On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whitequill Riclo wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Feuerbacher, Alan <
> > afeuerbac...@allegromicro.com> wrote:
> >
> >> William Harrington wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sometimes you can't build mpfr mpc and gmp within the gcc source tree
> >>> for some targets. We found that out in CLFS. That's we we don't build
> >>> gmp mpc and mpfr within the tree. Works okay for x86 and x86_64,
> >>> however, when you start building for other targets, it becomes hairy.
> >>> You may want to try to build gmp mpfr and mpc separately.
> >>
> >> I've been mostly quietly keeping up with this question on several lists:
> >> is it better to build those programs in the source tree or separately?
> >> There's a discussion somewhere (on a gcc list?) that comes down
> strongly on
> >> the side of building them in the source tree. It even asks why anyone
> would
> >> want to do it differently. Yet the programs contain instructions for
> >> tuning, which requires them to be built separately.
> >>
> >> During the 1 1/2 years I've been playing around with compiling gcc and
> all
> >> of the LFS programs, I've experimented with building separately many
> times.
> >> No problem building them, but gcc usually fails to find at least one of
> >> them.
> >>
> >> Now, I'm a real newbie when it comes to all this, but if anyone knows
> why
> >> gcc can't seem to find the programs, I'd sure like to know. I'm trying
> to
> >> understand all the ins and outs of everything covered by LFS and a lot
> more
> >> besides.
> >>
> >> Alan
> >>
> > I've already succeeded at building gmp, and mpc with in the gcc build
> > directory, I need to make mpfr, what do you suggest I do?
> >
> > Is there a way to just build the following code block;
>
> Needs #include <mpfr.h>
>
> > 1. | int
> > 2. | main ()
> > 3. | {
> > 4. | mpfr_t x; mpfr_init(x) ; mpfr_clear(x);
> > 5. |
> > 6. | ;
> > 7. | return 0;
> > 8. | }
> >
> > and then re-run make?
>
> After lfs is completed, there are the files /usr/lib/libmpfr.{a,so).
> How about:
>
> gcc -o xyz xyz.c -lmpfr
>
> Works for me.
>
> $ ldd xyz
> linux-gate.so.1 (0xffffe000)
> libmpfr.so.4 => /usr/lib/libmpfr.so.4 (0xb7735000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7584000)
> libgmp.so.10 => /usr/lib/libgmp.so.10 (0xb751f000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77a7000)
>
> -- Bruce
> I think I know what I'm doing wrong finally, all the command flags I'm
> using to find mpfr are to find the mpfr library/header file, rather then
> find the source to build the library.
>
What is the appropriate flag to tell gcc the source path rather then the
library path?
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