues involving secondary symbols.
3500
3501 GCC 3.3 uses the ELF DT_INIT_ARRAY and DT_FINI_ARRAY capabilities to
3502 run initializers and finalizers on the 64-bit port. The 32-bit port
3503 uses the linker @option{+init} and @option{+fini} options for the same
3504 purpose. The patches correct various problems with the +init/+fini
3505 options, including program core dumps. Binutils 2.14 corrects a
3506 problem on the 64-bit port resulting from HP's non-standard use of
3507 the .init and .fini sections for array initializers and finalizers.
3508
3509 Although the HP and GNU linkers are both supported for the
3510 @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target, it is strongly recommended that the
3511 HP linker be used for link editing on this target.
3512
3513 At this time, the GNU linker does not support the creation of long
3514 branch stubs. As a result, it can't successfully link binaries
3515 containing branch offsets larger than 8 megabytes. In addition,
3516 there are problems linking shared libraries, linking executables
3517 with @option{-static}, and with dwarf2 unwind and exception support.
3518 It also doesn't provide stubs for internal calls to global functions
3519 in shared libraries, so these calls can't be overloaded.
3520
3521 The HP dynamic loader does not support GNU symbol versioning, so symbol
3522 versioning is not supported. It may be necessary to disable symbol
3523 versioning with @option{--disable-symvers} when using GNU ld.
3524
3525 POSIX threads are the default. The optional DCE thread library is not
3526 supported, so @option{--enable-threads=dce} does not work.
3527
3528 @html
3529 <hr />
3530 @end html
3531 @heading @anchor{x-x-linux-gnu}*-*-linux-gnu
3532
3533 Versions of libstdc++-v3 starting with 3.2.1 require bug fixes present
3534 in glibc 2.2.5 and later. More information is available in the
3535 libstdc++-v3 documentation.
3536
3537 @html
3538 <hr />
3539 @end html
3540 @heading @anchor{ix86-x-linux}i?86-*-linux*
3541
3542 As of GCC 3.3, binutils 2.13.1 or later is required for this platform.
3543 See @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/PR10877,,bug 10877} for more information.
3544
3545 If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it is
3546 possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this can be
3547 found on @uref{http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/,,www.bitwizard.nl}.
3548
3549 @html
3550 <hr />
3551 @end html
3552 @heading @anchor{ix86-x-solaris289}i?86-*-solaris2.[89]
3553 The Sun assembler in Solaris 8 and 9 has several bugs and limitations.
3554 While GCC works around them, several features are missing, so it is
3555 @c FIXME: which ones?
3556 recommended to use the GNU assembler instead. There is no bundled
3557 version, but the current version, from GNU binutils 2.21, is known to
3558 work.
3559
3560 Solaris@tie{}2/x86 doesn't support the execution of SSE/SSE2 instructions
3561 before Solaris@tie{}9 4/04, even if the CPU supports them. Programs will
3562 receive @code{SIGILL} if they try. The fix is available both in
3563 Solaris@tie{}9 Update@tie{}6 and kernel patch 112234-12 or newer. There is no
3564 corresponding patch for Solaris 8. To avoid this problem,
3565 @option{-march} defaults to @samp{pentiumpro} on Solaris 8 and 9. If
3566 you have the patch installed, you can configure GCC with an appropriate
3567 @option{--with-arch} option, but need GNU @command{as} for SSE2 support.
3568
3569 @html
3570 <hr />
3571 @end html
3572 @heading @anchor{ix86-x-solaris210}i?86-*-solaris2.10
3573 Use this for Solaris 10 or later on x86 and x86-64 systems. This
3574 configuration is supported by GCC 4.0 and later versions only. Starting
3575 with GCC 4.7, there is also a 64-bit @samp{amd64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*} or
3576 @samp{x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*} configuration that corresponds to
3577 @samp{sparcv9-sun-solaris2*}.
3578
3579 It is recommended that you configure GCC to use the GNU assembler, in
3580 @file{/usr/sfw/bin/gas}. The versions included in Solaris 10, from GNU
3581 binutils 2.15, and Solaris 11, from GNU binutils 2.19, work fine,
3582 although the current version, from GNU binutils
3583 2.21, is known to work, too. Recent versions of the Sun assembler in
3584 @file{/usr/ccs/bin/as} work almost as well, though.
3585 @c FIXME: as patch requirements?
3586
3587 For linking, the Sun linker, is preferred. If you want to use the GNU
3588 linker instead, which is available in @file{/usr/sfw/bin/gld}, note that
3589 due to a packaging bug the version in Solaris 10, from GNU binutils
3590 2.15, cannot be used, while the version in Solaris 11, from GNU binutils
3591 2.19, works, as does the latest version, from GNU binutils 2.21.
3592
3593 To use GNU @command{as}, configure with the options
3594 @option{--with-gnu-as --with-as=@//usr/@/sfw/@/bin/@/gas}. It may be necessary
3595 to configure with @option{--without-gnu-ld --with-ld=@//usr/@/ccs/@/bin/@/ld} to
3596 guarantee use of Sun @command{ld}.
3597 @c FIXME: why --without-gnu-ld --with-ld?
3598
3599 @html
3600 <hr />
3601 @end html
3602 @heading @anchor{ia64-x-linux}ia64-*-linux
3603 IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family)
3604 running GNU/Linux.
3605
3606 If you are using the installed system libunwind library with
3607 @option{--with-system-libunwind}, then you must use libunwind 0.98 or
3608 later.
3609
3610 None of the following versions of GCC has an ABI that is compatible
3611 with any of the other versions in this list, with the exception that
3612 Red Hat 2.96 and Trillian 000171 are compatible with each other:
3613 3.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0, Red Hat 2.96, and Trillian 000717.
3614 This primarily affects C++ programs and programs that create shared libraries.
3615 GCC 3.1 or later is recommended for compiling linux, the kernel.
3616 As of version 3.1 GCC is believed to be fully ABI compliant, and hence no
3617 more major ABI changes are expected.
3618
3619 @html
3620 <hr />
3621 @end html
3622 @heading @anchor{ia64-x-hpux}ia64-*-hpux*
3623 Building GCC on this target requires the GNU Assembler. The bundled HP
3624 assembler will not work. To prevent GCC from using the wrong assembler,
3625 the option @option{--with-gnu-as} may be necessary.
3626
3627 The GCC libunwind library has not been ported to HPUX@. This means that for
3628 GCC versions 3.2.3 and earlier, @option{--enable-libunwind-exceptions}
3629 is required to build GCC@. For GCC 3.3 and later, this is the default.
3630 For gcc 3.4.3 and later, @option{--enable-libunwind-exceptions} is
3631 removed and the system libunwind library will always be used.
3632
3633 @html
3634 <hr />
3635 <!-- rs6000-ibm-aix*, powerpc-ibm-aix* -->
3636 @end html
3637 @heading @anchor{x-ibm-aix}*-ibm-aix*
3638 Support for AIX version 3 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
3639 Support for AIX version 4.2 and older was discontinued in GCC 4.5.
3640
3641 ``out of memory'' bootstrap failures may indicate a problem with
3642 process resource limits (ulimit). Hard limits are configured in the
3643 @file{/etc/security/limits} system configuration file.
3644
3645 GCC can bootstrap with recent versions of IBM XLC, but bootstrapping
3646 with an earlier release of GCC is recommended. Bootstrapping with XLC
3647 requires a larger data segment, which can be enabled through the
3648 @var{LDR_CNTRL} environment variable, e.g.,
3649
3650 @smallexample
3651 % LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x50000000
3652 % export LDR_CNTRL
3653 @end smallexample
3654
3655 One can start with a pre-compiled version of GCC to build from
3656 sources. One may delete GCC's ``fixed'' header files when starting
3657 with a version of GCC built for an earlier release of AIX.
3658
3659 To speed up the configuration phases of bootstrapping and installing GCC,
3660 one may use GNU Bash instead of AIX @command{/bin/sh}, e.g.,
3661
3662 @smallexample
3663 % CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash
3664 % export CONFIG_SHELL
3665 @end smallexample
3666
3667 and then proceed as described in @uref{build.html,,the build
3668 instructions}, where we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path
3669 to invoke @var{srcdir}/configure.
3670
3671 Because GCC on AIX is built as a 32-bit executable by default,
3672 (although it can generate 64-bit programs) the GMP and MPFR libraries
3673 required by gfortran must be 32-bit libraries. Building GMP and MPFR
3674 as static archive libraries works better than shared libraries.
3675
3676 Errors involving @code{alloca} when building GCC generally are due
3677 to an incorrect definition of @code{CC} in the Makefile or mixing files
3678 compiled with the native C compiler and GCC@. During the stage1 phase of
3679 the build, the native AIX compiler @strong{must} be invoked as @command{cc}
3680 (not @command{xlc}). Once @command{configure} has been informed of
3681 @command{xlc}, one needs to use @samp{make distclean} to remove the
3682 configure cache files and ensure that @env{CC} environment variable
3683 does not provide a definition that will confuse @command{configure}.
3684 If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the problem most likely
3685 is the version of Make (see above).
3686
3687 The native @command{as} and @command{ld} are recommended for bootstrapping
3688 on AIX@. The GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, and GNU Binutils version 2.20
3689 is required to bootstrap on AIX 5@. The native AIX tools do
3690 interoperate with GCC@.
3691
3692 AIX 5.3 TL10, AIX 6.1 TL05 and AIX 7.1 TL00 introduced an AIX
3693 assembler change that sometimes produces corrupt assembly files
3694 causing AIX linker errors. The bug breaks GCC bootstrap on AIX and
3695 can cause compilation failures with existing GCC installations. An
3696 AIX iFix for AIX 5.3 is available (APAR IZ98385 for AIX 5.3 TL10, APAR
3697 IZ98477 for AIX 5.3 TL11 and IZ98134 for AIX 5.3 TL12). Fixes for AIX
3698 6.1 (APAR IZ98732 for AIX 6.1 TL05 and APAR IZ98861 for AIX 6.1 TL06)
3699 and AIX 7.1 are in verification and packaging phases.
3700
3701 Building @file{libstdc++.a} requires a fix for an AIX Assembler bug
3702 APAR IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1). It also requires a
3703 fix for another AIX Assembler bug and a co-dependent AIX Archiver fix
3704 referenced as APAR IY53606 (AIX 5.2) or as APAR IY54774 (AIX 5.1)
3705
3706 @samp{libstdc++} in GCC 3.4 increments the major version number of the
3707 shared object and GCC installation places the @file{libstdc++.a}
3708 shared library in a common location which will overwrite the and GCC
3709 3.3 version of the shared library. Applications either need to be
3710 re-linked against the new shared library or the GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.3
3711 versions of the @samp{libstdc++} shared object needs to be available
3712 to the AIX runtime loader. The GCC 3.1 @samp{libstdc++.so.4}, if
3713 present, and GCC 3.3 @samp{libstdc++.so.5} shared objects can be
3714 installed for runtime dynamic loading using the following steps to set
3715 the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag in the shared object for @emph{each}
3716 multilib @file{libstdc++.a} installed:
3717
3718 Extract the shared objects from the currently installed
3719 @file{libstdc++.a} archive:
3720 @smallexample
3721 % ar -x libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3722 @end smallexample
3723
3724 Enable the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag so that the shared object will be
3725 available for runtime dynamic loading, but not linking:
3726 @smallexample
3727 % strip -e libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3728 @end smallexample
3729
3730 Archive the runtime-only shared object in the GCC 3.4
3731 @file{libstdc++.a} archive:
3732 @smallexample
3733 % ar -q libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3734 @end smallexample
3735
3736 Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of
3737 duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always
3738 have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable
3739 and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should
3740 not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable
3741 executable.
3742
3743 AIX 4.3 utilizes a ``large format'' archive to support both 32-bit and
3744 64-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1
3745 to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly.
3746 These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during
3747 linking such as ``not a COFF file''. The version of the routines shipped
3748 with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The @option{-g}
3749 option of the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit
3750 objects using the original ``small format''. A correct version of the
3751 routines is shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above.
3752
3753 Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation
3754 overflow severe error when the @option{-bbigtoc} option is used to link
3755 GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC@. A fix
3756 for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC) is
3757 available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3758 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3759 website as PTF U455193.
3760
3761 The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump core
3762 with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC@. A fix for
3763 APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3764 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3765 website as PTF U461879. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above.
3766
3767 The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect object
3768 files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM COMPILER FAILS
3769 TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3770 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3771 website as PTF U453956. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above.
3772
3773 AIX provides National Language Support (NLS)@. Compilers and assemblers
3774 use NLS to support locale-specific representations of various data
3775 formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., @samp{.} vs @samp{,} for
3776 separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where
3777 GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats that the assembler
3778 expects. If one encounters this problem, set the @env{LANG}
3779 environment variable to @samp{C} or @samp{En_US}.
3780
3781 A default can be specified with the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
3782 switch and using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
3783
3784 @html
3785 <hr />
3786 @end html
3787 @heading @anchor{iq2000-x-elf}iq2000-*-elf
3788 Vitesse IQ2000 processors. These are used in embedded
3789 applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
3790
3791 @html
3792 <hr />
3793 @end html
3794 @heading @anchor{lm32-x-elf}lm32-*-elf
3795 Lattice Mico32 processor.
3796 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3797
3798 @html
3799 <hr />
3800 @end html
3801 @heading @anchor{lm32-x-uclinux}lm32-*-uclinux
3802 Lattice Mico32 processor.
3803 This configuration is intended for embedded systems running uClinux.
3804
3805 @html
3806 <hr />
3807 @end html
3808 @heading @anchor{m32c-x-elf}m32c-*-elf
3809 Renesas M32C processor.
3810 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3811
3812 @html
3813 <hr />
3814 @end html
3815 @heading @anchor{m32r-x-elf}m32r-*-elf
3816 Renesas M32R processor.
3817 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3818
3819 @html
3820 <hr />
3821 @end html
3822 @heading @anchor{m68k-x-x}m68k-*-*
3823 By default,
3824 @samp{m68k-*-elf*}, @samp{m68k-*-rtems}, @samp{m68k-*-uclinux} and
3825 @samp{m68k-*-linux}
3826 build libraries for both M680x0 and ColdFire processors. If you only
3827 need the M680x0 libraries, you can omit the ColdFire ones by passing
3828 @option{--with-arch=m68k} to @command{configure}. Alternatively, you
3829 can omit the M680x0 libraries by passing @option{--with-arch=cf} to
3830 @command{configure}. These targets default to 5206 or 5475 code as
3831 appropriate for the target system when
3832 configured with @option{--with-arch=cf} and 68020 code otherwise.
3833
3834 The @samp{m68k-*-netbsd} and
3835 @samp{m68k-*-openbsd} targets also support the @option{--with-arch}
3836 option. They will generate ColdFire CFV4e code when configured with
3837 @option{--with-arch=cf} and 68020 code otherwise.
3838
3839 You can override the default processors listed above by configuring
3840 with @option{--with-cpu=@var{target}}. This @var{target} can either
3841 be a @option{-mcpu} argument or one of the following values:
3842 @samp{m68000}, @samp{m68010}, @samp{m68020}, @samp{m68030},
3843 @samp{m68040}, @samp{m68060}, @samp{m68020-40} and @samp{m68020-60}.
3844
3845 GCC requires at least binutils version 2.17 on these targets.
3846
3847 @html
3848 <hr />
3849 @end html
3850 @heading @anchor{m68k-x-uclinux}m68k-*-uclinux
3851 GCC 4.3 changed the uClinux configuration so that it uses the
3852 @samp{m68k-linux-gnu} ABI rather than the @samp{m68k-elf} ABI.
3853 It also added improved support for C++ and flat shared libraries,
3854 both of which were ABI changes.
3855
3856
3857 @html
3858 <hr />
3859 @end html
3860 @heading @anchor{mep-x-elf}mep-*-elf
3861 Toshiba Media embedded Processor.
3862 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3863
3864 @html
3865 <hr />
3866 @end html
3867 @heading @anchor{microblaze-x-elf}microblaze-*-elf
3868 Xilinx MicroBlaze processor.
3869 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3870
3871 @html
3872 <hr />
3873 @end html
3874 @heading @anchor{mips-x-x}mips-*-*
3875 If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying ``does not have gp
3876 sections for all it's [sic] sectons [sic]'', don't worry about it. This
3877 happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not
3878 really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can
3879 stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.
3880
3881 It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are
3882 optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.
3883
3884 The libstdc++ atomic locking routines for MIPS targets requires MIPS II
3885 and later. A patch went in just after the GCC 3.3 release to
3886 make @samp{mips*-*-*} use the generic implementation instead. You can also
3887 configure for @samp{mipsel-elf} as a workaround. The
3888 @samp{mips*-*-linux*} target continues to use the MIPS II routines. More
3889 work on this is expected in future releases.
3890
3891 @c If you make --with-llsc the default for another target, please also
3892 @c update the description of the --with-llsc option.
3893
3894 The built-in @code{__sync_*} functions are available on MIPS II and
3895 later systems and others that support the @samp{ll}, @samp{sc} and
3896 @samp{sync} instructions. This can be overridden by passing
3897 @option{--with-llsc} or @option{--without-llsc} when configuring GCC.
3898 Since the Linux kernel emulates these instructions if they are
3899 missing, the default for @samp{mips*-*-linux*} targets is
3900 @option{--with-llsc}. The @option{--with-llsc} and
3901 @option{--without-llsc} configure options may be overridden at compile
3902 time by passing the @option{-mllsc} or @option{-mno-llsc} options to
3903 the compiler.
3904
3905 MIPS systems check for division by zero (unless
3906 @option{-mno-check-zero-division} is passed to the compiler) by
3907 generating either a conditional trap or a break instruction. Using
3908 trap results in smaller code, but is only supported on MIPS II and
3909 later. Also, some versions of the Linux kernel have a bug that
3910 prevents trap from generating the proper signal (@code{SIGFPE}). To enable
3911 the use of break, use the @option{--with-divide=breaks}
3912 @command{configure} option when configuring GCC@. The default is to
3913 use traps on systems that support them.
3914
3915 The assembler from GNU binutils 2.17 and earlier has a bug in the way
3916 it sorts relocations for REL targets (o32, o64, EABI). This can cause
3917 bad code to be generated for simple C++ programs. Also the linker
3918 from GNU binutils versions prior to 2.17 has a bug which causes the
3919 runtime linker stubs in very large programs, like @file{libgcj.so}, to
3920 be incorrectly generated. GNU Binutils 2.18 and later (and snapshots
3921 made after Nov. 9, 2006) should be free from both of these problems.
3922
3923 @html
3924 <hr />
3925 @end html
3926 @heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix5}mips-sgi-irix5
3927
3928 Support for IRIX 5 has been removed in GCC 4.6.
3929
3930 @html
3931 <hr />
3932 @end html
3933 @heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix6}mips-sgi-irix6
3934
3935 Support for IRIX 6.5 has been obsoleted in GCC 4.7, but can still be
3936 enabled by configuring with @option{--enable-obsolete}. Support will be
3937 removed in GCC 4.8. Support for IRIX 6 releases before 6.5 has been
3938 removed in GCC 4.6, as well as support for the O32 ABI. It is
3939 @emph{strongly} recommended to upgrade to at least IRIX 6.5.18. This
3940 release introduced full ISO C99 support, though for the N32 and N64 ABIs
3941 only.
3942
3943 To build and use GCC on IRIX 6.5, you need the IRIX Development Foundation
3944 (IDF) and IRIX Development Libraries (IDL). They are included with the
3945 IRIX 6.5 media.
3946
3947 If you are using SGI's MIPSpro @command{cc} as your bootstrap compiler, you must
3948 ensure that the N32 ABI is in use. To test this, compile a simple C
3949 file with @command{cc} and then run @command{file} on the
3950 resulting object file. The output should look like:
3951
3952 @smallexample
3953 test.o: ELF N32 MSB @dots{}
3954 @end smallexample
3955
3956 @noindent
3957 If you see:
3958
3959 @smallexample
3960 test.o: ELF 32-bit MSB @dots{}
3961 @end smallexample
3962
3963 @noindent
3964 or
3965
3966 @smallexample
3967 test.o: ELF 64-bit MSB @dots{}
3968 @end smallexample
3969
3970 @noindent
3971 then your version of @command{cc} uses the O32 or N64 ABI by default. You
3972 should set the environment variable @env{CC} to @samp{cc -n32}
3973 before configuring GCC@.
3974
3975 If you want the resulting @command{gcc} to run on old 32-bit systems
3976 with the MIPS R4400 CPU, you need to ensure that only code for the @samp{mips3}
3977 instruction set architecture (ISA) is generated. While GCC 3.x does
3978 this correctly, both GCC 2.95 and SGI's MIPSpro @command{cc} may change
3979 the ISA depending on the machine where GCC is built. Using one of them
3980 as the bootstrap compiler may result in @samp{mips4} code, which won't run at
3981 all on @samp{mips3}-only systems. For the test program above, you should see:
3982
3983 @smallexample
3984 test.o: ELF N32 MSB mips-3 @dots{}
3985 @end smallexample
3986
3987 @noindent
3988 If you get:
3989
3990 @smallexample
3991 test.o: ELF N32 MSB mips-4 @dots{}
3992 @end smallexample
3993
3994 @noindent
3995 instead, you should set the environment variable @env{CC} to @samp{cc
3996 -n32 -mips3} or @samp{gcc -mips3} respectively before configuring GCC@.
3997
3998 MIPSpro C 7.4 may cause bootstrap failures, due to a bug when inlining
3999 @code{memcmp}. Either add @code{-U__INLINE_INTRINSICS} to the @env{CC}
4000 environment variable as a workaround or upgrade to MIPSpro C 7.4.1m.
4001
4002 GCC on IRIX 6.5 is usually built to support the N32 and N64 ABIs. If
4003 you build GCC on a system that doesn't have the N64 libraries installed
4004 or cannot run 64-bit binaries,
4005 you need to configure with @option{--disable-multilib} so GCC doesn't
4006 try to use them.
4007 Look for @file{/usr/lib64/libc.so.1} to see if you
4008 have the 64-bit libraries installed.
4009
4010 GCC must be configured with GNU @command{as}. The latest version, from GNU
4011 binutils 2.21, is known to work. On the other hand, bootstrap fails
4012 with GNU @command{ld} at least since GNU binutils 2.17.
4013
4014 The @option{--enable-libgcj}
4015 option is disabled by default: IRIX 6 uses a very low default limit
4016 (20480) for the command line length. Although @command{libtool} contains a
4017 workaround for this problem, at least the N64 @samp{libgcj} is known not
4018 to build despite this, running into an internal error of the native
4019 @command{ld}. A sure fix is to increase this limit (@samp{ncargs}) to
4020 its maximum of 262144 bytes. If you have root access, you can use the
4021 @command{systune} command to do this.
4022 @c FIXME: does this work with current libtool?
4023
4024 @code{wchar_t} support in @samp{libstdc++} is not available for old
4025 IRIX 6.5.x releases, @math{x < 19}. The problem cannot be autodetected
4026 and in order to build GCC for such targets you need to configure with
4027 @option{--disable-wchar_t}.
4028
4029 @html
4030 <hr />
4031 @end html
4032 @heading @anchor{moxie-x-elf}moxie-*-elf
4033 The moxie processor. See @uref{http://moxielogic.org/} for more
4034 information about this processor.
4035
4036 @html
4037 <hr />
4038 @end html
4039 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-x}powerpc-*-*
4040
4041 You can specify a default version for the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
4042 switch by using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
4043
4044 You will need
4045 @uref{ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils,,binutils 2.15}
4046 or newer for a working GCC@.
4047
4048 @html
4049 <hr />
4050 @end html
4051 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-darwin}powerpc-*-darwin*
4052 PowerPC running Darwin (Mac OS X kernel).
4053
4054 Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer tools,
4055 meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool
4056 binaries are available at
4057 @uref{http://opensource.apple.com/}.
4058
4059 This version of GCC requires at least cctools-590.36. The
4060 cctools-590.36 package referenced from
4061 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html} will not work
4062 on systems older than 10.3.9 (aka darwin7.9.0).
4063
4064 @html
4065 <hr />
4066 @end html
4067 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-elf}powerpc-*-elf
4068 PowerPC system in big endian mode, running System V.4.
4069
4070 @html
4071 <hr />
4072 @end html
4073 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-linux-gnu}powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*
4074
4075 PowerPC system in big endian mode running Linux.
4076
4077 @html
4078 <hr />
4079 @end html
4080 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-netbsd}powerpc-*-netbsd*
4081 PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD@.
4082
4083 @html
4084 <hr />
4085 @end html
4086 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-eabisim}powerpc-*-eabisim
4087 Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the
4088 PSIM simulator.
4089
4090 @html
4091 <hr />
4092 @end html
4093 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-eabi}powerpc-*-eabi
4094 Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode.
4095
4096 @html
4097 <hr />
4098 @end html
4099 @heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-elf}powerpcle-*-elf
4100 PowerPC system in little endian mode, running System V.4.
4101
4102 @html
4103 <hr />
4104 @end html
4105 @heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-eabisim}powerpcle-*-eabisim
4106 Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under
4107 the PSIM simulator.
4108
4109 @html
4110 <hr />
4111 @end html
4112 @heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-eabi}powerpcle-*-eabi
4113 Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode.
4114
4115 @html
4116 <hr />
4117 @end html
4118 @heading @anchor{rx-x-elf}rx-*-elf
4119 The Renesas RX processor. See
4120 @uref{http://eu.renesas.com/fmwk.jsp?cnt=rx600_series_landing.jsp&fp=/products/mpumcu/rx_family/rx600_series}
4121 for more information about this processor.
4122
4123 @html
4124 <hr />
4125 @end html
4126 @heading @anchor{s390-x-linux}s390-*-linux*
4127 S/390 system running GNU/Linux for S/390@.
4128
4129 @html
4130 <hr />
4131 @end html
4132 @heading @anchor{s390x-x-linux}s390x-*-linux*
4133 zSeries system (64-bit) running GNU/Linux for zSeries@.
4134
4135 @html
4136 <hr />
4137 @end html
4138 @heading @anchor{s390x-ibm-tpf}s390x-ibm-tpf*
4139 zSeries system (64-bit) running TPF@. This platform is
4140 supported as cross-compilation target only.
4141
4142 @html
4143 <hr />
4144 @end html
4145 @c Please use Solaris 2 to refer to all release of Solaris, starting
4146 @c with 2.0 until 2.6, 7, 8, etc. Solaris 1 was a marketing name for
4147 @c SunOS 4 releases which we don't use to avoid confusion. Solaris
4148 @c alone is too unspecific and must be avoided.
4149 @heading @anchor{x-x-solaris2}*-*-solaris2*
4150
4151 Support for Solaris 8 has been obsoleted in GCC 4.7, but can still be
4152 enabled by configuring with @option{--enable-obsolete}. Support will be
4153 removed in GCC 4.8. Support for Solaris 7 has been removed in GCC 4.6.
4154
4155 Sun does not ship a C compiler with Solaris 2, though you can download
4156 the Sun Studio compilers for free. Alternatively,
4157 you can install a pre-built GCC to bootstrap and install GCC. See the
4158 @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page} for details.
4159
4160 The Solaris 2 @command{/bin/sh} will often fail to configure
4161 @samp{libstdc++-v3}, @samp{boehm-gc} or @samp{libjava}. We therefore
4162 recommend using the following initial sequence of commands
4163
4164 @smallexample
4165 % CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
4166 % export CONFIG_SHELL
4167 @end smallexample
4168
4169 @noindent
4170 and proceed as described in @uref{configure.html,,the configure instructions}.
4171 In addition we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
4172 @command{@var{srcdir}/configure}.
4173
4174 Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these
4175 are needed to use GCC fully, namely @code{SUNWarc},
4176 @code{SUNWbtool}, @code{SUNWesu}, @code{SUNWhea}, @code{SUNWlibm},
4177 @code{SUNWsprot}, and @code{SUNWtoo}. If you did not install all
4178 optional packages when installing Solaris 2, you will need to verify that
4179 the packages that GCC needs are installed.
4180
4181 To check whether an optional package is installed, use
4182 the @command{pkginfo} command. To add an optional package, use the
4183 @command{pkgadd} command. For further details, see the Solaris 2
4184 documentation.
4185
4186 Trying to use the linker and other tools in
4187 @file{/usr/ucb} to install GCC has been observed to cause trouble.
4188 For example, the linker may hang indefinitely. The fix is to remove
4189 @file{/usr/ucb} from your @env{PATH}.
4190
4191 The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Sun tools so, if you
4192 have @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} in your @env{PATH}, we recommend that you place
4193 @file{/usr/bin} before @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} for the duration of the build.
4194
4195 We recommend the use of the Sun assembler or the GNU assembler, in
4196 conjunction with the Sun linker. The GNU @command{as}
4197 versions included in Solaris 10, from GNU binutils 2.15, and Solaris 11,
4198 from GNU binutils 2.19, are known to work. They can be found in
4199 @file{/usr/sfw/bin/gas}. Current versions of GNU binutils (2.21)
4200 are known to work as well. Note that your mileage may vary
4201 if you use a combination of the GNU tools and the Sun tools: while the
4202 combination GNU @command{as} + Sun @command{ld} should reasonably work,
4203 the reverse combination Sun @command{as} + GNU @command{ld} is known to
4204 cause memory corruption at runtime in some cases for C++ programs.
4205 @c FIXME: still?
4206 GNU @command{ld} usually works as well, although the version included in
4207 Solaris 10 cannot be used due to several bugs. Again, the current
4208 version (2.21) is known to work, but generally lacks platform specific
4209 features, so better stay with Sun @command{ld}.
4210
4211 To enable symbol versioning in @samp{libstdc++} with Sun @command{ld},
4212 you need to have any version of GNU @command{c++filt}, which is part of
4213 GNU binutils. @samp{libstdc++} symbol versioning will be disabled if no
4214 appropriate version is found. Sun @command{c++filt} from the Sun Studio
4215 compilers does @emph{not} work.
4216
4217 Sun bug 4296832 turns up when compiling X11 headers with GCC 2.95 or
4218 newer: @command{g++} will complain that types are missing. These headers
4219 assume that omitting the type means @code{int}; this assumption worked for
4220 C90 but is wrong for C++, and is now wrong for C99 also.
4221
4222 @command{g++} accepts such (invalid) constructs with the option
4223 @option{-fpermissive}; it will assume that any missing type is @code{int}
4224 (as defined by C90).
4225
4226 There are patches for Solaris 8 (108652-24 or newer for SPARC,
4227 108653-22 for Intel) that fix this bug.
4228
4229 Sun bug 4927647 sometimes causes random spurious testsuite failures
4230 related to missing diagnostic output. This bug doesn't affect GCC
4231 itself, rather it is a kernel bug triggered by the @command{expect}
4232 program which is used only by the GCC testsuite driver. When the bug
4233 causes the @command{expect} program to miss anticipated output, extra
4234 testsuite failures appear.
4235
4236 There are patches for Solaris 8 (117350-12 or newer for SPARC,
4237 117351-12 or newer for Intel) and Solaris 9 (117171-11 or newer for
4238 SPARC, 117172-11 or newer for Intel) that address this problem.
4239
4240 Solaris@tie{}8 provides an alternate implementation of the thread libraries,
4241 @samp{libpthread} and @samp{libthread}. They are required for TLS
4242 support and have been made the default in Solaris@tie{}9, so they are always
4243 used on Solaris@tie{}8.
4244
4245 Thread-local storage (TLS) is supported in Solaris@tie{}8 and 9, but requires
4246 some patches. The @samp{libthread} patches provide the
4247 @code{__tls_get_addr} (SPARC, 64-bit x86) resp.@ @code{___tls_get_addr}
4248 (32-bit x86) functions. On Solaris@tie{}8, you need 108993-26 or newer on
4249 SPARC, 108994-26 or newer on Intel. On Solaris@tie{}9, the necessary support
4250 on SPARC is present since FCS, while 114432-05 or newer is required on
4251 Intel. Additionally, on Solaris@tie{}8, patch 109147-14 or newer on SPARC or
4252 109148-22 or newer on Intel are required for the Sun @command{ld} and
4253 runtime linker (@command{ld.so.1}) support. Again, Solaris@tie{}9/SPARC
4254 works since FCS, while 113986-02 is required on Intel. The linker
4255 patches must be installed even if GNU @command{ld} is used. Sun
4256 @command{as} in Solaris@tie{}8 and 9 doesn't support the necessary
4257 relocations, so GNU @command{as} must be used. The @command{configure}
4258 script checks for those prerequisites and automatically enables TLS
4259 support if they are met. Although those minimal patch versions should
4260 work, it is recommended to use the latest patch versions which include
4261 additional bug fixes.
4262
4263 @html
4264 <hr />
4265 @end html
4266 @heading @anchor{sparc-x-x}sparc*-*-*
4267
4268 This section contains general configuration information for all
4269 SPARC-based platforms. In addition to reading this section, please
4270 read all other sections that match your target.
4271
4272 Newer versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4273 library and the MPC library are known to be miscompiled by earlier
4274 versions of GCC on these platforms. We therefore recommend the use
4275 of the exact versions of these libraries listed as minimal versions
4276 in @uref{prerequisites.html,,the prerequisites}.
4277
4278 @html
4279 <hr />
4280 @end html
4281 @heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2}sparc-sun-solaris2*
4282
4283 When GCC is configured to use GNU binutils 2.14 or later, the binaries
4284 produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools;
4285 this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
4286 information.
4287
4288 Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing
4289 64-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later properly supports
4290 this; the @option{-m64} option enables 64-bit code generation.
4291 However, if all you want is code tuned for the UltraSPARC CPU, you
4292 should try the @option{-mtune=ultrasparc} option instead, which produces
4293 code that, unlike full 64-bit code, can still run on non-UltraSPARC
4294 machines.
4295
4296 When configuring on a Solaris 7 or later system that is running a kernel
4297 that supports only 32-bit binaries, one must configure with
4298 @option{--disable-multilib}, since we will not be able to build the
4299 64-bit target libraries.
4300
4301 GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4 trigger code generation bugs in earlier versions of
4302 the GNU compiler (especially GCC 3.0.x versions), which lead to the
4303 miscompilation of the stage1 compiler and the subsequent failure of the
4304 bootstrap process. A workaround is to use GCC 3.2.3 as an intermediary
4305 stage, i.e.@: to bootstrap that compiler with the base compiler and then
4306 use it to bootstrap the final compiler.
4307
4308 GCC 3.4 triggers a code generation bug in versions 5.4 (Sun ONE Studio 7)
4309 and 5.5 (Sun ONE Studio 8) of the Sun compiler, which causes a bootstrap
4310 failure in form of a miscompilation of the stage1 compiler by the Sun
4311 compiler. This is Sun bug 4974440. This is fixed with patch 112760-07.
4312
4313 GCC 3.4 changed the default debugging format from Stabs to DWARF-2 for
4314 32-bit code on Solaris 7 and later. If you use the Sun assembler, this
4315 change apparently runs afoul of Sun bug 4910101 (which is referenced as
4316 an x86-only problem by Sun, probably because they do not use DWARF-2).
4317 A symptom of the problem is that you cannot compile C++ programs like
4318 @command{groff} 1.19.1 without getting messages similar to the following:
4319
4320 @smallexample
4321 ld: warning: relocation error: R_SPARC_UA32: @dots{}
4322 external symbolic relocation against non-allocatable section
4323 .debug_info cannot be processed at runtime: relocation ignored.
4324 @end smallexample
4325
4326 @noindent
4327 To work around this problem, compile with @option{-gstabs+} instead of
4328 plain @option{-g}.
4329
4330 When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4331 library or the MPC library on a Solaris 7 or later system, the canonical
4332 target triplet must be specified as the @command{build} parameter on the
4333 configure line. This target triplet can be obtained by invoking @command{./config.guess} in the toplevel source directory of GCC (and
4334 not that of GMP or MPFR or MPC). For example on a Solaris 9 system:
4335
4336 @smallexample
4337 % ./configure --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 --prefix=xxx
4338 @end smallexample
4339
4340 @html
4341 <hr />
4342 @end html
4343 @heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris210}sparc-sun-solaris2.10
4344
4345 There is a bug in older versions of the Sun assembler which breaks
4346 thread-local storage (TLS). A typical error message is
4347
4348 @smallexample
4349 ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_TLS_LE_HIX22: file /var/tmp//ccamPA1v.o:
4350 symbol <unknown>: bad symbol type SECT: symbol type must be TLS
4351 @end smallexample
4352
4353 @noindent
4354 This bug is fixed in Sun patch 118683-03 or later.
4355
4356 @html
4357 <hr />
4358 @end html
4359 @heading @anchor{sparc-x-linux}sparc-*-linux*
4360
4361 GCC versions 3.0 and higher require binutils 2.11.2 and glibc 2.2.4
4362 or newer on this platform. All earlier binutils and glibc
4363 releases mishandled unaligned relocations on @code{sparc-*-*} targets.
4364
4365
4366 @html
4367 <hr />
4368 @end html
4369 @heading @anchor{sparc64-x-solaris2}sparc64-*-solaris2*
4370
4371 When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) or the
4372 MPFR library, the canonical target triplet must be specified as
4373 the @command{build} parameter on the configure line. For example
4374 on a Solaris 9 system:
4375
4376 @smallexample
4377 % ./configure --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.9 --prefix=xxx
4378 @end smallexample
4379
4380 The following compiler flags must be specified in the configure
4381 step in order to bootstrap this target with the Sun compiler:
4382
4383 @smallexample
4384 % CC="cc -xarch=v9 -xildoff" @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
4385 @end smallexample
4386
4387 @noindent
4388 @option{-xarch=v9} specifies the SPARC-V9 architecture to the Sun toolchain
4389 and @option{-xildoff} turns off the incremental linker.
4390
4391 @html
4392 <hr />
4393 @end html
4394 @heading @anchor{sparcv9-x-solaris2}sparcv9-*-solaris2*
4395
4396 This is a synonym for @samp{sparc64-*-solaris2*}.
4397
4398 @html
4399 <hr />
4400 @end html
4401 @heading @anchor{c6x-x-x}c6x-*-*
4402
4403 The C6X family of processors. This port requires binutils-2.22 or newer.
4404
4405 @html
4406 <hr />
4407 @end html
4408 @heading @anchor{x-x-vxworks}*-*-vxworks*
4409 Support for VxWorks is in flux. At present GCC supports @emph{only} the
4410 very recent VxWorks 5.5 (aka Tornado 2.2) release, and only on PowerPC@.
4411 We welcome patches for other architectures supported by VxWorks 5.5.
4412 Support for VxWorks AE would also be welcome; we believe this is merely
4413 a matter of writing an appropriate ``configlette'' (see below). We are
4414 not interested in supporting older, a.out or COFF-based, versions of
4415 VxWorks in GCC 3.
4416
4417 VxWorks comes with an older version of GCC installed in
4418 @file{@var{$WIND_BASE}/host}; we recommend you do not overwrite it.
4419 Choose an installation @var{prefix} entirely outside @var{$WIND_BASE}.
4420 Before running @command{configure}, create the directories @file{@var{prefix}}
4421 and @file{@var{prefix}/bin}. Link or copy the appropriate assembler,
4422 linker, etc.@: into @file{@var{prefix}/bin}, and set your @var{PATH} to
4423 include that directory while running both @command{configure} and
4424 @command{make}.
4425
4426 You must give @command{configure} the
4427 @option{--with-headers=@var{$WIND_BASE}/target/h} switch so that it can
4428 find the VxWorks system headers. Since VxWorks is a cross compilation
4429 target only, you must also specify @option{--target=@var{target}}.
4430 @command{configure} will attempt to create the directory
4431 @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include} and copy files into it;
4432 make sure the user running @command{configure} has sufficient privilege
4433 to do so.
4434
4435 GCC's exception handling runtime requires a special ``configlette''
4436 module, @file{contrib/gthr_supp_vxw_5x.c}. Follow the instructions in
4437 that file to add the module to your kernel build. (Future versions of
4438 VxWorks will incorporate this module.)
4439
4440 @html
4441 <hr />
4442 @end html
4443 @heading @anchor{x86-64-x-x}x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*
4444
4445 GCC supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64 processor
4446 (amd64-*-* is an alias for x86_64-*-*) on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD@.
4447 On GNU/Linux the default is a bi-arch compiler which is able to generate
4448 both 64-bit x86-64 and 32-bit x86 code (via the @option{-m32} switch).
4449
4450 @html
4451 <hr />
4452 @end html
4453 @heading @anchor{x86-64-x-solaris2.10}x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*
4454
4455 GCC also supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64
4456 processor (@samp{amd64-*-*} is an alias for @samp{x86_64-*-*}) on
4457 Solaris 10 or later. Unlike other systems, without special options a
4458 bi-arch compiler is built which generates 32-bit code by default, but
4459 can generate 64-bit x86-64 code with the @option{-m64} switch. Since
4460 GCC 4.7, there is also configuration that defaults to 64-bit code, but
4461 can generate 32-bit code with @option{-m32}. To configure and build
4462 this way, you have to provide all support libraries like @file{libgmp}
4463 as 64-bit code, configure with @option{--target=x86_64-pc-solaris2.1x}
4464 and @samp{CC=gcc -m64}.
4465
4466 @html
4467 <hr />
4468 @end html
4469 @heading @anchor{xtensa-x-elf}xtensa*-*-elf
4470
4471 This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the
4472 @samp{newlib} C library. It uses ELF but does not support shared
4473 objects. Designed-defined instructions specified via the
4474 Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) language are only supported
4475 through inline assembly.
4476
4477 The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to
4478 building GCC@. The @file{include/xtensa-config.h} header
4479 file contains the configuration information. If you created your
4480 own Xtensa configuration with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the
4481 downloaded files include a customized copy of this header file,
4482 which you can use to replace the default header file.
4483
4484 @html
4485 <hr />
4486 @end html
4487 @heading @anchor{xtensa-x-linux}xtensa*-*-linux*
4488
4489 This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF
4490 shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates
4491 position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the
4492 @option{-fpic} or @option{-fPIC} options are used. In other
4493 respects, this target is the same as the
4494 @uref{#xtensa*-*-elf,,@samp{xtensa*-*-elf}} target.
4495
4496 @html
4497 <hr />
4498 @end html
4499 @heading @anchor{windows}Microsoft Windows
4500
4501 @subheading Intel 16-bit versions
4502 The 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 3.1, are not
4503 supported.
4504
4505 However, the 32-bit port has limited support for Microsoft
4506 Windows 3.11 in the Win32s environment, as a target only. See below.
4507
4508 @subheading Intel 32-bit versions
4509
4510 The 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows
4511 XP, and Windows Vista, are supported by several different target
4512 platforms. These targets differ in which Windows subsystem they target
4513 and which C libraries are used.
4514
4515 @itemize
4516 @item Cygwin @uref{#x-x-cygwin,,*-*-cygwin}: Cygwin provides a user-space
4517 Linux API emulation layer in the Win32 subsystem.
4518 @item Interix @uref{#x-x-interix,,*-*-interix}: The Interix subsystem
4519 provides native support for POSIX.
4520 @item MinGW @uref{#x-x-mingw32,,*-*-mingw32}: MinGW is a native GCC port for
4521 the Win32 subsystem that provides a subset of POSIX.
4522 @item MKS i386-pc-mks: NuTCracker from MKS. See
4523 @uref{http://www.mkssoftware.com/} for more information.
4524 @end itemize
4525
4526 @subheading Intel 64-bit versions
4527
4528 GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64
4529 runtime library, available from @uref{http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/}.
4530 This library should be used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32.
4531
4532 Presently Windows for Itanium is not supported.
4533
4534 @subheading Windows CE
4535
4536 Windows CE is supported as a target only on ARM (arm-wince-pe), Hitachi
4537 SuperH (sh-wince-pe), and MIPS (mips-wince-pe).
4538
4539 @subheading Other Windows Platforms
4540
4541 GCC no longer supports Windows NT on the Alpha or PowerPC.
4542
4543 GCC no longer supports the Windows POSIX subsystem. However, it does
4544 support the Interix subsystem. See above.
4545
4546 Old target names including *-*-winnt and *-*-windowsnt are no longer used.
4547
4548 PW32 (i386-pc-pw32) support was never completed, and the project seems to
4549 be inactive. See @uref{http://pw32.sourceforge.net/} for more information.
4550
4551 UWIN support has been removed due to a lack of maintenance.
4552
4553 @html
4554 <hr />
4555 @end html
4556 @heading @anchor{x-x-cygwin}*-*-cygwin
4557
4558 Ports of GCC are included with the
4559 @uref{http://www.cygwin.com/,,Cygwin environment}.
4560
4561 GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build
4562 with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.
4563
4564 The Cygwin native compiler can be configured to target any 32-bit x86
4565 cpu architecture desired; the default is i686-pc-cygwin. It should be
4566 used with as up-to-date a version of binutils as possible; use either
4567 the latest official GNU binutils release in the Cygwin distribution,
4568 or version 2.20 or above if building your own.
4569
4570 @html
4571 <hr />
4572 @end html
4573 @heading @anchor{x-x-interix}*-*-interix
4574
4575 The Interix target is used by OpenNT, Interix, Services For UNIX (SFU),
4576 and Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). Applications compiled
4577 with this target run in the Interix subsystem, which is separate from
4578 the Win32 subsystem. This target was last known to work in GCC 3.3.
4579
4580 @html
4581 <hr />
4582 @end html
4583 @heading @anchor{x-x-mingw32}*-*-mingw32
4584
4585 GCC will build with and support only MinGW runtime 3.12 and later.
4586 Earlier versions of headers are incompatible with the new default semantics
4587 of @code{extern inline} in @code{-std=c99} and @code{-std=gnu99} modes.
4588
4589 @html
4590 <hr />
4591 @end html
4592 @heading @anchor{older}Older systems
4593
4594 GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early
4595 1990s) Unix variants. For the most part, support for these systems
4596 has not been deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for
4597 several years and may suffer from bitrot.
4598
4599 Starting with GCC 3.1, each release has a list of ``obsoleted'' systems.
4600 Support for these systems is still present in that release, but
4601 @command{configure} will fail unless the @option{--enable-obsolete}
4602 option is given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for these
4603 systems will be removed from the next release of GCC@.
4604
4605 Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the
4606 workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the
4607 cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC@. In some cases, to
4608 bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may
4609 require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that
4610 system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in the
4611 vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in the
4612 @file{old-releases} directory on the @uref{../mirrors.html,,GCC mirror
4613 sites}. Header bugs may generally be avoided using
4614 @command{fixincludes}, but bugs or deficiencies in libraries and the
4615 operating system may still cause problems.
4616
4617 Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less
4618 problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast
4619 wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any of
4620 the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last
4621 version before they were removed), patches
4622 @uref{../contribute.html,,following the usual requirements} would be
4623 likely to be accepted, since they should not affect the support for more
4624 modern targets.
4625
4626 For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful,
4627 and are available from @file{pub/binutils/old-releases} on
4628 @uref{http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html,,sourceware.org mirror sites}.
4629
4630 Some of the information on specific systems above relates to
4631 such older systems, but much of the information
4632 about GCC on such systems (which may no longer be applicable to
4633 current GCC) is to be found in the GCC texinfo manual.
4634
4635 @html
4636 <hr />
4637 @end html
4638 @heading @anchor{elf}all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
4639
4640 C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the
4641 @uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-ld,,GNU linker}; duplicate copies of
4642 inlines, vtables and template instantiations will be discarded
4643 automatically.
4644
4645
4646 @html
4647 <hr />
4648 <p>
4649 @end html
4650 @ifhtml
4651 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4652 @end ifhtml
4653 @end ifset
4654
4655 @c ***Old documentation******************************************************
4656 @ifset oldhtml
4657 @include install-old.texi
4658 @html
4659 <hr />
4660 <p>
4661 @end html
4662 @ifhtml
4663 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4664 @end ifhtml
4665 @end ifset
4666
4667 @c ***GFDL********************************************************************
4668 @ifset gfdlhtml
4669 @include fdl.texi
4670 @html
4671 <hr />
4672 <p>
4673 @end html
4674 @ifhtml
4675 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4676 @end ifhtml
4677 @end ifset
4678
4679 @c ***************************************************************************
4680 @c Part 6 The End of the Document
4681 @ifinfo
4682 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
4683 @node Concept Index, , GNU Free Documentation License, Top
4684 @end ifinfo
4685
4686 @ifinfo
4687 @unnumbered Concept Index
4688
4689 @printindex cp
4690
4691 @contents
4692 @end ifinfo
4693 @bye