Hi,
Here is a patch to update the GCC page, since part of it is presently
inaccurate.
It also reintroduces ADA, and adds GO, for completeness.
I can make a more complete patch (Changelog entry) if necessary.
Regards,
Pierre
Index: blfsbook/general/prog/gcc.xml
===================================================================
--- blfsbook.orig/general/prog/gcc.xml 2013-02-07 22:09:56.000000000 +0100
+++ blfsbook/general/prog/gcc.xml 2013-02-10 13:40:10.000000000 +0100
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
<!ENTITY gcc-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-&gcc-version;/gcc-&gcc-version;.tar.bz2";>
<!ENTITY gcc-md5sum "cc308a0891e778cfda7a151ab8a6e762">
<!ENTITY gcc-size "80 MB">
- <!ENTITY gcc-buildsize "~3.5 GB (build, test and install all compilers)">
- <!ENTITY gcc-time "126 SBU (build, test and install all compilers)">
+ <!ENTITY gcc-buildsize "~5.1 GB (build, test and install all compilers)">
+ <!ENTITY gcc-time "150 SBU (build, test and install all compilers)">
<!ENTITY gnat-download-http "https://libre.adacore.com/download/";>
<!-- We don't know what platform, so this is commented out
@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@
<para>The <application>GCC</application> package contains GNU compilers.
This package is useful for compiling programs written in C, C++, Fortran,
- Java, Objective C, and Objective C++. You should ensure you actually
- need one of these additional compilers (C and C++ are installed in LFS)
- before you install them. Additionally, there are instructions in the BLFS
- book to install <xref linkend="openjdk"/>, which can be used instead of
- the Java provided by the <application>GCC</application> package. Many
- consider the Iced Tea version to be a more robust Java environment than the
- one provided by <application>GCC</application>.</para>
+ Java, Objective C, Objective C++, Ada, and Go. You should ensure you
+ actually need one of these additional compilers (C and C++ are installed
+ in LFS) before you install them. Additionally, there are instructions in
+ the BLFS book to install <xref linkend="openjdk"/>, which can be used
+ instead of the Java provided by the <application>GCC</application> package.
+ Many consider the Iced Tea version to be a more robust Java environment
+ than the one provided by <application>GCC</application>.</para>
&lfs72_checked;
@@ -88,25 +88,34 @@
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
<para role="recommended"><xref linkend="dejagnu"/></para>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required if building java</bridgehead>
+ <para role="required">
+ <xref linkend="zip"/>,
+ <xref linkend="unzip"/>, and
+ <xref linkend="which"/>
+ </para>
+
<note>
- <para>Building Ada from source is no longer supported by BLFS. The
- upstream binary package is based on gcc-4.5.4 and is not suitable
- for building Ada from the current <application>GCC</application>
- package.</para>
+ <para>If you plan to compile Ada, you will need to install
+ <application>GNAT</application> temporarily to satisfy the circular
+ dependency when you recompile <application>GCC</application>
+ to include Ada. At the AdaCore download page, choose your platform and
+ 2011, then select the file to download. You probably want the x86-linux
+ or x86_64-linux file.</para>
</note>
-<!--
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GNAT GPL 2012 Package Information</bridgehead>
+<!-- Using 2011, because 2012 does not compile GCC-4.7.2 -->
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GNAT GPL 2011 Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gnat-download-http;"/></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
--->
+
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gcc"/></para>
</sect2>
-<!--
+
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of GNAT</title>
@@ -126,7 +135,7 @@
source directory:</para>
<screen><userinput>cd .. &&
-rm -rf gnat-2010-i686-gnu-linux-libc2.3-bin</userinput></screen>
+rm -rf gnat-2011-*</userinput></screen>
<para>Prepare to compile <application>GCC</application> by placing the
<application>GNAT</application> version of <command>gcc</command> at the
@@ -136,8 +145,20 @@
<screen><userinput>PATH_HOLD=$PATH &&
export PATH=<replaceable><Your build directory></replaceable>/gnat/bin:$PATH_HOLD</userinput></screen>
+ <para>Doing so has the drawback that the <application>GCC</application>
+ and <application>Binutils</application> executables are taken
+ from the just installed <application>GNAT</application> package, but the
+ versions of those executables are outdated compared to those installed in
+ LFS. This is not important for the <application>GCC</application> compilers,
+ since they recompile themselves during the bootstrap process. On the other
+ hand, the outdated <command>ld</command> and <command>as</command> tools
+ are used all along. In order to use the LFS tools, issue:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>find <replaceable><Your build directory></replaceable>/gnat -name ld -exec mv -v \{\} \{\}.old \;
+find <replaceable><Your build directory></replaceable>/gnat -name as -exec mv -v \{\} \{\}.old \;</userinput></screen>
+
</sect2>
--->
+
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of GCC</title>
@@ -148,7 +169,7 @@
<para>The installation process may overwrite your existing
<application>GCC</application> <command>gcc</command> and
- <command>c++</command> compilers and libraries. Having the the
+ <command>c++</command> compilers and libraries. Having the
<application>Tcl</application>, <application>Expect</application> and
<application>DejaGnu</application> packages installed before beginning
the build is highly recommended so you can run the full suite of
@@ -164,13 +185,14 @@
</important>
- <para>The instructions below perform a <quote><command>make
- bootstrap</command></quote> instead of just a plain
- <quote><command>make</command></quote> intentionally. Even though it is
- assumed that the current version of <application>GCC</application> is
- installed in LFS, a bootstrap is recommended for robustness. </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/install_to_$(INSTALL_DEST) //' libiberty/Makefile.in &&
+ <para>The instructions below let the build machinery perform a
+ <quote>bootstrap</quote> intentionally. This is necessary if you
+ install the <application>ADA</application> compiler anyway. Even
+ if you don't, a bootstrap is recommended for robustness.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/\(install.*:\) install-.*recursive/\1/' libffi/Makefile.in &&
+sed -i 's/\(install-data-am:\).*/\1/' libffi/include/Makefile.in &&
+sed -i 's/install_to_$(INSTALL_DEST) //' libiberty/Makefile.in &&
sed -i 's@\./fixinc\.sh@-c true@' gcc/Makefile.in &&
case `uname -m` in
@@ -188,11 +210,11 @@
--enable-threads=posix \
--enable-__cxa_atexit \
--disable-multilib \
- --enable-bootstrap \
--enable-clocale=gnu \
- --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++ &&
+ --enable-lto \
+ --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++,ada,go &&
-make bootstrap &&
+make &&
make -k check &&
../gcc-&gcc-version;/contrib/test_summary</userinput></screen>
@@ -202,38 +224,38 @@
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
ln -v -sf ../usr/bin/cpp /lib &&
-ln -v -sf gcc /usr/bin/cc </userinput></screen>
+ln -v -sf gcc /usr/bin/cc &&
-<!--
chown -v -R root:root \
- /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/include \
- /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/ada{lib,include}</userinput></screen>
--->
+ /usr/lib/gcc/*linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/include{,-fixed} \
+ /usr/lib/gcc/*linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/ada{lib,include}</userinput></screen>
+<!-- Not needed since we do not install libffi
<para>The <filename class='libraryfile'>libffi</filename> interface header
is installed in a location where other packages will not be able to find
it. If you included Java as one of the installed languages, create a
symbolic link in <filename class='directory'>/usr/include</filename> to
remedy this:</para>
-<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -v -sf `find /usr/lib/gcc -name ffitarget.h` /usr/include</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -v -sf `find /usr/lib/gcc -name ffitarget.h` /usr/include</userinput></screen>-->
-<!--
<para>You should now become the unprivileged user and remove the
<application>GNAT</application> installation and perform other
cleanups:</para>
-<screen><userinput>rm -rf <replaceable><Your build directory></replaceable>/gnat</userinput></screen>
-
-<screen><userinput>export PATH=$PATH_HOLD &&
+<screen><userinput>rm -rf <replaceable><Your build directory></replaceable>/gnat &&
+export PATH=$PATH_HOLD &&
unset PATH_HOLD</userinput></screen>
--->
+
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
- <para>The three <command>sed</command> commands are the same ones used
- during the build of LFS.</para>
+ <para>The first two <command>sed</command> commands prevent the
+ installation of the <application>libffi</application> library bundled
+ with <application>GCC</application>, since it is outdated compared to
+ <xref linkend="libffi"/>. The three other <command>sed</command> commands
+ are the same ones used during the build of LFS.</para>
<para><command>mkdir ../gcc-build; cd ../gcc-build</command>: The
<application>GCC</application> documentation recommends
@@ -246,16 +268,22 @@
<para><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter>: This parameter ensures
that files are created for the specific architecture of your computer.</para>
- <para><parameter>--enable-bootstrap</parameter>: This parameter is used
+<!-- Double dashes are forbidden in comments, so use "- -". Change it to
+ double dash if you ever remove this comment!
+ <para><parameter>- -enable-bootstrap</parameter>: This parameter is used
so that a bootstrap installation is performed.</para>
-
+-->
<para><parameter>--enable-clocale=gnu</parameter>: This parameter is a
failsafe for incomplete locale data.</para>
+ <para><parameter>--enable-lto</parameter>: Setting this parameter allows
+ to build a compiler which is able to perform <quote>link time
+ optimization (lto)</quote>.</para>
+
<para>
- <parameter>--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++</parameter>:
- This command identifies which languages to build. You may modify this command
- to remove undesired languages.</para>
+ <parameter>--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++,ada,go</parameter>:
+ This command identifies which languages to build. You may modify
+ this command to remove undesired languages.</para>
<para><command>make -k check</command>: This command runs the test suite
without stopping if any errors are encountered.</para>
@@ -273,9 +301,9 @@
<para><command>ln -v -sf gcc /usr/bin/cc</command>: This link is created as
some packages refer to the C compiler using an alternate name.</para>
-<!--
+
<para><command>chown -v -R root:root
- /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/...</command>:
+ /usr/lib/gcc/*linux-gnu/...</command>:
If the package is built by a user other than root, the ownership of the
installed <filename class='directory'>include</filename> and
<filename class='directory'>adalib</filename> directories (and their
@@ -283,7 +311,7 @@
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user and group . Omit the
command changing the Ada directories if you did not include Ada as one of
the installed languages.</para>
--->
+
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
@@ -295,15 +323,19 @@
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
- <seg>addr2name.awk, fastjar, gcj, gcj-dbtool,gcjh, gfortran, gij,
- gjnih, gprmake,
- grepjar, grmic, grmiregistry, gtreelang, jcf-dump, jv-convert, jv-scan
- and architecture specific names for gcj and gcjh</seg>
- <seg>libffi.{so,a}, libgcj.{so,a}, libgfortran.{so,a},
- libgfortranbegin.a, libgij.{so,a}, libobjc.{so,a} and numerous other
+ <seg>aot-compile, gappletviewer, gc-analyze, gccgo, gcj, gcj-dbtool,
+ gcjh, gfortran, gij, gjar, gjarsigner, gjavah, gkeytool,
+ gnat, gnatbind, gnatchop, gnatclean, gnatfind, gnative2ascii, gnatkr,
+ gnatlink, gnatls, gnatmake, gnatname, gnatprep, gnatxref, gorbd,
+ grmic, grmid, grmiregistry, gserialver, gtnameserv, jcf-dump,
+ jv-convert, rebuild-gcj-db, and architecture specific names</seg>
+ <seg>libgcj_bc.so, libgcj.so, libgcj-tools.so, libgfortran.{so,a},
+ libgij.so, libgo.{so,a}, libgobegin.a, libobjc.{so,a} and numerous other
run-time libraries and executables in /usr/lib/gcc</seg>
- <seg>/usr/include/c++/&gcc-version;/{gcj,gnu,java,javax,org},
+ <seg>/usr/include/c++/&gcc-version;/{gcj,gnu,java,javax,org,sun},
+ /usr/lib/gcc/<arch-model>-linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/ada{include,lib},
/usr/lib/gcj-&gcc-version;,
+ /usr/lib/go/&gcc-version;/<arch-model>-linux-gnu,
/usr/lib/security,
and /usr/share/java</seg>
</seglistitem>
@@ -319,22 +351,45 @@
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
- <varlistentry id="addr2name.awk">
- <term><command>addr2name.awk</command></term>
+ <varlistentry id="aot-compile">
+ <term><command>aot-compile</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>searches a directory for Java bytecode and uses
+ <command>gcj</command> to compile it to native code.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc aot-compile">
+ <primary sortas="b-aot-compile">aot-compile</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gappletviewer">
+ <term><command>gappletviewer</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>loads and run a <application>Java</application> applet.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc gappletviewer">
+ <primary sortas="b-gappletviewer">gappletviewer</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gc-analyze">
+ <term><command>gc-analyze</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para> emulates some of the functionality of addr2line.</para>
- <indexterm zone="gcc addr2name.awk">
- <primary sortas="b-addr2name.awk">addr2name.awk</primary>
+ <para>analyzes garbage collector (GC) memory dumps from
+ <application>Java</application> code.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc gc-analyze">
+ <primary sortas="b-gc-analyze">gc-analyze</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="fastjar-gcc">
- <term><command>fastjar</command></term>
+ <varlistentry id="gccgo">
+ <term><command>gccgo</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>is an archive tool for <application>Java</application> archives.</para>
- <indexterm zone="gcc fastjar-gcc">
- <primary sortas="b-fastjar">fastjar</primary>
+ <para>is a GCC-based compiler for the
+ <application>Go</application> language.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc gccgo">
+ <primary sortas="b-gccgo">gccgo</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -394,17 +449,49 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="gjnih">
- <term><command>gjnij</command></term>
+ <varlistentry id="gjar">
+ <term><command>gjar</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>is used to generate JNI header files from class files. Running
- it is equivalent to running <command>gcjh -jni</command>.</para>
- <indexterm zone="gcc gjnih">
- <primary sortas="b-gjnih">gjnih</primary>
+ <para>is an (partial) implementation of the <command>jar</command>
+ utility that comes with Sun's JDK.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc gjar">
+ <primary sortas="b-gjar">gjar</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-<!--
+
+ <varlistentry id="gjarsigner">
+ <term><command>gjarsigner</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>is a Java ARchive (JAR) file signing and verification
+ tool.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc gjarsigner">
+ <primary sortas="b-gjarsigner">gjarsigner</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gjavah">
+ <term><command>gjavah</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>generates header files from Java class files.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc gjavah">
+ <primary sortas="b-gjavah">gjavah</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gkeytool">
+ <term><command>gkeytool</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>manages private keys and public certificates in a
+ <application>Java</application> environment.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc gkeytool">
+ <primary sortas="b-gkeytool">gkeytool</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry id="gnat">
<term><command>gnat</command></term>
<listitem>
@@ -426,16 +513,6 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="gnatbl">
- <term><command>gnatbl</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>is the <application>Ada</application> linker.</para>
- <indexterm zone="gcc gnatbl">
- <primary sortas="b-gnatbl">gnatbl</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry id="gnatchop">
<term><command>gnatchop</command></term>
<listitem>
@@ -468,6 +545,16 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry id="gnative2ascii">
+ <term><command>gnative2ascii</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>is an encoding converter for <application>Java</application>.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc gnative2ascii">
+ <primary sortas="b-gnative2ascii">gnative2ascii</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry id="gnatkr">
<term><command>gnatkr</command></term>
<listitem>
@@ -539,24 +626,13 @@
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
--->
- <varlistentry id="gprmake">
- <term><command>gprmake</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>is a tool used to create <filename>Makefile</filename>s that
- support compilation by multiple languages.</para>
- <indexterm zone="gcc gprmake">
- <primary sortas="b-gprmake">gprmake</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="grepjar">
- <term><command>grepjar</command></term>
+ <varlistentry id="gorbd">
+ <term><command>gorbd</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>searches <filename>jar</filename> files for a pattern.</para>
- <indexterm zone="gcc grepjar">
- <primary sortas="b-grepjar">grepjar</primary>
+ <para>is an object request broker daemon.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc gorbd">
+ <primary sortas="b-gorbd">gorbd</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -571,6 +647,16 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry id="grmid-gcc">
+ <term><command>grmid</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>RMI activation system daemon.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc grmid-gcc">
+ <primary sortas="b-grmid">grmid</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry id="grmiregistry-gcc">
<term><command>grmiregistry</command></term>
<listitem>
@@ -581,21 +667,22 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="gtreelang">
- <term><command>gtreelang</command></term>
+ <varlistentry id="gserialver">
+ <term><command>gserialver</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> prints the serialVersionUID of the specified class.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc gserialver">
+ <primary sortas="b-gserialver">gserialver</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="gtnameserv">
+ <term><command>gtnameserv</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>is largely a cut down version of C, designed to showcase the
- features of the <application>GCC</application> code generation back
- end. Only those features that are directly supported by the
- <application>GCC</application> code generation back end are
- implemented. Features are implemented in a manner which is easiest
- and clearest to implement. Not all or even most code generation back
- end features are implemented. The intention is to add features
- incrementally until most features of the
- <application>GCC</application> back end are implemented in
- Treelang.</para>
- <indexterm zone="gcc gtreelang">
- <primary sortas="b-gtreelang">gtreelang</primary>
+ <para> starts a naming service.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc gtnameserv">
+ <primary sortas="b-gtnameserv">gtnameserv</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -621,13 +708,14 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="jv-scan">
- <term><command>jv-scan</command></term>
+ <varlistentry id="rebuild-gcj-db">
+ <term><command>rebuild-gcj-db</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>prints information about <application>Java</application>
- source files.</para>
- <indexterm zone="gcc jv-scan">
- <primary sortas="b-jv-scan">jv-scan</primary>
+ <para>Merge the per-solib databases made by
+ <application>aot-compile</application> into one system-wide
+ database.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gcc rebuild-gcj-db">
+ <primary sortas="b-rebuild-gcj-db">rebuild-gcj-db</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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