From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28283 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2008 01:28:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 28270 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Mar 2008 01:28:08 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.astro.livjm.ac.uk (HELO mail.astro.livjm.ac.uk) (150.204.240.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:27:49 +0000 Received: from starpc1.astro.livjm.ac.uk (starpc1.astro.livjm.ac.uk [150.204.240.31]) by mail.astro.livjm.ac.uk (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m2D1RZN1024416 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:27:35 GMT Received: from starpc1.astro.livjm.ac.uk (starpc1.astro.livjm.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by starpc1.astro.livjm.ac.uk (8.13.7/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m2D1RZjZ018725 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:27:35 GMT Received: from localhost (ja@localhost) by starpc1.astro.livjm.ac.uk (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) with ESMTP id m2D1REHb018721 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:27:35 GMT Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:28:00 -0000 From: James Allsopp To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Library libbackend.a In-Reply-To: <47D8793D.172CF45D@dessent.net> Message-ID: References: <47D8793D.172CF45D@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-03/txt/msg00114.txt.bz2 Ah, I see, thank you very much for taking the time to explain that to me, much appreciated! Thanks, Jim On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Brian Dessent wrote: > James Allsopp wrote: > >> I'm looking for a library called libbackend.a, produced when gcc is >> compiled. I need it to install g95, which I need because a program I need >> to install complains about gfortran. I'm using gcc-4.2.3 on an up to date >> gentoo install. Any help would be really gratefully received! > > libbackend.a will be in the build tree after successfully building gcc. > It doesn't get installed out of the tree when you install gcc because > it's not intended to be a an actual library, and you won't find it > anywhere other than by building gcc. It's just a temporary convenience > for linking the individual gcc subcompilers (cc1, cc1plus, et cetera) > and it's superfluous once the gcc build is finished. > > Brian > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Allsopp E-mail ja@astro.livjm.ac.uk Astrophysics Research Institute Telephone +44 151 2312922 Liverpool John Moores University Fax +44 151 2312921 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------