gcc install fails silently (AVR build)

[Georg-Johann Lay]

Sylvain Leroux schrieb:
> Hi Georg-Johann,
> And thanks for your answer. Some comments inline:
> 
> On 07/18/2012 09:35 PM, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
>> If you also downloaded the sources to /tmp/gcc-4.7.1 don't install
>> the compiler to that location.
> gcc source, build and install are three different directories.
> 
> 
>> You tried without the program suffix?
>>
>> If you configure without program-suffix and -prefix, the default name of
>> the compiler will ne avr-gcc and also an avr-gcc-4.7.1 will be installed.
> Just to make it clear, I was not able to find any combination of program 
> suffix/prefix that leads to /all/ my binaries being installed as 
> 'avr-XXXX-4.7.1'...
> 
> I made some further tests:
> (1) When I configure without program-suffix and -prefix, I indeed got 
> gcc installed as 'avr-gcc-4.7.1' -- but all other binaries lack the 
> '-4.7.1' suffix (including g++):
> sh$ ../gcc-${VERSION}/configure --prefix=/tmp/gcc-${VERSION} \
>                                 --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++
> sh$ make -j9 && make install
> sh$ ls /tmp/gcc-4.7.1/bin/
> avr-c++  avr-g++  avr-gcc-4.7.1  avr-gcc-nm      avr-gcov
> avr-cpp  avr-gcc  avr-gcc-ar     avr-gcc-ranlib

The ar, nm and ranlib prefixes look odd.
These tools are part of binutils and configured/installed with
binutils.

The gcc prefix/suffix has no effect on them, at least if you
don't build binutils in-tree.

> (2) When I only add the '-4.7.1' suffix, gcc is still installed as 
> 'avr-gcc-4.7.1' and all other binaries have the correct suffix -- but no 
> longer their prefix:
> sh$ ../gcc-${VERSION}/configure --prefix=/tmp/gcc-${VERSION} \
>                                 --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++ \
>                                 --program-suffix=-4.7.1
> sh$ make -j9 && make install
> sh$ ls /tmp/gcc-4.7.1/bin/
> avr-gcc-4.7.1  cpp-4.7.1  gcc-4.7.1     gcc-nm-4.7.1      gcov-4.7.1
> c++-4.7.1      g++-4.7.1  gcc-ar-4.7.1  gcc-ranlib-4.7.1
> 
> (3) When I only add the 'avr-' prefix things are going just like in (1) 
> (without -prefix and -suffix): gcc is installed as 'avr-gcc-4.7.1' and 
> all other binaries only have the 'avr-' prefix:
> sh$ ../gcc-${VERSION}/configure --prefix=/tmp/gcc-${VERSION} \
>                                 --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++ \
>                                 --program-prefix=avr-
> sh$ make -j9 && make install
> sh$ ls /tmp/gcc-4.7.1/bin/
> avr-c++  avr-g++  avr-gcc-4.7.1  avr-gcc-nm      avr-gcov
> avr-cpp  avr-gcc  avr-gcc-ar     avr-gcc-ranlib
> 
> (4) When I both configure with prefix 'avr-' and suffix '-4.7.1', I got 
> all my binaries installed with the correct prefix and suffix -- except 
> that gcc is /missing/ !
> sh$ ../gcc-${VERSION}/configure --prefix=/tmp/gcc-${VERSION} \
>                                 --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++ \
>                                 --program-prefix=avr- \
>                                 --program-suffix=-4.7.1
> sh$ make -j9 && make install
> sh$ ls /tmp/gcc-4.7.1/bin/
> avr-c++-4.7.1  avr-g++-4.7.1     avr-gcc-nm-4.7.1      avr-gcov-4.7.1
> avr-cpp-4.7.1  avr-gcc-ar-4.7.1  avr-gcc-ranlib-4.7.1
> 
> (5) When I use a different suffix and no prefix, gcc still is installed 
> as ''avr-gcc-4.7.1' whereas the other binaries are installed with the 
> requested suffix:
> sh$ ../gcc-${VERSION}/configure --prefix=/tmp/gcc-${VERSION} \
>                                 --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++ \
>                                 --program-suffix=-custom
> sh$ make -j9 && make install
> sh$ ls /tmp/gcc-4.7.1/bin/
> avr-gcc-4.7.1  cpp-custom     gcc-custom     gcc-ranlib-custom  g++-custom
> c++-custom     gcc-ar-custom  gcc-nm-custom  gcov-custom
> 
> 
> It appears that for some reason the installation of gcc does not follow 
> the same path as for the other binaries.
> 
> 
> - Sylvain

If you think it's a bug you can open a problem report.

You can post your patch to gcc-patches@ and discuss it there, and
maybe it's a good idea to also CC one of the build machinery maintainers
as listed in MAINTAINERS.

Johann