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- <sect1 id="ch-tools-gcc-pass1">
- <title>Installing GCC-&gcc-version; - Pass 1</title>
- <?dbhtml filename="gcc-pass1.html" dir="chapter05"?>
- <screen>&buildtime; &gcc-time-tools-pass1;
- &diskspace; &gcc-compsize-tools-pass1;</screen>
- <literallayout>Official download location for GCC (&gcc-version;):
- <ulink url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/"/></literallayout>
- &aa-gcc-dep;
- <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
- <sect2>
- <title>Installation of GCC</title>
- <para>Unpack only the GCC-core tarball, as we won't be needing a C++ compiler
- for the moment.</para>
- <para>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.</para>
- <para>The GCC documentation recommends building GCC outside of the source
- directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
- <screen><userinput>mkdir ../gcc-build
- cd ../gcc-build</userinput></screen>
- <para>Prepare GCC for compilation:</para>
- <screen><userinput>../&gcc-dir;/configure --prefix=/tools \
- --with-local-prefix=/tools \
- --disable-nls --enable-shared \
- --enable-languages=c</userinput></screen>
- <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para><userinput>--with-local-prefix=/tools</userinput>: The
- purpose of this switch is to remove <filename>/usr/local/include</filename>
- from <userinput>gcc</userinput>'s include search path. This is not absolutely
- essential; however, we want to try to minimize the influence of the host
- system, thus making this a sensible thing to do.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><userinput>--enable-shared</userinput>: This switch may
- seem counter-intuitive at first. But using it allows the building of
- <filename>libgcc_s.so.1</filename> and <filename>libgcc_eh.a</filename>, and
- having <filename>libgcc_eh.a</filename> available ensures that the configure
- script for Glibc (the next package we compile) produces the proper results.
- Note that the <userinput>gcc</userinput> binaries will still be linked
- statically, as this is controlled by the <userinput>-static</userinput>
- value of BOOT_LDFLAGS further on.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><userinput>--enable-languages=c</userinput>: This option
- ensures that only the C compiler is built. The option is only needed when you
- have downloaded and unpacked the full GCC tarball.</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput>make BOOT_LDFLAGS="-static" bootstrap</userinput></screen>
- <para>The meaning of the make parameters:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para><userinput>BOOT_LDFLAGS="-static"</userinput>: This tells
- GCC to link its programs statically.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><userinput>bootstrap</userinput>: This target doesn't just
- compile GCC, but compiles it several times. It uses the programs compiled in
- a first round to compile itself a second time, and then again a third time.
- It then compares these second and third compiles to make sure it can
- reproduce itself flawlessly, which most probably means that it was
- compiled correctly.</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>Compilation is now complete. This is the point where we would normally
- run the test suite. But as discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the
- test suites for the temporary tools here in this chapter. However, even if we
- still wanted to run the GCC test suite, we're unable do so at this early stage
- because the test suite framework is not yet in place. Not only that, the
- programs from this first pass will soon be overwritten by those installed in
- the second pass.</para>
- <para>And install the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
- <para>As a finishing touch we'll create the <filename
- class="symlink">/tools/bin/cc</filename> symlink. Many programs and
- scripts run <userinput>cc</userinput> instead of <userinput>gcc</userinput>,
- a thing meant to keep programs generic and therefore usable on all kinds of
- Unix systems. Not everybody has the GNU C compiler installed. Simply running
- <userinput>cc</userinput> leaves the system administrator free to decide what
- C compiler to install, as long as there's a symlink pointing to it:</para>
- <screen><userinput>ln -s gcc /tools/bin/cc</userinput></screen>
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title> </title><para> </para>
- <para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-gcc"/>.</para>
- <para> </para></sect2>
- </sect1>
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