Re: GSoC Blog Post 0 - GCCprefab build system

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 02:51, Wileam Yonatan Phan via Gcc
<gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> This weekend marks the end of the community bonding period for GSoC '22, and
> here’s my progress so far with the GSoC project on Fortran DO CONCURRENT.
>
> I've initialized a GCC mirror on GitHub where I plan to track all patches that
> I will create during the GSoC:
> <https://github.com/wyphan/gfortran-do-concurrent>
>
> I met with Tobias over a MS Teams call on May 30, 2022. Together, we picked GCC
> PR# 102003 as a good starter issue to start delving into the Fortran parser in
> GCC. He also guided me through how to debug the compiler using gdb. Tobias,
> thanks a lot for spending some of your (technically) vacation time with me!
>
> In the meantime, I’ve implemented a simple build script system for GCC that I
> christen "GCCprefab". Before this build system existed, there are only two
> relatively easy ways to build GCC painlessly:
>
> 1. Using Spack package manager: `spack install gcc'
> 2. Using the install script for OpenCoarrays
> <https://github.com/sourceryinstitute/OpenCoarrays>

I disagree there are "only two" ways.

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC describes an arguably much simpler way.