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<sect1 id="gcc" xreflabel="GCC-&gcc-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gcc.html" ?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>GCC-&gcc-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gcc">
    <primary sortas="a-gcc-4-0">GCC-&gcc-version;</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to GCC</title>

    <para>The <application>GCC</application> package contains GNU compilers.
    This package is useful for compiling programs written in C, C++, Fortran,
    Java, Objective C, and Objective C++. You should ensure you actually
    need one of these additional compilers (C and C++ are installed in LFS)
    before you install them. Additionally, there are instructions in the BLFS
    book to install <xref linkend="openjdk"/>, which can be used instead of
    the Java provided by the <application>GCC</application> package. Many
    consider the Iced Tea version to be a more robust Java environment than the
    one provided by <application>GCC</application>.</para>

    &lfs72_checked;

    <caution>
      <para>If you are upgrading <application>GCC</application> from any other
      version prior to &gcc-version;, then you must be careful compiling 3rd
      party kernel modules. You should ensure that the kernel and all its
      native modules are also compiled using the same version of
      <application>GCC</application> that you use to build the 3rd party module.
      This issue does not affect native kernel (and kernel modules) updates,
      as the instructions below are a complete reinstallation of
      <application>GCC</application>. If you have existing 3rd party modules
      installed, ensure they are recompiled using the updated version of
      <application>GCC</application>. As always, never update the kernel
      headers from the ones used when <application>Glibc</application> was
      compiled during LFS.</para>
    </caution>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gcc-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gcc-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &gcc-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &gcc-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &gcc-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &gcc-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GCC Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="dejagnu"/></para>

    <note>
      <para>Building Ada from source is no longer supported by BLFS.  The
      upstream binary package is based on gcc-4.5.4 and is not suitable
      for building Ada from the current <application>GCC</application>
      package.</para>
    </note>
<!--
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GNAT GPL 2012 Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gnat-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
-->
    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gcc"/></para>

  </sect2>
<!--
  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GNAT</title>

    <para>Before unpacking and changing into the GCC build directory, first
    unpack the <application>GNAT</application> tarball and change into the
    newly created directory and install <application>GNAT</application> by
    running the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput>make ins-all prefix=<replaceable>&lt;Your build directory&gt;</replaceable>/gnat</userinput></screen>

    <para>The <application>GNAT</application> compiler can be
    invoked by executing the <command>gcc</command> binary installed
    in <filename
    class='directory'><replaceable>&lt;Your build directory&gt;</replaceable>/gnat/bin</filename>.</para>

    <para>You may now remove the <application>GNAT</application>
    source directory:</para>

<screen><userinput>cd .. &amp;&amp;
rm -rf gnat-2010-i686-gnu-linux-libc2.3-bin</userinput></screen>

    <para>Prepare to compile <application>GCC</application> by placing the
    <application>GNAT</application> version of <command>gcc</command> at the
    beginning of the <envar>PATH</envar> variable by using the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>PATH_HOLD=$PATH &amp;&amp;
export PATH=<replaceable>&lt;Your build directory&gt;</replaceable>/gnat/bin:$PATH_HOLD</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>
-->
  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GCC</title>

    <para>Install <application>GCC</application> by running the
    following commands:</para>

    <important>

      <para>The installation process may overwrite your existing
      <application>GCC</application> <command>gcc</command> and
      <command>c++</command> compilers and libraries. Having the the
      <application>Tcl</application>, <application>Expect</application> and
      <application>DejaGnu</application> packages installed before beginning
      the build is highly recommended so you can run the full suite of
      tests.</para>

      <para>Do not continue with the <command>make install</command> command
      until you are confident the build was successful. You can compare your
      test results with those found at <ulink
      url="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/"/>.  You may also want to
      refer to the information found in the <application>GCC</application>
      section of Chapter 6 in the LFS book (<ulink
      url="&lfs-root;/chapter06/gcc.html"/>).</para>

    </important>

    <para>The instructions below perform a <quote><command>make
    bootstrap</command></quote> instead of just a plain
    <quote><command>make</command></quote> intentionally. Even though it is
    assumed that the current version of <application>GCC</application> is
    installed in LFS, a bootstrap is recommended for robustness.  </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/install_to_$(INSTALL_DEST) //' libiberty/Makefile.in &amp;&amp;
sed -i 's@\./fixinc\.sh@-c true@'        gcc/Makefile.in       &amp;&amp;

case `uname -m` in
      i?86) sed -i 's/^T_CFLAGS =$/&amp; -fomit-frame-pointer/' gcc/Makefile.in ;;
esac &amp;&amp;

mkdir ../gcc-build &amp;&amp;
cd    ../gcc-build &amp;&amp;

../gcc-&gcc-version;/configure         \
    --prefix=/usr              \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib      \
    --with-system-zlib         \
    --enable-shared            \
    --enable-threads=posix     \
    --enable-__cxa_atexit      \
    --disable-multilib         \
    --enable-bootstrap         \
    --enable-clocale=gnu       \
    --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++ &amp;&amp;

make bootstrap &amp;&amp;
make -k check  &amp;&amp;

../gcc-&gcc-version;/contrib/test_summary</userinput></screen>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;

ln -v -sf ../usr/bin/cpp /lib &amp;&amp;
ln -v -sf gcc /usr/bin/cc </userinput></screen>

<!--
chown -v -R root:root \
    /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/include \
    /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/ada{lib,include}</userinput></screen>
-->
    <para>The <filename class='libraryfile'>libffi</filename> interface header
    is installed in a location where other packages will not be able to find
    it. If you included Java as one of the installed languages, create a
    symbolic link in <filename class='directory'>/usr/include</filename> to
    remedy this:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -v -sf `find /usr/lib/gcc -name ffitarget.h` /usr/include</userinput></screen>

<!--
    <para>You should now become the unprivileged user and remove the
    <application>GNAT</application> installation and perform other
    cleanups:</para>

<screen><userinput>rm -rf <replaceable>&lt;Your build directory&gt;</replaceable>/gnat</userinput></screen>

<screen><userinput>export PATH=$PATH_HOLD &amp;&amp;
unset PATH_HOLD</userinput></screen>
-->
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>The three <command>sed</command> commands are the same ones used
    during the build of LFS.</para>

    <para><command>mkdir ../gcc-build; cd ../gcc-build</command>: The
    <application>GCC</application> documentation recommends
    building the package in a dedicated build directory.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
    --enable-__cxa_atexit</parameter>: These parameters are required to build
    the <application>C++</application> libraries to published standards.</para>

    <para><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter>: This parameter ensures
    that files are created for the specific architecture of your computer.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-bootstrap</parameter>: This parameter is used
    so that a bootstrap installation is performed.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-clocale=gnu</parameter>: This parameter is a
    failsafe for incomplete locale data.</para>

    <para>
    <parameter>--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++</parameter>:
    This command identifies which languages to build. You may modify this command
    to remove undesired languages.</para>

    <para><command>make -k check</command>: This command runs the test suite
    without stopping if any errors are encountered.</para>

    <para><command>../gcc-&gcc-version;/contrib/test_summary</command>: This
    command will produce a summary of the test suite results. You can append
    <command>| grep -A7 Summ</command> to the command to produce an even more
    condensed version of the summary. You may also wish to redirect the output
    to a file for review and comparison later on.</para>

    <para><command>ln -v -sf ../usr/bin/cpp /lib</command>: This command
    creates a link to the C PreProcessor as some packages expect it to be
    installed in the <filename class='directory'>/lib</filename>
    directory.</para>

    <para><command>ln -v -sf gcc /usr/bin/cc</command>: This link is created as
    some packages refer to the C compiler using an alternate name.</para>
<!--
    <para><command>chown -v -R root:root
    /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/...</command>:
    If the package is built by a user other than root, the ownership of the
    installed <filename class='directory'>include</filename> and
    <filename class='directory'>adalib</filename> directories (and their
    contents) will be incorrect. These commands change the ownership to the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user and group . Omit the
    command changing the Ada directories if you did not include Ada as one of
    the installed languages.</para>
-->
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>addr2name.awk, fastjar, gcj, gcj-dbtool,gcjh, gfortran, gij,
        gjnih, gprmake,
        grepjar, grmic, grmiregistry, gtreelang, jcf-dump, jv-convert, jv-scan
        and architecture specific names for gcj and gcjh</seg>
        <seg>libffi.{so,a}, libgcj.{so,a}, libgfortran.{so,a},
        libgfortranbegin.a, libgij.{so,a}, libobjc.{so,a} and numerous other
        run-time libraries and executables in /usr/lib/gcc</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/c++/&gcc-version;/{gcj,gnu,java,javax,org},
        /usr/lib/gcj-&gcc-version;,
        /usr/lib/security,
        and /usr/share/java</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <para>Some program and library names and descriptions are not listed here,
    but can be found at
    <ulink url="&lfs-root;/chapter06/gcc.html#contents-gcc"/> as they were
    initially installed during the building of LFS.</para>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="addr2name.awk">
        <term><command>addr2name.awk</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para> emulates some of the functionality of addr2line.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc addr2name.awk">
            <primary sortas="b-addr2name.awk">addr2name.awk</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="fastjar-gcc">
        <term><command>fastjar</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an archive tool for <application>Java</application> archives.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc fastjar-gcc">
            <primary sortas="b-fastjar">fastjar</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gcj">
        <term><command>gcj</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an ahead-of-time compiler for the
          <application>Java</application> language.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gcj">
            <primary sortas="b-gcj">gcj</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gcj-dbtool">
        <term><command>gcj-dbtool</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a tool for creating and manipulating class file mapping
          databases.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gcj-dbtool">
            <primary sortas="b-gcj-dbtool">gcj-dbtool</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gcjh">
        <term><command>gcjh</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>generates header files from <application>Java</application>
          class files.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gcjh">
            <primary sortas="b-gcjh">gcjh</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gfortran">
        <term><command>gfortran</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the <application>Fortran</application> compiler invoked by
          <command>gcc</command>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gfortran">
            <primary sortas="b-gfortran">gfortran</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gij">
        <term><command>gij</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the GNU interpreter for <application>Java</application>
          bytecode.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gij">
            <primary sortas="b-gij">gij</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gjnih">
        <term><command>gjnij</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to generate JNI header files from class files. Running
          it is equivalent to running <command>gcjh -jni</command>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gjnih">
            <primary sortas="b-gjnih">gjnih</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
<!--
      <varlistentry id="gnat">
        <term><command>gnat</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the <application>Ada</application> compiler invoked by
          <command>gcc</command>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnat">
            <primary sortas="b-gnat">gnat</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatbind">
        <term><command>gnatbind</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to bind compiled objects.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatbind">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatbind">gnatbind</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatbl">
        <term><command>gnatbl</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the <application>Ada</application> linker.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatbl">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatbl">gnatbl</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatchop">
        <term><command>gnatchop</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is useful for renaming files to meet the standard
          <application>Ada</application> default file naming conventions.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatchop">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatchop">gnatchop</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatclean">
        <term><command>gnatclean</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to remove files associated with a
          <application>GNAT</application> project.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatclean">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatclean">gnatclean</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatfind">
        <term><command>gnatfind</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para> is the <application>GNAT</application> definition/use finder.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatfind">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatfind">gnatfind</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatkr">
        <term><command>gnatkr</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to determine the crunched name for a given file, when
          crunched to a specified maximum length.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatkr">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatkr">gnatkr</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatlink">
        <term><command>gnatlink</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to link programs and build an executable file.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatlink">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatlink">gnatlink</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatls">
        <term><command>gnatls</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the compiled unit browser.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatls">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatls">gnatls</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatmake">
        <term><command>gnatmake</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an automatic <command>make</command> facility.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatmake">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatmake">gnatmake</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatname">
        <term><command>gnatname</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>will list the files associated with a
          <application>GNAT</application> project.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatname">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatname">gnatname</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatprep">
        <term><command>gnatprep</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the <application>GNAT</application> external preprocessor.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatprep">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatprep">gnatprep</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnatxref">
        <term><command>gnatxref</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the <application>GNAT</application> cross-referencer.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gnatxref">
            <primary sortas="b-gnatxref">gnatxref</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
-->
      <varlistentry id="gprmake">
        <term><command>gprmake</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a tool used to create <filename>Makefile</filename>s that
          support compilation by multiple languages.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gprmake">
            <primary sortas="b-gprmake">gprmake</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="grepjar">
        <term><command>grepjar</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>searches <filename>jar</filename> files for a pattern.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc grepjar">
            <primary sortas="b-grepjar">grepjar</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="grmic-gcc">
        <term><command>grmic</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>generates stubs for Remote Method Invocation.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc grmic-gcc">
            <primary sortas="b-grmic">grmic</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="grmiregistry-gcc">
        <term><command>grmiregistry</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para> starts a remote object registry on the current host.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc grmiregistry-gcc">
            <primary sortas="b-grmiregistry">grmiregistry</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gtreelang">
        <term><command>gtreelang</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is largely a cut down version of C, designed to showcase the
          features of the <application>GCC</application> code generation back
          end. Only those features that are directly supported by the
          <application>GCC</application> code generation back end are
          implemented. Features are implemented in a manner which is easiest
          and clearest to implement. Not all or even most code generation back
          end features are implemented. The intention is to add features
          incrementally until most features of the
          <application>GCC</application> back end are implemented in
          Treelang.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc gtreelang">
            <primary sortas="b-gtreelang">gtreelang</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="jcf-dump">
        <term><command>jcf-dump</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>prints information about <application>Java</application>
          class files.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc jcf-dump">
            <primary sortas="b-jcf-dump">jcf-dump</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="jv-convert">
        <term><command>jv-convert</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>converts files from one encoding to another.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc jv-convert">
            <primary sortas="b-jv-convert">jv-convert</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="jv-scan">
        <term><command>jv-scan</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>prints information about <application>Java</application>
          source files.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gcc jv-scan">
            <primary sortas="b-jv-scan">jv-scan</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>