Re: Building gcc 4.6.3 (and older) outside of source tree, under solaris

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>]

On 15 March 2012 12:51, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:
>
> I usually (for 10 years or more...) build gcc outside of the source tree.

That's the correct way to do it.

> But I was puzzled because I couldn't do it for most gcc-4x...
>
> Let's say :
> * source code dir is at, say, /pathto/gcc-4.6.3
> * build dir is at, say, /pathto/obj
>
> Compile process stops at stage 3, saying that some files weren't found :
> * ext/pb_ds/detail/resize_policy/hash_load_check_resize_trigger_imp.hpp
> * ext/pb_ds/detail/bin_search_tree_/constructors_destructor_fn_imps.hpp
>
> This are, in fact, symbolic links pointing to the source tree :
>
> *
> /pathto/gcc-4.6.3/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/pb_ds/detail/resize_policy/hash_load_check_resize_trigger_imp.hpp
> *
> /pathto/gcc-4.6.3/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/pb_ds/detail/bin_search_tree_/constructors_destructor_fn_imps.hpp
>
> And, in fact the file names in the source tree are wrong : they have a bad
> extension : .hp instead of .hpp

Try using GNU tar to extract from the archives, this happens sometimes
with Solaris tar.