Installing EGCS and BINUTILS together

Installing EGCS and BINUTILS together

[Frederick W. Wheeler]

There have been several questions posted here regarding configuring
EGCS with GLD and GAS.  There are always answers too, so this is by no
means an open question.  Nonetheless, I have accomplished this
configuration in a very straightforward way by installing the egcs
distribution right on top of the binutils distribution, configuring,
compiling and installing.  The configuration/make process recognizes
that the binutils are present and compiles and installs them right
along with gcc.

I am sure that many of the people reading this already know that this
will work.

This was more or less suggested to me by Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
who added the following important caution:
> HOWEVER: you're taking a risk if you do that, since the "official"
> versions were built in a tree that contains an older libiberty and other
> minor differences.  Please don't confuse others by giving them the
> resulting binaries and telling them you've given them, say, gas 2.9.1,
> since you've given them something that may be slightly different.  Also,
> since gas and gld don't change every week like snapshots do, you might not
> want to keep rebuilding them.

Briefly, I do this to make the source tree:
  gzip -cd binutils-2.9.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
  mv binutils-2.9.1 egcs-1.1a
  gzip -cd egcs-1.1a.tar.gz | tar xvf -
then configure with --with-gnu-as and --with-gnu-ld and whatever else.
Some files are overwritten by the second tar.

My full fetch/untar/config/compile/install script is below if you want
more details.

I have used this scheme on Solaris 2.5 and HP-UX 10.20 with eggc-1.1a
and binutils-2.9.1.  Of course, on the HP, gld is not used.  I have
not noticed any problems with the compiler, however, I have not run
the testsuite

Fred Wheeler

#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -f /home/wheeler/usr/download/egcs-1.1a.tar.gz ]; then
  wget -O /home/wheeler/usr/download/egcs-1.1a.tar.gz ftp://cambridge.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.1a/egcs-1.1a.tar.gz
fi
chmod ugo-wx /home/wheeler/usr/download/egcs-1.1a.tar.gz

if [ -d /home/wheeler/usr/stow/egcs-1.1a ]; then
  chmod -R u+w /home/wheeler/usr/stow/egcs-1.1a
fi

cd /home/wheeler/usr/stow
mkdir source-solaris-egcs-1.1a
cd source-solaris-egcs-1.1a
gzip -cd /home/wheeler/usr/download/binutils-2.9.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
mv binutils-2.9.1 egcs-1.1a
gzip -cd /home/wheeler/usr/download/egcs-1.1a.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd egcs-1.1a

cd /home/wheeler/usr/stow
mkdir build-solaris-egcs-1.1a
cd build-solaris-egcs-1.1a
../source-solaris-egcs-1.1a/egcs-1.1a/configure \
--with-gnu-as \
--with-gnu-ld \
--with-stabs \
--prefix=/home/wheeler/usr/stow/egcs-1.1a \
--exec-prefix=/home/wheeler/usr/stow/egcs-1.1a/sparc-sun-solaris2.5 \
--with-local-prefix=/home/wheeler/usr/stow/egcs-1.1a \
--with-gxx-include-dir=/home/wheeler/usr/stow/egcs-1.1a/include/g++

make bootstrap
make info
make install
make install-info

cd /home/wheeler/usr/stow
strip egcs-1.1a/sparc-sun-solaris2.5/bin/*
chmod -R uog-w egcs-1.1a
\rm -rf source-solaris-egcs-1.1a
\rm -rf build-solaris-egcs-1.1a

--
Fred Wheeler
wheeler (at) cipr.rpi.edu
www.cipr.rpi.edu/wheeler