Estimated build time: 11.7 SBU Estimated required disk space: 221 MB |
(Last checked against version 3.1.)
The GCC package contains the GNU compiler collection, including the C and C++ compilers.
GCC installs the following files:
c++, c++filt, cc (link to gcc), cc1, cc1plus, collect2, cpp, cpp0, g++, gcc, gccbug, gcov and tradcpp0
libgcc.a, libgcc_eh.a, libgcc_s.so, libiberty.a, libstdc++.[a,so], libsupc++.a
(Last checked against version 2.95.3.)
Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, nm, ranlib
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, cp, dirname, echo, expr, hostname, ln
ls, mkdir, mv, rm, sleep, tail, touch, tr, true, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Find: find
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed
Tar: tar
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
Note: The test suite for GCC in this section is considered critical. Our advice is to not skip it under any circumstances.
This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting or modifying them when building GCC.
This time we will build both the C and the C++ compiler, so you'll have to unpack the GCC-core and the GCC-g++ tarball -- they will unfold into the same directory. You should likewise extract the GCC-testsuite package. The full GCC package contains even more compilers. Instructions for building these can be found at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/gcc.html.
patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-3.3.1-no_fixincludes-2.patch patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-3.3.1-suppress-libiberty.patch |
The second patch here suppresses the installation of libiberty from GCC, as we will use the one provided by binutils instead.
The GCC documentation recommends building GCC outside of the source directory in a dedicated build directory:
mkdir ../gcc-build cd ../gcc-build |
Now prepare GCC for compilation:
../gcc-3.3.1/configure --prefix=/usr \
--enable-shared --enable-threads=posix \
--enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu \
--enable-languages=c,c++ |
Compile the package:
make |
Note: At this point it is strongly recommended to repeat the sanity check we performed earlier in the chapter. Refer back to the "Re-adjusting the toolchain" section and repeat the check. If the results are wrong then most likely, you erroneously applied the GCC Specs patch from Chapter 5.
Test the results, but don't stop at errors (you'll remember the few known ones):
make -k check |
And install the package:
make install |
Some packages expect the C PreProcessor to be installed in the /lib directory. To honor those packages, create this symlink:
ln -s ../usr/bin/cpp /lib |
Many packages use the name cc to call the C compiler. To satisfy those packages, create a symlink:
ln -s gcc /usr/bin/cc |