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bug #38037: "Building and Installing" needs round-up

Submitter:  Georg-Johann Lay <gjlayde>
Submitted:  Mon 07 Jan 2013 06:17:52 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Build system
Status:  None Assigned to:  elderling
Percent Complete:  0% Open/Closed:  Open
Release:  1.8.0 Fixed Release:  None

Mon 07 Jan 2013 06:17:52 PM UTC, original submission:  

The "Building and Installing under Linux, FreeBSD, and Others" documentation [1] needs some fixes:

1)
"Installing GCC" states in [2]:
   "First, we highly recommend that GCC be built into a
   separate directory from the sources which does not reside
   within the source tree. [...] building where srcdir == objdir
   should still work, but doesn't get extensive testing;
   building where objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir is
   not supported."

Nevertheless [1] uses ../configure, i.e. objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir.

2)
Depending on its version, GCC needs several prerequisites: GMP, MPFR, MPC.  The recommended way to get them is to "cd $(srcdir)" and then to run ./contrib/download_prerequisites and to do an in-tree build with these prerequisites.  This ensures the right versions of the prerequisites are used and that they are configured in sync with GCC, cf. [3]

3) GCC configure should be performed with --with-avrlibc, cf. [2] and see [4] for reasoning.

4) Recent versions of GCC are distributed as one chunk, there is no gcc-core etc. any more.

5) Binutils need not to be in the PATH as GCC is being built provided both are configured with the same prefix.

6) With Linux, Binutils and GCC for MS windows can be built as easily as the tools for Linux:  Just configure with, say, --target=i386-mingw32 --build=x86-linux-gnu.  This requires working avr-gcc (you already built it as described) and i386-ming32-gcc cross-compilers.  The rest of the build process is the same, including the in-tree builds of the prerequisites.


[1] http://nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/install_tools.html
[2] http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html
[3] http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC
[4] http://gcc.gnu.org/PR54461

Georg-Johann Lay <gjlayde>

 

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