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1 Installing GCC
****************
The latest version of this document is always available at
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/. It refers to the current development
sources, instructions for specific released versions are included with
the sources.
This document describes the generic installation procedure for GCC as
well as detailing some target specific installation instructions.
GCC includes several components that previously were separate
distributions with their own installation instructions. This document
supersedes all package-specific installation instructions.
_Before_ starting the build/install procedure please check the *note
host/target specific installation notes: Specific. We recommend you
browse the entire generic installation instructions before you proceed.
Lists of successful builds for released versions of GCC are available
at <http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html>;. These lists are updated as new
information becomes available.
The installation procedure itself is broken into five steps.
* Menu:
* Prerequisites::
* Downloading the source::
* Configuration::
* Building::
* Testing:: (optional)
* Final install::
Please note that GCC does not support 'make uninstall' and probably
won't do so in the near future as this would open a can of worms.
Instead, we suggest that you install GCC into a directory of its own and
simply remove that directory when you do not need that specific version
of GCC any longer, and, if shared libraries are installed there as well,
no more binaries exist that use them.
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2 Prerequisites
***************
GCC requires that various tools and packages be available for use in the
build procedure. Modifying GCC sources requires additional tools
described below.
Tools/packages necessary for building GCC
=========================================
ISO C++98 compiler
Necessary to bootstrap GCC, although versions of GCC prior to 4.8
also allow bootstrapping with a ISO C89 compiler and versions of
GCC prior to 3.4 also allow bootstrapping with a traditional (K&R)
C compiler.
To build all languages in a cross-compiler or other configuration
where 3-stage bootstrap is not performed, you need to start with an
existing GCC binary (version 3.4 or later) because source code for
language frontends other than C might use GCC extensions.
Note that to bootstrap GCC with versions of GCC earlier than 3.4,
you may need to use '--disable-stage1-checking', though
bootstrapping the compiler with such earlier compilers is strongly
discouraged.
C standard library and headers
In order to build GCC, the C standard library and headers must be
present for all target variants for which target libraries will be
built (and not only the variant of the host C++ compiler).
This affects the popular 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' platform (among
other multilib targets), for which 64-bit ('x86_64') and 32-bit
('i386') libc headers are usually packaged separately. If you do a
build of a native compiler on 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu', make sure
you either have the 32-bit libc developer package properly
installed (the exact name of the package depends on your distro) or
you must build GCC as a 64-bit only compiler by configuring with
the option '--disable-multilib'. Otherwise, you may encounter an
error such as 'fatal error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file'
GNAT
In order to build the Ada compiler (GNAT) you must already have
GNAT installed because portions of the Ada frontend are written in
Ada (with GNAT extensions.) Refer to the Ada installation
instructions for more specific information.
A "working" POSIX compatible shell, or GNU bash
Necessary when running 'configure' because some '/bin/sh' shells
have bugs and may crash when configuring the target libraries. In
other cases, '/bin/sh' or 'ksh' have disastrous corner-case
performance problems. This can cause target 'configure' runs to
literally take days to complete in some cases.
So on some platforms '/bin/ksh' is sufficient, on others it isn't.
See the host/target specific instructions for your platform, or use
'bash' to be sure. Then set 'CONFIG_SHELL' in your environment to
your "good" shell prior to running 'configure'/'make'.
'zsh' is not a fully compliant POSIX shell and will not work when
configuring GCC.
A POSIX or SVR4 awk
Necessary for creating some of the generated source files for GCC.
If in doubt, use a recent GNU awk version, as some of the older
ones are broken. GNU awk version 3.1.5 is known to work.
GNU binutils
Necessary in some circumstances, optional in others. See the
host/target specific instructions for your platform for the exact
requirements.
gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
bzip2 version 1.0.2 (or later)
Necessary to uncompress GCC 'tar' files when source code is
obtained via FTP mirror sites.
GNU make version 3.80 (or later)
You must have GNU make installed to build GCC.
GNU tar version 1.14 (or later)
Necessary (only on some platforms) to untar the source code. Many
systems' 'tar' programs will also work, only try GNU 'tar' if you
have problems.
Perl version between 5.6.1 and 5.6.24
Necessary when targeting Darwin, building 'libstdc++', and not
using '--disable-symvers'. Necessary when targeting Solaris 2 with
Sun 'ld' and not using '--disable-symvers'. The bundled 'perl' in
Solaris 8 and up works.
Necessary when regenerating 'Makefile' dependencies in libiberty.
Necessary when regenerating 'libiberty/functions.texi'. Necessary
when generating manpages from Texinfo manuals. Used by various
scripts to generate some files included in the source repository
(mainly Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source tables.
Used by 'automake'.
Several support libraries are necessary to build GCC, some are
required, others optional. While any sufficiently new version of
required tools usually work, library requirements are generally
stricter. Newer versions may work in some cases, but it's safer to use
the exact versions documented. We appreciate bug reports about problems
with newer versions, though. If your OS vendor provides packages for
the support libraries then using those packages may be the simplest way
to install the libraries.
GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) version 4.3.2 (or later)
Necessary to build GCC. If a GMP source distribution is found in a
subdirectory of your GCC sources named 'gmp', it will be built
together with GCC. Alternatively, if GMP is already installed but
it is not in your library search path, you will have to configure
with the '--with-gmp' configure option. See also '--with-gmp-lib'
and '--with-gmp-include'. The in-tree build is only supported with
the GMP version that download_prerequisites installs.
MPFR Library version 2.4.2 (or later)
Necessary to build GCC. It can be downloaded from
<http://www.mpfr.org/>;. If an MPFR source distribution is found in
a subdirectory of your GCC sources named 'mpfr', it will be built
together with GCC. Alternatively, if MPFR is already installed but
it is not in your default library search path, the '--with-mpfr'
configure option should be used. See also '--with-mpfr-lib' and
'--with-mpfr-include'. The in-tree build is only supported with
the MPFR version that download_prerequisites installs.
MPC Library version 0.8.1 (or later)
Necessary to build GCC. It can be downloaded from
<http://www.multiprecision.org/>;. If an MPC source distribution is
found in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named 'mpc', it will be
built together with GCC. Alternatively, if MPC is already installed
but it is not in your default library search path, the '--with-mpc'
configure option should be used. See also '--with-mpc-lib' and
'--with-mpc-include'. The in-tree build is only supported with the
MPC version that download_prerequisites installs.
isl Library version 0.15 or later.
Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations. It
can be downloaded from <ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/>;.
If an isl source distribution is found in a subdirectory of your
GCC sources named 'isl', it will be built together with GCC.
Alternatively, the '--with-isl' configure option should be used if
isl is not installed in your default library search path.
Tools/packages necessary for modifying GCC
==========================================
autoconf version 2.64
GNU m4 version 1.4.6 (or later)
Necessary when modifying 'configure.ac', 'aclocal.m4', etc. to
regenerate 'configure' and 'config.in' files.
automake version 1.11.6
Necessary when modifying a 'Makefile.am' file to regenerate its
associated 'Makefile.in'.
Much of GCC does not use automake, so directly edit the
'Makefile.in' file. Specifically this applies to the 'gcc',
'intl', 'libcpp', 'libiberty', 'libobjc' directories as well as any
of their subdirectories.
For directories that use automake, GCC requires the latest release
in the 1.11 series, which is currently 1.11.6. When regenerating a
directory to a newer version, please update all the directories
using an older 1.11 to the latest released version.
Note that 'automake' 1.11.6 is incompatible with 'perl' version
5.6.26.
gettext version 0.14.5 (or later)
Needed to regenerate 'gcc.pot'.
gperf version 2.7.2 (or later)
Necessary when modifying 'gperf' input files, e.g.
'gcc/cp/cfns.gperf' to regenerate its associated header file, e.g.
'gcc/cp/cfns.h'.
DejaGnu 1.4.4
Expect
Tcl
Necessary to run the GCC testsuite; see the section on testing for
details. Tcl 8.6 has a known regression in RE pattern handling
that make parts of the testsuite fail. See
<http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/tktview/267b7e2334ee2e9de34c4b00d6e72e2f1997085f>;
for more information. This bug has been fixed in 8.6.1.
autogen version 5.5.4 (or later) and
guile version 1.4.1 (or later)
Necessary to regenerate 'fixinc/fixincl.x' from
'fixinc/inclhack.def' and 'fixinc/*.tpl'.
Necessary to run 'make check' for 'fixinc'.
Necessary to regenerate the top level 'Makefile.in' file from
'Makefile.tpl' and 'Makefile.def'.
Flex version 2.5.4 (or later)
Necessary when modifying '*.l' files.
Necessary to build GCC during development because the generated
output files are not included in the version-controlled source
repository. They are included in releases.
Texinfo version 4.7 (or later)
Necessary for running 'makeinfo' when modifying '*.texi' files to
test your changes.
Necessary for running 'make dvi' or 'make pdf' to create printable
documentation in DVI or PDF format. Texinfo version 4.8 or later
is required for 'make pdf'.
Necessary to build GCC documentation during development because the
generated output files are not included in the repository. They
are included in releases.
TeX (any working version)
Necessary for running 'texi2dvi' and 'texi2pdf', which are used
when running 'make dvi' or 'make pdf' to create DVI or PDF files,
respectively.
Sphinx version 1.0 (or later)
Necessary to regenerate 'jit/docs/_build/texinfo' from the '.rst'
files in the directories below 'jit/docs'.
git (any version)
SSH (any version)
Necessary to access the source repository. Public releases and
weekly snapshots of the development sources are also available via
HTTPS.
GNU diffutils version 2.7 (or later)
Useful when submitting patches for the GCC source code.
patch version 2.5.4 (or later)
Necessary when applying patches, created with 'diff', to one's own
sources.
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3 Downloading GCC
*****************
GCC is distributed via git and via HTTPS as tarballs compressed with
'gzip' or 'bzip2'.
Please refer to the releases web page for information on how to
obtain GCC.
The source distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran,
and Ada (in the case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers, as well as runtime
libraries for C++, Objective-C, and Fortran. For previous versions
these were downloadable as separate components such as the core GCC
distribution, which included the C language front end and shared
components, and language-specific distributions including the language
front end and the language runtime (where appropriate).
If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing
installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your OS),
unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or a
separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any components
of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler ('bfd',
'binutils', 'gas', 'gprof', 'ld', 'opcodes', ...) to the directory
containing the GCC sources.
Likewise the GMP, MPFR and MPC libraries can be automatically built
together with GCC. You may simply run the
'contrib/download_prerequisites' script in the GCC source directory to
set up everything. Otherwise unpack the GMP, MPFR and/or MPC source
distributions in the directory containing the GCC sources and rename
their directories to 'gmp', 'mpfr' and 'mpc', respectively (or use
symbolic links with the same name).
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4 Installing GCC: Configuration
*******************************
Like most GNU software, GCC must be configured before it can be built.
This document describes the recommended configuration procedure for both
native and cross targets.
We use SRCDIR to refer to the toplevel source directory for GCC; we
use OBJDIR to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
If you obtained the sources by cloning the repository, SRCDIR must
refer to the top 'gcc' directory, the one where the 'MAINTAINERS' file
can be found, and not its 'gcc' subdirectory, otherwise the build will
fail.
If either SRCDIR or OBJDIR is located on an automounted NFS file
system, the shell's built-in 'pwd' command will return temporary
pathnames. Using these can lead to various sorts of build problems. To
avoid this issue, set the 'PWDCMD' environment variable to an
automounter-aware 'pwd' command, e.g., 'pawd' or 'amq -w', during the
configuration and build phases.
First, we *highly* recommend that GCC be built into a separate
directory from the sources which does *not* reside within the source
tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building where SRCDIR ==
OBJDIR should still work, but doesn't get extensive testing; building
where OBJDIR is a subdirectory of SRCDIR is unsupported.
If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
different target machine, do 'make distclean' to delete all files that
might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is 'Makefile'; if 'make
distclean' complains that 'Makefile' does not exist or issues a message
like "don't know how to make distclean" it probably means that the
directory is already suitably clean. However, with the recommended
method of building in a separate OBJDIR, you should simply use a
different OBJDIR for each target.
Second, when configuring a native system, either 'cc' or 'gcc' must
be in your path or you must set 'CC' in your environment before running
configure. Otherwise the configuration scripts may fail.
To configure GCC:
% mkdir OBJDIR
% cd OBJDIR
% SRCDIR/configure [OPTIONS] [TARGET]
Distributor options
===================
If you will be distributing binary versions of GCC, with modifications
to the source code, you should use the options described in this section
to make clear that your version contains modifications.
'--with-pkgversion=VERSION'
Specify a string that identifies your package. You may wish to
include a build number or build date. This version string will be
included in the output of 'gcc --version'. This suffix does not
replace the default version string, only the 'GCC' part.
The default value is 'GCC'.
'--with-bugurl=URL'
Specify the URL that users should visit if they wish to report a
bug. You are of course welcome to forward bugs reported to you to
the FSF, if you determine that they are not bugs in your
modifications.
The default value refers to the FSF's GCC bug tracker.
Target specification
====================
* GCC has code to correctly determine the correct value for TARGET
for nearly all native systems. Therefore, we highly recommend you
do not provide a configure target when configuring a native
compiler.
* TARGET must be specified as '--target=TARGET' when configuring a
cross compiler; examples of valid targets would be m68k-elf,
sh-elf, etc.
* Specifying just TARGET instead of '--target=TARGET' implies that
the host defaults to TARGET.
Options specification
=====================
Use OPTIONS to override several configure time options for GCC. A list
of supported OPTIONS follows; 'configure --help' may list other options,
but those not listed below may not work and should not normally be used.
Note that each '--enable' option has a corresponding '--disable'
option and that each '--with' option has a corresponding '--without'
option.
'--prefix=DIRNAME'
Specify the toplevel installation directory. This is the
recommended way to install the tools into a directory other than
the default. The toplevel installation directory defaults to
'/usr/local'.
We *highly* recommend against DIRNAME being the same or a
subdirectory of OBJDIR or vice versa. If specifying a directory
beneath a user's home directory tree, some shells will not expand
DIRNAME correctly if it contains the '~' metacharacter; use '$HOME'
instead.
The following standard 'autoconf' options are supported. Normally
you should not need to use these options.
'--exec-prefix=DIRNAME'
Specify the toplevel installation directory for
architecture-dependent files. The default is 'PREFIX'.
'--bindir=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for the executables called
by users (such as 'gcc' and 'g++'). The default is
'EXEC-PREFIX/bin'.
'--libdir=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for object code libraries
and internal data files of GCC. The default is
'EXEC-PREFIX/lib'.
'--libexecdir=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for internal executables of
GCC. The default is 'EXEC-PREFIX/libexec'.
'--with-slibdir=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for the shared libgcc
library. The default is 'LIBDIR'.
'--datarootdir=DIRNAME'
Specify the root of the directory tree for read-only
architecture-independent data files referenced by GCC. The
default is 'PREFIX/share'.
'--infodir=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for documentation in info
format. The default is 'DATAROOTDIR/info'.
'--datadir=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for some
architecture-independent data files referenced by GCC. The
default is 'DATAROOTDIR'.
'--docdir=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for documentation files
(other than Info) for GCC. The default is 'DATAROOTDIR/doc'.
'--htmldir=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for HTML documentation
files. The default is 'DOCDIR'.
'--pdfdir=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for PDF documentation
files. The default is 'DOCDIR'.
'--mandir=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for manual pages. The
default is 'DATAROOTDIR/man'. (Note that the manual pages are
only extracts from the full GCC manuals, which are provided in
Texinfo format. The manpages are derived by an automatic
conversion process from parts of the full manual.)
'--with-gxx-include-dir=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for G++ header files. The
default depends on other configuration options, and differs
between cross and native configurations.
'--with-specs=SPECS'
Specify additional command line driver SPECS. This can be
useful if you need to turn on a non-standard feature by
default without modifying the compiler's source code, for
instance
'--with-specs=%{!fcommon:%{!fno-common:-fno-common}}'. *Note
Specifying subprocesses and the switches to pass to them:
(gcc)Spec Files,
'--program-prefix=PREFIX'
GCC supports some transformations of the names of its programs when
installing them. This option prepends PREFIX to the names of
programs to install in BINDIR (see above). For example, specifying
'--program-prefix=foo-' would result in 'gcc' being installed as
'/usr/local/bin/foo-gcc'.
'--program-suffix=SUFFIX'
Appends SUFFIX to the names of programs to install in BINDIR (see
above). For example, specifying '--program-suffix=-3.1' would
result in 'gcc' being installed as '/usr/local/bin/gcc-3.1'.
'--program-transform-name=PATTERN'
Applies the 'sed' script PATTERN to be applied to the names of
programs to install in BINDIR (see above). PATTERN has to consist
of one or more basic 'sed' editing commands, separated by
semicolons. For example, if you want the 'gcc' program name to be
transformed to the installed program '/usr/local/bin/myowngcc' and
the 'g++' program name to be transformed to
'/usr/local/bin/gspecial++' without changing other program names,
you could use the pattern
'--program-transform-name='s/^gcc$/myowngcc/; s/^g++$/gspecial++/''
to achieve this effect.
All three options can be combined and used together, resulting in
more complex conversion patterns. As a basic rule, PREFIX (and
SUFFIX) are prepended (appended) before further transformations can
happen with a special transformation script PATTERN.
As currently implemented, this option only takes effect for native
builds; cross compiler binaries' names are not transformed even
when a transformation is explicitly asked for by one of these
options.
For native builds, some of the installed programs are also
installed with the target alias in front of their name, as in
'i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc'. All of the above transformations happen
before the target alias is prepended to the name--so, specifying
'--program-prefix=foo-' and 'program-suffix=-3.1', the resulting
binary would be installed as
'/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-foo-gcc-3.1'.
As a last shortcoming, none of the installed Ada programs are
transformed yet, which will be fixed in some time.
'--with-local-prefix=DIRNAME'
Specify the installation directory for local include files. The
default is '/usr/local'. Specify this option if you want the
compiler to search directory 'DIRNAME/include' for locally
installed header files _instead_ of '/usr/local/include'.
You should specify '--with-local-prefix' *only* if your site has a
different convention (not '/usr/local') for where to put
site-specific files.
The default value for '--with-local-prefix' is '/usr/local'
regardless of the value of '--prefix'. Specifying '--prefix' has
no effect on which directory GCC searches for local header files.
This may seem counterintuitive, but actually it is logical.
The purpose of '--prefix' is to specify where to _install GCC_. The
local header files in '/usr/local/include'--if you put any in that
directory--are not part of GCC. They are part of other
programs--perhaps many others. (GCC installs its own header files
in another directory which is based on the '--prefix' value.)
Both the local-prefix include directory and the GCC-prefix include
directory are part of GCC's "system include" directories. Although
these two directories are not fixed, they need to be searched in
the proper order for the correct processing of the include_next
directive. The local-prefix include directory is searched before
the GCC-prefix include directory. Another characteristic of system
include directories is that pedantic warnings are turned off for
headers in these directories.
Some autoconf macros add '-I DIRECTORY' options to the compiler
command line, to ensure that directories containing installed
packages' headers are searched. When DIRECTORY is one of GCC's
system include directories, GCC will ignore the option so that
system directories continue to be processed in the correct order.
This may result in a search order different from what was specified
but the directory will still be searched.
GCC automatically searches for ordinary libraries using
'GCC_EXEC_PREFIX'. Thus, when the same installation prefix is used
for both GCC and packages, GCC will automatically search for both
headers and libraries. This provides a configuration that is easy
to use. GCC behaves in a manner similar to that when it is
installed as a system compiler in '/usr'.
Sites that need to install multiple versions of GCC may not want to
use the above simple configuration. It is possible to use the
'--program-prefix', '--program-suffix' and
'--program-transform-name' options to install multiple versions
into a single directory, but it may be simpler to use different
prefixes and the '--with-local-prefix' option to specify the
location of the site-specific files for each version. It will then
be necessary for users to specify explicitly the location of local
site libraries (e.g., with 'LIBRARY_PATH').
The same value can be used for both '--with-local-prefix' and
'--prefix' provided it is not '/usr'. This can be used to avoid
the default search of '/usr/local/include'.
*Do not* specify '/usr' as the '--with-local-prefix'! The
directory you use for '--with-local-prefix' *must not* contain any
of the system's standard header files. If it did contain them,
certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on
certain targets), because this would override and nullify the
header file corrections made by the 'fixincludes' script.
Indications are that people who use this option use it based on
mistaken ideas of what it is for. People use it as if it specified
where to install part of GCC. Perhaps they make this assumption
because installing GCC creates the directory.
'--with-gcc-major-version-only'
Specifies that GCC should use only the major number rather than
MAJOR.MINOR.PATCHLEVEL in filesystem paths.
'--with-native-system-header-dir=DIRNAME'
Specifies that DIRNAME is the directory that contains native system
header files, rather than '/usr/include'. This option is most
useful if you are creating a compiler that should be isolated from
the system as much as possible. It is most commonly used with the
'--with-sysroot' option and will cause GCC to search DIRNAME inside
the system root specified by that option.
'--enable-shared[=PACKAGE[,...]]'
Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are
supported on the target platform. Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier,
shared libraries are enabled by default on all platforms that
support shared libraries.
If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared
libraries only for the listed packages. For other packages, only
static libraries will be built. Package names currently recognized
in the GCC tree are 'libgcc' (also known as 'gcc'), 'libstdc++'
(not 'libstdc++-v3'), 'libffi', 'zlib', 'boehm-gc', 'ada',
'libada', 'libgo', and 'libobjc'. Note 'libiberty' does not
support shared libraries at all.
Use '--disable-shared' to build only static libraries. Note that
'--disable-shared' does not accept a list of package names as
argument, only '--enable-shared' does.
Contrast with '--enable-host-shared', which affects _host_ code.
'--enable-host-shared'
Specify that the _host_ code should be built into
position-independent machine code (with -fPIC), allowing it to be
used within shared libraries, but yielding a slightly slower
compiler.
This option is required when building the libgccjit.so library.
Contrast with '--enable-shared', which affects _target_ libraries.
'--with-gnu-as'
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 the assembler
found is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion may also
result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been
configured with '--with-gnu-as'.) If you have more than one
assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option
in connection with '--with-as=PATHNAME' or
'--with-build-time-tools=PATHNAME'.
The following systems are the only ones where it makes a difference
whether you use the GNU assembler. On any other system,
'--with-gnu-as' has no effect.
* 'hppa1.0-ANY-ANY'
* 'hppa1.1-ANY-ANY'
* 'sparc-sun-solaris2.ANY'
* 'sparc64-ANY-solaris2.ANY'
'--with-as=PATHNAME'
Specify that the compiler should use the assembler pointed to by
PATHNAME, rather than the one found by the standard rules to find
an assembler, which are:
* Unless GCC is being built with a cross compiler, check the
'LIBEXEC/gcc/TARGET/VERSION' directory. LIBEXEC defaults to
'EXEC-PREFIX/libexec'; EXEC-PREFIX defaults to PREFIX, which
defaults to '/usr/local' unless overridden by the
'--prefix=PATHNAME' switch described above. TARGET is the
target system triple, such as 'sparc-sun-solaris2.7', and
VERSION denotes the GCC version, such as 3.0.
* If the target system is the same that you are building on,
check operating system specific directories (e.g.
'/usr/ccs/bin' on Sun Solaris 2).
* Check in the 'PATH' for a tool whose name is prefixed by the
target system triple.
* Check in the 'PATH' for a tool whose name is not prefixed by
the target system triple, if the host and target system triple
are the same (in other words, we use a host tool if it can be
used for the target as well).
You may want to use '--with-as' if no assembler is installed in the
directories listed above, or if you have multiple assemblers
installed and want to choose one that is not found by the above
rules.
'--with-gnu-ld'
Same as '--with-gnu-as' but for the linker.
'--with-ld=PATHNAME'
Same as '--with-as' but for the linker.
'--with-stabs'
Specify that stabs debugging information should be used instead of
whatever format the host normally uses. Normally GCC uses the same
debug format as the host system.
'--with-tls=DIALECT'
Specify the default TLS dialect, for systems were there is a
choice. For ARM targets, possible values for DIALECT are 'gnu' or
'gnu2', which select between the original GNU dialect and the GNU
TLS descriptor-based dialect.
'--enable-multiarch'
Specify whether to enable or disable multiarch support. The
default is to check for glibc start files in a multiarch location,
and enable it if the files are found. The auto detection is
enabled for native builds, and for cross builds configured with
'--with-sysroot', and without '--with-native-system-header-dir'.
More documentation about multiarch can be found at
<https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch>;.
'--enable-sjlj-exceptions'
Force use of the 'setjmp'/'longjmp'-based scheme for exceptions.
'configure' ordinarily picks the correct value based on the
platform. Only use this option if you are sure you need a
different setting.
'--enable-vtable-verify'
Specify whether to enable or disable the vtable verification
feature. Enabling this feature causes libstdc++ to be built with
its virtual calls in verifiable mode. This means that, when linked
with libvtv, every virtual call in libstdc++ will verify the vtable
pointer through which the call will be made before actually making
the call. If not linked with libvtv, the verifier will call stub
functions (in libstdc++ itself) and do nothing. If vtable
verification is disabled, then libstdc++ is not built with its
virtual calls in verifiable mode at all. However the libvtv
library will still be built (see '--disable-libvtv' to turn off
building libvtv). '--disable-vtable-verify' is the default.
'--disable-multilib'
Specify that multiple target libraries to support different target
variants, calling conventions, etc. should not be built. The
default is to build a predefined set of them.
Some targets provide finer-grained control over which multilibs are
built (e.g., '--disable-softfloat'):
'arm-*-*'
fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
'm68*-*-*'
softfloat, m68881, m68000, m68020.
'mips*-*-*'
single-float, biendian, softfloat.
'powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*'
aix64, pthread, softfloat, powercpu, powerpccpu, powerpcos,
biendian, sysv, aix.
'--with-multilib-list=LIST'
'--without-multilib-list'
Specify what multilibs to build. LIST is a comma separated list of
values, possibly consisting of a single value. Currently only
implemented for aarch64*-*-*, arm*-*-*, sh*-*-* and
x86-64-*-linux*. The accepted alues and meaning for each target is
given below.
'aarch64*-*-*'
LIST is a comma separated list of 'ilp32', and 'lp64' to
enable ILP32 and LP64 run-time libraries, respectively. If
LIST is empty, then there will be no multilibs and only the
default run-time library will be built. If LIST is 'default'
or -with-multilib-list= is not specified, then the default set
of libraries is selected based on the value of '--target'.
'arm*-*-*'
LIST is a comma separated list of 'aprofile' and 'rmprofile'
to build multilibs for A or R and M architecture profiles
respectively. Note that, due to some limitation of the
current multilib framework, using the combined
'aprofile,rmprofile' multilibs selects in some cases a less
optimal multilib than when using the multilib profile for the
architecture targetted. The special value 'default' is also
accepted and is equivalent to omitting the option, ie. only
the default run-time library will be enabled.
The table below gives the combination of ISAs, architectures,
FPUs and floating-point ABIs for which multilibs are built for
each accepted value. The union of these options is considered
when specifying both 'aprofile' and 'rmprofile'.
Option aprofile rmprofile
ISAs '-marm' and '-mthumb'
'-mthumb'
Architecturesdefault default architecture
architecture '-march=armv6s-m'
'-march=armv7-a' '-march=armv7-m'
'-march=armv7ve' '-march=armv7e-m'
'-march=armv8-a' '-march=armv8-m.base'
'-march=armv8-m.main'
'-march=armv7'
FPUs none none
'-mfpu=vfpv3-d16' '-mfpu=vfpv3-d16'
'-mfpu=neon' '-mfpu=fpv4-sp-d16'
'-mfpu=vfpv4-d16' '-mfpu=fpv5-sp-d16'
'-mfpu=neon-vfpv4' '-mfpu=fpv5-d16'
'-mfpu=neon-fp-armv8'
floating-point'-mfloat-abi=soft' '-mfloat-abi=soft'
ABIs '-mfloat-abi=softfp' '-mfloat-abi=softfp'
'-mfloat-abi=hard' '-mfloat-abi=hard'
'sh*-*-*'
LIST is a comma separated list of CPU names. These must be of
the form 'sh*' or 'm*' (in which case they match the compiler
option for that processor). The list should not contain any
endian options - these are handled by '--with-endian'.
If LIST is empty, then there will be no multilibs for extra
processors. The multilib for the secondary endian remains
enabled.
As a special case, if an entry in the list starts with a '!'
(exclamation point), then it is added to the list of excluded
multilibs. Entries of this sort should be compatible with
'MULTILIB_EXCLUDES' (once the leading '!' has been stripped).
If '--with-multilib-list' is not given, then a default set of
multilibs is selected based on the value of '--target'. This
is usually the complete set of libraries, but some targets
imply a more specialized subset.
Example 1: to configure a compiler for SH4A only, but
supporting both endians, with little endian being the default:
--with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big --with-multilib-list=
Example 2: to configure a compiler for both SH4A and
SH4AL-DSP, but with only little endian SH4AL:
--with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big \
--with-multilib-list=sh4al,!mb/m4al
'x86-64-*-linux*'
LIST is a comma separated list of 'm32', 'm64' and 'mx32' to
enable 32-bit, 64-bit and x32 run-time libraries,
respectively. If LIST is empty, then there will be no
multilibs and only the default run-time library will be
enabled.
If '--with-multilib-list' is not given, then only 32-bit and
64-bit run-time libraries will be enabled.
'--with-endian=ENDIANS'
Specify what endians to use. Currently only implemented for
sh*-*-*.
ENDIANS may be one of the following:
'big'
Use big endian exclusively.
'little'
Use little endian exclusively.
'big,little'
Use big endian by default. Provide a multilib for little
endian.
'little,big'
Use little endian by default. Provide a multilib for big
endian.
'--enable-threads'
Specify that the target supports threads. This affects the
Objective-C compiler and runtime library, and exception handling
for other languages like C++. On some systems, this is the
default.
In general, the best (and, in many cases, the only known) threading
model available will be configured for use. Beware that on some
systems, GCC has not been taught what threading models are
generally available for the system. In this case,
'--enable-threads' is an alias for '--enable-threads=single'.
'--disable-threads'
Specify that threading support should be disabled for the system.
This is an alias for '--enable-threads=single'.
'--enable-threads=LIB'
Specify that LIB is the thread support library. This affects the
Objective-C compiler and runtime library, and exception handling
for other languages like C++. The possibilities for LIB are:
'aix'
AIX thread support.
'dce'
DCE thread support.
'lynx'
LynxOS thread support.
'mipssde'
MIPS SDE thread support.
'no'
This is an alias for 'single'.
'posix'
Generic POSIX/Unix98 thread support.
'rtems'
RTEMS thread support.
'single'
Disable thread support, should work for all platforms.
'tpf'
TPF thread support.
'vxworks'
VxWorks thread support.
'win32'
Microsoft Win32 API thread support.
'--enable-tls'
Specify that the target supports TLS (Thread Local Storage).
Usually configure can correctly determine if TLS is supported. In
cases where it guesses incorrectly, TLS can be explicitly enabled
or disabled with '--enable-tls' or '--disable-tls'. This can
happen if the assembler supports TLS but the C library does not, or
if the assumptions made by the configure test are incorrect.
'--disable-tls'
Specify that the target does not support TLS. This is an alias for
'--enable-tls=no'.
'--with-cpu=CPU'
'--with-cpu-32=CPU'
'--with-cpu-64=CPU'
Specify which cpu variant the compiler should generate code for by
default. CPU will be used as the default value of the '-mcpu='
switch. This option is only supported on some targets, including
ARC, ARM, i386, M68k, PowerPC, and SPARC. It is mandatory for ARC.
The '--with-cpu-32' and '--with-cpu-64' options specify separate
default CPUs for 32-bit and 64-bit modes; these options are only
supported for aarch64, i386, x86-64, PowerPC, and SPARC.
'--with-schedule=CPU'
'--with-arch=CPU'
'--with-arch-32=CPU'
'--with-arch-64=CPU'
'--with-tune=CPU'
'--with-tune-32=CPU'
'--with-tune-64=CPU'
'--with-abi=ABI'
'--with-fpu=TYPE'
'--with-float=TYPE'
These configure options provide default values for the
'-mschedule=', '-march=', '-mtune=', '-mabi=', and '-mfpu=' options
and for '-mhard-float' or '-msoft-float'. As with '--with-cpu',
which switches will be accepted and acceptable values of the
arguments depend on the target.
'--with-mode=MODE'
Specify if the compiler should default to '-marm' or '-mthumb'.
This option is only supported on ARM targets.
'--with-stack-offset=NUM'
This option sets the default for the -mstack-offset=NUM option, and
will thus generally also control the setting of this option for
libraries. This option is only supported on Epiphany targets.
'--with-fpmath=ISA'
This options sets '-mfpmath=sse' by default and specifies the
default ISA for floating-point arithmetics. You can select either
'sse' which enables '-msse2' or 'avx' which enables '-mavx' by
default. This option is only supported on i386 and x86-64 targets.
'--with-fp-32=MODE'
On MIPS targets, set the default value for the '-mfp' option when
using the o32 ABI. The possibilities for MODE are:
'32'
Use the o32 FP32 ABI extension, as with the '-mfp32'
command-line option.
'xx'
Use the o32 FPXX ABI extension, as with the '-mfpxx'
command-line option.
'64'
Use the o32 FP64 ABI extension, as with the '-mfp64'
command-line option.
In the absence of this configuration option the default is to use
the o32 FP32 ABI extension.
'--with-odd-spreg-32'
On MIPS targets, set the '-modd-spreg' option by default when using
the o32 ABI.
'--without-odd-spreg-32'
On MIPS targets, set the '-mno-odd-spreg' option by default when
using the o32 ABI. This is normally used in conjunction with
'--with-fp-32=64' in order to target the o32 FP64A ABI extension.
'--with-nan=ENCODING'
On MIPS targets, set the default encoding convention to use for the
special not-a-number (NaN) IEEE 754 floating-point data. The
possibilities for ENCODING are:
'legacy'
Use the legacy encoding, as with the '-mnan=legacy'
command-line option.
'2008'
Use the 754-2008 encoding, as with the '-mnan=2008'
command-line option.
To use this configuration option you must have an assembler version
installed that supports the '-mnan=' command-line option too. In
the absence of this configuration option the default convention is
the legacy encoding, as when neither of the '-mnan=2008' and
'-mnan=legacy' command-line options has been used.
'--with-divide=TYPE'
Specify how the compiler should generate code for checking for
division by zero. This option is only supported on the MIPS
target. The possibilities for TYPE are:
'traps'
Division by zero checks use conditional traps (this is the
default on systems that support conditional traps).
'breaks'
Division by zero checks use the break instruction.
'--with-llsc'
On MIPS targets, make '-mllsc' the default when no '-mno-llsc'
option is passed. This is the default for Linux-based targets, as
the kernel will emulate them if the ISA does not provide them.
'--without-llsc'
On MIPS targets, make '-mno-llsc' the default when no '-mllsc'
option is passed.
'--with-synci'
On MIPS targets, make '-msynci' the default when no '-mno-synci'
option is passed.
'--without-synci'
On MIPS targets, make '-mno-synci' the default when no '-msynci'
option is passed. This is the default.
'--with-lxc1-sxc1'
On MIPS targets, make '-mlxc1-sxc1' the default when no
'-mno-lxc1-sxc1' option is passed. This is the default.
'--without-lxc1-sxc1'
On MIPS targets, make '-mno-lxc1-sxc1' the default when no
'-mlxc1-sxc1' option is passed. The indexed load/store
instructions are not directly a problem but can lead to unexpected
behaviour when deployed in an application intended for a 32-bit
address space but run on a 64-bit processor. The issue is seen
because all known MIPS 64-bit Linux kernels execute o32 and n32
applications with 64-bit addressing enabled which affects the
overflow behaviour of the indexed addressing mode. GCC will assume
that ordinary 32-bit arithmetic overflow behaviour is the same
whether performed as an 'addu' instruction or as part of the
address calculation in 'lwxc1' type instructions. This assumption
holds true in a pure 32-bit environment and can hold true in a
64-bit environment if the address space is accurately set to be
32-bit for o32 and n32.
'--with-madd4'
On MIPS targets, make '-mmadd4' the default when no '-mno-madd4'
option is passed. This is the default.
'--without-madd4'
On MIPS targets, make '-mno-madd4' the default when no '-mmadd4'
option is passed. The 'madd4' instruction family can be
problematic when targeting a combination of cores that implement
these instructions differently. There are two known cores that
implement these as fused operations instead of unfused (where
unfused is normally expected). Disabling these instructions is the
only way to ensure compatible code is generated; this will incur a
performance penalty.
'--with-mips-plt'
On MIPS targets, make use of copy relocations and PLTs. These
features are extensions to the traditional SVR4-based MIPS ABIs and
require support from GNU binutils and the runtime C library.
'--enable-__cxa_atexit'
Define if you want to use __cxa_atexit, rather than atexit, to
register C++ destructors for local statics and global objects.
This is essential for fully standards-compliant handling of
destructors, but requires __cxa_atexit in libc. This option is
currently only available on systems with GNU libc. When enabled,
this will cause '-fuse-cxa-atexit' to be passed by default.
'--enable-gnu-indirect-function'
Define if you want to enable the 'ifunc' attribute. This option is
currently only available on systems with GNU libc on certain
targets.
'--enable-target-optspace'
Specify that target libraries should be optimized for code space
instead of code speed. This is the default for the m32r platform.
'--with-cpp-install-dir=DIRNAME'
Specify that the user visible 'cpp' program should be installed in
'PREFIX/DIRNAME/cpp', in addition to BINDIR.
'--enable-comdat'
Enable COMDAT group support. This is primarily used to override
the automatically detected value.
'--enable-initfini-array'
Force the use of sections '.init_array' and '.fini_array' (instead
of '.init' and '.fini') for constructors and destructors. Option
'--disable-initfini-array' has the opposite effect. If neither
option is specified, the configure script will try to guess whether
the '.init_array' and '.fini_array' sections are supported and, if
they are, use them.
'--enable-link-mutex'
When building GCC, use a mutex to avoid linking the compilers for
multiple languages at the same time, to avoid thrashing on build
systems with limited free memory. The default is not to use such a
mutex.
'--enable-maintainer-mode'
The build rules that regenerate the Autoconf and Automake output
files as well as the GCC master message catalog 'gcc.pot' are
normally disabled. This is because it can only be rebuilt if the
complete source tree is present. If you have changed the sources
and want to rebuild the catalog, configuring with
'--enable-maintainer-mode' will enable this. Note that you need a
recent version of the 'gettext' tools to do so.
'--disable-bootstrap'
For a native build, the default configuration is to perform a
3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when 'make' is invoked, testing
that GCC can compile itself correctly. If you want to disable this
process, you can configure with '--disable-bootstrap'.
'--enable-bootstrap'
In special cases, you may want to perform a 3-stage build even if
the target and host triplets are different. This is possible when
the host can run code compiled for the target (e.g. host is
i686-linux, target is i486-linux). Starting from GCC 4.2, to do
this you have to configure explicitly with '--enable-bootstrap'.
'--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir'
Neither the .c and .h files that are generated from Bison and flex
nor the info manuals and man pages that are built from the .texi
files are present in the repository development tree. When
building GCC from that development tree, or from one of our
snapshots, those generated files are placed in your build
directory, which allows for the source to be in a readonly
directory.
If you configure with '--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir' then
those generated files will go into the source directory. This is
mainly intended for generating release or prerelease tarballs of
the GCC sources, since it is not a requirement that the users of
source releases to have flex, Bison, or makeinfo.
'--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs'
Specify that runtime libraries should be installed in the compiler
specific subdirectory ('LIBDIR/gcc') rather than the usual places.
In addition, 'libstdc++''s include files will be installed into
'LIBDIR' unless you overruled it by using
'--with-gxx-include-dir=DIRNAME'. Using this option is
particularly useful if you intend to use several versions of GCC in
parallel. This is currently supported by 'libgfortran',
'libstdc++', and 'libobjc'.
'--with-aix-soname='aix', 'svr4' or 'both''
Traditional AIX shared library versioning (versioned 'Shared
Object' files as members of unversioned 'Archive Library' files
named 'lib.a') causes numerous headaches for package managers.
However, 'Import Files' as members of 'Archive Library' files allow
for *filename-based versioning* of shared libraries as seen on
Linux/SVR4, where this is called the "SONAME". But as they prevent
static linking, 'Import Files' may be used with 'Runtime Linking'
only, where the linker does search for 'libNAME.so' before
'libNAME.a' library filenames with the '-lNAME' linker flag.
For detailed information please refer to the AIX ld Command
reference.
As long as shared library creation is enabled, upon:
'--with-aix-soname=aix'
'--with-aix-soname=both'
A (traditional AIX) 'Shared Archive Library' file is created:
* using the 'libNAME.a' filename scheme
* with the 'Shared Object' file as archive member named
'libNAME.so.V' (except for 'libgcc_s', where the 'Shared
Object' file is named 'shr.o' for backwards
compatibility), which
- is used for runtime loading from inside the
'libNAME.a' file
- is used for dynamic loading via
'dlopen("libNAME.a(libNAME.so.V)", RTLD_MEMBER)'
- is used for shared linking
- is used for static linking, so no separate 'Static
Archive Library' file is needed
'--with-aix-soname=both'
'--with-aix-soname=svr4'
A (second) 'Shared Archive Library' file is created:
* using the 'libNAME.so.V' filename scheme
* with the 'Shared Object' file as archive member named
'shr.o', which
- is created with the '-G linker flag'
- has the 'F_LOADONLY' flag set
- is used for runtime loading from inside the
'libNAME.so.V' file
- is used for dynamic loading via
'dlopen("libNAME.so.V(shr.o)", RTLD_MEMBER)'
* with the 'Import File' as archive member named 'shr.imp',
which
- refers to 'libNAME.so.V(shr.o)' as the "SONAME", to
be recorded in the 'Loader Section' of subsequent
binaries
- indicates whether 'libNAME.so.V(shr.o)' is 32 or 64
bit
- lists all the public symbols exported by
'lib.so.V(shr.o)', eventually decorated with the
''weak' Keyword'
- is necessary for shared linking against
'lib.so.V(shr.o)'
A symbolic link using the 'libNAME.so' filename scheme is
created:
* pointing to the 'libNAME.so.V' 'Shared Archive Library'
file
* to permit the 'ld Command' to find 'lib.so.V(shr.imp)'
via the '-lNAME' argument (requires 'Runtime Linking' to
be enabled)
* to permit dynamic loading of 'lib.so.V(shr.o)' without
the need to specify the version number via
'dlopen("libNAME.so(shr.o)", RTLD_MEMBER)'
As long as static library creation is enabled, upon:
'--with-aix-soname=svr4'
A 'Static Archive Library' is created:
* using the 'libNAME.a' filename scheme
* with all the 'Static Object' files as archive members,
which
- are used for static linking
While the aix-soname='svr4' option does not create 'Shared Object'
files as members of unversioned 'Archive Library' files any more,
package managers still are responsible to transfer 'Shared Object'
files found as member of a previously installed unversioned
'Archive Library' file into the newly installed 'Archive Library'
file with the same filename.
_WARNING:_ Creating 'Shared Object' files with 'Runtime Linking'
enabled may bloat the TOC, eventually leading to 'TOC overflow'
errors, requiring the use of either the '-Wl,-bbigtoc' linker flag
(seen to break with the 'GDB' debugger) or some of the TOC-related
compiler flags, *Note RS/6000 and PowerPC Options: (gcc)RS/6000 and
PowerPC Options.
'--with-aix-soname' is currently supported by 'libgcc_s' only, so
this option is still experimental and not for normal use yet.
Default is the traditional behavior '--with-aix-soname='aix''.
'--enable-languages=LANG1,LANG2,...'
Specify that only a particular subset of compilers and their
runtime libraries should be built. For a list of valid values for
LANGN you can issue the following command in the 'gcc' directory of
your GCC source tree:
grep ^language= */config-lang.in
Currently, you can use any of the following: 'all', 'default',
'ada', 'c', 'c++', 'fortran', 'go', 'jit', 'lto', 'objc',
'obj-c++'. Building the Ada compiler has special requirements, see
below. If you do not pass this flag, or specify the option
'default', then the default languages available in the 'gcc'
sub-tree will be configured. Ada, Go, Jit, and Objective-C++ are
not default languages. LTO is not a default language, but is built
by default because '--enable-lto' is enabled by default. The other
languages are default languages. If 'all' is specified, then all
available languages are built. An exception is 'jit' language,
which requires '--enable-host-shared' to be included with 'all'.
'--enable-stage1-languages=LANG1,LANG2,...'
Specify that a particular subset of compilers and their runtime
libraries should be built with the system C compiler during stage 1
of the bootstrap process, rather than only in later stages with the
bootstrapped C compiler. The list of valid values is the same as
for '--enable-languages', and the option 'all' will select all of
the languages enabled by '--enable-languages'. This option is
primarily useful for GCC development; for instance, when a
development version of the compiler cannot bootstrap due to
compiler bugs, or when one is debugging front ends other than the C
front end. When this option is used, one can then build the target
libraries for the specified languages with the stage-1 compiler by
using 'make stage1-bubble all-target', or run the testsuite on the
stage-1 compiler for the specified languages using 'make
stage1-start check-gcc'.
'--disable-libada'
Specify that the run-time libraries and tools used by GNAT should
not be built. This can be useful for debugging, or for
compatibility with previous Ada build procedures, when it was
required to explicitly do a 'make -C gcc gnatlib_and_tools'.
'--disable-libsanitizer'
Specify that the run-time libraries for the various sanitizers
should not be built.
'--disable-libssp'
Specify that the run-time libraries for stack smashing protection
should not be built or linked against. On many targets library
support is provided by the C library instead.
'--disable-libquadmath'
Specify that the GCC quad-precision math library should not be
built. On some systems, the library is required to be linkable
when building the Fortran front end, unless
'--disable-libquadmath-support' is used.
'--disable-libquadmath-support'
Specify that the Fortran front end and 'libgfortran' do not add
support for 'libquadmath' on systems supporting it.
'--disable-libgomp'
Specify that the GNU Offloading and Multi Processing Runtime
Library should not be built.
'--disable-libvtv'
Specify that the run-time libraries used by vtable verification
should not be built.
'--with-dwarf2'
Specify that the compiler should use DWARF 2 debugging information
as the default.
'--with-advance-toolchain=AT'
On 64-bit PowerPC Linux systems, configure the compiler to use the
header files, library files, and the dynamic linker from the
Advance Toolchain release AT instead of the default versions that
are provided by the Linux distribution. In general, this option is
intended for the developers of GCC, and it is not intended for
general use.
'--enable-targets=all'
'--enable-targets=TARGET_LIST'
Some GCC targets, e.g. powerpc64-linux, build bi-arch compilers.
These are compilers that are able to generate either 64-bit or
32-bit code. Typically, the corresponding 32-bit target, e.g.
powerpc-linux for powerpc64-linux, only generates 32-bit code.
This option enables the 32-bit target to be a bi-arch compiler,
which is useful when you want a bi-arch compiler that defaults to
32-bit, and you are building a bi-arch or multi-arch binutils in a
combined tree. On mips-linux, this will build a tri-arch compiler
(ABI o32/n32/64), defaulted to o32. Currently, this option only
affects sparc-linux, powerpc-linux, x86-linux, mips-linux and
s390-linux.
'--enable-default-pie'
Turn on '-fPIE' and '-pie' by default.
'--enable-secureplt'
This option enables '-msecure-plt' by default for powerpc-linux.
*Note RS/6000 and PowerPC Options: (gcc)RS/6000 and PowerPC
Options,
'--enable-default-ssp'
Turn on '-fstack-protector-strong' by default.
'--enable-cld'
This option enables '-mcld' by default for 32-bit x86 targets.
*Note i386 and x86-64 Options: (gcc)i386 and x86-64 Options,
'--enable-win32-registry'
'--enable-win32-registry=KEY'
'--disable-win32-registry'
The '--enable-win32-registry' option enables Microsoft
Windows-hosted GCC to look up installations paths in the registry
using the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Free Software Foundation\KEY
KEY defaults to GCC version number, and can be overridden by the
'--enable-win32-registry=KEY' option. Vendors and distributors who
use custom installers are encouraged to provide a different key,
perhaps one comprised of vendor name and GCC version number, to
avoid conflict with existing installations. This feature is
enabled by default, and can be disabled by
'--disable-win32-registry' option. This option has no effect on
the other hosts.
'--nfp'
Specify that the machine does not have a floating point unit. This
option only applies to 'm68k-sun-sunosN'. On any other system,
'--nfp' has no effect.
'--enable-werror'
'--disable-werror'
'--enable-werror=yes'
'--enable-werror=no'
When you specify this option, it controls whether certain files in
the compiler are built with '-Werror' in bootstrap stage2 and
later. If you don't specify it, '-Werror' is turned on for the
main development trunk. However it defaults to off for release
branches and final releases. The specific files which get
'-Werror' are controlled by the Makefiles.
'--enable-checking'
'--disable-checking'
'--enable-checking=LIST'
This option controls performing internal consistency checks in the
compiler. It does not change the generated code, but adds error
checking of the requested complexity. This slows down the compiler
and may only work properly if you are building the compiler with
GCC.
When the option is not specified, the active set of checks depends
on context. Namely, bootstrap stage 1 defaults to
'--enable-checking=yes', builds from release branches or release
archives default to '--enable-checking=release', and otherwise
'--enable-checking=yes,extra' is used. When the option is
specified without a LIST, the result is the same as
'--enable-checking=yes'. Likewise, '--disable-checking' is
equivalent to '--enable-checking=no'.
The categories of checks available in LIST are 'yes' (most common
checks 'assert,misc,gc,gimple,rtlflag,runtime,tree,types'), 'no'
(no checks at all), 'all' (all but 'valgrind'), 'release' (cheapest
checks 'assert,runtime') or 'none' (same as 'no'). 'release'
checks are always on and to disable them '--disable-checking' or
'--enable-checking=no[,<other checks>]' must be explicitly
requested. Disabling assertions makes the compiler and runtime
slightly faster but increases the risk of undetected internal
errors causing wrong code to be generated.
Individual checks can be enabled with these flags: 'assert', 'df',
'extra', 'fold', 'gc', 'gcac', 'gimple', 'misc', 'rtl', 'rtlflag',
'runtime', 'tree', 'types' and 'valgrind'. 'extra' extends 'misc'
checking with extra checks that might affect code generation and
should therefore not differ between stage1 and later stages in
bootstrap.
The 'valgrind' check requires the external 'valgrind' simulator,
available from <http://valgrind.org/>;. The 'rtl' checks are
expensive and the 'df', 'gcac' and 'valgrind' checks are very
expensive.
'--disable-stage1-checking'
'--enable-stage1-checking'
'--enable-stage1-checking=LIST'
This option affects only bootstrap build. If no
'--enable-checking' option is specified the stage1 compiler is
built with 'yes' checking enabled, otherwise the stage1 checking
flags are the same as specified by '--enable-checking'. To build
the stage1 compiler with different checking options use
'--enable-stage1-checking'. The list of checking options is the
same as for '--enable-checking'. If your system is too slow or too
small to bootstrap a released compiler with checking for stage1
enabled, you can use '--disable-stage1-checking' to disable
checking for the stage1 compiler.
'--enable-coverage'
'--enable-coverage=LEVEL'
With this option, the compiler is built to collect self coverage
information, every time it is run. This is for internal
development purposes, and only works when the compiler is being
built with gcc. The LEVEL argument controls whether the compiler
is built optimized or not, values are 'opt' and 'noopt'. For
coverage analysis you want to disable optimization, for performance
analysis you want to enable optimization. When coverage is
enabled, the default level is without optimization.
'--enable-gather-detailed-mem-stats'
When this option is specified more detailed information on memory
allocation is gathered. This information is printed when using
'-fmem-report'.
'--enable-valgrind-annotations'
Mark selected memory related operations in the compiler when run
under valgrind to suppress false positives.
'--enable-nls'
'--disable-nls'
The '--enable-nls' option enables Native Language Support (NLS),
which lets GCC output diagnostics in languages other than American
English. Native Language Support is enabled by default if not
doing a canadian cross build. The '--disable-nls' option disables
NLS.
'--with-included-gettext'
If NLS is enabled, the '--with-included-gettext' option causes the
build procedure to prefer its copy of GNU 'gettext'.
'--with-catgets'
If NLS is enabled, and if the host lacks 'gettext' but has the
inferior 'catgets' interface, the GCC build procedure normally
ignores 'catgets' and instead uses GCC's copy of the GNU 'gettext'
library. The '--with-catgets' option causes the build procedure to
use the host's 'catgets' in this situation.
'--with-libiconv-prefix=DIR'
Search for libiconv header files in 'DIR/include' and libiconv
library files in 'DIR/lib'.
'--enable-obsolete'
Enable configuration for an obsoleted system. If you attempt to
configure GCC for a system (build, host, or target) which has been
obsoleted, and you do not specify this flag, configure will halt
with an error message.
All support for systems which have been obsoleted in one release of
GCC is removed entirely in the next major release, unless someone
steps forward to maintain the port.
'--enable-decimal-float'
'--enable-decimal-float=yes'
'--enable-decimal-float=no'
'--enable-decimal-float=bid'
'--enable-decimal-float=dpd'
'--disable-decimal-float'
Enable (or disable) support for the C decimal floating point
extension that is in the IEEE 754-2008 standard. This is enabled
by default only on PowerPC, i386, and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems.
Other systems may also support it, but require the user to
specifically enable it. You can optionally control which decimal
floating point format is used (either 'bid' or 'dpd'). The 'bid'
(binary integer decimal) format is default on i386 and x86_64
systems, and the 'dpd' (densely packed decimal) format is default
on PowerPC systems.
'--enable-fixed-point'
'--disable-fixed-point'
Enable (or disable) support for C fixed-point arithmetic. This
option is enabled by default for some targets (such as MIPS) which
have hardware-support for fixed-point operations. On other
targets, you may enable this option manually.
'--with-long-double-128'
Specify if 'long double' type should be 128-bit by default on
selected GNU/Linux architectures. If using
'--without-long-double-128', 'long double' will be by default
64-bit, the same as 'double' type. When neither of these configure
options are used, the default will be 128-bit 'long double' when
built against GNU C Library 2.4 and later, 64-bit 'long double'
otherwise.
'--with-long-double-format=ibm'
'--with-long-double-format=ieee'
Specify whether 'long double' uses the IBM extended double format
or the IEEE 128-bit floating point format on PowerPC Linux systems.
This configuration switch will only work on little endian PowerPC
Linux systems and on big endian 64-bit systems where the default
cpu is at least power7 (i.e. '--with-cpu=power7',
'--with-cpu=power8', or '--with-cpu=power9' is used).
If you use the '--with-long-double-64' configuration option, the
'--with-long-double-format=ibm' and
'--with-long-double-format=ieee' options are ignored.
The default 'long double' format is to use IBM extended double.
Until all of the libraries are converted to use IEEE 128-bit
floating point, it is not recommended to use
'--with-long-double-format=ieee'.
On little endian PowerPC Linux systems, if you explicitly set the
'long double' type, it will build multilibs to allow you to select
either 'long double' format, unless you disable multilibs with the
'--disable-multilib' option. At present, 'long double' multilibs
are not built on big endian PowerPC Linux systems. If you are
building multilibs, you will need to configure the compiler using
the '--with-system-zlib' option.
If you do not set the 'long double' type explicitly, no multilibs
will be generated.
'--enable-fdpic'
On SH Linux systems, generate ELF FDPIC code.
'--with-gmp=PATHNAME'
'--with-gmp-include=PATHNAME'
'--with-gmp-lib=PATHNAME'
'--with-mpfr=PATHNAME'
'--with-mpfr-include=PATHNAME'
'--with-mpfr-lib=PATHNAME'
'--with-mpc=PATHNAME'
'--with-mpc-include=PATHNAME'
'--with-mpc-lib=PATHNAME'
If you want to build GCC but do not have the GMP library, the MPFR
library and/or the MPC library installed in a standard location and
do not have their sources present in the GCC source tree then you
can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
('--with-gmp=GMPINSTALLDIR', '--with-mpfr=MPFRINSTALLDIR',
'--with-mpc=MPCINSTALLDIR'). The '--with-gmp=GMPINSTALLDIR' option
is shorthand for '--with-gmp-lib=GMPINSTALLDIR/lib' and
'--with-gmp-include=GMPINSTALLDIR/include'. Likewise the
'--with-mpfr=MPFRINSTALLDIR' option is shorthand for
'--with-mpfr-lib=MPFRINSTALLDIR/lib' and
'--with-mpfr-include=MPFRINSTALLDIR/include', also the
'--with-mpc=MPCINSTALLDIR' option is shorthand for
'--with-mpc-lib=MPCINSTALLDIR/lib' and
'--with-mpc-include=MPCINSTALLDIR/include'. If these shorthand
assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit include and
lib options directly. You might also need to ensure the shared
libraries can be found by the dynamic linker when building and
using GCC, for example by setting the runtime shared library path
variable ('LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on GNU/Linux and Solaris systems).
These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When
building a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure
target libraries.
'--with-isl=PATHNAME'
'--with-isl-include=PATHNAME'
'--with-isl-lib=PATHNAME'
If you do not have the isl library installed in a standard location
and you want to build GCC, you can explicitly specify the directory
where it is installed ('--with-isl=ISLINSTALLDIR'). The
'--with-isl=ISLINSTALLDIR' option is shorthand for
'--with-isl-lib=ISLINSTALLDIR/lib' and
'--with-isl-include=ISLINSTALLDIR/include'. If this shorthand
assumption is not correct, you can use the explicit include and lib
options directly.
These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When
building a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure
target libraries.
'--with-stage1-ldflags=FLAGS'
This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
stage 1 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured
with '--disable-bootstrap'. If '--with-stage1-libs' is not set to
a value, then the default is '-static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc', if
supported.
'--with-stage1-libs=LIBS'
This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking
stage 1 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured
with '--disable-bootstrap'.
'--with-boot-ldflags=FLAGS'
This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
stage 2 and later when bootstrapping GCC. If -with-boot-libs is not
is set to a value, then the default is '-static-libstdc++
-static-libgcc'.
'--with-boot-libs=LIBS'
This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking
stage 2 and later when bootstrapping GCC.
'--with-debug-prefix-map=MAP'
Convert source directory names using '-fdebug-prefix-map' when
building runtime libraries. 'MAP' is a space-separated list of
maps of the form 'OLD=NEW'.
'--enable-linker-build-id'
Tells GCC to pass '--build-id' option to the linker for all final
links (links performed without the '-r' or '--relocatable' option),
if the linker supports it. If you specify
'--enable-linker-build-id', but your linker does not support
'--build-id' option, a warning is issued and the
'--enable-linker-build-id' option is ignored. The default is off.
'--with-linker-hash-style=CHOICE'
Tells GCC to pass '--hash-style=CHOICE' option to the linker for
all final links. CHOICE can be one of 'sysv', 'gnu', and 'both'
where 'sysv' is the default.
'--enable-gnu-unique-object'
'--disable-gnu-unique-object'
Tells GCC to use the gnu_unique_object relocation for C++ template
static data members and inline function local statics. Enabled by
default for a toolchain with an assembler that accepts it and GLIBC
2.11 or above, otherwise disabled.
'--with-diagnostics-color=CHOICE'
Tells GCC to use CHOICE as the default for '-fdiagnostics-color='
option (if not used explicitly on the command line). CHOICE can be
one of 'never', 'auto', 'always', and 'auto-if-env' where 'auto' is
the default. 'auto-if-env' means that '-fdiagnostics-color=auto'
will be the default if 'GCC_COLORS' is present and non-empty in the
environment, and '-fdiagnostics-color=never' otherwise.
'--enable-lto'
'--disable-lto'
Enable support for link-time optimization (LTO). This is enabled by
default, and may be disabled using '--disable-lto'.
'--enable-linker-plugin-configure-flags=FLAGS'
'--enable-linker-plugin-flags=FLAGS'
By default, linker plugins (such as the LTO plugin) are built for
the host system architecture. For the case that the linker has a
different (but run-time compatible) architecture, these flags can
be specified to build plugins that are compatible to the linker.
For example, if you are building GCC for a 64-bit x86_64
('x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu') host system, but have a 32-bit x86
GNU/Linux ('i686-pc-linux-gnu') linker executable (which is
executable on the former system), you can configure GCC as follows
for getting compatible linker plugins:
% SRCDIR/configure \
--host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu \
--enable-linker-plugin-configure-flags=--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
--enable-linker-plugin-flags='CC=gcc\ -m32\ -Wl,-rpath,[...]/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib'
'--with-plugin-ld=PATHNAME'
Enable an alternate linker to be used at link-time optimization
(LTO) link time when '-fuse-linker-plugin' is enabled. This linker
should have plugin support such as gold starting with version 2.20
or GNU ld starting with version 2.21. See '-fuse-linker-plugin'
for details.
'--enable-canonical-system-headers'
'--disable-canonical-system-headers'
Enable system header path canonicalization for 'libcpp'. This can
produce shorter header file paths in diagnostics and dependency
output files, but these changed header paths may conflict with some
compilation environments. Enabled by default, and may be disabled
using '--disable-canonical-system-headers'.
'--with-glibc-version=MAJOR.MINOR'
Tell GCC that when the GNU C Library (glibc) is used on the target
it will be version MAJOR.MINOR or later. Normally this can be
detected from the C library's header files, but this option may be
needed when bootstrapping a cross toolchain without the header
files available for building the initial bootstrap compiler.
If GCC is configured with some multilibs that use glibc and some
that do not, this option applies only to the multilibs that use
glibc. However, such configurations may not work well as not all
the relevant configuration in GCC is on a per-multilib basis.
'--enable-as-accelerator-for=TARGET'
Build as offload target compiler. Specify offload host triple by
TARGET.
'--enable-offload-targets=TARGET1[=PATH1],...,TARGETN[=PATHN]'
Enable offloading to targets TARGET1, ..., TARGETN. Offload
compilers are expected to be already installed. Default search
path for them is 'EXEC-PREFIX', but it can be changed by specifying
paths PATH1, ..., PATHN.
% SRCDIR/configure \
--enable-offload-target=i686-unknown-linux-gnu=/path/to/i686/compiler,x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
If 'hsa' is specified as one of the targets, the compiler will be
built with support for HSA GPU accelerators. Because the same
compiler will emit the accelerator code, no path should be
specified.
'--with-hsa-runtime=PATHNAME'
'--with-hsa-runtime-include=PATHNAME'
'--with-hsa-runtime-lib=PATHNAME'
If you configure GCC with HSA offloading but do not have the HSA
run-time library installed in a standard location then you can
explicitly specify the directory where they are installed. The
'--with-hsa-runtime=HSAINSTALLDIR' option is a shorthand for
'--with-hsa-runtime-lib=HSAINSTALLDIR/lib' and
'--with-hsa-runtime-include=HSAINSTALLDIR/include'.
'--enable-cet'
'--disable-cet'
Enable building target run-time libraries with control-flow
instrumentation, see '-fcf-protection' option. When '--enable-cet'
is specified target libraries are configured to add
'-fcf-protection' and, if needed, other target specific options to
a set of building options.
The option is disabled by default. When '--enable-cet=auto' is
used, it is enabled on Linux/x86 if target binutils supports 'Intel
CET' instructions and disabled otherwise. In this case the target
libraries are configured to get additional '-fcf-protection'
option.
Cross-Compiler-Specific Options
-------------------------------
The following options only apply to building cross compilers.
'--with-sysroot'
'--with-sysroot=DIR'
Tells GCC to consider DIR as the root of a tree that contains (a
subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
Target system headers, libraries and run-time object files will be
searched for in there. More specifically, this acts as if
'--sysroot=DIR' was added to the default options of the built
compiler. The specified directory is not copied into the install
tree, unlike the options '--with-headers' and '--with-libs' that
this option obsoletes. The default value, in case '--with-sysroot'
is not given an argument, is '${gcc_tooldir}/sys-root'. If the
specified directory is a subdirectory of '${exec_prefix}', then it
will be found relative to the GCC binaries if the installation tree
is moved.
This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
target libraries (which runs on the build system) and the compiler
newly installed with 'make install'; it does not affect the
compiler which is used to build GCC itself.
If you specify the '--with-native-system-header-dir=DIRNAME' option
then the compiler will search that directory within DIRNAME for
native system headers rather than the default '/usr/include'.
'--with-build-sysroot'
'--with-build-sysroot=DIR'
Tells GCC to consider DIR as the system root (see '--with-sysroot')
while building target libraries, instead of the directory specified
with '--with-sysroot'. This option is only useful when you are
already using '--with-sysroot'. You can use '--with-build-sysroot'
when you are configuring with '--prefix' set to a directory that is
different from the one in which you are installing GCC and your
target libraries.
This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
target libraries (which runs on the build system); it does not
affect the compiler which is used to build GCC itself.
If you specify the '--with-native-system-header-dir=DIRNAME' option
then the compiler will search that directory within DIRNAME for
native system headers rather than the default '/usr/include'.
'--with-headers'
'--with-headers=DIR'
Deprecated in favor of '--with-sysroot'. Specifies that target
headers are available when building a cross compiler. The DIR
argument specifies a directory which has the target include files.
These include files will be copied into the 'gcc' install
directory. _This option with the DIR argument is required_ when
building a cross compiler, if 'PREFIX/TARGET/sys-include' doesn't
pre-exist. If 'PREFIX/TARGET/sys-include' does pre-exist, the DIR
argument may be omitted. 'fixincludes' will be run on these files
to make them compatible with GCC.
'--without-headers'
Tells GCC not use any target headers from a libc when building a
cross compiler. When crossing to GNU/Linux, you need the headers
so GCC can build the exception handling for libgcc.
'--with-libs'
'--with-libs="DIR1 DIR2 ... DIRN"'
Deprecated in favor of '--with-sysroot'. Specifies a list of
directories which contain the target runtime libraries. These
libraries will be copied into the 'gcc' install directory. If the
directory list is omitted, this option has no effect.
'--with-newlib'
Specifies that 'newlib' is being used as the target C library.
This causes '__eprintf' to be omitted from 'libgcc.a' on the
assumption that it will be provided by 'newlib'.
'--with-avrlibc'
Specifies that 'AVR-Libc' is being used as the target C library.
This causes float support functions like '__addsf3' to be omitted
from 'libgcc.a' on the assumption that it will be provided by
'libm.a'. For more technical details, cf. PR54461. This option
is only supported for the AVR target. It is not supported for
RTEMS configurations, which currently use newlib. The option is
supported since version 4.7.2 and is the default in 4.8.0 and
newer.
'--with-nds32-lib=LIBRARY'
Specifies that LIBRARY setting is used for building 'libgcc.a'.
Currently, the valid LIBRARY is 'newlib' or 'mculib'. This option
is only supported for the NDS32 target.
'--with-build-time-tools=DIR'
Specifies where to find the set of target tools (assembler, linker,
etc.) that will be used while building GCC itself. This option
can be useful if the directory layouts are different between the
system you are building GCC on, and the system where you will
deploy it.
For example, on an 'ia64-hp-hpux' system, you may have the GNU
assembler and linker in '/usr/bin', and the native tools in a
different path, and build a toolchain that expects to find the
native tools in '/usr/bin'.
When you use this option, you should ensure that DIR includes 'ar',
'as', 'ld', 'nm', 'ranlib' and 'strip' if necessary, and possibly
'objdump'. Otherwise, GCC may use an inconsistent set of tools.
Overriding 'configure' test results
...................................
Sometimes, it might be necessary to override the result of some
'configure' test, for example in order to ease porting to a new system
or work around a bug in a test. The toplevel 'configure' script
provides three variables for this:
'build_configargs'
The contents of this variable is passed to all build 'configure'
scripts.
'host_configargs'
The contents of this variable is passed to all host 'configure'
scripts.
'target_configargs'
The contents of this variable is passed to all target 'configure'
scripts.
In order to avoid shell and 'make' quoting issues for complex
overrides, you can pass a setting for 'CONFIG_SITE' and set variables in
the site file.
Objective-C-Specific Options
----------------------------
The following options apply to the build of the Objective-C runtime
library.
'--enable-objc-gc'
Specify that an additional variant of the GNU Objective-C runtime
library is built, using an external build of the
Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector
(<http://www.hboehm.info/gc/>;). This library needs to be available
for each multilib variant, unless configured with
'--enable-objc-gc='auto'' in which case the build of the additional
runtime library is skipped when not available and the build
continues.
'--with-target-bdw-gc=LIST'
'--with-target-bdw-gc-include=LIST'
'--with-target-bdw-gc-lib=LIST'
Specify search directories for the garbage collector header files
and libraries. LIST is a comma separated list of key value pairs
of the form 'MULTILIBDIR=PATH', where the default multilib key is
named as '.' (dot), or is omitted (e.g.
'--with-target-bdw-gc=/opt/bdw-gc,32=/opt-bdw-gc32').
The options '--with-target-bdw-gc-include' and
'--with-target-bdw-gc-lib' must always be specified together for
each multilib variant and they take precedence over
'--with-target-bdw-gc'. If '--with-target-bdw-gc-include' is
missing values for a multilib, then the value for the default
multilib is used (e.g.
'--with-target-bdw-gc-include=/opt/bdw-gc/include'
'--with-target-bdw-gc-lib=/opt/bdw-gc/lib64,32=/opt-bdw-gc/lib32').
If none of these options are specified, the library is assumed in
default locations.
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5 Building
**********
Now that GCC is configured, you are ready to build the compiler and
runtime libraries.
Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a
nonzero status) and be ignored by 'make'. These failures, which are
often due to files that were not found, are expected, and can safely be
ignored.
It is normal to have compiler warnings when compiling certain files.
Unless you are a GCC developer, you can generally ignore these warnings
unless they cause compilation to fail. Developers should attempt to fix
any warnings encountered, however they can temporarily continue past
warnings-as-errors by specifying the configure flag '--disable-werror'.
On certain old systems, defining certain environment variables such
as 'CC' can interfere with the functioning of 'make'.
If you encounter seemingly strange errors when trying to build the
compiler in a directory other than the source directory, it could be
because you have previously configured the compiler in the source
directory. Make sure you have done all the necessary preparations.
If you build GCC on a BSD system using a directory stored in an old
System V file system, problems may occur in running 'fixincludes' if the
System V file system doesn't support symbolic links. These problems
result in a failure to fix the declaration of 'size_t' in 'sys/types.h'.
If you find that 'size_t' is a signed type and that type mismatches
occur, this could be the cause.
The solution is not to use such a directory for building GCC.
Similarly, when building from the source repository or snapshots, or
if you modify '*.l' files, you need the Flex lexical analyzer generator
installed. If you do not modify '*.l' files, releases contain the
Flex-generated files and you do not need Flex installed to build them.
There is still one Flex-based lexical analyzer (part of the build
machinery, not of GCC itself) that is used even if you only build the C
front end.
When building from the source repository or snapshots, or if you
modify Texinfo documentation, you need version 4.7 or later of Texinfo
installed if you want Info documentation to be regenerated. Releases
contain Info documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in
the release.
5.1 Building a native compiler
==============================
For a native build, the default configuration is to perform a 3-stage
bootstrap of the compiler when 'make' is invoked. This will build the
entire GCC system and ensure that it compiles itself correctly. It can
be disabled with the '--disable-bootstrap' parameter to 'configure', but
bootstrapping is suggested because the compiler will be tested more
completely and could also have better performance.
The bootstrapping process will complete the following steps:
* Build tools necessary to build the compiler.
* Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This includes
building three times the target tools for use by the compiler such
as binutils (bfd, binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes) if they
have been individually linked or moved into the top level GCC
source tree before configuring.
* Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.
* Build runtime libraries using the stage3 compiler from the previous
step.
If you are short on disk space you might consider 'make
bootstrap-lean' instead. The sequence of compilation is the same
described above, but object files from the stage1 and stage2 of the
3-stage bootstrap of the compiler are deleted as soon as they are no
longer needed.
If you wish to use non-default GCC flags when compiling the stage2
and stage3 compilers, set 'BOOT_CFLAGS' on the command line when doing
'make'. For example, if you want to save additional space during the
bootstrap and in the final installation as well, you can build the
compiler binaries without debugging information as in the following
example. This will save roughly 40% of disk space both for the
bootstrap and the final installation. (Libraries will still contain
debugging information.)
make BOOT_CFLAGS='-O' bootstrap
You can place non-default optimization flags into 'BOOT_CFLAGS'; they
are less well tested here than the default of '-g -O2', but should still
work. In a few cases, you may find that you need to specify special
flags such as '-msoft-float' here to complete the bootstrap; or, if the
native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may need to work
around this, by choosing 'BOOT_CFLAGS' to avoid the parts of the stage1
compiler that were miscompiled, or by using 'make bootstrap4' to
increase the number of stages of bootstrap.
'BOOT_CFLAGS' does not apply to bootstrapped target libraries. Since
these are always compiled with the compiler currently being
bootstrapped, you can use 'CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET' to modify their
compilation flags, as for non-bootstrapped target libraries. Again, if
the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may need to
work around this by avoiding non-working parts of the stage1 compiler.
Use 'STAGE1_TFLAGS' to this end.
If you used the flag '--enable-languages=...' to restrict the
compilers to be built, only those you've actually enabled will be built.
This will of course only build those runtime libraries, for which the
particular compiler has been built. Please note, that re-defining
'LANGUAGES' when calling 'make' *does not* work anymore!
If the comparison of stage2 and stage3 fails, this normally indicates
that the stage2 compiler has compiled GCC incorrectly, and is therefore
a potentially serious bug which you should investigate and report. (On
a few systems, meaningful comparison of object files is impossible; they
always appear "different". If you encounter this problem, you will need
to disable comparison in the 'Makefile'.)
If you do not want to bootstrap your compiler, you can configure with
'--disable-bootstrap'. In particular cases, you may want to bootstrap
your compiler even if the target system is not the same as the one you
are building on: for example, you could build a
'powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu' toolchain on a 'powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu'
host. In this case, pass '--enable-bootstrap' to the configure script.
'BUILD_CONFIG' can be used to bring in additional customization to
the build. It can be set to a whitespace-separated list of names. For
each such 'NAME', top-level 'config/NAME.mk' will be included by the
top-level 'Makefile', bringing in any settings it contains. The default
'BUILD_CONFIG' can be set using the configure option
'--with-build-config=NAME...'. Some examples of supported build
configurations are:
'bootstrap-O1'
Removes any '-O'-started option from 'BOOT_CFLAGS', and adds '-O1'
to it. 'BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-O1' is equivalent to
'BOOT_CFLAGS='-g -O1''.
'bootstrap-O3'
Analogous to 'bootstrap-O1'.
'bootstrap-lto'
Enables Link-Time Optimization for host tools during bootstrapping.
'BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-lto' is equivalent to adding '-flto' to
'BOOT_CFLAGS'. This option assumes that the host supports the
linker plugin (e.g. GNU ld version 2.21 or later or GNU gold
version 2.21 or later).
'bootstrap-lto-noplugin'
This option is similar to 'bootstrap-lto', but is intended for
hosts that do not support the linker plugin. Without the linker
plugin static libraries are not compiled with link-time
optimizations. Since the GCC middle end and back end are in
'libbackend.a' this means that only the front end is actually LTO
optimized.
'bootstrap-debug'
Verifies that the compiler generates the same executable code,
whether or not it is asked to emit debug information. To this end,
this option builds stage2 host programs without debug information,
and uses 'contrib/compare-debug' to compare them with the stripped
stage3 object files. If 'BOOT_CFLAGS' is overridden so as to not
enable debug information, stage2 will have it, and stage3 won't.
This option is enabled by default when GCC bootstrapping is
enabled, if 'strip' can turn object files compiled with and without
debug info into identical object files. In addition to better test
coverage, this option makes default bootstraps faster and leaner.
'bootstrap-debug-big'
Rather than comparing stripped object files, as in
'bootstrap-debug', this option saves internal compiler dumps during
stage2 and stage3 and compares them as well, which helps catch
additional potential problems, but at a great cost in terms of disk
space. It can be specified in addition to 'bootstrap-debug'.
'bootstrap-debug-lean'
This option saves disk space compared with 'bootstrap-debug-big',
but at the expense of some recompilation. Instead of saving the
dumps of stage2 and stage3 until the final compare, it uses
'-fcompare-debug' to generate, compare and remove the dumps during
stage3, repeating the compilation that already took place in
stage2, whose dumps were not saved.
'bootstrap-debug-lib'
This option tests executable code invariance over debug information
generation on target libraries, just like 'bootstrap-debug-lean'
tests it on host programs. It builds stage3 libraries with
'-fcompare-debug', and it can be used along with any of the
'bootstrap-debug' options above.
There aren't '-lean' or '-big' counterparts to this option because
most libraries are only build in stage3, so bootstrap compares
would not get significant coverage. Moreover, the few libraries
built in stage2 are used in stage3 host programs, so we wouldn't
want to compile stage2 libraries with different options for
comparison purposes.
'bootstrap-debug-ckovw'
Arranges for error messages to be issued if the compiler built on
any stage is run without the option '-fcompare-debug'. This is
useful to verify the full '-fcompare-debug' testing coverage. It
must be used along with 'bootstrap-debug-lean' and
'bootstrap-debug-lib'.
'bootstrap-cet'
This option enables Intel CET for host tools during bootstrapping.
'BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-cet' is equivalent to adding
'-fcf-protection' to 'BOOT_CFLAGS'. This option assumes that the
host supports Intel CET (e.g. GNU assembler version 2.30 or
later).
'bootstrap-time'
Arranges for the run time of each program started by the GCC
driver, built in any stage, to be logged to 'time.log', in the top
level of the build tree.
5.2 Building a cross compiler
=============================
When building a cross compiler, it is not generally possible to do a
3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This makes for an interesting
problem as parts of GCC can only be built with GCC.
To build a cross compiler, we recommend first building and installing
a native compiler. You can then use the native GCC compiler to build
the cross compiler. The installed native compiler needs to be GCC
version 2.95 or later.
Assuming you have already installed a native copy of GCC and
configured your cross compiler, issue the command 'make', which performs
the following steps:
* Build host tools necessary to build the compiler.
* Build target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils (bfd,
binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes) if they have been
individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source tree
before configuring.
* Build the compiler (single stage only).
* Build runtime libraries using the compiler from the previous step.
Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit.
If you are not building GNU binutils in the same source tree as GCC,
you will need a cross-assembler and cross-linker installed before
configuring GCC. Put them in the directory 'PREFIX/TARGET/bin'. Here
is a table of the tools you should put in this directory:
'as'
This should be the cross-assembler.
'ld'
This should be the cross-linker.
'ar'
This should be the cross-archiver: a program which can manipulate
archive files (linker libraries) in the target machine's format.
'ranlib'
This should be a program to construct a symbol table in an archive
file.
The installation of GCC will find these programs in that directory,
and copy or link them to the proper place to for the cross-compiler to
find them when run later.
The easiest way to provide these files is to build the Binutils
package. Configure it with the same '--host' and '--target' options
that you use for configuring GCC, then build and install them. They
install their executables automatically into the proper directory.
Alas, they do not support all the targets that GCC supports.
If you are not building a C library in the same source tree as GCC,
you should also provide the target libraries and headers before
configuring GCC, specifying the directories with '--with-sysroot' or
'--with-headers' and '--with-libs'. Many targets also require "start
files" such as 'crt0.o' and 'crtn.o' which are linked into each
executable. There may be several alternatives for 'crt0.o', for use
with profiling or other compilation options. Check your target's
definition of 'STARTFILE_SPEC' to find out what start files it uses.
5.3 Building in parallel
========================
GNU Make 3.80 and above, which is necessary to build GCC, support
building in parallel. To activate this, you can use 'make -j 2' instead
of 'make'. You can also specify a bigger number, and in most cases
using a value greater than the number of processors in your machine will
result in fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus improving overall
throughput; this is especially true for slow drives and network
filesystems.
5.4 Building the Ada compiler
=============================
In order to build GNAT, the Ada compiler, you need a working GNAT
compiler (GCC version 4.0 or later). This includes GNAT tools such as
'gnatmake' and 'gnatlink', since the Ada front end is written in Ada and
uses some GNAT-specific extensions.
In order to build a cross compiler, it is suggested to install the
new compiler as native first, and then use it to build the cross
compiler.
'configure' does not test whether the GNAT installation works and has
a sufficiently recent version; if too old a GNAT version is installed,
the build will fail unless '--enable-languages' is used to disable
building the Ada front end.
'ADA_INCLUDE_PATH' and 'ADA_OBJECT_PATH' environment variables must
not be set when building the Ada compiler, the Ada tools, or the Ada
runtime libraries. You can check that your build environment is clean
by verifying that 'gnatls -v' lists only one explicit path in each
section.
5.5 Building with profile feedback
==================================
It is possible to use profile feedback to optimize the compiler itself.
This should result in a faster compiler binary. Experiments done on x86
using gcc 3.3 showed approximately 7 percent speedup on compiling C
programs. To bootstrap the compiler with profile feedback, use 'make
profiledbootstrap'.
When 'make profiledbootstrap' is run, it will first build a 'stage1'
compiler. This compiler is used to build a 'stageprofile' compiler
instrumented to collect execution counts of instruction and branch
probabilities. Training run is done by building 'stagetrain' compiler.
Finally a 'stagefeedback' compiler is built using the information
collected.
Unlike standard bootstrap, several additional restrictions apply.
The compiler used to build 'stage1' needs to support a 64-bit integral
type. It is recommended to only use GCC for this.
On Linux/x86_64 hosts with some restrictions (no virtualization) it
is also possible to do autofdo build with 'make autoprofiledback'. This
uses Linux perf to sample branches in the binary and then rebuild it
with feedback derived from the profile. Linux perf and the 'autofdo'
toolkit needs to be installed for this.
Only the profile from the current build is used, so when an error
occurs it is recommended to clean before restarting. Otherwise the code
quality may be much worse.
File: gccinstall.info, Node: Testing, Next: Final install, Prev: Building, Up: Installing GCC
6 Installing GCC: Testing
*************************
Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
been submitted to the gcc-testresults mailing list. Some of these
archived results are linked from the build status lists at
<http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html>;, although not everyone who reports a
successful build runs the testsuites and submits the results. This step
is optional and may require you to download additional software, but it
can give you confidence in your new GCC installation or point out
problems before you install and start using your new GCC.
First, you must have downloaded the testsuites. These are part of
the full distribution, but if you downloaded the "core" compiler plus
any front ends, you must download the testsuites separately.
Second, you must have the testing tools installed. This includes
DejaGnu, Tcl, and Expect; the DejaGnu site has links to these. For
running the BRIG frontend tests, a tool to assemble the binary BRIGs
from HSAIL text, HSAILasm must be installed.
If the directories where 'runtest' and 'expect' were installed are
not in the 'PATH', you may need to set the following environment
variables appropriately, as in the following example (which assumes that
DejaGnu has been installed under '/usr/local'):
TCL_LIBRARY = /usr/local/share/tcl8.0
DEJAGNULIBS = /usr/local/share/dejagnu
(On systems such as Cygwin, these paths are required to be actual
paths, not mounts or links; presumably this is due to some lack of
portability in the DejaGnu code.)
Finally, you can run the testsuite (which may take a long time):
cd OBJDIR; make -k check
This will test various components of GCC, such as compiler front ends
and runtime libraries. While running the testsuite, DejaGnu might emit
some harmless messages resembling 'WARNING: Couldn't find the global
config file.' or 'WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file' that can be
ignored.
If you are testing a cross-compiler, you may want to run the
testsuite on a simulator as described at
<http://gcc.gnu.org/simtest-howto.html>;.
6.1 How can you run the testsuite on selected tests?
====================================================
In order to run sets of tests selectively, there are targets 'make
check-gcc' and language specific 'make check-c', 'make check-c++', 'make
check-fortran', 'make check-ada', 'make check-objc', 'make
check-obj-c++', 'make check-lto' in the 'gcc' subdirectory of the object
directory. You can also just run 'make check' in a subdirectory of the
object directory.
A more selective way to just run all 'gcc' execute tests in the
testsuite is to use
make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp OTHER-OPTIONS"
Likewise, in order to run only the 'g++' "old-deja" tests in the
testsuite with filenames matching '9805*', you would use
make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805* OTHER-OPTIONS"
The file-matching expression following FILENAME'.exp=' is treated as
a series of whitespace-delimited glob expressions so that multiple
patterns may be passed, although any whitespace must either be escaped
or surrounded by single quotes if multiple expressions are desired. For
example,
make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805*\ virtual2.c OTHER-OPTIONS"
make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="'old-deja.exp=9805* virtual2.c' OTHER-OPTIONS"
The '*.exp' files are located in the testsuite directories of the GCC
source, the most important ones being 'compile.exp', 'execute.exp',
'dg.exp' and 'old-deja.exp'. To get a list of the possible '*.exp'
files, pipe the output of 'make check' into a file and look at the
'Running ... .exp' lines.
6.2 Passing options and running multiple testsuites
===================================================
You can pass multiple options to the testsuite using the
'--target_board' option of DejaGNU, either passed as part of
'RUNTESTFLAGS', or directly to 'runtest' if you prefer to work outside
the makefiles. For example,
make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=unix/-O3/-fmerge-constants"
will run the standard 'g++' testsuites ("unix" is the target name for
a standard native testsuite situation), passing '-O3 -fmerge-constants'
to the compiler on every test, i.e., slashes separate options.
You can run the testsuites multiple times using combinations of
options with a syntax similar to the brace expansion of popular shells:
..."--target_board=arm-sim\{-mhard-float,-msoft-float\}\{-O1,-O2,-O3,\}"
(Note the empty option caused by the trailing comma in the final
group.) The following will run each testsuite eight times using the
'arm-sim' target, as if you had specified all possible combinations
yourself:
--target_board='arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O1 \
arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O2 \
arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O3 \
arm-sim/-mhard-float \
arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O1 \
arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O2 \
arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O3 \
arm-sim/-msoft-float'
They can be combined as many times as you wish, in arbitrary ways.
This list:
..."--target_board=unix/-Wextra\{-O3,-fno-strength\}\{-fomit-frame,\}"
will generate four combinations, all involving '-Wextra'.
The disadvantage to this method is that the testsuites are run in
serial, which is a waste on multiprocessor systems. For users with GNU
Make and a shell which performs brace expansion, you can run the
testsuites in parallel by having the shell perform the combinations and
'make' do the parallel runs. Instead of using '--target_board', use a
special makefile target:
make -jN check-TESTSUITE//TEST-TARGET/OPTION1/OPTION2/...
For example,
make -j3 check-gcc//sh-hms-sim/{-m1,-m2,-m3,-m3e,-m4}/{,-nofpu}
will run three concurrent "make-gcc" testsuites, eventually testing
all ten combinations as described above. Note that this is currently
only supported in the 'gcc' subdirectory. (To see how this works, try
typing 'echo' before the example given here.)
6.3 How to interpret test results
=================================
The result of running the testsuite are various '*.sum' and '*.log'
files in the testsuite subdirectories. The '*.log' files contain a
detailed log of the compiler invocations and the corresponding results,
the '*.sum' files summarize the results. These summaries contain status
codes for all tests:
* PASS: the test passed as expected
* XPASS: the test unexpectedly passed
* FAIL: the test unexpectedly failed
* XFAIL: the test failed as expected
* UNSUPPORTED: the test is not supported on this platform
* ERROR: the testsuite detected an error
* WARNING: the testsuite detected a possible problem
It is normal for some tests to report unexpected failures. At the
current time the testing harness does not allow fine grained control
over whether or not a test is expected to fail. This problem should be
fixed in future releases.
6.4 Submitting test results
===========================
If you want to report the results to the GCC project, use the
'contrib/test_summary' shell script. Start it in the OBJDIR with
SRCDIR/contrib/test_summary -p your_commentary.txt \
-m gcc-testresults AT gcc.org |sh
This script uses the 'Mail' program to send the results, so make sure
it is in your 'PATH'. The file 'your_commentary.txt' is prepended to
the testsuite summary and should contain any special remarks you have on
your results or your build environment. Please do not edit the
testsuite result block or the subject line, as these messages may be
automatically processed.
File: gccinstall.info, Node: Final install, Prev: Testing, Up: Installing GCC
7 Installing GCC: Final installation
************************************
Now that GCC has been built (and optionally tested), you can install it
with
cd OBJDIR && make install
We strongly recommend to install into a target directory where there
is no previous version of GCC present. Also, the GNAT runtime should
not be stripped, as this would break certain features of the debugger
that depend on this debugging information (catching Ada exceptions for
instance).
That step completes the installation of GCC; user level binaries can
be found in 'PREFIX/bin' where PREFIX is the value you specified with
the '--prefix' to configure (or '/usr/local' by default). (If you
specified '--bindir', that directory will be used instead; otherwise, if
you specified '--exec-prefix', 'EXEC-PREFIX/bin' will be used.) Headers
for the C++ library are installed in 'PREFIX/include'; libraries in
'LIBDIR' (normally 'PREFIX/lib'); internal parts of the compiler in
'LIBDIR/gcc' and 'LIBEXECDIR/gcc'; documentation in info format in
'INFODIR' (normally 'PREFIX/info').
When installing cross-compilers, GCC's executables are not only
installed into 'BINDIR', that is, 'EXEC-PREFIX/bin', but additionally
into 'EXEC-PREFIX/TARGET-ALIAS/bin', if that directory exists.
Typically, such "tooldirs" hold target-specific binutils, including
assembler and linker.
Installation into a temporary staging area or into a 'chroot' jail
can be achieved with the command
make DESTDIR=PATH-TO-ROOTDIR install
where PATH-TO-ROOTDIR is the absolute path of a directory relative to
which all installation paths will be interpreted. Note that the
directory specified by 'DESTDIR' need not exist yet; it will be created
if necessary.
There is a subtle point with tooldirs and 'DESTDIR': If you relocate
a cross-compiler installation with e.g. 'DESTDIR=ROOTDIR', then the
directory 'ROOTDIR/EXEC-PREFIX/TARGET-ALIAS/bin' will be filled with
duplicated GCC executables only if it already exists, it will not be
created otherwise. This is regarded as a feature, not as a bug, because
it gives slightly more control to the packagers using the 'DESTDIR'
feature.
You can install stripped programs and libraries with
make install-strip
If you are bootstrapping a released version of GCC then please
quickly review the build status page for your release, available from
<http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html>;. If your system is not listed for
the version of GCC that you built, send a note to <gcc AT gcc.org>
indicating that you successfully built and installed GCC. Include the
following information:
* Output from running 'SRCDIR/config.guess'. Do not send that file
itself, just the one-line output from running it.
* The output of 'gcc -v' for your newly installed 'gcc'. This tells
us which version of GCC you built and the options you passed to
configure.
* Whether you enabled all languages or a subset of them. If you used
a full distribution then this information is part of the configure
options in the output of 'gcc -v', but if you downloaded the "core"
compiler plus additional front ends then it isn't apparent which
ones you built unless you tell us about it.
* If the build was for GNU/Linux, also include:
* The distribution name and version (e.g., Red Hat 7.1 or Debian
2.2.3); this information should be available from
'/etc/issue'.
* The version of the Linux kernel, available from 'uname
--version' or 'uname -a'.
* The version of glibc you used; for RPM-based systems like Red
Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE type 'rpm -q glibc' to get the glibc
version, and on systems like Debian and Progeny use 'dpkg -l
libc6'.
For other systems, you can include similar information if you think
it is relevant.
* Any other information that you think would be useful to people
building GCC on the same configuration. The new entry in the build
status list will include a link to the archived copy of your
message.
We'd also like to know if the *note host/target specific installation
notes: Specific. didn't include your host/target information or if that
information is incomplete or out of date. Send a note to
<gcc AT gcc.org> detailing how the information should be changed.
If you find a bug, please report it following the bug reporting
guidelines.
If you want to print the GCC manuals, do 'cd OBJDIR; make dvi'. You
will need to have 'texi2dvi' (version at least 4.7) and TeX installed.
This creates a number of '.dvi' files in subdirectories of 'OBJDIR';
these may be converted for printing with programs such as 'dvips'.
Alternately, by using 'make pdf' in place of 'make dvi', you can create
documentation in the form of '.pdf' files; this requires 'texi2pdf',
which is included with Texinfo version 4.8 and later. You can also buy
printed manuals from the Free Software Foundation, though such manuals
may not be for the most recent version of GCC.
If you would like to generate online HTML documentation, do 'cd
OBJDIR; make html' and HTML will be generated for the gcc manuals in
'OBJDIR/gcc/HTML'.
File: gccinstall.info, Node: Specific, Next: Old, Prev: Binaries, Up: Top
9 Host/target specific installation notes for GCC
*************************************************
Please read this document carefully _before_ installing the GNU Compiler
Collection on your machine.
Note that this list of install notes is _not_ a list of supported
hosts or targets. Not all supported hosts and targets are listed here,
only the ones that require host-specific or target-specific information
have to.
aarch64*-*-*
============
Binutils pre 2.24 does not have support for selecting '-mabi' and does
not support ILP32. If it is used to build GCC 4.9 or later, GCC will
not support option '-mabi=ilp32'.
To enable a workaround for the Cortex-A53 erratum number 835769 by
default (for all CPUs regardless of -mcpu option given) at configure
time use the '--enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769' option. This will enable
the fix by default and can be explicitly disabled during compilation by
passing the '-mno-fix-cortex-a53-835769' option. Conversely,
'--disable-fix-cortex-a53-835769' will disable the workaround by
default. The workaround is disabled by default if neither of
'--enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769' or '--disable-fix-cortex-a53-835769' is
given at configure time.
To enable a workaround for the Cortex-A53 erratum number 843419 by
default (for all CPUs regardless of -mcpu option given) at configure
time use the '--enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419' option. This workaround
is applied at link time. Enabling the workaround will cause GCC to pass
the relevant option to the linker. It can be explicitly disabled during
compilation by passing the '-mno-fix-cortex-a53-843419' option.
Conversely, '--disable-fix-cortex-a53-843419' will disable the
workaround by default. The workaround is disabled by default if neither
of '--enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419' or '--disable-fix-cortex-a53-843419'
is given at configure time.
alpha*-*-*
==========
This section contains general configuration information for all
Alpha-based platforms using ELF. In addition to reading this section,
please read all other sections that match your target.
We require binutils 2.11.2 or newer. Previous binutils releases had
a number of problems with DWARF 2 debugging information, not the least
of which is incorrect linking of shared libraries.
amd64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*
========================
This is a synonym for 'x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*'.
arc-*-elf32
===========
Use 'configure --target=arc-elf32 --with-cpu=CPU
--enable-languages="c,c++"' to configure GCC, with CPU being one of
'arc600', 'arc601', or 'arc700'.
arc-linux-uclibc
================
Use 'configure --target=arc-linux-uclibc --with-cpu=arc700
--enable-languages="c,c++"' to configure GCC.
arm-*-eabi
==========
ARM-family processors.
Building the Ada frontend commonly fails (an infinite loop executing
'xsinfo') if the host compiler is GNAT 4.8. Host compilers built from
the GNAT 4.6, 4.9 or 5 release branches are known to succeed.
avr
===
ATMEL AVR-family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
applications. There are no standard Unix configurations. *Note AVR
Options: (gcc)AVR Options, for the list of supported MCU types.
Use 'configure --target=avr --enable-languages="c"' to configure GCC.
Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR
tools can also be obtained from:
* http://www.nongnu.org/avr/
* http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/
The following error:
Error: register required
indicates that you should upgrade to a newer version of the binutils.
Blackfin
========
The Blackfin processor, an Analog Devices DSP. *Note Blackfin Options:
(gcc)Blackfin Options,
More information, and a version of binutils with support for this
processor, is available at <https://blackfin.uclinux.org>;
CR16
====
The CR16 CompactRISC architecture is a 16-bit architecture. This
architecture is used in embedded applications.
*Note CR16 Options: (gcc)CR16 Options,
Use 'configure --target=cr16-elf --enable-languages=c,c++' to
configure GCC for building a CR16 elf cross-compiler.
Use 'configure --target=cr16-uclinux --enable-languages=c,c++' to
configure GCC for building a CR16 uclinux cross-compiler.
CRIS
====
CRIS is the CPU architecture in Axis Communications ETRAX
system-on-a-chip series. These are used in embedded applications.
*Note CRIS Options: (gcc)CRIS Options, for a list of CRIS-specific
options.
There are a few different CRIS targets:
'cris-axis-elf'
Mainly for monolithic embedded systems. Includes a multilib for
the 'v10' core used in 'ETRAX 100 LX'.
'cris-axis-linux-gnu'
A GNU/Linux port for the CRIS architecture, currently targeting
'ETRAX 100 LX' by default.
Pre-packaged tools can be obtained from
<ftp://ftp.axis.com/pub/axis/tools/cris/compiler-kit/>;. More
information about this platform is available at
<http://developer.axis.com/>;.
DOS
===
Please have a look at the binaries page.
You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under
any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete
compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources,
and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.
epiphany-*-elf
==============
Adapteva Epiphany. This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
*-*-freebsd*
============
Support for FreeBSD 1 was discontinued in GCC 3.2. Support for FreeBSD
2 (and any mutant a.out variants of FreeBSD 3) was discontinued in GCC
4.0.
In order to better utilize FreeBSD base system functionality and
match the configuration of the system compiler, GCC 4.5 and above as
well as GCC 4.4 past 2010-06-20 leverage SSP support in libc (which is
present on FreeBSD 7 or later) and the use of '__cxa_atexit' by default
(on FreeBSD 6 or later). The use of 'dl_iterate_phdr' inside
'libgcc_s.so.1' and boehm-gc (on FreeBSD 7 or later) is enabled by GCC
4.5 and above.
We support FreeBSD using the ELF file format with DWARF 2 debugging
for all CPU architectures. You may use '-gstabs' instead of '-g', if
you really want the old debugging format. There are no known issues
with mixing object files and libraries with different debugging formats.
Otherwise, this release of GCC should now match more of the
configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of GCC. In
particular, '--enable-threads' is now configured by default. However,
as a general user, do not attempt to replace the system compiler with
this release. Known to bootstrap and check with good results on FreeBSD
7.2-STABLE. In the past, known to bootstrap and check with good results
on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.8, 4.9 and 5-CURRENT.
The version of binutils installed in '/usr/bin' probably works with
this release of GCC. Bootstrapping against the latest GNU binutils
and/or the version found in '/usr/ports/devel/binutils' has been known
to enable additional features and improve overall testsuite results.
However, it is currently known that boehm-gc may not configure properly
on FreeBSD prior to the FreeBSD 7.0 release with GNU binutils after
2.16.1.
ft32-*-elf
==========
The FT32 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
systems.
h8300-hms
=========
Renesas H8/300 series of processors.
Please have a look at the binaries page.
The calling convention and structure layout has changed in release
2.6. All code must be recompiled. The calling convention now passes
the first three arguments in function calls in registers. Structures
are no longer a multiple of 2 bytes.
hppa*-hp-hpux*
==============
Support for HP-UX version 9 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
We require using gas/binutils on all hppa platforms. Version 2.19 or
later is recommended.
It may be helpful to configure GCC with the '--with-gnu-as' and
'--with-as=...' options to ensure that GCC can find GAS.
The HP assembler should not be used with GCC. It is rarely tested and
may not work. It shouldn't be used with any languages other than C due
to its many limitations.
Specifically, '-g' does not work (HP-UX uses a peculiar debugging
format which GCC does not know about). It also inserts timestamps into
each object file it creates, causing the 3-stage comparison test to fail
during a bootstrap. You should be able to continue by saying 'make
all-host all-target' after getting the failure from 'make'.
Various GCC features are not supported. For example, it does not
support weak symbols or alias definitions. As a result, explicit
template instantiations are required when using C++. This makes it
difficult if not impossible to build many C++ applications.
There are two default scheduling models for instructions. These are
PROCESSOR_7100LC and PROCESSOR_8000. They are selected from the pa-risc
architecture specified for the target machine when configuring.
PROCESSOR_8000 is the default. PROCESSOR_7100LC is selected when the
target is a 'hppa1*' machine.
The PROCESSOR_8000 model is not well suited to older processors.
Thus, it is important to completely specify the machine architecture
when configuring if you want a model other than PROCESSOR_8000. The
macro TARGET_SCHED_DEFAULT can be defined in BOOT_CFLAGS if a different
default scheduling model is desired.
As of GCC 4.0, GCC uses the UNIX 95 namespace for HP-UX 10.10 through
11.00, and the UNIX 98 namespace for HP-UX 11.11 and later. This
namespace change might cause problems when bootstrapping with an earlier
version of GCC or the HP compiler as essentially the same namespace is
required for an entire build. This problem can be avoided in a number
of ways. With HP cc, 'UNIX_STD' can be set to '95' or '98'. Another
way is to add an appropriate set of predefines to 'CC'. The description
for the 'munix=' option contains a list of the predefines used with each
standard.
More specific information to 'hppa*-hp-hpux*' targets follows.
hppa*-hp-hpux10
===============
For hpux10.20, we _highly_ recommend you pick up the latest sed patch
'PHCO_19798' from HP.
The C++ ABI has changed incompatibly in GCC 4.0. COMDAT subspaces
are used for one-only code and data. This resolves many of the previous
problems in using C++ on this target. However, the ABI is not
compatible with the one implemented under HP-UX 11 using secondary
definitions.
hppa*-hp-hpux11
===============
GCC 3.0 and up support HP-UX 11. GCC 2.95.x is not supported and cannot
be used to compile GCC 3.0 and up.
The libffi library haven't been ported to 64-bit HP-UX and doesn't
build.
Refer to binaries for information about obtaining precompiled GCC
binaries for HP-UX. Precompiled binaries must be obtained to build the
Ada language as it cannot be bootstrapped using C. Ada is only
available for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime.
Starting with GCC 3.4 an ISO C compiler is required to bootstrap.
The bundled compiler supports only traditional C; you will need either
HP's unbundled compiler, or a binary distribution of GCC.
It is possible to build GCC 3.3 starting with the bundled HP
compiler, but the process requires several steps. GCC 3.3 can then be
used to build later versions.
There are several possible approaches to building the distribution.
Binutils can be built first using the HP tools. Then, the GCC
distribution can be built. The second approach is to build GCC first
using the HP tools, then build binutils, then rebuild GCC. There have
been problems with various binary distributions, so it is best not to
start from a binary distribution.
On 64-bit capable systems, there are two distinct targets. Different
installation prefixes must be used if both are to be installed on the
same system. The 'hppa[1-2]*-hp-hpux11*' target generates code for the
32-bit PA-RISC runtime architecture and uses the HP linker. The
'hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target generates 64-bit code for the PA-RISC 2.0
architecture.
The script config.guess now selects the target type based on the
compiler detected during configuration. You must define 'PATH' or 'CC'
so that configure finds an appropriate compiler for the initial
bootstrap. When 'CC' is used, the definition should contain the options
that are needed whenever 'CC' is used.
Specifically, options that determine the runtime architecture must be
in 'CC' to correctly select the target for the build. It is also
convenient to place many other compiler options in 'CC'. For example,
'CC="cc -Ac +DA2.0W -Wp,-H16376 -D_CLASSIC_TYPES -D_HPUX_SOURCE"' can be
used to bootstrap the GCC 3.3 branch with the HP compiler in 64-bit
K&R/bundled mode. The '+DA2.0W' option will result in the automatic
selection of the 'hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target. The macro definition table
of cpp needs to be increased for a successful build with the HP
compiler. _CLASSIC_TYPES and _HPUX_SOURCE need to be defined when
building with the bundled compiler, or when using the '-Ac' option.
These defines aren't necessary with '-Ae'.
It is best to explicitly configure the 'hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target
with the '--with-ld=...' option. This overrides the standard search for
ld. The two linkers supported on this target require different
commands. The default linker is determined during configuration. As a
result, it's not possible to switch linkers in the middle of a GCC
build. This has been reported to sometimes occur in unified builds of
binutils and GCC.
A recent linker patch must be installed for the correct operation of
GCC 3.3 and later. 'PHSS_26559' and 'PHSS_24304' are the oldest linker
patches that are known to work. They are for HP-UX 11.00 and 11.11,
respectively. 'PHSS_24303', the companion to 'PHSS_24304', might be
usable but it hasn't been tested. These patches have been superseded.
Consult the HP patch database to obtain the currently recommended linker
patch for your system.
The patches are necessary for the support of weak symbols on the
32-bit port, and for the running of initializers and finalizers. Weak
symbols are implemented using SOM secondary definition symbols. Prior
to HP-UX 11, there are bugs in the linker support for secondary symbols.
The patches correct a problem of linker core dumps creating shared
libraries containing secondary symbols, as well as various other linking
issues involving secondary symbols.
GCC 3.3 uses the ELF DT_INIT_ARRAY and DT_FINI_ARRAY capabilities to
run initializers and finalizers on the 64-bit port. The 32-bit port
uses the linker '+init' and '+fini' options for the same purpose. The
patches correct various problems with the +init/+fini options, including
program core dumps. Binutils 2.14 corrects a problem on the 64-bit port
resulting from HP's non-standard use of the .init and .fini sections for
array initializers and finalizers.
Although the HP and GNU linkers are both supported for the
'hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target, it is strongly recommended that the HP
linker be used for link editing on this target.
At this time, the GNU linker does not support the creation of long
branch stubs. As a result, it cannot successfully link binaries
containing branch offsets larger than 8 megabytes. In addition, there
are problems linking shared libraries, linking executables with
'-static', and with dwarf2 unwind and exception support. It also
doesn't provide stubs for internal calls to global functions in shared
libraries, so these calls cannot be overloaded.
The HP dynamic loader does not support GNU symbol versioning, so
symbol versioning is not supported. It may be necessary to disable
symbol versioning with '--disable-symvers' when using GNU ld.
POSIX threads are the default. The optional DCE thread library is
not supported, so '--enable-threads=dce' does not work.
*-*-linux-gnu
=============
Versions of libstdc++-v3 starting with 3.2.1 require bug fixes present
in glibc 2.2.5 and later. More information is available in the
libstdc++-v3 documentation.
i?86-*-linux*
=============
As of GCC 3.3, binutils 2.13.1 or later is required for this platform.
See bug 10877 for more information.
If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it
is possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this
can be found on www.bitwizard.nl.
i?86-*-solaris2.10
==================
Use this for Solaris 10 or later on x86 and x86-64 systems. Starting
with GCC 4.7, there is also a 64-bit 'amd64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*' or
'x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*' configuration that corresponds to
'sparcv9-sun-solaris2*'.
It is recommended that you configure GCC to use the GNU assembler.
The versions included in Solaris 10, from GNU binutils 2.15 (in
'/usr/sfw/bin/gas'), and Solaris 11, from GNU binutils 2.19 or newer
(also available as '/usr/bin/gas' and '/usr/gnu/bin/as'), work fine.
The current version, from GNU binutils 2.29, is known to work, but the
version from GNU binutils 2.26 must be avoided. Recent versions of the
Solaris assembler in '/usr/ccs/bin/as' work almost as well, though.
For linking, the Solaris linker, is preferred. If you want to use
the GNU linker instead, note that due to a packaging bug the version in
Solaris 10, from GNU binutils 2.15 (in '/usr/sfw/bin/gld'), cannot be
used, while the version in Solaris 11, from GNU binutils 2.19 or newer
(also in '/usr/gnu/bin/ld' and '/usr/bin/gld'), works, as does the
latest version, from GNU binutils 2.29.
To use GNU 'as', configure with the options '--with-gnu-as
--with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas'. It may be necessary to configure with
'--without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld' to guarantee use of Sun
'ld'.
ia64-*-linux
============
IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family) running
GNU/Linux.
If you are using the installed system libunwind library with
'--with-system-libunwind', then you must use libunwind 0.98 or later.
None of the following versions of GCC has an ABI that is compatible
with any of the other versions in this list, with the exception that Red
Hat 2.96 and Trillian 000171 are compatible with each other: 3.1, 3.0.2,
3.0.1, 3.0, Red Hat 2.96, and Trillian 000717. This primarily affects
C++ programs and programs that create shared libraries. GCC 3.1 or
later is recommended for compiling linux, the kernel. As of version 3.1
GCC is believed to be fully ABI compliant, and hence no more major ABI
changes are expected.
ia64-*-hpux*
============
Building GCC on this target requires the GNU Assembler. The bundled HP
assembler will not work. To prevent GCC from using the wrong assembler,
the option '--with-gnu-as' may be necessary.
The GCC libunwind library has not been ported to HPUX. This means
that for GCC versions 3.2.3 and earlier, '--enable-libunwind-exceptions'
is required to build GCC. For GCC 3.3 and later, this is the default.
For gcc 3.4.3 and later, '--enable-libunwind-exceptions' is removed and
the system libunwind library will always be used.
*-ibm-aix*
==========
Support for AIX version 3 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
Support for AIX version 4.2 and older was discontinued in GCC 4.5.
"out of memory" bootstrap failures may indicate a problem with
process resource limits (ulimit). Hard limits are configured in the
'/etc/security/limits' system configuration file.
GCC 4.9 and above require a C++ compiler for bootstrap. IBM VAC++ /
xlC cannot bootstrap GCC. xlc can bootstrap an older version of GCC and
G++ can bootstrap recent releases of GCC.
GCC can bootstrap with recent versions of IBM XLC, but bootstrapping
with an earlier release of GCC is recommended. Bootstrapping with XLC
requires a larger data segment, which can be enabled through the
LDR_CNTRL environment variable, e.g.,
% LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x50000000
% export LDR_CNTRL
One can start with a pre-compiled version of GCC to build from
sources. One may delete GCC's "fixed" header files when starting with a
version of GCC built for an earlier release of AIX.
To speed up the configuration phases of bootstrapping and installing
GCC, one may use GNU Bash instead of AIX '/bin/sh', e.g.,
% CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash
% export CONFIG_SHELL
and then proceed as described in the build instructions, where we
strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
SRCDIR/configure.
Because GCC on AIX is built as a 32-bit executable by default,
(although it can generate 64-bit programs) the GMP and MPFR libraries
required by gfortran must be 32-bit libraries. Building GMP and MPFR as
static archive libraries works better than shared libraries.
Errors involving 'alloca' when building GCC generally are due to an
incorrect definition of 'CC' in the Makefile or mixing files compiled
with the native C compiler and GCC. During the stage1 phase of the
build, the native AIX compiler *must* be invoked as 'cc' (not 'xlc').
Once 'configure' has been informed of 'xlc', one needs to use 'make
distclean' to remove the configure cache files and ensure that 'CC'
environment variable does not provide a definition that will confuse
'configure'. If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the
problem most likely is the version of Make (see above).
The native 'as' and 'ld' are recommended for bootstrapping on AIX.
The GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, and GNU Binutils version 2.20 is the
minimum level that supports bootstrap on AIX 5. The GNU Assembler has
not been updated to support AIX 6 or AIX 7. The native AIX tools do
interoperate with GCC.
AIX 7.1 added partial support for DWARF debugging, but full support
requires AIX 7.1 TL03 SP7 that supports additional DWARF sections and
fixes a bug in the assembler. AIX 7.1 TL03 SP5 distributed a version of
libm.a missing important symbols; a fix for IV77796 will be included in
SP6.
AIX 5.3 TL10, AIX 6.1 TL05 and AIX 7.1 TL00 introduced an AIX
assembler change that sometimes produces corrupt assembly files causing
AIX linker errors. The bug breaks GCC bootstrap on AIX and can cause
compilation failures with existing GCC installations. An AIX iFix for
AIX 5.3 is available (APAR IZ98385 for AIX 5.3 TL10, APAR IZ98477 for
AIX 5.3 TL11 and IZ98134 for AIX 5.3 TL12). AIX 5.3 TL11 SP8, AIX 5.3
TL12 SP5, AIX 6.1 TL04 SP11, AIX 6.1 TL05 SP7, AIX 6.1 TL06 SP6, AIX 6.1
TL07 and AIX 7.1 TL01 should include the fix.
Building 'libstdc++.a' requires a fix for an AIX Assembler bug APAR
IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1). It also requires a fix for
another AIX Assembler bug and a co-dependent AIX Archiver fix referenced
as APAR IY53606 (AIX 5.2) or as APAR IY54774 (AIX 5.1)
'libstdc++' in GCC 3.4 increments the major version number of the
shared object and GCC installation places the 'libstdc++.a' shared
library in a common location which will overwrite the and GCC 3.3
version of the shared library. Applications either need to be re-linked
against the new shared library or the GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.3 versions of
the 'libstdc++' shared object needs to be available to the AIX runtime
loader. The GCC 3.1 'libstdc++.so.4', if present, and GCC 3.3
'libstdc++.so.5' shared objects can be installed for runtime dynamic
loading using the following steps to set the 'F_LOADONLY' flag in the
shared object for _each_ multilib 'libstdc++.a' installed:
Extract the shared objects from the currently installed 'libstdc++.a'
archive:
% ar -x libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
Enable the 'F_LOADONLY' flag so that the shared object will be
available for runtime dynamic loading, but not linking:
% strip -e libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
Archive the runtime-only shared object in the GCC 3.4 'libstdc++.a'
archive:
% ar -q libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
Eventually, the '--with-aix-soname=svr4' configure option may drop
the need for this procedure for libraries that support it.
Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of
duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always
have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable
and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should
not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable
executable.
AIX 4.3 utilizes a "large format" archive to support both 32-bit and
64-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1
to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly.
These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during
linking such as "not a COFF file". The version of the routines shipped
with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The '-g' option of
the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit objects
using the original "small format". A correct version of the routines is
shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above.
Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation
overflow severe error when the '-bbigtoc' option is used to link
GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC. A
fix for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC)
is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U455193.
The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump
core with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC. A
fix for APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U461879. This fix is
incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above.
The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect
object files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM
COMPILER FAILS TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support
and from its techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U453956. This
fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above.
AIX provides National Language Support (NLS). Compilers and
assemblers use NLS to support locale-specific representations of various
data formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., '.' vs ',' for
separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where
GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats that the assembler
expects. If one encounters this problem, set the 'LANG' environment
variable to 'C' or 'En_US'.
A default can be specified with the '-mcpu=CPU_TYPE' switch and using
the configure option '--with-cpu-CPU_TYPE'.
iq2000-*-elf
============
Vitesse IQ2000 processors. These are used in embedded applications.
There are no standard Unix configurations.
lm32-*-elf
==========
Lattice Mico32 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
systems.
lm32-*-uclinux
==============
Lattice Mico32 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
systems running uClinux.
m32c-*-elf
==========
Renesas M32C processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
systems.
m32r-*-elf
==========
Renesas M32R processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
systems.
m68k-*-*
========
By default, 'm68k-*-elf*', 'm68k-*-rtems', 'm68k-*-uclinux' and
'm68k-*-linux' build libraries for both M680x0 and ColdFire processors.
If you only need the M680x0 libraries, you can omit the ColdFire ones by
passing '--with-arch=m68k' to 'configure'. Alternatively, you can omit
the M680x0 libraries by passing '--with-arch=cf' to 'configure'. These
targets default to 5206 or 5475 code as appropriate for the target
system when configured with '--with-arch=cf' and 68020 code otherwise.
The 'm68k-*-netbsd' and 'm68k-*-openbsd' targets also support the
'--with-arch' option. They will generate ColdFire CFV4e code when
configured with '--with-arch=cf' and 68020 code otherwise.
You can override the default processors listed above by configuring
with '--with-cpu=TARGET'. This TARGET can either be a '-mcpu' argument
or one of the following values: 'm68000', 'm68010', 'm68020', 'm68030',
'm68040', 'm68060', 'm68020-40' and 'm68020-60'.
GCC requires at least binutils version 2.17 on these targets.
m68k-*-uclinux
==============
GCC 4.3 changed the uClinux configuration so that it uses the
'm68k-linux-gnu' ABI rather than the 'm68k-elf' ABI. It also added
improved support for C++ and flat shared libraries, both of which were
ABI changes.
microblaze-*-elf
================
Xilinx MicroBlaze processor. This configuration is intended for
embedded systems.
mips-*-*
========
If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying "does not have gp
sections for all it's [sic] sectons [sic]", don't worry about it. This
happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not
really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can
stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.
It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are
optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.
The libstdc++ atomic locking routines for MIPS targets requires MIPS
II and later. A patch went in just after the GCC 3.3 release to make
'mips*-*-*' use the generic implementation instead. You can also
configure for 'mipsel-elf' as a workaround. The 'mips*-*-linux*' target
continues to use the MIPS II routines. More work on this is expected in
future releases.
The built-in '__sync_*' functions are available on MIPS II and later
systems and others that support the 'll', 'sc' and 'sync' instructions.
This can be overridden by passing '--with-llsc' or '--without-llsc' when
configuring GCC. Since the Linux kernel emulates these instructions if
they are missing, the default for 'mips*-*-linux*' targets is
'--with-llsc'. The '--with-llsc' and '--without-llsc' configure options
may be overridden at compile time by passing the '-mllsc' or '-mno-llsc'
options to the compiler.
MIPS systems check for division by zero (unless
'-mno-check-zero-division' is passed to the compiler) by generating
either a conditional trap or a break instruction. Using trap results in
smaller code, but is only supported on MIPS II and later. Also, some
versions of the Linux kernel have a bug that prevents trap from
generating the proper signal ('SIGFPE'). To enable the use of break,
use the '--with-divide=breaks' 'configure' option when configuring GCC.
The default is to use traps on systems that support them.
moxie-*-elf
===========
The moxie processor.
msp430-*-elf
============
TI MSP430 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
systems.
nds32le-*-elf
=============
Andes NDS32 target in little endian mode.
nds32be-*-elf
=============
Andes NDS32 target in big endian mode.
nvptx-*-none
============
Nvidia PTX target.
Instead of GNU binutils, you will need to install nvptx-tools. Tell
GCC where to find it:
'--with-build-time-tools=[install-nvptx-tools]/nvptx-none/bin'.
You will need newlib 3.0 git revision
cd31fbb2aea25f94d7ecedc9db16dfc87ab0c316 or later. It can be
automatically built together with GCC. For this, add a symbolic link to
nvptx-newlib's 'newlib' directory to the directory containing the GCC
sources.
Use the '--disable-sjlj-exceptions' and
'--enable-newlib-io-long-long' options when configuring.
powerpc-*-*
===========
You can specify a default version for the '-mcpu=CPU_TYPE' switch by
using the configure option '--with-cpu-CPU_TYPE'.
You will need GNU binutils 2.15 or newer.
powerpc-*-darwin*
=================
PowerPC running Darwin (Mac OS X kernel).
Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer
tools, meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool
binaries are available at <https://opensource.apple.com>;.
This version of GCC requires at least cctools-590.36. The
cctools-590.36 package referenced from
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html>; will not work on
systems older than 10.3.9 (aka darwin7.9.0).
powerpc-*-elf
=============
PowerPC system in big endian mode, running System V.4.
powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*
=====================
PowerPC system in big endian mode running Linux.
powerpc-*-netbsd*
=================
PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD.
powerpc-*-eabisim
=================
Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the
PSIM simulator.
powerpc-*-eabi
==============
Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode.
powerpcle-*-elf
===============
PowerPC system in little endian mode, running System V.4.
powerpcle-*-eabisim
===================
Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under
the PSIM simulator.
powerpcle-*-eabi
================
Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode.
rl78-*-elf
==========
The Renesas RL78 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
systems.
riscv32-*-elf
=============
The RISC-V RV32 instruction set. This configuration is intended for
embedded systems. This (and all other RISC-V) targets are supported
upstream as of the binutils 2.28 release.
riscv32-*-linux
===============
The RISC-V RV32 instruction set running GNU/Linux. This (and all other
RISC-V) targets are supported upstream as of the binutils 2.28 release.
riscv64-*-elf
=============
The RISC-V RV64 instruction set. This configuration is intended for
embedded systems. This (and all other RISC-V) targets are supported
upstream as of the binutils 2.28 release.
riscv64-*-linux
===============
The RISC-V RV64 instruction set running GNU/Linux. This (and all other
RISC-V) targets are supported upstream as of the binutils 2.28 release.
rx-*-elf
========
The Renesas RX processor.
s390-*-linux*
=============
S/390 system running GNU/Linux for S/390.
s390x-*-linux*
==============
zSeries system (64-bit) running GNU/Linux for zSeries.
s390x-ibm-tpf*
==============
zSeries system (64-bit) running TPF. This platform is supported as
cross-compilation target only.
*-*-solaris2*
=============
Support for Solaris 9 has been removed in GCC 5. Support for Solaris 8
has been removed in GCC 4.8. Support for Solaris 7 has been removed in
GCC 4.6.
Sun does not ship a C compiler with Solaris 2 before Solaris 10,
though you can download the Sun Studio compilers for free. In Solaris
10 and 11, GCC 3.4.3 is available as '/usr/sfw/bin/gcc'. Solaris 11
also provides GCC 4.5.2, 4.7.3, and 4.8.2 as '/usr/gcc/4.5/bin/gcc' or
similar. Alternatively, you can install a pre-built GCC to bootstrap
and install GCC. See the binaries page for details.
The Solaris 2 '/bin/sh' will often fail to configure 'libstdc++-v3'or
'boehm-gc'. We therefore recommend using the following initial sequence
of commands
% CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
% export CONFIG_SHELL
and proceed as described in the configure instructions. In addition we
strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
'SRCDIR/configure'.
Solaris 10 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of
these are needed to use GCC fully, namely 'SUNWarc', 'SUNWbtool',
'SUNWesu', 'SUNWhea', 'SUNWlibm', 'SUNWsprot', and 'SUNWtoo'. If you
did not install all optional packages when installing Solaris 10, you
will need to verify that the packages that GCC needs are installed. To
check whether an optional package is installed, use the 'pkginfo'
command. To add an optional package, use the 'pkgadd' command. For
further details, see the Solaris 10 documentation.
Starting with Solaris 11, the package management has changed, so you
need to check for 'system/header', 'system/linker', and
'developer/assembler' packages. Checking for and installing packages is
done with the 'pkg' command now.
Trying to use the linker and other tools in '/usr/ucb' to install GCC
has been observed to cause trouble. For example, the linker may hang
indefinitely. The fix is to remove '/usr/ucb' from your 'PATH'.
The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Sun tools so,
if you have '/usr/xpg4/bin' in your 'PATH', we recommend that you place
'/usr/bin' before '/usr/xpg4/bin' for the duration of the build.
We recommend the use of the Solaris assembler or the GNU assembler,
in conjunction with the Solaris linker. The GNU 'as' versions included
in Solaris 10, from GNU binutils 2.15 (in '/usr/sfw/bin/gas'), and
Solaris 11, from GNU binutils 2.19 or newer (also in '/usr/bin/gas' and
'/usr/gnu/bin/as'), are known to work. The current version, from GNU
binutils 2.29, is known to work as well. Note that your mileage may
vary if you use a combination of the GNU tools and the Solaris tools:
while the combination GNU 'as' + Sun 'ld' should reasonably work, the
reverse combination Sun 'as' + GNU 'ld' may fail to build or cause
memory corruption at runtime in some cases for C++ programs. GNU 'ld'
usually works as well, although the version included in Solaris 10
cannot be used due to several bugs. Again, the current version (2.29)
is known to work, but generally lacks platform specific features, so
better stay with Solaris 'ld'. To use the LTO linker plugin
('-fuse-linker-plugin') with GNU 'ld', GNU binutils _must_ be configured
with '--enable-largefile'.
To enable symbol versioning in 'libstdc++' with the Solaris linker,
you need to have any version of GNU 'c++filt', which is part of GNU
binutils. 'libstdc++' symbol versioning will be disabled if no
appropriate version is found. Solaris 'c++filt' from the Solaris Studio
compilers does _not_ work.
Sun bug 4927647 sometimes causes random spurious testsuite failures
related to missing diagnostic output. This bug doesn't affect GCC
itself, rather it is a kernel bug triggered by the 'expect' program
which is used only by the GCC testsuite driver. When the bug causes the
'expect' program to miss anticipated output, extra testsuite failures
appear.
sparc*-*-*
==========
This section contains general configuration information for all
SPARC-based platforms. In addition to reading this section, please read
all other sections that match your target.
Newer versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
library and the MPC library are known to be miscompiled by earlier
versions of GCC on these platforms. We therefore recommend the use of
the exact versions of these libraries listed as minimal versions in the
prerequisites.
sparc-sun-solaris2*
===================
When GCC is configured to use GNU binutils 2.14 or later, the binaries
produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools;
this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
information.
Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing
64-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later properly supports this; the
'-m64' option enables 64-bit code generation. However, if all you want
is code tuned for the UltraSPARC CPU, you should try the
'-mtune=ultrasparc' option instead, which produces code that, unlike
full 64-bit code, can still run on non-UltraSPARC machines.
When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
library or the MPC library on a Solaris 7 or later system, the canonical
target triplet must be specified as the 'build' parameter on the
configure line. This target triplet can be obtained by invoking
'./config.guess' in the toplevel source directory of GCC (and not that
of GMP or MPFR or MPC). For example on a Solaris 9 system:
% ./configure --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 --prefix=xxx
sparc-sun-solaris2.10
=====================
There is a bug in older versions of the Sun assembler which breaks
thread-local storage (TLS). A typical error message is
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_TLS_LE_HIX22: file /var/tmp//ccamPA1v.o:
symbol <unknown>: bad symbol type SECT: symbol type must be TLS
This bug is fixed in Sun patch 118683-03 or later.
sparc-*-linux*
==============
sparc64-*-solaris2*
===================
When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
library or the MPC library, the canonical target triplet must be
specified as the 'build' parameter on the configure line. For example
on a Solaris 9 system:
% ./configure --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.9 --prefix=xxx
sparcv9-*-solaris2*
===================
This is a synonym for 'sparc64-*-solaris2*'.
c6x-*-*
=======
The C6X family of processors. This port requires binutils-2.22 or
newer.
tilegx-*-linux*
===============
The TILE-Gx processor in little endian mode, running GNU/Linux. This
port requires binutils-2.22 or newer.
tilegxbe-*-linux*
=================
The TILE-Gx processor in big endian mode, running GNU/Linux. This port
requires binutils-2.23 or newer.
tilepro-*-linux*
================
The TILEPro processor running GNU/Linux. This port requires
binutils-2.22 or newer.
visium-*-elf
============
CDS VISIUMcore processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
systems.
*-*-vxworks*
============
Support for VxWorks is in flux. At present GCC supports _only_ the very
recent VxWorks 5.5 (aka Tornado 2.2) release, and only on PowerPC. We
welcome patches for other architectures supported by VxWorks 5.5.
Support for VxWorks AE would also be welcome; we believe this is merely
a matter of writing an appropriate "configlette" (see below). We are
not interested in supporting older, a.out or COFF-based, versions of
VxWorks in GCC 3.
VxWorks comes with an older version of GCC installed in
'$WIND_BASE/host'; we recommend you do not overwrite it. Choose an
installation PREFIX entirely outside $WIND_BASE. Before running
'configure', create the directories 'PREFIX' and 'PREFIX/bin'. Link or
copy the appropriate assembler, linker, etc. into 'PREFIX/bin', and set
your PATH to include that directory while running both 'configure' and
'make'.
You must give 'configure' the '--with-headers=$WIND_BASE/target/h'
switch so that it can find the VxWorks system headers. Since VxWorks is
a cross compilation target only, you must also specify
'--target=TARGET'. 'configure' will attempt to create the directory
'PREFIX/TARGET/sys-include' and copy files into it; make sure the user
running 'configure' has sufficient privilege to do so.
GCC's exception handling runtime requires a special "configlette"
module, 'contrib/gthr_supp_vxw_5x.c'. Follow the instructions in that
file to add the module to your kernel build. (Future versions of
VxWorks will incorporate this module.)
x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*
=====================
GCC supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64 processor
(amd64-*-* is an alias for x86_64-*-*) on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
On GNU/Linux the default is a bi-arch compiler which is able to generate
both 64-bit x86-64 and 32-bit x86 code (via the '-m32' switch).
x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*
=========================
GCC also supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64
processor ('amd64-*-*' is an alias for 'x86_64-*-*') on Solaris 10 or
later. Unlike other systems, without special options a bi-arch compiler
is built which generates 32-bit code by default, but can generate 64-bit
x86-64 code with the '-m64' switch. Since GCC 4.7, there is also a
configuration that defaults to 64-bit code, but can generate 32-bit code
with '-m32'. To configure and build this way, you have to provide all
support libraries like 'libgmp' as 64-bit code, configure with
'--target=x86_64-pc-solaris2.1x' and 'CC=gcc -m64'.
xtensa*-*-elf
=============
This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the 'newlib' C
library. It uses ELF but does not support shared objects.
Designed-defined instructions specified via the Tensilica Instruction
Extension (TIE) language are only supported through inline assembly.
The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to
building GCC. The 'include/xtensa-config.h' header file contains the
configuration information. If you created your own Xtensa configuration
with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the downloaded files include a
customized copy of this header file, which you can use to replace the
default header file.
xtensa*-*-linux*
================
This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF
shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates
position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the '-fpic' or
'-fPIC' options are used. In other respects, this target is the same as
the 'xtensa*-*-elf' target.
Microsoft Windows
=================
Intel 16-bit versions
---------------------
The 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 3.1, are not
supported.
However, the 32-bit port has limited support for Microsoft Windows
3.11 in the Win32s environment, as a target only. See below.
Intel 32-bit versions
---------------------
The 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 95, Windows NT,
Windows XP, and Windows Vista, are supported by several different target
platforms. These targets differ in which Windows subsystem they target
and which C libraries are used.
* Cygwin *-*-cygwin: Cygwin provides a user-space Linux API emulation
layer in the Win32 subsystem.
* MinGW *-*-mingw32: MinGW is a native GCC port for the Win32
subsystem that provides a subset of POSIX.
* MKS i386-pc-mks: NuTCracker from MKS. See
<https://www.mkssoftware.com>; for more information.
Intel 64-bit versions
---------------------
GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64 runtime library,
available from <http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php>;. This library should be
used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32.
Presently Windows for Itanium is not supported.
Windows CE
----------
Windows CE is supported as a target only on Hitachi SuperH
(sh-wince-pe), and MIPS (mips-wince-pe).
Other Windows Platforms
-----------------------
GCC no longer supports Windows NT on the Alpha or PowerPC.
GCC no longer supports the Windows POSIX subsystem. However, it does
support the Interix subsystem. See above.
Old target names including *-*-winnt and *-*-windowsnt are no longer
used.
PW32 (i386-pc-pw32) support was never completed, and the project
seems to be inactive. See <http://pw32.sourceforge.net/>; for more
information.
UWIN support has been removed due to a lack of maintenance.
*-*-cygwin
==========
Ports of GCC are included with the Cygwin environment.
GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build
with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.
The Cygwin native compiler can be configured to target any 32-bit x86
cpu architecture desired; the default is i686-pc-cygwin. It should be
used with as up-to-date a version of binutils as possible; use either
the latest official GNU binutils release in the Cygwin distribution, or
version 2.20 or above if building your own.
*-*-mingw32
===========
GCC will build with and support only MinGW runtime 3.12 and later.
Earlier versions of headers are incompatible with the new default
semantics of 'extern inline' in '-std=c99' and '-std=gnu99' modes.
Older systems
=============
GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early 1990s) Unix
variants. For the most part, support for these systems has not been
deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for several years
and may suffer from bitrot.
Starting with GCC 3.1, each release has a list of "obsoleted"
systems. Support for these systems is still present in that release,
but 'configure' will fail unless the '--enable-obsolete' option is
given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for these systems
will be removed from the next release of GCC.
Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the
workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the
cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC. In some cases, to
bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may
require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that
system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in the
vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in the
'old-releases' directory on the GCC mirror sites. Header bugs may
generally be avoided using 'fixincludes', but bugs or deficiencies in
libraries and the operating system may still cause problems.
Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less
problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast
wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any of
the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last version
before they were removed), patches following the usual requirements
would be likely to be accepted, since they should not affect the support
for more modern targets.
For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful,
and are available from 'pub/binutils/old-releases' on sourceware.org
mirror sites.
Some of the information on specific systems above relates to such
older systems, but much of the information about GCC on such systems
(which may no longer be applicable to current GCC) is to be found in the
GCC texinfo manual.
all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
=======================================
C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the GNU
linker; duplicate copies of inlines, vtables and template instantiations
will be discarded automatically.
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8 Installing GCC: Binaries
**************************
We are often asked about pre-compiled versions of GCC. While we cannot
provide these for all platforms, below you'll find links to binaries for
various platforms where creating them by yourself is not easy due to
various reasons.
Please note that we did not create these binaries, nor do we support
them. If you have any problems installing them, please contact their
makers.
* AIX:
* Bull's Open Source Software Archive for for AIX 5L and AIX 6;
* AIX Open Source Packages (AIX5L AIX 6.1 AIX 7.1).
* DOS--DJGPP.
* HP-UX:
* HP-UX Porting Center;
* Solaris 2 (SPARC, Intel):
* OpenCSW
* TGCware
* macOS:
* The Homebrew package manager;
* MacPorts.
* Microsoft Windows:
* The Cygwin project;
* The MinGW and mingw-w64 projects.
* OpenPKG offers binaries for quite a number of platforms.
* The GFortran Wiki has links to GNU Fortran binaries for several
platforms.
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10 Old installation documentation
*********************************
Note most of this information is out of date and superseded by the
previous chapters of this manual. It is provided for historical
reference only, because of a lack of volunteers to merge it into the
main manual.
* Menu:
* Configurations:: Configurations Supported by GCC.
Here is the procedure for installing GCC on a GNU or Unix system.
1. If you have chosen a configuration for GCC which requires other GNU
tools (such as GAS or the GNU linker) instead of the standard
system tools, install the required tools in the build directory
under the names 'as', 'ld' or whatever is appropriate.
Alternatively, you can do subsequent compilation using a value of
the 'PATH' environment variable such that the necessary GNU tools
come before the standard system tools.
2. Specify the host, build and target machine configurations. You do
this when you run the 'configure' script.
The "build" machine is the system which you are using, the "host"
machine is the system where you want to run the resulting compiler
(normally the build machine), and the "target" machine is the
system for which you want the compiler to generate code.
If you are building a compiler to produce code for the machine it
runs on (a native compiler), you normally do not need to specify
any operands to 'configure'; it will try to guess the type of
machine you are on and use that as the build, host and target
machines. So you don't need to specify a configuration when
building a native compiler unless 'configure' cannot figure out
what your configuration is or guesses wrong.
In those cases, specify the build machine's "configuration name"
with the '--host' option; the host and target will default to be
the same as the host machine.
Here is an example:
./configure --host=sparc-sun-sunos4.1
A configuration name may be canonical or it may be more or less
abbreviated.
A canonical configuration name has three parts, separated by
dashes. It looks like this: 'CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM'. (The three
parts may themselves contain dashes; 'configure' can figure out
which dashes serve which purpose.) For example,
'm68k-sun-sunos4.1' specifies a Sun 3.
You can also replace parts of the configuration by nicknames or
aliases. For example, 'sun3' stands for 'm68k-sun', so
'sun3-sunos4.1' is another way to specify a Sun 3.
You can specify a version number after any of the system types, and
some of the CPU types. In most cases, the version is irrelevant,
and will be ignored. So you might as well specify the version if
you know it.
See *note Configurations::, for a list of supported configuration
names and notes on many of the configurations. You should check
the notes in that section before proceeding any further with the
installation of GCC.
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10.1 Configurations Supported by GCC
====================================
Here are the possible CPU types:
1750a, a29k, alpha, arm, avr, cN, clipper, dsp16xx, elxsi, fr30,
h8300, hppa1.0, hppa1.1, i370, i386, i486, i586, i686, i786, i860,
i960, ip2k, m32r, m68000, m68k, m88k, mcore, mips, mipsel, mips64,
mips64el, mn10200, mn10300, ns32k, pdp11, powerpc, powerpcle, romp,
rs6000, sh, sparc, sparclite, sparc64, v850, vax, we32k.
Here are the recognized company names. As you can see, customary
abbreviations are used rather than the longer official names.
acorn, alliant, altos, apollo, apple, att, bull, cbm, convergent,
convex, crds, dec, dg, dolphin, elxsi, encore, harris, hitachi, hp,
ibm, intergraph, isi, mips, motorola, ncr, next, ns, omron, plexus,
sequent, sgi, sony, sun, tti, unicom, wrs.
The company name is meaningful only to disambiguate when the rest of
the information supplied is insufficient. You can omit it, writing just
'CPU-SYSTEM', if it is not needed. For example, 'vax-ultrix4.2' is
equivalent to 'vax-dec-ultrix4.2'.
Here is a list of system types:
386bsd, aix, acis, amigaos, aos, aout, aux, bosx, bsd, clix, coff,
ctix, cxux, dgux, dynix, ebmon, ecoff, elf, esix, freebsd, hms,
genix, gnu, linux, linux-gnu, hiux, hpux, iris, irix, isc, luna,
lynxos, mach, minix, msdos, mvs, netbsd, newsos, nindy, ns, osf,
osfrose, ptx, riscix, riscos, rtu, sco, sim, solaris, sunos, sym,
sysv, udi, ultrix, unicos, uniplus, unos, vms, vsta, vxworks,
winnt, xenix.
You can omit the system type; then 'configure' guesses the operating
system from the CPU and company.
You can add a version number to the system type; this may or may not
make a difference. For example, you can write 'bsd4.3' or 'bsd4.4' to
distinguish versions of BSD. In practice, the version number is most
needed for 'sysv3' and 'sysv4', which are often treated differently.
'linux-gnu' is the canonical name for the GNU/Linux target; however
GCC will also accept 'linux'. The version of the kernel in use is not
relevant on these systems. A suffix such as 'libc1' or 'aout'
distinguishes major versions of the C library; all of the suffixed
versions are obsolete.
If you specify an impossible combination such as 'i860-dg-vms', then
you may get an error message from 'configure', or it may ignore part of
the information and do the best it can with the rest. 'configure'
always prints the canonical name for the alternative that it used. GCC
does not support all possible alternatives.
Often a particular model of machine has a name. Many machine names
are recognized as aliases for CPU/company combinations. Thus, the
machine name 'sun3', mentioned above, is an alias for 'm68k-sun'.
Sometimes we accept a company name as a machine name, when the name is
popularly used for a particular machine. Here is a table of the known
machine names:
3300, 3b1, 3bN, 7300, altos3068, altos, apollo68, att-7300,
balance, convex-cN, crds, decstation-3100, decstation, delta,
encore, fx2800, gmicro, hp7NN, hp8NN, hp9k2NN, hp9k3NN, hp9k7NN,
hp9k8NN, iris4d, iris, isi68, m3230, magnum, merlin, miniframe,
mmax, news-3600, news800, news, next, pbd, pc532, pmax, powerpc,
powerpcle, ps2, risc-news, rtpc, sun2, sun386i, sun386, sun3, sun4,
symmetry, tower-32, tower.
Remember that a machine name specifies both the cpu type and the company
name.
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