Re: gcc install fails silently (AVR build)

[Sylvain Leroux <sylvain@chicoree.fr>]

Hi Georg-Johann,
And thanks for your answer. Some comments inline:

On 07/18/2012 09:35 PM, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
 > If you also downloaded the sources to /tmp/gcc-4.7.1 don't install
 > the compiler to that location.
gcc source, build and install are three different directories.


> You tried without the program suffix?
>
> If you configure without program-suffix and -prefix, the default name of
> the compiler will ne avr-gcc and also an avr-gcc-4.7.1 will be installed.
Just to make it clear, I was not able to find any combination of program 
suffix/prefix that leads to /all/ my binaries being installed as 
'avr-XXXX-4.7.1'...

I made some further tests:
(1) When I configure without program-suffix and -prefix, I indeed got 
gcc installed as 'avr-gcc-4.7.1' -- but all other binaries lack the 
'-4.7.1' suffix (including g++):
sh$ ../gcc-${VERSION}/configure --prefix=/tmp/gcc-${VERSION} \
                                 --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++
sh$ make -j9 && make install
sh$ ls /tmp/gcc-4.7.1/bin/
avr-c++  avr-g++  avr-gcc-4.7.1  avr-gcc-nm      avr-gcov
avr-cpp  avr-gcc  avr-gcc-ar     avr-gcc-ranlib


(2) When I only add the '-4.7.1' suffix, gcc is still installed as 
'avr-gcc-4.7.1' and all other binaries have the correct suffix -- but no 
longer their prefix:
sh$ ../gcc-${VERSION}/configure --prefix=/tmp/gcc-${VERSION} \
                                 --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++ \
                                 --program-suffix=-4.7.1
sh$ make -j9 && make install
sh$ ls /tmp/gcc-4.7.1/bin/
avr-gcc-4.7.1  cpp-4.7.1  gcc-4.7.1     gcc-nm-4.7.1      gcov-4.7.1
c++-4.7.1      g++-4.7.1  gcc-ar-4.7.1  gcc-ranlib-4.7.1

(3) When I only add the 'avr-' prefix things are going just like in (1) 
(without -prefix and -suffix): gcc is installed as 'avr-gcc-4.7.1' and 
all other binaries only have the 'avr-' prefix:
sh$ ../gcc-${VERSION}/configure --prefix=/tmp/gcc-${VERSION} \
                                 --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++ \
                                 --program-prefix=avr-
sh$ make -j9 && make install
sh$ ls /tmp/gcc-4.7.1/bin/
avr-c++  avr-g++  avr-gcc-4.7.1  avr-gcc-nm      avr-gcov
avr-cpp  avr-gcc  avr-gcc-ar     avr-gcc-ranlib

(4) When I both configure with prefix 'avr-' and suffix '-4.7.1', I got 
all my binaries installed with the correct prefix and suffix -- except 
that gcc is /missing/ !
sh$ ../gcc-${VERSION}/configure --prefix=/tmp/gcc-${VERSION} \
                                 --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++ \
                                 --program-prefix=avr- \
                                 --program-suffix=-4.7.1
sh$ make -j9 && make install
sh$ ls /tmp/gcc-4.7.1/bin/
avr-c++-4.7.1  avr-g++-4.7.1     avr-gcc-nm-4.7.1      avr-gcov-4.7.1
avr-cpp-4.7.1  avr-gcc-ar-4.7.1  avr-gcc-ranlib-4.7.1

(5) When I use a different suffix and no prefix, gcc still is installed 
as ''avr-gcc-4.7.1' whereas the other binaries are installed with the 
requested suffix:
sh$ ../gcc-${VERSION}/configure --prefix=/tmp/gcc-${VERSION} \
                                 --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++ \
                                 --program-suffix=-custom
sh$ make -j9 && make install
sh$ ls /tmp/gcc-4.7.1/bin/
avr-gcc-4.7.1  cpp-custom     gcc-custom     gcc-ranlib-custom  g++-custom
c++-custom     gcc-ar-custom  gcc-nm-custom  gcov-custom


It appears that for some reason the installation of gcc does not follow 
the same path as for the other binaries.


- Sylvain