Author: matthew
Date: Fri Mar 29 04:28:04 2013
New Revision: 10229
Log:
Introduce --disable-install-libiberty to prevent GCC from installing
libiberty.a, but retain the existing sed as the configure flag doesn't seem to
do what it should.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter06/gcc.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml Fri Mar 29 04:27:05 2013 (r10228)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml Fri Mar 29 04:28:04 2013 (r10229)
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@
<para>2013-03-29</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[matthew] - Use --disable-install-libiberty to prevent GCC from
+ installing libiberty.a (thanks to Armin K. for the pointer). Retain
+ the existing sed, though, as the flag doesn't work correctly
+ yet.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Remove the now unnecessary instructions that
prevented GCC's info files from being built; GCC-4.8.0 contains
upstream fixes.</para>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/gcc.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter06/gcc.xml Fri Mar 29 04:27:05 2013 (r10228)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter06/gcc.xml Fri Mar 29 04:28:04 2013 (r10229)
@@ -41,13 +41,6 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of GCC</title>
- <para>Apply a <command>sed</command> substitution that will suppress the
- installation of <filename class="libraryfile">libiberty.a</filename>. The
- version of <filename class="libraryfile">libiberty.a</filename> provided by
- Binutils will be used instead:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/install_to_$(INSTALL_DEST) //'
libiberty/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
-
<para>As in <xref linkend="ch-tools-gcc-pass2"/>, apply the following
<command>sed</command> to force the build to use the
<option>-fomit-frame-pointer</option> compiler flag in order to ensure
@@ -57,6 +50,12 @@
i?86) sed -i 's/^T_CFLAGS =$/& -fomit-frame-pointer/' gcc/Makefile.in ;;
esac</userinput></screen>
+ <para>Workaround a bug so that GCC doesn't install
+ <filename class="libraryfile">libiberty.a</filename>, which is already
+ provided by Binutils:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/install_to_$(INSTALL_DEST) //'
libiberty/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Also fix an error in one of the check Makefiles:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e /autogen/d -e /check.sh/d
fixincludes/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
@@ -69,15 +68,16 @@
<para>Prepare GCC for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">../gcc-&gcc-version;/configure
--prefix=/usr \
- --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
- --enable-shared \
- --enable-threads=posix \
- --enable-__cxa_atexit \
- --enable-clocale=gnu \
- --enable-languages=c,c++ \
- --disable-multilib \
- --disable-bootstrap \
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">../gcc-&gcc-version;/configure
--prefix=/usr \
+ --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
+ --enable-shared \
+ --enable-threads=posix \
+ --enable-__cxa_atexit \
+ --enable-clocale=gnu \
+ --enable-languages=c,c++ \
+ --disable-multilib \
+ --disable-bootstrap \
+ --disable-install-libiberty \
--with-system-zlib</userinput></screen>
<para>Note that for other languages, there are some prerequisites that
@@ -88,6 +88,14 @@
<title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--disable-install-libiberty</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This prevents GCC from installing its own copy of libiberty,
+ which is already provided by Binutils-&binutils-version;.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--with-system-zlib</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>This switch tells GCC to link to the system installed copy of
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