@settitle Installing GCC: Binaries
@end ifset
-@comment $Id: install.texi,v 1.7 2001/05/24 21:16:41 pb Exp $
+@comment $Id: install.texi,v 1.8 2001/05/28 07:55:13 gerald Exp $
@c Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c *** Converted to texinfo by Dean Wakerley, dean@wakerley.com
libraries were the default on all systems.
@item
-@option{--with-gnu-as} @minus{}@minus{} Specify that the compiler should assume that the
+@html
+<a name="with-gnu-as">@option{--with-gnu-as}</a>
+@end html
+ @minus{}@minus{} Specify that the compiler should assume that the
assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify the rules to find an
assembler and will result in confusion if found assembler is not actually the GNU assembler.
If you have more than one assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option
multiple assemblers installed and want to choose one that is not found by the above rules.
@item
-@option{--with-gnu-ld} @minus{}@minus{} Same as @option{--with-gnu-as} but for linker.
+@html
+<a name="with-gnu-ld">@option{--with-gnu-ld}</a>
+@end html
+ @minus{}@minus{} Same as @uref{#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}} but for linker.
+
@item
@option{--with-ld=@emph{/path/to/ld}} @minus{}@minus{} Same as @option{--with-as}, but for the
@uref{http://www.itnet.pl/amelektr/avr,,http://www.itnet.pl/amelektr/avr}
@end itemize
-We strongly recommend to upgrade to binutils 2.11
-(or a current snapshot until 2.11 has been released).
+We @emph{strongly} recommend using binutils 2.11 or newer.
The following error:
@example
Specifically, @option{-g} does not work on HP-UX (since that system
uses a peculiar debugging format which GCC does not know about), unless you
-use GAS and GDB and configure GCC with the @option{--with-gnu-as}
-option.
+use GAS and GDB and configure GCC with the @uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}}
+and @option{--with-as=...} options.
If you wish to use pa-risc 2.0 architecture support, you must use either
-the HP assembler or a recent
+the HP assembler, gas/binutils-2.11 or a recent
@uref{ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/snapshots,,snapshot of gas}.
More specific information to hppa*-hp-hpux* targets follows.
charge is normally required. If, however, you must be able to use
the GNU assembler (perhaps you're compiling code with asms that
require GAS syntax) you may configure this package using the flags
-@option{--with-gnu-as}. You must use a recent version of GNU
+@uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}}. You must use a recent version of GNU
binutils; versions past 2.9.1 seem to work well.
In general, the @option{--with-gnu-as} option isn't as well tested
<h3><a name="elf_targets">all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris, etc.)</a></h3>
@end html
-C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the GNU
-linker; duplicate copies of inlines, vtables and template instantiations
+C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the @uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-ld,,GNU
+linker}; duplicate copies of inlines, vtables and template instantiations
will be discarded automatically.