Re: gcc 4.3.0 build; I built the g++ compiler, but there are no header files and no C++ libraries

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

chris kuhlman wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I wrote to the help gcc site and got no response, so I am writing here. 
> Help would be immensely appreciated.
> 
> I am trying to build GCC 4.3.0.  I built GMP 4.2.2 and MPFR 2.3.1,
> and then I built GCC 4.3.0.  Everything appeared to go fine.  I
> installed compilers for C, C++, and Fortran.
> 
> To configure, I did:
> 
> ../src-gcc-4.3.0/gcc-4.3.0/configure
> --prefix=/home/simsci1/share/gcc-4.3.0/
> --with-gmp=/home/simsci1/share/to-build-gcc_4.3.0/gmp-4.2.2/install_exec/
> --with-mpfr=/home/simsci1/share/to-build-gcc_4.3.0/mpfr-2.3.1/
> --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
> 
> Then I did
> make
> 
> and then
> make install
> 
> (The config.log file is attached.)
> 
> I then made up and ran some very simple C, C++, and Fortran codes, and
> they compiled and ran.
> 
> However, I now look in the GCC 4.3.0 install directory, and under
> include there
> are no header files for C++, as detailed below.  The include directory
> is empty.  Also, under the bin directory, there are files suspiciously
> missing, like libstdc++.a,  libstdc++.la,  libstdc++.so.6.0.7, 
> libsupc++.a,  libsupc++.la, and  libgcc_s.so.1.

These should be under the lib directory, not the bin directory.

> Yet, under the bin directory, the g++ and gfortran compiler executables
> exist and work (at least for small codes), as well as the gcc compiler.
> 
> So, how can the compiler be installed correctly, but not the header
> files and not the libraries for C++?
> 
> I used GCC 4.1.0 to build GCC 4.3.0.  So I looked under the install
> directory for GCC 4.1.0, and under the include directory for GCC 4.1.0,
> there is a c++ directory and a file called mf-runtime.h.  Under the c++
> directory is a directory called 4.1.0 and that directory appears to have
> all of the C++
> header files.
> 
> Do you know why I did not generate the include directory and header
> files, and the libraries under the lib directory,
> when I generated the g++ compiler itself?

I think you did "make install" in the wrong directory.  

 $ ls gcc/trunk/install
bin/  include/  info/  lib/  lib64/  libexec/  man/  share/

 $ ls gcc/trunk/install/lib
gcc/                 libgcj-tools.so.9@      libmudflapth.so.0@
gcj-4.3.0-9/         libgcj-tools.so.9.0.0*  libmudflapth.so.0.0.0*
libffi.la*           libgij.la*              libssp.la*
libffi.so@           libgij.so@              libssp_nonshared.a
libffi.so.4@         libgij.so.9@            libssp_nonshared.la*
libffi.so.4.0.1*     libgij.so.9.0.0*        libssp.so@
libgcc_s.so@         libgomp.la*             libssp.so.0@
libgcc_s.so.1        libgomp.so@             libssp.so.0.0.0*
libgcj_bc.so*        libgomp.so.1@           libstdc++.la*
libgcj_bc.so.1@      libgomp.so.1.0.0*       libstdc++.so@
libgcj_bc.so.1.0.0*  libgomp.spec            libstdc++.so.6@
libgcj.la*           libiberty.a             libstdc++.so.6.0.10*
libgcj.so@           libmudflap.la*          libsupc++.a
libgcj.so.9@         libmudflap.so@          libsupc++.la*
libgcj.so.9.0.0*     libmudflap.so.0@        logging.properties
libgcj.spec          libmudflap.so.0.0.0*    pkgconfig/
libgcj-tools.la*     libmudflapth.la*        security/
libgcj-tools.so@     libmudflapth.so@