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Confused about build proceedure srcdir vs objdir
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- Subject: Confused about build proceedure srcdir vs objdir
- From: Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:27:31 -0700
Setup: Redhat Linux 7.1
controversial gcc-2.96-85 installed
from stock RH 7.1 rpm
I'm attempting to install from tar.gz source gcc-3.0.2
The configure instructions at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html
are just a little to jargon riddled for my inexperienced layman eyes.
>> First, we highly recommend that GCC be built into a separate directory
>> than the sources which does not reside within the source tree. This is
>> how we generally build GCC; building where srcdir == objdir should
>> still work, but doesn't get extensive testing; building where objdir
>> is a subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported.
I'm not sure what an `objdir' refers to or what under gcc-3.0.2 is
considered `srcdir'. Or how one knows when they are outside the
`tree'. I don't see the familiar `src' subdirectory.
I'm familiar with the common setup that works like this:
Toplevel/src (and a number of other subdirectories)
Where the build is done in Toplevel like the steps below.
All gnu software that I've built here-to-fore, and that would only
number in the teens, used a procedure like this:
tar xzvf gnu_packgage-1.tar.gz
cd gnu_package-1
./configure [options]
make [options]
make install
>From the discussion in the cited web page above, I can't tell if they
are describing something radically different or what.
I followed the above outline. Is it wrong?
Can someone hand hold a bit here and show brief steps as in the above
build proceedure I described, using actual directory names for a
gcc-3.0.2.tar.gz (or other recent source file)?
My first attemp failed and I posted here the fail messages. No one
has yet responded. I have a hunch I'm building this differently than
the recommended proceedure so want to get that nailed down before
discussing any more errors.
PS-In my previous attempt the `make' process lasted a very long time.
I lost track of the exact amount but well over an hour.
Is that normal on a 400mhz pc?