newbie trying to install and build

newbie trying to install and build

[chris kuhlman]

Hello:

I downloaded gcc-4.3.0 from the gnu site and am trying to install and 
build it on a linux cluster with i86 processors.

I tried to find prebuilt binaries but was able to.

So, I am trying to build it from the source.  I have read through the 
online documentation, but am hoping that default settings will be OK, 
because there was a lot I did not understand.  gcc versions 3.3.5, 
3.4.3; 4.0.1-4.0.3, up to 4.1.0 are already on the machine, so I figured 
that I could build from one of those.

However, I look in the gcc-4.3.0 directory and I type "make" and I get:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

There is a configure script and I ran that.  However, in general, I am 
looking for instructions on how to proceed.  I could not find explicit 
instruction for doing the build within gcc and the URL:
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/

What am I doing wrong?

I am most grateful.
ck

Re: newbie trying to install and build

[Lionel B]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:39:45 -0400, chris kuhlman wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I downloaded gcc-4.3.0 from the gnu site and am trying to install and
> build it on a linux cluster with i86 processors.
> 
> I tried to find prebuilt binaries but was able to.
> 
> So, I am trying to build it from the source.  I have read through the
> online documentation, but am hoping that default settings will be OK,
> because there was a lot I did not understand.  gcc versions 3.3.5,
> 3.4.3; 4.0.1-4.0.3, up to 4.1.0 are already on the machine, so I figured
> that I could build from one of those.
> 
> However, I look in the gcc-4.3.0 directory and I type "make" and I get:
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

The documentation at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/ certainly doesn't tell 
you to do that.

> There is a configure script and I ran that.  However, in general, I am
> looking for instructions on how to proceed.  I could not find explicit
> instruction for doing the build within gcc and the URL:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/

The instructions there look pretty explicit to me. Pay particular heed to 
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html

"First, we highly recommend that GCC be built into a separate directory 
than the sources which does not reside within the source tree..."

> What am I doing wrong?

Not reading the documentation with due care and attention? ;-)

-- 
Lionel B

Re: newbie trying to install and build

[Bill McEnaney]

Chris,

Here's what I do when I build gcc with my Sun workstation that runs
Solaris 8.  I'm sorry about the line break in step 7.  The whole
"configure" command should be on only one line.
> 
1. Ftp the gcc tarball  from ftp.gnu.org.
2. Copy the tarball into /usr/src.
3. Uncompress the tarball with bunzip2.
4. Untar the tarball.
5. Create a directory that's in /usr/src, but outside gcc's source tree.
 For example, I might call that outer directory "gc."
6. Cd into that other directory, into the one I call "gc".
7. Type, for example,
"/usr/src/gcc-4.3.0/configure --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld
 --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as" without the quotation marks.
8. Run "make bootstrap".
9. run "make install".
10. Strip the gcc programs that the worksation installs in /usr/local/bin.
12. Delete the gcc source tree and the "gc" directory both from /usr/src. 
HTH.

Bill
> > 
> > I downloaded gcc-4.3.0 from the gnu site and am trying to install and 
> > build it on a linux cluster with i86 processors.
> > 
> > I tried to find prebuilt binaries but was able to.
> > 
> > So, I am trying to build it from the source.  I have read through the 
> > online documentation, but am hoping that default settings will be OK, 
> > because there was a lot I did not understand.  gcc versions 3.3.5, 
> > 3.4.3; 4.0.1-4.0.3, up to 4.1.0 are already on the machine, so I
figured 
> > that I could build from one of those.
> > 
> > However, I look in the gcc-4.3.0 directory and I type "make" and I get:
> > make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> > 
> > There is a configure script and I ran that.  However, in general, I am 
> > looking for instructions on how to proceed.  I could not find explicit 
> > instruction for doing the build within gcc and the URL:
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/install/
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > I am most grateful.
> > ck
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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