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9 Host/target specific installation notes for GCC
*************************************************
Please read this document carefully _before_ installing the GNU
Compiler Collection on your machine.
Note that this list of install notes is _not_ a list of supported
hosts or targets. Not all supported hosts and targets are listed here,
only the ones that require host-specific or target-specific information
are.
alpha*-*-*
==========
This section contains general configuration information for all
alpha-based platforms using ELF (in particular, ignore this section for
DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX and Tru64 UNIX). In addition to reading this
section, please read all other sections that match your target.
We require binutils 2.11.2 or newer. Previous binutils releases had
a number of problems with DWARF 2 debugging information, not the least
of which is incorrect linking of shared libraries.
alpha*-dec-osf*
===============
Systems using processors that implement the DEC Alpha architecture and
are running the DEC/Compaq Unix (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX, or Compaq
Tru64 UNIX) operating system, for example the DEC Alpha AXP systems.
As of GCC 3.2, versions before `alpha*-dec-osf4' are no longer
supported. (These are the versions which identify themselves as DEC
OSF/1.)
In Digital Unix V4.0, virtual memory exhausted bootstrap failures
may be fixed by configuring with `--with-gc=simple', reconfiguring
Kernel Virtual Memory and Swap parameters per the `/usr/sbin/sys_check'
Tuning Suggestions, or applying the patch in
`http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00822.html'.
In Tru64 UNIX V5.1, Compaq introduced a new assembler that does not
currently (2001-06-13) work with `mips-tfile'. As a workaround, we
need to use the old assembler, invoked via the barely documented
`-oldas' option. To bootstrap GCC, you either need to use the Compaq C
Compiler:
% CC=cc SRCDIR/configure [OPTIONS] [TARGET]
or you can use a copy of GCC 2.95.3 or higher built on Tru64 UNIX
V4.0:
% CC=gcc -Wa,-oldas SRCDIR/configure [OPTIONS] [TARGET]
As of GNU binutils 2.11.2, neither GNU `as' nor GNU `ld' are
supported on Tru64 UNIX, so you must not configure GCC with
`--with-gnu-as' or `--with-gnu-ld'.
GCC writes a `.verstamp' directive to the assembler output file
unless it is built as a cross-compiler. It gets the version to use from
the system header file `/usr/include/stamp.h'. If you install a new
version of DEC Unix, you should rebuild GCC to pick up the new version
stamp.
`make compare' may fail on old versions of DEC Unix unless you add
`-save-temps' to `BOOT_CFLAGS'. On these systems, the name of the
assembler input file is stored in the object file, and that makes
comparison fail if it differs between the `stage1' and `stage2'
compilations. The option `-save-temps' forces a fixed name to be used
for the assembler input file, instead of a randomly chosen name in
`/tmp'. Do not add `-save-temps' unless the comparisons fail without
that option. If you add `-save-temps', you will have to manually
delete the `.i' and `.s' files after each series of compilations.
GCC now supports both the native (ECOFF) debugging format used by DBX
and GDB and an encapsulated STABS format for use only with GDB. See the
discussion of the `--with-stabs' option of `configure' above for more
information on these formats and how to select them.
There is a bug in DEC's assembler that produces incorrect line
numbers for ECOFF format when the `.align' directive is used. To work
around this problem, GCC will not emit such alignment directives while
writing ECOFF format debugging information even if optimization is
being performed. Unfortunately, this has the very undesirable
side-effect that code addresses when `-O' is specified are different
depending on whether or not `-g' is also specified.
To avoid this behavior, specify `-gstabs+' and use GDB instead of
DBX. DEC is now aware of this problem with the assembler and hopes to
provide a fix shortly.
arc-*-elf
=========
Argonaut ARC processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
systems.
arm-*-elf
=========
ARM-family processors. Subtargets that use the ELF object format
require GNU binutils 2.13 or newer. Such subtargets include:
`arm-*-freebsd', `arm-*-netbsdelf', `arm-*-*linux' and `arm-*-rtems'.
arm-*-coff
==========
ARM-family processors. Note that there are two different varieties of
PE format subtarget supported: `arm-wince-pe' and `arm-pe' as well as a
standard COFF target `arm-*-coff'.
arm-*-aout
==========
ARM-family processors. These targets support the AOUT file format:
`arm-*-aout', `arm-*-netbsd'.
avr
===
ATMEL AVR-family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
applications. There are no standard Unix configurations. AVR
Options (gcc)AVR Options, for the list of supported MCU types.
Use `configure --target=avr --enable-languages="c"' to configure GCC.
Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR
tools can also be obtained from:
* http://www.nongnu.org/avr/
* http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/
We _strongly_ recommend using binutils 2.13 or newer.
The following error:
Error: register required
indicates that you should upgrade to a newer version of the binutils.
Blackfin
========
The Blackfin processor, an Analog Devices DSP. Blackfin Options
(gcc)Blackfin Options,
More information, and a version of binutils with support for this
processor, is available at `http://blackfin.uclinux.org'
CRIS
====
CRIS is the CPU architecture in Axis Communications ETRAX
system-on-a-chip series. These are used in embedded applications.
CRIS Options (gcc)CRIS Options, for a list of CRIS-specific
options.
There are a few different CRIS targets:
`cris-axis-elf'
Mainly for monolithic embedded systems. Includes a multilib for
the `v10' core used in `ETRAX 100 LX'.
`cris-axis-linux-gnu'
A GNU/Linux port for the CRIS architecture, currently targeting
`ETRAX 100 LX' by default.
For `cris-axis-elf' you need binutils 2.11 or newer. For
`cris-axis-linux-gnu' you need binutils 2.12 or newer.
Pre-packaged tools can be obtained from
`ftp://ftp.axis.com/pub/axis/tools/cris/compiler-kit/'. More
information about this platform is available at
`http://developer.axis.com/'.
CRX
===
The CRX CompactRISC architecture is a low-power 32-bit architecture with
fast context switching and architectural extensibility features.
CRX Options (gcc)CRX Options,
Use `configure --target=crx-elf --enable-languages=c,c++' to
configure GCC for building a CRX cross-compiler. The option
`--target=crx-elf' is also used to build the `newlib' C library for CRX.
It is also possible to build libstdc++-v3 for the CRX architecture.
This needs to be done in a separate step with the following configure
settings: `gcc/libstdc++-v3/configure --host=crx-elf --with-newlib
--enable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-cxx-flags='-fexceptions -frtti''
DOS
===
Please have a look at the binaries page.
You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under
any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete
compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources,
and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.
*-*-freebsd*
============
The version of binutils installed in `/usr/bin' probably works with
this release of GCC. However, on FreeBSD 4, bootstrapping against the
latest FSF binutils is known to improve overall testsuite results; and,
on FreeBSD/alpha, using binutils 2.14 or later is required to build
libjava.
Support for FreeBSD 1 was discontinued in GCC 3.2.
Support for FreeBSD 2 will be discontinued after GCC 3.4. The
following was true for GCC 3.1 but the current status is unknown. For
FreeBSD 2 or any mutant a.out versions of FreeBSD 3: All configuration
support and files as shipped with GCC 2.95 are still in place. FreeBSD
2.2.7 has been known to bootstrap completely; however, it is unknown
which version of binutils was used (it is assumed that it was the
system copy in `/usr/bin') and C++ EH failures were noted.
For FreeBSD using the ELF file format: DWARF 2 debugging is now the
default for all CPU architectures. It had been the default on
FreeBSD/alpha since its inception. You may use `-gstabs' instead of
`-g', if you really want the old debugging format. There are no known
issues with mixing object files and libraries with different debugging
formats. Otherwise, this release of GCC should now match more of the
configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of GCC. In
particular, `--enable-threads' is now configured by default. However,
as a general user, do not attempt to replace the system compiler with
this release. Known to bootstrap and check with good results on
FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE and 5-CURRENT. In the past, known to bootstrap and
check with good results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5,
4.8-STABLE.
In principle, `--enable-threads' is now compatible with
`--enable-libgcj' on FreeBSD. However, it has only been built and
tested on `i386-*-freebsd[45]' and `alpha-*-freebsd[45]'. The static
library may be incorrectly built (symbols are missing at link time).
There is a rare timing-based startup hang (probably involves an
assumption about the thread library). Multi-threaded boehm-gc
(required for libjava) exposes severe threaded signal-handling bugs on
FreeBSD before 4.5-RELEASE. Other CPU architectures supported by
FreeBSD will require additional configuration tuning in, at the very
least, both boehm-gc and libffi.
Shared `libgcc_s.so' is now built and installed by default.
h8300-hms
=========
Renesas H8/300 series of processors.
Please have a look at the binaries page.
The calling convention and structure layout has changed in release
2.6. All code must be recompiled. The calling convention now passes
the first three arguments in function calls in registers. Structures
are no longer a multiple of 2 bytes.
hppa*-hp-hpux*
==============
Support for HP-UX version 9 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
We require using gas/binutils on all hppa platforms. Version 2.19 or
later is recommended.
It may be helpful to configure GCC with the `--with-gnu-as' and
`--with-as=...' options to ensure that GCC can find GAS.
The HP assembler should not be used with GCC. It is rarely tested
and may not work. It shouldn't be used with any languages other than C
due to its many limitations.
Specifically, `-g' does not work (HP-UX uses a peculiar debugging
format which GCC does not know about). It also inserts timestamps into
each object file it creates, causing the 3-stage comparison test to
fail during a bootstrap. You should be able to continue by saying
`make all-host all-target' after getting the failure from `make'.
Various GCC features are not supported. For example, it does not
support weak symbols or alias definitions. As a result, explicit
template instantiations are required when using C++. This makes it
difficult if not impossible to build many C++ applications.
There are two default scheduling models for instructions. These are
PROCESSOR_7100LC and PROCESSOR_8000. They are selected from the pa-risc
architecture specified for the target machine when configuring.
PROCESSOR_8000 is the default. PROCESSOR_7100LC is selected when the
target is a `hppa1*' machine.
The PROCESSOR_8000 model is not well suited to older processors.
Thus, it is important to completely specify the machine architecture
when configuring if you want a model other than PROCESSOR_8000. The
macro TARGET_SCHED_DEFAULT can be defined in BOOT_CFLAGS if a different
default scheduling model is desired.
As of GCC 4.0, GCC uses the UNIX 95 namespace for HP-UX 10.10
through 11.00, and the UNIX 98 namespace for HP-UX 11.11 and later.
This namespace change might cause problems when bootstrapping with an
earlier version of GCC or the HP compiler as essentially the same
namespace is required for an entire build. This problem can be avoided
in a number of ways. With HP cc, `UNIX_STD' can be set to `95' or
`98'. Another way is to add an appropriate set of predefines to `CC'.
The description for the `munix=' option contains a list of the
predefines used with each standard.
More specific information to `hppa*-hp-hpux*' targets follows.
hppa*-hp-hpux10
===============
For hpux10.20, we _highly_ recommend you pick up the latest sed patch
`PHCO_19798' from HP. HP has two sites which provide patches free of
charge:
* `http://us.itrc.hp.com/service/home/home.do' US, Canada,
Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America.
* `http://europe.itrc.hp.com/service/home/home.do' Europe.
The C++ ABI has changed incompatibly in GCC 4.0. COMDAT subspaces
are used for one-only code and data. This resolves many of the previous
problems in using C++ on this target. However, the ABI is not
compatible with the one implemented under HP-UX 11 using secondary
definitions.
hppa*-hp-hpux11
===============
GCC 3.0 and up support HP-UX 11. GCC 2.95.x is not supported and cannot
be used to compile GCC 3.0 and up.
The libffi and libjava libraries haven't been ported to 64-bit HP-UX
and don't build.
Refer to binaries for information about obtaining precompiled GCC
binaries for HP-UX. Precompiled binaries must be obtained to build the
Ada language as it can't be bootstrapped using C. Ada is only
available for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime.
Starting with GCC 3.4 an ISO C compiler is required to bootstrap.
The bundled compiler supports only traditional C; you will need either
HP's unbundled compiler, or a binary distribution of GCC.
It is possible to build GCC 3.3 starting with the bundled HP
compiler, but the process requires several steps. GCC 3.3 can then be
used to build later versions. The fastjar program contains ISO C code
and can't be built with the HP bundled compiler. This problem can be
avoided by not building the Java language. For example, use the
`--enable-languages="c,c++,f77,objc"' option in your configure command.
There are several possible approaches to building the distribution.
Binutils can be built first using the HP tools. Then, the GCC
distribution can be built. The second approach is to build GCC first
using the HP tools, then build binutils, then rebuild GCC. There have
been problems with various binary distributions, so it is best not to
start from a binary distribution.
On 64-bit capable systems, there are two distinct targets. Different
installation prefixes must be used if both are to be installed on the
same system. The `hppa[1-2]*-hp-hpux11*' target generates code for the
32-bit PA-RISC runtime architecture and uses the HP linker. The
`hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target generates 64-bit code for the PA-RISC 2.0
architecture.
The script config.guess now selects the target type based on the
compiler detected during configuration. You must define `PATH' or `CC'
so that configure finds an appropriate compiler for the initial
bootstrap. When `CC' is used, the definition should contain the
options that are needed whenever `CC' is used.
Specifically, options that determine the runtime architecture must be
in `CC' to correctly select the target for the build. It is also
convenient to place many other compiler options in `CC'. For example,
`CC="cc -Ac +DA2.0W -Wp,-H16376 -D_CLASSIC_TYPES -D_HPUX_SOURCE"' can
be used to bootstrap the GCC 3.3 branch with the HP compiler in 64-bit
K&R/bundled mode. The `+DA2.0W' option will result in the automatic
selection of the `hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target. The macro definition
table of cpp needs to be increased for a successful build with the HP
compiler. _CLASSIC_TYPES and _HPUX_SOURCE need to be defined when
building with the bundled compiler, or when using the `-Ac' option.
These defines aren't necessary with `-Ae'.
It is best to explicitly configure the `hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target
with the `--with-ld=...' option. This overrides the standard search
for ld. The two linkers supported on this target require different
commands. The default linker is determined during configuration. As a
result, it's not possible to switch linkers in the middle of a GCC
build. This has been reported to sometimes occur in unified builds of
binutils and GCC.
A recent linker patch must be installed for the correct operation of
GCC 3.3 and later. `PHSS_26559' and `PHSS_24304' are the oldest linker
patches that are known to work. They are for HP-UX 11.00 and 11.11,
respectively. `PHSS_24303', the companion to `PHSS_24304', might be
usable but it hasn't been tested. These patches have been superseded.
Consult the HP patch database to obtain the currently recommended
linker patch for your system.
The patches are necessary for the support of weak symbols on the
32-bit port, and for the running of initializers and finalizers. Weak
symbols are implemented using SOM secondary definition symbols. Prior
to HP-UX 11, there are bugs in the linker support for secondary symbols.
The patches correct a problem of linker core dumps creating shared
libraries containing secondary symbols, as well as various other
linking issues involving secondary symbols.
GCC 3.3 uses the ELF DT_INIT_ARRAY and DT_FINI_ARRAY capabilities to
run initializers and finalizers on the 64-bit port. The 32-bit port
uses the linker `+init' and `+fini' options for the same purpose. The
patches correct various problems with the +init/+fini options,
including program core dumps. Binutils 2.14 corrects a problem on the
64-bit port resulting from HP's non-standard use of the .init and .fini
sections for array initializers and finalizers.
Although the HP and GNU linkers are both supported for the
`hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target, it is strongly recommended that the HP
linker be used for link editing on this target.
At this time, the GNU linker does not support the creation of long
branch stubs. As a result, it can't successfully link binaries
containing branch offsets larger than 8 megabytes. In addition, there
are problems linking shared libraries, linking executables with
`-static', and with dwarf2 unwind and exception support. It also
doesn't provide stubs for internal calls to global functions in shared
libraries, so these calls can't be overloaded.
The HP dynamic loader does not support GNU symbol versioning, so
symbol versioning is not supported. It may be necessary to disable
symbol versioning with `--disable-symvers' when using GNU ld.
POSIX threads are the default. The optional DCE thread library is
not supported, so `--enable-threads=dce' does not work.
*-*-linux-gnu
=============
Versions of libstdc++-v3 starting with 3.2.1 require bug fixes present
in glibc 2.2.5 and later. More information is available in the
libstdc++-v3 documentation.
i?86-*-linux*
=============
As of GCC 3.3, binutils 2.13.1 or later is required for this platform.
See bug 10877 for more information.
If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it
is possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this
can be found on www.bitwizard.nl.
i?86-*-solaris2.[89]
====================
The Sun assembler in Solaris 8 and 9 has several bugs and limitations.
While GCC works around them, several features are missing, so it is
recommended to use the GNU assembler instead. There is no bundled
version, but the current version, from GNU binutils 2.20.1, is known to
work.
Solaris~2/x86 doesn't support the execution of SSE/SSE2 instructions
before Solaris~9 4/04, even if the CPU supports them. Programs will
receive `SIGILL' if they try. The fix is available both in Solaris~9
Update~6 and kernel patch 112234-12 or newer. There is no
corresponding patch for Solaris 8. To avoid this problem, `-march'
defaults to `pentiumpro' on Solaris 8 and 9. If you have the patch
installed, you can configure GCC with an appropriate `--with-arch'
option, but need GNU `as' for SSE2 support.
i?86-*-solaris2.10
==================
Use this for Solaris 10 or later on x86 and x86-64 systems. This
configuration is supported by GCC 4.0 and later versions only.
It is recommended that you configure GCC to use the GNU assembler in
`/usr/sfw/bin/gas' but the Sun linker, using the options `--with-gnu-as
--with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld'.
ia64-*-linux
============
IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family)
running GNU/Linux.
If you are using the installed system libunwind library with
`--with-system-libunwind', then you must use libunwind 0.98 or later.
None of the following versions of GCC has an ABI that is compatible
with any of the other versions in this list, with the exception that
Red Hat 2.96 and Trillian 000171 are compatible with each other: 3.1,
3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0, Red Hat 2.96, and Trillian 000717. This primarily
affects C++ programs and programs that create shared libraries. GCC
3.1 or later is recommended for compiling linux, the kernel. As of
version 3.1 GCC is believed to be fully ABI compliant, and hence no
more major ABI changes are expected.
ia64-*-hpux*
============
Building GCC on this target requires the GNU Assembler. The bundled HP
assembler will not work. To prevent GCC from using the wrong assembler,
the option `--with-gnu-as' may be necessary.
The GCC libunwind library has not been ported to HPUX. This means
that for GCC versions 3.2.3 and earlier, `--enable-libunwind-exceptions'
is required to build GCC. For GCC 3.3 and later, this is the default.
For gcc 3.4.3 and later, `--enable-libunwind-exceptions' is removed and
the system libunwind library will always be used.
*-ibm-aix*
==========
Support for AIX version 3 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
"out of memory" bootstrap failures may indicate a problem with
process resource limits (ulimit). Hard limits are configured in the
`/etc/security/limits' system configuration file.
To speed up the configuration phases of bootstrapping and installing
GCC, one may use GNU Bash instead of AIX `/bin/sh', e.g.,
% CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash
% export CONFIG_SHELL
and then proceed as described in the build instructions, where we
strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
SRCDIR/configure.
Because GCC on AIX is built as a 32-bit executable by default,
(although it can generate 64-bit programs) the GMP and MPFR libraries
required by gfortran must be 32-bit libraries. Building GMP and MPFR
as static archive libraries works better than shared libraries.
Errors involving `alloca' when building GCC generally are due to an
incorrect definition of `CC' in the Makefile or mixing files compiled
with the native C compiler and GCC. During the stage1 phase of the
build, the native AIX compiler *must* be invoked as `cc' (not `xlc').
Once `configure' has been informed of `xlc', one needs to use `make
distclean' to remove the configure cache files and ensure that `CC'
environment variable does not provide a definition that will confuse
`configure'. If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the
problem most likely is the version of Make (see above).
The native `as' and `ld' are recommended for bootstrapping on AIX 4
and required for bootstrapping on AIX 5L. The GNU Assembler reports
that it supports WEAK symbols on AIX 4, which causes GCC to try to
utilize weak symbol functionality although it is not supported. The GNU
Assembler and Linker do not support AIX 5L sufficiently to bootstrap
GCC. The native AIX tools do interoperate with GCC.
Building `libstdc++.a' requires a fix for an AIX Assembler bug APAR
IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1). It also requires a fix
for another AIX Assembler bug and a co-dependent AIX Archiver fix
referenced as APAR IY53606 (AIX 5.2) or a APAR IY54774 (AIX 5.1)
`libstdc++' in GCC 3.4 increments the major version number of the
shared object and GCC installation places the `libstdc++.a' shared
library in a common location which will overwrite the and GCC 3.3
version of the shared library. Applications either need to be
re-linked against the new shared library or the GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.3
versions of the `libstdc++' shared object needs to be available to the
AIX runtime loader. The GCC 3.1 `libstdc++.so.4', if present, and GCC
3.3 `libstdc++.so.5' shared objects can be installed for runtime
dynamic loading using the following steps to set the `F_LOADONLY' flag
in the shared object for _each_ multilib `libstdc++.a' installed:
Extract the shared objects from the currently installed
`libstdc++.a' archive:
% ar -x libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
Enable the `F_LOADONLY' flag so that the shared object will be
available for runtime dynamic loading, but not linking:
% strip -e libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
Archive the runtime-only shared object in the GCC 3.4 `libstdc++.a'
archive:
% ar -q libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of
duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always
have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable
and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should
not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable
executable.
AIX 4.3 utilizes a "large format" archive to support both 32-bit and
64-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1
to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly.
These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during
linking such as "not a COFF file". The version of the routines shipped
with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The `-g' option
of the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit objects
using the original "small format". A correct version of the routines
is shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above.
Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation
overflow severe error when the `-bbigtoc' option is used to link
GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC. A
fix for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC)
is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U455193.
The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump
core with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC. A
fix for APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U461879. This fix is
incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above.
The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect
object files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM
COMPILER FAILS TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support
and from its techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U453956. This
fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above.
AIX provides National Language Support (NLS). Compilers and
assemblers use NLS to support locale-specific representations of
various data formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., `.' vs
`,' for separating decimal fractions). There have been problems
reported where GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats
that the assembler expects. If one encounters this problem, set the
`LANG' environment variable to `C' or `En_US'.
By default, GCC for AIX 4.1 and above produces code that can be used
on both Power or PowerPC processors.
A default can be specified with the `-mcpu=CPU_TYPE' switch and
using the configure option `--with-cpu-CPU_TYPE'.
iq2000-*-elf
============
Vitesse IQ2000 processors. These are used in embedded applications.
There are no standard Unix configurations.
m32c-*-elf
==========
Renesas M32C processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
systems.
m32r-*-elf
==========
Renesas M32R processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
systems.
m6811-elf
=========
Motorola 68HC11 family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
m6812-elf
=========
Motorola 68HC12 family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
m68k-*-*
========
By default, `m68k-*-aout', `m68k-*-coff*', `m68k-*-elf*',
`m68k-*-rtems', `m68k-*-uclinux' and `m68k-*-linux' build libraries
for both M680x0 and ColdFire processors. If you only need the M680x0
libraries, you can omit the ColdFire ones by passing `--with-arch=m68k'
to `configure'. Alternatively, you can omit the M680x0 libraries by
passing `--with-arch=cf' to `configure'. These targets default to 5206
or 5475 code as appropriate for the target system when configured with
`--with-arch=cf' and 68020 code otherwise.
The `m68k-*-netbsd' and `m68k-*-openbsd' targets also support the
`--with-arch' option. They will generate ColdFire CFV4e code when
configured with `--with-arch=cf' and 68020 code otherwise.
You can override the default processors listed above by configuring
with `--with-cpu=TARGET'. This TARGET can either be a `-mcpu' argument
or one of the following values: `m68000', `m68010', `m68020', `m68030',
`m68040', `m68060', `m68020-40' and `m68020-60'.
m68k-*-uclinux
==============
GCC 4.3 changed the uClinux configuration so that it uses the
`m68k-linux-gnu' ABI rather than the `m68k-elf' ABI. It also added
improved support for C++ and flat shared libraries, both of which were
ABI changes. However, you can still use the original ABI by
configuring for `m68k-uclinuxoldabi' or `m68k-VENDOR-uclinuxoldabi'.
mips-*-*
========
If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying "does not have gp
sections for all it's [sic] sectons [sic]", don't worry about it. This
happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not
really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can
stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.
It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are
optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.
The libstdc++ atomic locking routines for MIPS targets requires MIPS
II and later. A patch went in just after the GCC 3.3 release to make
`mips*-*-*' use the generic implementation instead. You can also
configure for `mipsel-elf' as a workaround. The `mips*-*-linux*'
target continues to use the MIPS II routines. More work on this is
expected in future releases.
The built-in `__sync_*' functions are available on MIPS II and later
systems and others that support the `ll', `sc' and `sync' instructions.
This can be overridden by passing `--with-llsc' or `--without-llsc'
when configuring GCC. Since the Linux kernel emulates these
instructions if they are missing, the default for `mips*-*-linux*'
targets is `--with-llsc'. The `--with-llsc' and `--without-llsc'
configure options may be overridden at compile time by passing the
`-mllsc' or `-mno-llsc' options to the compiler.
MIPS systems check for division by zero (unless
`-mno-check-zero-division' is passed to the compiler) by generating
either a conditional trap or a break instruction. Using trap results
in smaller code, but is only supported on MIPS II and later. Also,
some versions of the Linux kernel have a bug that prevents trap from
generating the proper signal (`SIGFPE'). To enable the use of break,
use the `--with-divide=breaks' `configure' option when configuring GCC.
The default is to use traps on systems that support them.
Cross-compilers for the MIPS as target using the MIPS assembler
currently do not work, because the auxiliary programs `mips-tdump.c'
and `mips-tfile.c' can't be compiled on anything but a MIPS. It does
work to cross compile for a MIPS if you use the GNU assembler and
linker.
The assembler from GNU binutils 2.17 and earlier has a bug in the way
it sorts relocations for REL targets (o32, o64, EABI). This can cause
bad code to be generated for simple C++ programs. Also the linker from
GNU binutils versions prior to 2.17 has a bug which causes the runtime
linker stubs in very large programs, like `libgcj.so', to be
incorrectly generated. GNU Binutils 2.18 and later (and snapshots made
after Nov. 9, 2006) should be free from both of these problems.
mips-sgi-irix5
==============
In order to compile GCC on an SGI running IRIX 5, the `compiler_dev.hdr'
subsystem must be installed from the IDO CD-ROM supplied by SGI. It is
also available for download from
`ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/IRIX5.3/iris-development-option-5.3.tardist'.
If you use the MIPS C compiler to bootstrap, it may be necessary to
increase its table size for switch statements with the `-Wf,-XNg1500'
option. If you use the `-O2' optimization option, you also need to use
`-Olimit 3000'.
To enable debugging under IRIX 5, you must use GNU binutils 2.15 or
later, and use the `--with-gnu-ld' `configure' option when configuring
GCC. You need to use GNU `ar' and `nm', also distributed with GNU
binutils.
Some users have reported that `/bin/sh' will hang during bootstrap.
This problem can be avoided by running the commands:
% CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
% export CONFIG_SHELL
before starting the build.
mips-sgi-irix6
==============
If you are using SGI's MIPSpro `cc' as your bootstrap compiler, you must
ensure that the N32 ABI is in use. To test this, compile a simple C
file with `cc' and then run `file' on the resulting object file. The
output should look like:
test.o: ELF N32 MSB ...
If you see:
test.o: ELF 32-bit MSB ...
or
test.o: ELF 64-bit MSB ...
then your version of `cc' uses the O32 or N64 ABI by default. You
should set the environment variable `CC' to `cc -n32' before
configuring GCC.
If you want the resulting `gcc' to run on old 32-bit systems with
the MIPS R4400 CPU, you need to ensure that only code for the `mips3'
instruction set architecture (ISA) is generated. While GCC 3.x does
this correctly, both GCC 2.95 and SGI's MIPSpro `cc' may change the ISA
depending on the machine where GCC is built. Using one of them as the
bootstrap compiler may result in `mips4' code, which won't run at all
on `mips3'-only systems. For the test program above, you should see:
test.o: ELF N32 MSB mips-3 ...
If you get:
test.o: ELF N32 MSB mips-4 ...
instead, you should set the environment variable `CC' to `cc -n32
-mips3' or `gcc -mips3' respectively before configuring GCC.
MIPSpro C 7.4 may cause bootstrap failures, due to a bug when
inlining `memcmp'. Either add `-U__INLINE_INTRINSICS' to the `CC'
environment variable as a workaround or upgrade to MIPSpro C 7.4.1m.
GCC on IRIX 6 is usually built to support the N32, O32 and N64 ABIs.
If you build GCC on a system that doesn't have the N64 libraries
installed or cannot run 64-bit binaries, you need to configure with
`--disable-multilib' so GCC doesn't try to use them. This will disable
building the O32 libraries, too. Look for `/usr/lib64/libc.so.1' to
see if you have the 64-bit libraries installed.
To enable debugging for the O32 ABI, you must use GNU `as' from GNU
binutils 2.15 or later. You may also use GNU `ld', but this is not
required and currently causes some problems with Ada.
The `--enable-libgcj' option is disabled by default: IRIX 6 uses a
very low default limit (20480) for the command line length. Although
`libtool' contains a workaround for this problem, at least the N64
`libgcj' is known not to build despite this, running into an internal
error of the native `ld'. A sure fix is to increase this limit
(`ncargs') to its maximum of 262144 bytes. If you have root access,
you can use the `systune' command to do this.
`wchar_t' support in `libstdc++' is not available for old IRIX 6.5.x
releases, x < 19. The problem cannot be autodetected and in order to
build GCC for such targets you need to configure with
`--disable-wchar_t'.
See `http://freeware.sgi.com/' for more information about using GCC
on IRIX platforms.
powerpc-*-*
===========
You can specify a default version for the `-mcpu=CPU_TYPE' switch by
using the configure option `--with-cpu-CPU_TYPE'.
You will need binutils 2.15 or newer for a working GCC.
powerpc-*-darwin*
=================
PowerPC running Darwin (Mac OS X kernel).
Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer
tools, meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool
binaries are available at
`http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/compiler/' (free
registration required).
This version of GCC requires at least cctools-590.36. The
cctools-590.36 package referenced from
`http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html' will not work on
systems older than 10.3.9 (aka darwin7.9.0).
powerpc-*-elf
=============
PowerPC system in big endian mode, running System V.4.
powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*
=====================
PowerPC system in big endian mode running Linux.
powerpc-*-netbsd*
=================
PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD.
powerpc-*-eabisim
=================
Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the
PSIM simulator.
powerpc-*-eabi
==============
Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode.
powerpcle-*-elf
===============
PowerPC system in little endian mode, running System V.4.
powerpcle-*-eabisim
===================
Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under
the PSIM simulator.
powerpcle-*-eabi
================
Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode.
s390-*-linux*
=============
S/390 system running GNU/Linux for S/390.
s390x-*-linux*
==============
zSeries system (64-bit) running GNU/Linux for zSeries.
s390x-ibm-tpf*
==============
zSeries system (64-bit) running TPF. This platform is supported as
cross-compilation target only.
*-*-solaris2*
=============
Sun does not ship a C compiler with Solaris 2. To bootstrap and install
GCC you first have to install a pre-built compiler, see the binaries
page for details.
The Solaris 2 `/bin/sh' will often fail to configure `libstdc++-v3',
`boehm-gc' or `libjava'. We therefore recommend using the following
initial sequence of commands
% CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
% export CONFIG_SHELL
and proceed as described in the configure instructions. In addition
we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
SRCDIR/configure.
Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these
are needed to use GCC fully, namely `SUNWarc', `SUNWbtool', `SUNWesu',
`SUNWhea', `SUNWlibm', `SUNWsprot', and `SUNWtoo'. If you did not
install all optional packages when installing Solaris 2, you will need
to verify that the packages that GCC needs are installed.
To check whether an optional package is installed, use the `pkginfo'
command. To add an optional package, use the `pkgadd' command. For
further details, see the Solaris 2 documentation.
Trying to use the linker and other tools in `/usr/ucb' to install
GCC has been observed to cause trouble. For example, the linker may
hang indefinitely. The fix is to remove `/usr/ucb' from your `PATH'.
The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Sun tools so,
if you have `/usr/xpg4/bin' in your `PATH', we recommend that you place
`/usr/bin' before `/usr/xpg4/bin' for the duration of the build.
We recommend the use of GNU binutils 2.14 or later, or the vendor
tools (Sun `as', Sun `ld'). Note that your mileage may vary if you use
a combination of the GNU tools and the Sun tools: while the combination
GNU `as' + Sun `ld' should reasonably work, the reverse combination Sun
`as' + GNU `ld' is known to cause memory corruption at runtime in some
cases for C++ programs.
The stock GNU binutils 2.15 release is broken on this platform
because of a single bug. It has been fixed on the 2.15 branch in the
CVS repository. You can obtain a working version by checking out the
binutils-2_15-branch from the CVS repository or applying the patch
`http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2004-09/msg00036.html' to the
release.
We recommend the use of GNU binutils 2.16 or later in conjunction
with GCC 4.x, or the vendor tools (Sun `as', Sun `ld'). However, for
Solaris 10 and above, an additional patch is required in order for the
GNU linker to be able to cope with a new flavor of shared libraries.
You can obtain a working version by checking out the
binutils-2_16-branch from the CVS repository or applying the patch
`http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2005-07/msg00122.html' to the
release.
Sun bug 4296832 turns up when compiling X11 headers with GCC 2.95 or
newer: `g++' will complain that types are missing. These headers
assume that omitting the type means `int'; this assumption worked for
C89 but is wrong for C++, and is now wrong for C99 also.
`g++' accepts such (invalid) constructs with the option
`-fpermissive'; it will assume that any missing type is `int' (as
defined by C89).
There are patches for Solaris 7 (108376-21 or newer for SPARC,
108377-20 for Intel), and Solaris 8 (108652-24 or newer for SPARC,
108653-22 for Intel) that fix this bug.
Sun bug 4927647 sometimes causes random spurious testsuite failures
related to missing diagnostic output. This bug doesn't affect GCC
itself, rather it is a kernel bug triggered by the `expect' program
which is used only by the GCC testsuite driver. When the bug causes
the `expect' program to miss anticipated output, extra testsuite
failures appear.
There are patches for Solaris 8 (117350-12 or newer for SPARC,
117351-12 or newer for Intel) and Solaris 9 (117171-11 or newer for
SPARC, 117172-11 or newer for Intel) that address this problem.
sparc-sun-solaris2*
===================
When GCC is configured to use binutils 2.14 or later the binaries
produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools;
this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
information.
Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing
64-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later properly supports this;
the `-m64' option enables 64-bit code generation. However, if all you
want is code tuned for the UltraSPARC CPU, you should try the
`-mtune=ultrasparc' option instead, which produces code that, unlike
full 64-bit code, can still run on non-UltraSPARC machines.
When configuring on a Solaris 7 or later system that is running a
kernel that supports only 32-bit binaries, one must configure with
`--disable-multilib', since we will not be able to build the 64-bit
target libraries.
GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4 trigger code generation bugs in earlier versions
of the GNU compiler (especially GCC 3.0.x versions), which lead to the
miscompilation of the stage1 compiler and the subsequent failure of the
bootstrap process. A workaround is to use GCC 3.2.3 as an intermediary
stage, i.e. to bootstrap that compiler with the base compiler and then
use it to bootstrap the final compiler.
GCC 3.4 triggers a code generation bug in versions 5.4 (Sun ONE
Studio 7) and 5.5 (Sun ONE Studio 8) of the Sun compiler, which causes
a bootstrap failure in form of a miscompilation of the stage1 compiler
by the Sun compiler. This is Sun bug 4974440. This is fixed with
patch 112760-07.
GCC 3.4 changed the default debugging format from STABS to DWARF-2
for 32-bit code on Solaris 7 and later. If you use the Sun assembler,
this change apparently runs afoul of Sun bug 4910101 (which is
referenced as a x86-only problem by Sun, probably because they do not
use DWARF-2). A symptom of the problem is that you cannot compile C++
programs like `groff' 1.19.1 without getting messages similar to the
following:
ld: warning: relocation error: R_SPARC_UA32: ...
external symbolic relocation against non-allocatable section
.debug_info cannot be processed at runtime: relocation ignored.
To work around this problem, compile with `-gstabs+' instead of
plain `-g'.
When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) or the MPFR
library on a Solaris 7 or later system, the canonical target triplet
must be specified as the `build' parameter on the configure line. This
triplet can be obtained by invoking ./config.guess in the toplevel
source directory of GCC (and not that of GMP or MPFR). For example on
a Solaris 7 system:
% ./configure --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.7 --prefix=xxx
sparc-sun-solaris2.7
====================
Sun patch 107058-01 (1999-01-13) for Solaris 7/SPARC triggers a bug in
the dynamic linker. This problem (Sun bug 4210064) affects GCC 2.8 and
later, including all EGCS releases. Sun formerly recommended 107058-01
for all Solaris 7 users, but around 1999-09-01 it started to recommend
it only for people who use Sun's compilers.
Here are some workarounds to this problem:
* Do not install Sun patch 107058-01 until after Sun releases a
complete patch for bug 4210064. This is the simplest course to
take, unless you must also use Sun's C compiler. Unfortunately
107058-01 is preinstalled on some new Solaris 7-based hosts, so
you may have to back it out.
* Copy the original, unpatched Solaris 7 `/usr/ccs/bin/as' into
`/usr/local/libexec/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/3.4/as', adjusting
the latter name to fit your local conventions and software version
numbers.
* Install Sun patch 106950-03 (1999-05-25) or later. Nobody with
both 107058-01 and 106950-03 installed has reported the bug with
GCC and Sun's dynamic linker. This last course of action is
riskiest, for two reasons. First, you must install 106950 on all
hosts that run code generated by GCC; it doesn't suffice to
install it only on the hosts that run GCC itself. Second, Sun
says that 106950-03 is only a partial fix for bug 4210064, but Sun
doesn't know whether the partial fix is adequate for GCC.
Revision -08 or later should fix the bug. The current (as of
2004-05-23) revision is -24, and is included in the Solaris 7
Recommended Patch Cluster.
GCC 3.3 triggers a bug in version 5.0 Alpha 03/27/98 of the Sun
assembler, which causes a bootstrap failure when linking the 64-bit
shared version of libgcc. A typical error message is:
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file libgcc/sparcv9/_muldi3.o:
symbol <unknown>: offset 0xffffffff7ec133e7 is non-aligned.
This bug has been fixed in the final 5.0 version of the assembler.
A similar problem was reported for version Sun WorkShop 6 99/08/18
of the Sun assembler, which causes a bootstrap failure with GCC 4.0.0:
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_DISP32:
file .libs/libstdc++.lax/libsupc++convenience.a/vterminate.o:
symbol <unknown>: offset 0xfccd33ad is non-aligned
This bug has been fixed in more recent revisions of the assembler.
sparc-*-linux*
==============
GCC versions 3.0 and higher require binutils 2.11.2 and glibc 2.2.4 or
newer on this platform. All earlier binutils and glibc releases
mishandled unaligned relocations on `sparc-*-*' targets.
sparc64-*-solaris2*
===================
When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) or the MPFR
library, the canonical target triplet must be specified as the `build'
parameter on the configure line. For example on a Solaris 7 system:
% ./configure --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.7 --prefix=xxx
The following compiler flags must be specified in the configure step
in order to bootstrap this target with the Sun compiler:
% CC="cc -xarch=v9 -xildoff" SRCDIR/configure [OPTIONS] [TARGET]
`-xarch=v9' specifies the SPARC-V9 architecture to the Sun toolchain
and `-xildoff' turns off the incremental linker.
sparcv9-*-solaris2*
===================
This is a synonym for sparc64-*-solaris2*.
*-*-vxworks*
============
Support for VxWorks is in flux. At present GCC supports _only_ the
very recent VxWorks 5.5 (aka Tornado 2.2) release, and only on PowerPC.
We welcome patches for other architectures supported by VxWorks 5.5.
Support for VxWorks AE would also be welcome; we believe this is merely
a matter of writing an appropriate "configlette" (see below). We are
not interested in supporting older, a.out or COFF-based, versions of
VxWorks in GCC 3.
VxWorks comes with an older version of GCC installed in
`$WIND_BASE/host'; we recommend you do not overwrite it. Choose an
installation PREFIX entirely outside $WIND_BASE. Before running
`configure', create the directories `PREFIX' and `PREFIX/bin'. Link or
copy the appropriate assembler, linker, etc. into `PREFIX/bin', and set
your PATH to include that directory while running both `configure' and
`make'.
You must give `configure' the `--with-headers=$WIND_BASE/target/h'
switch so that it can find the VxWorks system headers. Since VxWorks
is a cross compilation target only, you must also specify
`--target=TARGET'. `configure' will attempt to create the directory
`PREFIX/TARGET/sys-include' and copy files into it; make sure the user
running `configure' has sufficient privilege to do so.
GCC's exception handling runtime requires a special "configlette"
module, `contrib/gthr_supp_vxw_5x.c'. Follow the instructions in that
file to add the module to your kernel build. (Future versions of
VxWorks will incorporate this module.)
x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*
=====================
GCC supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64 processor
(amd64-*-* is an alias for x86_64-*-*) on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
On GNU/Linux the default is a bi-arch compiler which is able to generate
both 64-bit x86-64 and 32-bit x86 code (via the `-m32' switch).
xtensa*-*-elf
=============
This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the `newlib'
C library. It uses ELF but does not support shared objects.
Designed-defined instructions specified via the Tensilica Instruction
Extension (TIE) language are only supported through inline assembly.
The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to
building GCC. The `include/xtensa-config.h' header file contains the
configuration information. If you created your own Xtensa
configuration with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the downloaded files
include a customized copy of this header file, which you can use to
replace the default header file.
xtensa*-*-linux*
================
This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF
shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates
position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the `-fpic' or
`-fPIC' options are used. In other respects, this target is the same
as the `xtensa*-*-elf' target.
Microsoft Windows
=================
Intel 16-bit versions
---------------------
The 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 3.1, are not
supported.
However, the 32-bit port has limited support for Microsoft Windows
3.11 in the Win32s environment, as a target only. See below.
Intel 32-bit versions
---------------------
The 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 95, Windows NT,
Windows XP, and Windows Vista, are supported by several different target
platforms. These targets differ in which Windows subsystem they target
and which C libraries are used.
* Cygwin *-*-cygwin: Cygwin provides a user-space Linux API
emulation layer in the Win32 subsystem.
* Interix *-*-interix: The Interix subsystem provides native support
for POSIX.
* MinGW *-*-mingw: MinGW is a native GCC port for the Win32
subsystem that provides a subset of POSIX.
* MKS i386-pc-mks: NuTCracker from MKS. See
`http://www.mkssoftware.com/' for more information.
Intel 64-bit versions
---------------------
GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64 runtime library,
available from `http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/'. This library
should be used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32.
Presently Windows for Itanium is not supported.
Windows CE
----------
Windows CE is supported as a target only on ARM (arm-wince-pe), Hitachi
SuperH (sh-wince-pe), and MIPS (mips-wince-pe).
Other Windows Platforms
-----------------------
GCC no longer supports Windows NT on the Alpha or PowerPC.
GCC no longer supports the Windows POSIX subsystem. However, it does
support the Interix subsystem. See above.
Old target names including *-*-winnt and *-*-windowsnt are no longer
used.
PW32 (i386-pc-pw32) support was never completed, and the project
seems to be inactive. See `http://pw32.sourceforge.net/' for more
information.
UWIN support has been removed due to a lack of maintenance.
*-*-cygwin
==========
Ports of GCC are included with the Cygwin environment.
GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build
with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.
Cygwin can be compiled with i?86-pc-cygwin.
*-*-interix
===========
The Interix target is used by OpenNT, Interix, Services For UNIX (SFU),
and Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). Applications compiled
with this target run in the Interix subsystem, which is separate from
the Win32 subsystem. This target was last known to work in GCC 3.3.
For more information, see `http://www.interix.com/'.
*-*-mingw32
===========
GCC will build with and support only MinGW runtime 3.12 and later.
Earlier versions of headers are incompatible with the new default
semantics of `extern inline' in `-std=c99' and `-std=gnu99' modes.
OS/2
====
GCC does not currently support OS/2. However, Andrew Zabolotny has been
working on a generic OS/2 port with pgcc. The current code can be found
at http://www.goof.com/pcg/os2/.
Older systems
=============
GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early 1990s) Unix
variants. For the most part, support for these systems has not been
deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for several years
and may suffer from bitrot.
Starting with GCC 3.1, each release has a list of "obsoleted"
systems. Support for these systems is still present in that release,
but `configure' will fail unless the `--enable-obsolete' option is
given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for these systems
will be removed from the next release of GCC.
Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the
workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the
cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC. In some cases, to
bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may
require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that
system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in the
vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in the
`old-releases' directory on the GCC mirror sites. Header bugs may
generally be avoided using `fixincludes', but bugs or deficiencies in
libraries and the operating system may still cause problems.
Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less
problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast
wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any of
the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last
version before they were removed), patches following the usual
requirements would be likely to be accepted, since they should not
affect the support for more modern targets.
For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful,
and are available from `pub/binutils/old-releases' on sourceware.org
mirror sites.
Some of the information on specific systems above relates to such
older systems, but much of the information about GCC on such systems
(which may no longer be applicable to current GCC) is to be found in
the GCC texinfo manual.
all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
=======================================
C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the GNU
linker; duplicate copies of inlines, vtables and template
instantiations will be discarded automatically.
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