From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26834 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2003 02:24:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 26824 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2003 02:24:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO egil.codesourcery.com) (66.92.14.122) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2003 02:24:54 -0000 Received: from zack by egil.codesourcery.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 197nMg-0008RB-00; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:18:34 -0700 To: "Xu, Qiang (XSSC SGP)" Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: gcc compile? From: Zack Weinberg Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:58:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Qiang Xu's message of "Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:04:37 +0800") Message-ID: <877k9ncm12.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg01032.txt.bz2 "Xu, Qiang (XSSC SGP)" writes: > hi, all: > i have downloaded the full package of gcc 2.95.3, if i want to install it by > the method of "make" and "make install", is any previous gcc version before > 2.95.3 is required? ... > is there any stand-alone version of gcc? (stand-alone here means if there is > only the inborn cc compiler with a UNIX system, and this UNIX system hasn't > installed any version of gcc before, can i compile gcc2.95.3 on it?) All released versions of GCC are intended to be stand-alone, in the sense you are using (with the unfortunate exception of the Ada front end). However, there are a number of problems that can arise, most common is that the 'inborn cc compiler' doesn't actually work at all (this is the case on most Solaris systems, for instance). If you would care to be more specific about what sort of Unix system you have, and the nature of its bundled compiler, we can be more helpful. zw