Re: Installing compilers

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br>]

On Oct  1, 1999, Michael Brier <mbrier@cignal.com> wrote:

> 1. You mention that binutils 2.9.1 has bugs and I should use vendors
> Sun as and ldr.  I downloaded binutils 2.7.  Should I use them??

Nope, 2.7 is really too old.  You may want to use some 2.9.5
pre-releases, though.

> How do I communicate these to the installer?

http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html#gas

> 2.I downloaded gcc-2_95-sol25-sparc-local.

AFAIK, there's no such file in the GNU gcc repositories, so we can't
do much to help you with it.

> How do I set up objdir and srcdir??

srcdir is the directory in which you unpacked the source tree.  objdir
is the directory in which you'll build gcc, which you may delete after
`make install', if you wish.

> What's the relationship to /usr/local default.

None.   Both may live within /tmp.

> How do I use the command srcdir/configure [target] [options]. Looks
> like I can ignore target and options.

You don't have to specify `target', but you may want some options, for
example, --enable-shared, --enable-threads, --with-as, --with-ld, etc.

Please read the FAQ, the on-line generic and platform-specific
installation instructions before asking further questions.  In fact, I
shouldn't even be replying to your post, since all your questions are
answered in those documents.

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