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Re: Compile gcc from source on a 64 bit OS ?
NightStrike writes:
> On 12/28/07, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Dennis Clarke writes:
> > >
> > > > Hsieh, Pei-Ying (MED US) writes:
> > > >
> > > > > I need to compile gcc from source on a 64 bit linux OS (Ubuntu and
> > > > > OpenSuSE).
> > > >
> > > > x86_64, I guess.
> > > >
> > > > > After scanning through the installation procedures and manual, it
> > > > > is not clear to me how to do this on a 64 bit OS (default seems to
> > > > > be for 32 bit OS, using -m32). It will be highly appreciated if
> > > > > you can shed some light on this. Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > It's usually configure, make, make install. Debian-derived distros
> > > > have some patches because they put 64-bit libraries in /lib instead of
> > > > /lib64, which is where the standard says they should be.
> > >
> > > what standard ? An ISO or OpenGroup document somewhere ?
> > `
> > Originally the x86_64 ABI, later the Linux FHS.
>
> gcc doesn't look in lib64 for the x86_64-pc-mingw32 target. Is
> this a bug?
Is this a serious question?
Andrew.
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