--- gcc/INSTALL 2018/04/24 17:55:42 1.1.1.3 +++ gcc/INSTALL 2018/04/24 18:06:46 1.1.1.5 @@ -1,20 +1,19 @@ -This is Info file INSTALL, produced by Makeinfo-1.47 from the input -file install1.texi. - - This file documents the installation of the GNU compiler. Copyright -(C) 1988, 1989, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. You may copy, +This file documents the installation of the GNU compiler. Copyright +(C) 1988, 1989, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. You may copy, distribute, and modify it freely as long as you preserve this copyright notice and permission notice. - Installing GNU CC -****************** +***************** Here is the procedure for installing GNU CC on a Unix system. 1. If you have built GNU CC previously in the same directory for a different target machine, do `make distclean' to delete all files - that might be invalid. + that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is + `Makefile'; if `make distclean' complains that `Makefile' does not + exist, it probably means that the directory is already suitably + clean. 2. On a System V release 4 system, make sure `/usr/bin' precedes `/usr/ucb' in `PATH'. The `cc' command in `/usr/ucb' uses @@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ Installing GNU CC If you are building a compiler to produce code for the machine it runs on, specify just one machine type. Use the `--target' - option; the host type will default to be the same as the target. + option; the host type will default to be the same as the target. (For information on building a cross-compiler, see *Note Cross-Compiler::.) The command looks like this: @@ -35,13 +34,13 @@ Installing GNU CC abbreviated. A canonical configuration name has three parts, separated by - dashes. It looks like this: `CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM'. (The three parts - may themselves contain dashes; `configure' can figure out which - dashes serve which purpose.) For example, `m68k-sun-sunos4.1' - specifies a Sun 3. + dashes. It looks like this: `CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM'. (The three + parts may themselves contain dashes; `configure' can figure out + which dashes serve which purpose.) For example, + `m68k-sun-sunos4.1' specifies a Sun 3. You can also replace parts of the configuration by nicknames or - aliases. For example, `sun3' stands for `m68k-sun', so + aliases. For example, `sun3' stands for `m68k-sun', so `sun3-sunos4.1' is another way to specify a Sun 3. You can also use simply `sun3-sunos', since the version of SunOS is assumed by default to be version 4. `sun3-bsd' also works, since `configure' @@ -54,15 +53,17 @@ Installing GNU CC Here are the possible CPU types: - a29k, arm, cN, hppa1.0, hppa1.1, i386, i860, i960, m68000, - m68k, m88k, mips, ns32k, romp, rs6000, sparc, vax, we32k. + a29k, alpha, arm, cN, clipper, elxsi, h8300, hppa1.0, hppa1.1, + i386, i860, i960, m68000, m68k, m88k, mips, ns32k, pyramid, + romp, rs6000, sh, sparc, sparclite, vax, we32k. Here are the recognized company names. As you can see, customary abbreviations are used rather than the longer official names. - alliant, altos, apollo, att, convergent, convex, crds, dec, - dg, encore, harris, hp, ibm, mips, motorola, ncr, next, ns, - omron, sequent, sgi, sony, sun, tti, unicom. + alliant, altos, apollo, att, bull, cbm, convergent, convex, + crds, dec, dg, dolphin, elxsi, encore, harris, hitachi, hp, + ibm, intergraph, isi, mips, motorola, ncr, next, ns, omron, + plexus, sequent, sgi, sony, sun, tti, unicom. The company name is meaningful only to disambiguate when the rest of the information supplied is insufficient. You can omit it, @@ -71,9 +72,9 @@ Installing GNU CC Here is a list of system types: - bsd, sysv, mach, minix, genix, ultrix, vms, sco, isc, aix, - sunos, hpux, unos, luna, dgux, newsos, osfrose, osf, dynix, - aos, ctix. + aix, acis, aos, bsd, clix, ctix, dgux, dynix, genix, hpux, + isc, linux, luna, mach, minix, newsos, osf, osfrose, riscos, + sco, solaris, sunos, sysv, ultrix, unos, vms. You can omit the system type; then `configure' guesses the operating system from the CPU and company. @@ -87,13 +88,13 @@ Installing GNU CC If you specify an impossible combination such as `i860-dg-vms', then you may get an error message from `configure', or it may ignore part of the information and do the best it can with the - rest. `configure' always prints the canonical name for the + rest. `configure' always prints the canonical name for the alternative that it used. Often a particular model of machine has a name. Many machine - names are recognized as aliases for CPU/company combinations. + names are recognized as aliases for CPU/company combinations. Thus, the machine name `sun3', mentioned above, is an alias for - `m68k-sun'. Sometimes we accept a company name as a machine name, + `m68k-sun'. Sometimes we accept a company name as a machine name, when the name is popularly used for a particular machine. Here is a table of the known machine names: @@ -108,57 +109,143 @@ Installing GNU CC Remember that a machine name specifies both the cpu type and the company name. - There are three additional options you can specify independently to + There are four additional options you can specify independently to describe variant hardware and software configurations. These are - `--with-gnu-as', `--with-gnu-ld', and `--nfp'. + `--with-gnu-as', `--with-gnu-ld', `--with-stabs' and `--nfp'. `--with-gnu-as' - On certain systems, you must specify whether you want GNU CC - to work with the usual compilation tools or with the GNU - compilation tools (including GAS). Use the `--with-gnu-as' - argument when you run `configure', if you want to use the GNU - tools. (Specify `--with-gnu-ld' as well, since on these - systems GAS works only with the GNU linker.) The systems - were this makes a difference are `i386-ANYTHING-sysv', - `i860-ANYTHING-bsd', `m68k-hp-hpux', `m68k-sony-bsd', - `m68k-altos-sysv', `m68000-hp-hpux', and `m68000-att-sysv'. - On any other system, `--with-gnu-as' has no effect. + If you will use GNU CC with the GNU assembler (GAS), you + should declare this by using the `--with-gnu-as' option when + you run `configure'. + + Using this option does not install GAS. It only modifies the + output of GNU CC to work with GAS. Building and installing + GAS is up to you. + + The systems where it makes a difference whether you use GAS + are `i386-ANYTHING-sysv', `i860-ANYTHING-bsd', + `m68k-hp-hpux', `m68k-sony-bsd', `m68k-altos-sysv', + `m68000-hp-hpux', `m68000-att-sysv', and `mips-ANY'). On any + other system, `--with-gnu-as' has no effect. + + On the systems listed above, if you use GAS, you should also + use the GNU linker (and specify `--with-gnu-ld'). `--with-gnu-ld' Specify the option `--with-gnu-ld' if you plan to use the GNU - linker. This inhibits the installation of `collect2', a - program which otherwise serves as a front-end for the - system's linker on most configurations. + linker with GNU CC. + + This option does not cause the GNU linker to be installed; it + just modifies the behavior of GNU CC to work with the GNU + linker. Specifically, it inhibits the installation of + `collect2', a program which otherwise serves as a front-end + for the system's linker on most configurations. + + `--with-stabs' + On MIPS based systems, you must specify whether you want GNU + CC to create the normal ECOFF debugging format, or to use + BSD-style stabs passed through the ECOFF symbol table. The + normal ECOFF debug format cannot fully handle languages other + than C. BSD stabs format can handle other languages, but it + only works with the GNU debugger GDB. + + Normally, GNU CC uses the ECOFF debugging format by default; + if you prefer BSD stabs, specify `--with-stabs' when you + configure GNU CC. + + No matter which default you choose when you configure GNU CC, + the user can use the `-gcoff' and `-gstabs+' options to + specify explicitly the debug format for a particular + compilation. `--nfp' On certain systems, you must specify whether the machine has - a floating point unit. These systems are `m68k-sun-sunosN' - and `m68k-isi-bsd'. On any other system, `--nfp' currently - has no effect, though perhaps there are other systems where - it could usefully make a difference. + a floating point unit. These systems include + `m68k-sun-sunosN' and `m68k-isi-bsd'. On any other system, + `--nfp' currently has no effect, though perhaps there are + other systems where it could usefully make a difference. If you want to install your own homemade configuration files, you can use `local' as the company name to access them. If you use - configuration `CPU-local', the entire configuration name is used - to form the configuration file names. + configuration `CPU-local', the configuration name without the cpu + prefix is used to form the configuration file names. - Thus, if you specify `m68k-local', then the files used are - `m68k-local.md', `m68k-local.h', `m68k-local.c', - `xm-m68k-local.h', `t-m68k-local', and `x-m68k-local'. + Thus, if you specify `m68k-local', configuration uses files + `local.md', `local.h', `local.c', `xm-local.h', `t-local', and + `x-local', all in the directory `config/m68k'. Here is a list of configurations that have special treatment or special things you must know: + `alpha-*-osf1' + Systems using processors that implement the DEC Alpha + architecture and are running the OSF/1 operating system, for + example the DEC Alpha AXP systems. (VMS on the Alpha is not + currently supported by GNU CC.) + + GNU CC writes a `.verstamp' directive to the assembler output + file unless it is built as a cross-compiler. It gets the + version to use from the system header file + `/usr/include/stamp.h'. If you install a new version of + OSF/1, you should rebuild GCC to pick up the new version + stamp. + + Note that since the Alpha is a 64-bit architecture, + cross-compilers from 32-bit machines will not generate as + efficient code as that generated when the compiler is running + on a 64-bit machine because many optimizations that depend on + being able to represent a word on the target in an integral + value on the host cannot be performed. Building + cross-compilers for 32-bit machines that run on the Alpha has + not been tested and may not work properly. + + `a29k' + AMD Am29k-family processors. These are normally used in + embedded applications. There are no standard Unix + configurations. This configuration corresponds to AMD's + standard calling sequence and binary interface and is + compatible with other 29k tools. + + You may need to make a variant of the file `a29k.h' for your + particular configuration. + + `a29k-*-bsd' + AMD Am29050 used in a system running a variant of BSD Unix. + + `elxsi-elxsi-bsd' + The Elxsi's C compiler has known limitations that prevent it + from compiling GNU C. Please contact `mrs@cygnus.com' for + more details. + `i386-*-sco' - Compilation with RCC is recommended, but it produces lots of - spurious warnings. They do not necessarily indicate that - anything is wrong. + Compilation with RCC is recommended. Also, it may be a good + idea to link with GNU malloc instead of the malloc that comes + with the system. + + `i386-*-isc' + It may be good idea to link with GNU malloc instead of the + malloc that comes with the system. + + `i386-*-esix' + It may be good idea to link with GNU malloc instead of the + malloc that comes with the system. + + `i386-ibm-aix' + You need to use GAS version 2.1 or later, and and LD from GNU + binutils version 2.2 or later. `i386-sequent' Go to the Berkeley universe before compiling. In addition, you probably need to create a file named `string.h' containing just one line: `#include '. + `i386-sun-sunos4' + You may find that you need another version of GNU CC to begin + bootstrapping with, since the current version when built with + the system's own compiler seems to get an infinite loop + compiling part of `libgcc2.c'. GNU CC version 2 compiled + with GNU CC (any version) seems not to have this problem. + `m68000-att' AT&T 3b1, a.k.a. 7300 PC. Special procedures are needed to compile GNU CC with this machine's standard C compiler, due @@ -173,8 +260,8 @@ Installing GNU CC `m68k-altos' Altos 3068. You must use the GNU assembler, linker and - debugger, with COFF-encapsulation. Also, you must fix a - kernel bug. Details in the file `README.ALTOS'. + debugger. Also, you must fix a kernel bug. Details in the + file `README.ALTOS'. `m68k-hp-hpux' HP 9000 series 300 or 400 running HP-UX. HP-UX version 8.0 @@ -191,18 +278,21 @@ Installing GNU CC handlers for floating point traps inherently cannot work with the FPA. - `m88k-svr3' - Motorola m88k running the AT&T/Unisoft/Motorla V.3 reference - port. These systems tend to use the Green Hills C, revision + `m88k-*-svr3' + Motorola m88k running the AT&T/Unisoft/Motorola V.3 reference + port. These systems tend to use the Green Hills C, revision 1.8.5, as the standard C compiler. There are apparently bugs in this compiler that result in object files differences between stage 2 and stage 3. If this happens, make the stage 4 compiler and compare it to the stage 3 compiler. If the stage 3 and stage 4 object files are identical, this suggests - a problem with the standard C compiler. It is best, however, - to use an older version of GNU CC for bootstrapping. + you encountered a problem with the standard C compiler; the + stage 3 and 4 compilers may be usable. - `m88k-dgux' + It is best, however, to use an older version of GNU CC for + bootstrapping if you have one. + + `m88k-*-dgux' Motorola m88k running DG/UX. To build native or cross compilers on DG/UX, you must first change to the 88open BCS software development environment. This is done by issuing @@ -210,17 +300,34 @@ Installing GNU CC eval `sde-target m88kbcs` + `m88k-tektronix-sysv3' + Tektronix XD88 running UTekV 3.2e. Do not turn on + optimization while building stage1 if you bootstrap with the + buggy Green Hills compiler. Also, The bundled LAI System V + NFS is buggy so if you build in an NFS mounted directory, + start from a fresh reboot, or avoid NFS all together. + Otherwise you may have trouble getting clean comparisons + between stages. + `mips-mips-bsd' - MIPS machines running the MIPS operating system in BSD mode. + MIPS machines running the MIPS operating system in BSD mode. It's possible that some old versions of the system lack the functions `memcpy', `memcmp', and `memset'. If your system lacks these, you must remove or undo the definition of `TARGET_MEM_FUNCTIONS' in `mips-bsd.h'. + `mips-sgi-*' + Silicon Graphics MIPS machines running IRIX. In order to + compile GCC on an SGI the "c.hdr.lib" option must be + installed from the CD-ROM supplied from Silicon Graphics. + This is found on the 2nd CD in release 4.0.1. + `mips-sony-sysv' Sony MIPS NEWS. This works in NEWSOS 5.0.1, but not in 5.0.2 (which uses ELF instead of COFF). Support for 5.0.2 will - probably be provided soon by volunteers. + probably be provided soon by volunteers. In particular, the + linker does not like the code generated by GCC when shared + libraries are linked in. `ns32k-encore' Encore ns32000 system. Encore systems are supported only @@ -246,11 +353,19 @@ Installing GNU CC `romp-*-mach' The only operating systems supported for the IBM RT PC are AOS and MACH. GNU CC does not support AIX running on the RT. + We recommend you compile GNU CC with an earlier version of + itself; if you compile GNU CC with `hc', the Metaware + compiler, it will work, but you will get mismatches between + the stage 2 and stage 3 compilers in various files. These + errors are minor differences in some floating-point constants + and can be safely ignored; the stage 3 compiler is correct. `rs6000-*-aix' - Read the file `README.RS6000' for information on how to get a - fix for a problem in the IBM assembler that prevents use of - GNU CC. + *Read the file `README.RS6000' for information on how to get + a fix for problems in the IBM assembler that interfere with + GNU CC.* You must either obtain the new assembler or avoid + using the `-g' switch. Note that `Makefile.in' uses `-g' by + default when compiling `libgcc2.c'. `vax-dec-ultrix' Don't try compiling with Vax C (`vcc'). It produces @@ -263,12 +378,7 @@ Installing GNU CC compiler first, and use it to recompile building all the languages that you want to run. - `we32k-att-sysv' - Don't use `-g' when compiling GNU CC. The system's linker - seems to be unable to handle such a large program with - debugging information. - - Here we spell out what files will be set up by `configure'. + Here we spell out what files will be set up by `configure'. Normally you need not be concerned with these files. * A symbolic link named `config.h' is made to the top-level @@ -278,7 +388,7 @@ Installing GNU CC machine. It includes `tm.h'. The top-level config file is located in the subdirectory - `config'. Its name is always `xm-SOMETHING.h'; usually + `config'. Its name is always `xm-SOMETHING.h'; usually `xm-MACHINE.h', but there are some exceptions. If your system does not support symbolic links, you might @@ -304,13 +414,26 @@ Installing GNU CC output subroutine file for your machine. It should be in the `config' subdirectory and its name should be `MACHINE.c'. - * The command file `configure' also constructs `Makefile' by - adding some text to the template file `Makefile.in'. The - additional text comes from files in the `config' directory, - named `t-TARGET' and `h-HOST'. If these files do not exist, - it means nothing needs to be added for a given target or host. + * The command file `configure' also constructs the file + `Makefile' by adding some text to the template file + `Makefile.in'. The additional text comes from files in the + `config' directory, named `t-TARGET' and `x-HOST'. If these + files do not exist, it means nothing needs to be added for a + given target or host. + + 4. The standard directory for installing GNU CC is `/usr/local/lib'. + If you want to install its files somewhere else, specify + `--prefix=DIR' when you run `configure'. Here DIR is a directory + name to use instead of `/usr/local' for all purposes with one + exception: the directory `/usr/local/include' is searched for + header files no matter where you install the compiler. + + 5. Specify `--local-prefix=DIR' if you want the compiler to search + directory `DIR/include' for header files *instead* of + `/usr/local/include'. (This is for systems that have different + conventions for where to put site-specific things.) - 4. Make sure the Bison parser generator is installed. (This is + 6. Make sure the Bison parser generator is installed. (This is unnecessary if the Bison output files `c-parse.c' and `cexp.c' are more recent than `c-parse.y' and `cexp.y' and you do not plan to change the `.y' files.) @@ -318,7 +441,7 @@ Installing GNU CC Bison versions older than Sept 8, 1988 will produce incorrect output for `c-parse.c'. - 5. Build the compiler. Just type `make LANGUAGES=c' in the compiler + 7. Build the compiler. Just type `make LANGUAGES=c' in the compiler directory. `LANGUAGES=c' specifies that only the C compiler should be @@ -333,9 +456,11 @@ Installing GNU CC the list `c', `c++', and `objective-c'. Ignore any warnings you may see about "statement not reached" in - `insn-emit.c'; they are normal. Any other compilation errors may - represent bugs in the port to your machine or operating system, and - should be investigated and reported. + `insn-emit.c'; they are normal. Also, warnings about "unknown + escape sequence" are normal in `genopinit.c' and perhaps some + other files. Any other compilation errors may represent bugs in + the port to your machine or operating system, and should be + investigated and reported. Some commercial compilers fail to compile GNU CC because they have bugs or limitations. For example, the Microsoft compiler is said @@ -344,32 +469,38 @@ Installing GNU CC the problem happens. If you are building with a previous GNU C compiler, do not use - `CC=gcc' on the make command or by editing the Makefile. Instead, + `CC=gcc' on the make command or by editing the Makefile. Instead, use a full pathname to specify the compiler, such as `CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc'. This is because make might execute the `gcc' in the current directory before all of the compiler components have been built. - 6. If you are using COFF-encapsulation, you must convert `libgcc.a' to - a GNU-format library at this point. See the file `README.ENCAP' - in the directory containing the GNU binary file utilities, for - directions. - - 7. If you are building a cross-compiler, stop here. *Note + 8. If you are building a cross-compiler, stop here. *Note Cross-Compiler::. - 8. Move the first-stage object files and executables into a + 9. Move the first-stage object files and executables into a subdirectory with this command: make stage1 - The files are moved into a subdirectory named `stage1'. Once + The files are moved into a subdirectory named `stage1'. Once installation is complete, you may wish to delete these files with `rm -r stage1'. - 9. Recompile the compiler with itself, with this command: + 10. If you have chosen a configuration for GNU CC which requires other + GNU tools (such as GAS or the GNU linker) instead of the standard + system tools, install the required tools in the `stage1' + subdirectory under the names `as', `ld' or whatever is + appropriate. This will enable the stage 1 compiler to find the + proper tools in the following stage. + + Alternatively, you can do subsequent compilation using a value of + the `PATH' environment variable such that the necessary GNU tools + come before the standard system tools. - make CC="stage1/gcc -Bstage1/" CFLAGS="-g -O" + 11. Recompile the compiler with itself, with this command: + + make CC="stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/" CFLAGS="-g -O" This is called making the stage 2 compiler. @@ -392,22 +523,23 @@ Installing GNU CC you have selected a `tm.h' file that expects by default that there is no such hardware, do this instead: - make CC="stage1/gcc -Bstage1/" CFLAGS="-g -O -msoft-float" + make CC="stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/" CFLAGS="-g -O -msoft-float" - 10. If you wish to test the compiler by compiling it with itself one - more time, do this: + 12. If you wish to test the compiler by compiling it with itself one + more time, install any other necessary GNU tools (such as GAS or + the GNU linker) in the `stage2' subdirectory as you did in the + `stage1' subdirectory, then do this: make stage2 - make CC="stage2/gcc -Bstage2/" CFLAGS="-g -O" + make CC="stage2/xgcc -Bstage2/" CFLAGS="-g -O" This is called making the stage 3 compiler. Aside from the `-B' - option, the options should be the same as when you made the stage 2 - compiler. - - The command shown above builds compilers for all the supported - languages. If you don't want them all, you can specify the - languages to build by typing the argument `LANGUAGES="LIST"', as - described above. + option, the compiler options should be the same as when you made + the stage 2 compiler. But the `LANGUAGES' option need not be the + same. The command shown above builds compilers for all the + supported languages; if you don't want them all, you can specify + the languages to build by typing the argument `LANGUAGES="LIST"', + as described above. Then compare the latest object files with the stage 2 object files--they ought to be identical, unless they contain time stamps. @@ -432,33 +564,40 @@ Installing GNU CC If you have built the compiler with the `-mno-mips-tfile' option on MIPS machines, you will not be able to compare the files. - 11. Install the compiler driver, the compiler's passes and run-time - support. You can use the following command: + The Alpha stores file names in the object files and `make compare' + does not know how to ignore them, so normally you cannot compare + on the Alpha. However, if you use the `-save-temps' option when + compiling *both* stage 2 and stage 3, this causes the same file + names to be used in both stages; then you can do the comparison. + + 13. Install the compiler driver, the compiler's passes and run-time + support with `make install'. Use the same value for `CC', + `CFLAGS' and `LANGUAGES' that you used when compiling the files + that are being installed. One reason this is necessary is that + some versions of Make have bugs and recompile files gratuitously + when you do this step. If you use the same variable values, those + files will be recompiled properly. - make CC="stage2/gcc -Bstage2/" CFLAGS="-g -O" install LANGUAGES="LIST" + For example, if you have built the stage 2 compiler, you can use + the following command: - (Use the same value for `CC', `CFLAGS' and `LANGUAGES' that you - used when compiling the files that are being installed. One - reason this is necessary is that some versions of Make have bugs - and recompile files gratuitously when you do this step. If you - use the same variable values, those files will be recompiled - properly. + make install CC="stage2/xgcc -Bstage2/" CFLAGS="-g -O" LANGUAGES="LIST" This copies the files `cc1', `cpp' and `libgcc.a' to files `cc1', - `cpp' and `libgcc.a' in directory + `cpp' and `libgcc.a' in the directory `/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/TARGET/VERSION', which is where the compiler driver program looks for them. Here TARGET is the target machine type specified when you ran `configure', and VERSION is the version number of GNU CC. This naming scheme permits various versions and/or cross-compilers to coexist. - It also copies the driver program `gcc' into the directory - `/usr/local/bin', so that it appears in typical execution search - paths. - - On some systems, this command will cause recompilation of some - files. This is usually due to bugs in `make'. You should either - ignore this problem, or use GNU Make. + This also copies the driver program `xgcc' into + `/usr/local/bin/gcc', so that it appears in typical execution + search paths. + + On some systems, this command causes recompilation of some files. + This is usually due to bugs in `make'. You should either ignore + this problem, or use GNU Make. *Warning: there is a bug in `alloca' in the Sun library. To avoid this bug, be sure to install the executables of GNU CC that were @@ -470,50 +609,20 @@ Installing GNU CC or 3, since they usually run faster than the ones compiled with some other compiler.) - 12. Correct errors in the header files on your machine. - - Various system header files often contain constructs which are - incompatible with ANSI C, and they will not work when you compile - programs with GNU CC. This behavior consists of substituting for - macro argument names when they appear inside of character - constants. The most common offender is `ioctl.h'. - - You can overcome this problem when you compile by specifying the - `-traditional' option. - - Alternatively, on Sun systems and 4.3BSD at least, you can correct - the include files by running the shell script `fixincludes'. This - installs modified, corrected copies of the files `ioctl.h', - `ttychars.h' and many others, in a special directory where only - GNU CC will normally look for them. This script will work on - various systems because it chooses the files by searching all the - system headers for the problem cases that we know about. - - Use the following command to do this: - - make install-fixincludes - - If you selected a different directory for GNU CC installation when - you installed it, by specifying the Make variable `prefix' or - `libdir', specify it the same way in this command. - - Note that some systems are starting to come with ANSI C system - header files. On these systems, don't run `fixincludes'; it may - not work, and is certainly not necessary. - - If you cannot install the compiler's passes and run-time support in -`/usr/local/lib', you can alternatively use the `-B' option to specify -a prefix by which they may be found. The compiler concatenates the -prefix with the names `cpp', `cc1' and `libgcc.a'. Thus, you can put -the files in a directory `/usr/foo/gcc' and specify `-B/usr/foo/gcc/' -when you run GNU CC. + 14. Install the Objective C library (if you have built the Objective C + compiler). Here is the command to do this: - Also, you can specify an alternative default directory for these -files by setting the Make variable `libdir' when you make GNU CC. + make install-libobjc CC="stage2/xgcc -Bstage2/" CFLAGS="-g -O" + 15. If you're going to use C++, it's likely that you need to also + install the libg++ distribution. It should be available from the + same place where you got the GNU C distribution. Just as GNU C + does not distribute a C runtime library, it also does not include + a C++ run-time library. All I/O functionality, special class + libraries, etc., are available in the libg++ distribution. Compilation in a Separate Directory -==================================== +=================================== If you wish to build the object files and executables in a directory other than the one containing the source files, here is what you must @@ -556,16 +665,15 @@ configuration steps shown above, when or must, however, run `configure' again when the configuration files change, if your system does not support symbolic links. - Building and Installing a Cross-Compiler -========================================= +======================================== GNU CC can function as a cross-compiler for many machines, but not all. - * Cross-compilers for the Mips as target do not work because the - auxiliary programs `mips-tdump.c' and `mips-tfile.c' can't be - compiled on anything but a Mips. + * Cross-compilers for the Mips as target currently do not work + because the auxiliary programs `mips-tdump.c' and `mips-tfile.c' + can't be compiled on anything but a Mips. * Cross-compilers to or from the Vax probably don't work completely because the Vax uses an incompatible floating point format (not @@ -578,7 +686,7 @@ cross-linker as well. You also need hea for the target machine that you can install on the host machine. To build GNU CC as a cross-compiler, you start out by running -`configure'. You must specify two different configureations, the host +`configure'. You must specify two different configurations, the host and the target. Use the `--host=HOST' option for the host and `--target=TARGET' to specify the target type. For example, here is how to configure for a cross-compiler that runs on a hypothetical Intel 386 @@ -587,18 +695,42 @@ system and produces code for an HP 68030 configure --target=m68k-hp-bsd4.3 --host=i386-bozotheclone-bsd4.3 Next you should install the cross-assembler and cross-linker (and -`ar' and `ranlib'). Put them in the directory `/usr/local/TARGET'. +`ar' and `ranlib'). Put them in the directory `/usr/local/TARGET/bin'. The installation of GNU CC will find them there and copy or link them to the proper place to find them when you run the cross-compiler later. If you want to install any additional libraries to use with the cross-compiler, put them in the directory `/usr/local/TARGET/lib'; all files in that subdirectory will be installed in the proper place when -you install the cross-compiler. Likewise, put the header files for the +you install the cross-compiler. Likewise, put the header files for the target machine in `/usr/local/TARGET/include'. - Then you can proceed just as for compiling a single-machine compiler -through the step of building stage 1. + You must now produce a substitute for `libgcc1.a'. Normally this +file is compiled with the "native compiler" for the target machine; +compiling it with GNU CC does not work. But compiling it with the host +machine's compiler also doesn't work--that produces a file that would +run on the host, and you need it to run on the target. + + We can't give you any automatic way to produce this substitute. For +some targets, the subroutines in `libgcc1.c' are not actually used. +You need not provide the ones that won't be used. The ones that most +commonly are used are the multiplication, division and remainder +routines--many RISC machines rely on the library for this. One way to +make them work is to define the appropriate `perform_...' macros for +the subroutines that you need. If these definitions do not use the C +arithmetic operators that they are meant to implement, you might be +able to compile them with the cross-compiler you are building. To do +this, specify `LIBGCC1=libgcc1.a OLDCC=./xgcc' when building the +compiler. + + Now you can proceed just as for compiling a single-machine compiler +through the step of building stage 1. If you have not provided some +sort of `libgcc1.a', then compilation will give up at the point where +it needs that file, printing a suitable error message. If you do +provide `libgcc1.a', then building the compiler will automatically +compile and link a test program called `cross-test'; if you get errors +in the linking, it means that not all of the necessary routines in +`libgcc1.a' are available. When you are using a cross-compiler configuration, building stage 1 does not compile all of GNU CC. This is because one part of building, @@ -608,22 +740,6 @@ the compilation of `libgcc2.c', requires cross-compiler, that will also compile `libgcc2.c' and install the resulting `libgcc.a'. - You will find it necessary to produce a substitute for `libgcc1.a'. -Normally this file is compiled with the "native compiler" for the -target machine; compiling it with GNU CC does not work. But compiling -it with the host machine's compiler also doesn't work--that produces a -file that would run on the host, and you need it to run on the target. - - We can't give you any automatic way to produce this substitute. For -some targets, the subroutines in `libgcc1.c' are not actually used. You -need not provide the ones that won't be used. The ones that most -commonly are used are the multiplication, division and remainder -routines--many RISC machines rely on the library for this. One way to -make them work is to define the appropriate `perform_...' macros for -the subroutines that you need. If these definitions do not use the C -arithmetic operators that they are meant to implement, you might be -able to compile them with the cross-compiler you have just built. - Do not try to build stage 2 for a cross-compiler. It doesn't work to rebuild GNU CC as a cross-compiler using the cross-compiler, because that would produce a program that runs on the target machine, not on the @@ -634,9 +750,8 @@ for a 386 as the host). If you want to whether you compile it on a 68030 or with a cross-compiler on a 386, you must specify a 68030 as the host when you configure it. - -Installing GNU CC on the HP Precision Architecture -=================================================== +Installing on the HP Precision Architecture +=========================================== There are two variants of this CPU, called 1.0 and 1.1, which have different machine descriptions. You must use the right one for your @@ -649,27 +764,51 @@ machine. Then `configure' will figure o 1.1. Use `uname -a' to find out the model number of your machine. `-g' does not work on HP-UX, since that system uses a peculiar -debugging format which GNU CC does not know about. There is a -preliminary version available of some modified GNU tools including the -GDB debugger which do work with GNU CC for debugging. You can get them -by anonymous ftp from `mancos.cs.utah.edu' in the `dist' subdirectory. -You would need to install GAS in the file +debugging format which GNU CC does not know about. There are +preliminary versions of GAS and GDB for the HP-PA which do work with +GNU CC for debugging. You can get them by anonymous ftp from +`jaguar.cs.utah.edu' `dist' subdirectory. You would need to install +GAS in the file /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/CONFIGURATION/GCCVERSION/as where CONFIGURATION is the configuration name (perhaps `hpNNN-hpux') -and GCCVERSION is the GNU CC version number. - - If you do this, delete the line - - #undef DBX_DEBUGGING_INFO - -from `tm.h' before you build GNU CC, to enable generation of debugging -information. - +and GCCVERSION is the GNU CC version number. Do this *before* starting +the build process, otherwise you will get errors from the HPUX +assembler while building `libgcc2.a'. The command + + make install-dir + +will create the necessary directory hierarchy so you can install GAS +before building GCC. + + If you obtained GAS before October 6, 1992 it is highly recommended +you get a new one to avoid several bugs which have been discovered +recently. + + To enable debugging, configure GNU CC with the `--gas' option before +building. + + It has been reported that GNU CC produces invalid assembly code for +1.1 machines running HP-UX 8.02 when using the HP assembler. Typically +the errors look like this: + as: bug.s @line#15 [err#1060] + Argument 0 or 2 in FARG upper + - lookahead = ARGW1=FR,RTNVAL=GR + as: foo.s @line#28 [err#1060] + Argument 0 or 2 in FARG upper + - lookahead = ARGW1=FR + + You can check the version of HP-UX you are running by executing the +command `uname -r'. If you are indeed running HP-UX 8.02 on a 1.1 +machine and using the HP assembler then configure GCC with +"hp700-hpux8.02". Installing GNU CC on the Sun -============================= +============================ + + On Solaris (version 2.1), do not use the linker or other tools in +`/usr/ucb' to build GNU CC. Use `/usr/ccs/bin'. Make sure the environment variable `FLOAT_OPTION' is not set when you compile `libgcc.a'. If this option were set to `f68881' when @@ -689,9 +828,8 @@ it by using the following command to com make CC="TERMCAP=x OBJS=x LIBFUNCS=x STAGESTUFF=x cc" - Installing GNU CC on the 3b1 -============================= +============================ Installing GNU CC on the 3b1 is difficult if you do not already have GNU CC running, due to bugs in the installed C compiler. However, the @@ -718,9 +856,8 @@ following procedure might work. We are 8. Now you can compile GNU CC with itself and install it in the normal fashion. - Installing GNU CC on Unos -========================== +========================= Use `configure unos' for building on Unos. @@ -733,12 +870,12 @@ are installed: #!/bin/sh casm $* - The default Unos library is named `libunos.a' instead of `libc.a'. + The default Unos library is named `libunos.a' instead of `libc.a'. To allow GNU CC to function, either change all references to `-lc' in `gcc.c' to `-lunos' or link `/lib/libc.a' to `/lib/libunos.a'. When compiling GNU CC with the standard compiler, to overcome bugs in -the support of `alloca', do not use `-O' when making stage 2. Then use +the support of `alloca', do not use `-O' when making stage 2. Then use the stage 2 compiler with `-O' to make the stage 3 compiler. This compiler will have the same characteristics as the usual stage 2 compiler on other systems. Use it to make a stage 4 compiler and @@ -750,12 +887,11 @@ inform us of whether this works.) Unos uses memory segmentation instead of demand paging, so you will need a lot of memory. 5 Mb is barely enough if no other tasks are -running. If linking `cc1' fails, try putting the object files into a +running. If linking `cc1' fails, try putting the object files into a library and linking from that library. - Installing GNU CC on VMS -========================= +======================== The VMS version of GNU CC is distributed in a backup saveset containing both source code and precompiled binaries. @@ -765,9 +901,9 @@ the same manner as you use the VMS C com CLD file for GNU CC as follows: 1. Define the VMS logical names `GNU_CC' and `GNU_CC_INCLUDE' to - point to the directories where the GNU CC executables (`gcc-cpp', - `gcc-cc1', etc.) and the C include files are kept. This should be - done with the commands: + point to the directories where the GNU CC executables + (`gcc-cpp.exe', `gcc-cc1.exe', etc.) and the C include files are + kept respectively. This should be done with the commands: $ assign /system /translation=concealed - disk:[gcc.] gnu_cc @@ -787,7 +923,7 @@ CLD file for GNU CC as follows: 3. To install the help file, do the following: - $ lib/help sys$library:helplib.hlb gcc.hlp + $ library/help sys$library:helplib.hlb gcc.hlp Now you can invoke the compiler with a command like `gcc /verbose file.c', which is equivalent to the command `gcc -v -c file.c' in @@ -798,7 +934,7 @@ perform the following steps: 1. Define the VMS logical name `GNU_GXX_INCLUDE' to point to the directory where the preprocessor will search for the C++ header - files. This can be done with the command: + files. This can be done with the command: $ assign /system /translation=concealed - disk:[gcc.gxx_include.] gnu_gxx_include @@ -816,18 +952,19 @@ perform the following steps: We try to put corresponding binaries and sources on the VMS distribution tape. But sometimes the binaries will be from an older -version that the sources, because we don't always have time to update +version than the sources, because we don't always have time to update them. (Use the `/version' option to determine the version number of the binaries and compare it with the source file `version.c' to tell whether this is so.) In this case, you should use the binaries you get to recompile the sources. If you must recompile, here is how: - 1. Copy the file `vms.h' to `tm.h', `xm-vms.h' to `config.h', - `vax.md' to `md.' and `vax.c' to `aux-output.c'. The files to be - copied are found in the subdirectory named `config'; they should - be copied to the main directory of GNU CC. If you wish, you may - use the command file `config-gcc.com' to perform these steps for - you. + 1. Execute the command procedure `vmsconfig.com' to set up the files + `tm.h', `config.h', `aux-output.c', and `md.', and to create files + `tconfig.h' and `hconfig.h'. This procedure also creates several + linker option files used by `make-cc1.com' and a data file used by + `make-l2.com'. + + $ @vmsconfig.com 2. Setup the logical names and command tables as defined above. In addition, define the VMS logical name `GNU_BISON' to point at the @@ -847,9 +984,9 @@ to recompile the sources. If you must r gnu_bison:[000000]bison $ install replace sys$common:[syslib]dcltables - 4. Type `@make-gcc' to recompile everything (alternatively, you may - submit the file `make-gcc.com' to a batch queue). If you wish to - build the GNU C++ compiler as well as the GNU CC compiler, you must + 4. Type `@make-gcc' to recompile everything (alternatively, submit + the file `make-gcc.com' to a batch queue). If you wish to build + the GNU C++ compiler as well as the GNU CC compiler, you must first edit `make-gcc.com' and follow the instructions that appear in the comments. @@ -857,49 +994,53 @@ to recompile the sources. If you must r compiled code will call to perform certain tasks, and these functions are defined in the file `libgcc2.c'. To compile this you should use the command procedure `make-l2.com', which will - generate the library `libgcc2.olb'. `libgcc2.olb' should be built + generate the library `libgcc2.olb'. `libgcc2.olb' should be built using the compiler built from the same distribution that `libgcc2.c' came from, and `make-gcc.com' will automatically do all of this for you. To install the library, use the following commands: - $ lib gnu_cc:[000000]gcclib/delete=(new,eprintf) - $ lib libgcc2/extract=*/output=libgcc2.obj - $ lib gnu_cc:[000000]gcclib libgcc2.obj + $ library gnu_cc:[000000]gcclib/delete=(new,eprintf) + $ library gnu_cc:[000000]gcclib/delete=L_* + $ library libgcc2/extract=*/output=libgcc2.obj + $ library gnu_cc:[000000]gcclib libgcc2.obj The first command simply removes old modules that will be replaced - with modules from libgcc2. If the VMS librarian complains about - those modules not being present, simply ignore the message and - continue on with the next command. + with modules from `libgcc2' under different module names. The + modules `new' and `eprintf' may not actually be present in your + `gcclib.olb'--if the VMS librarian complains about those modules + not being present, simply ignore the message and continue on with + the next command. The second command removes the modules that + came from the previous version of the library `libgcc2.c'. Whenever you update the compiler on your system, you should also update the library with the above procedure. - You may wish to build GCC in such a way that no files are written + 6. You may wish to build GCC in such a way that no files are written to the directory where the source files reside. An example would be the when the source files are on a read-only disk. In these cases, execute the following DCL commands (substituting your actual path names): - $ assign dua0:[gcc.build_dir.]tran=conc, - - dua1:[gcc.source_dir.]/tran=conc gcc_build + $ assign dua0:[gcc.build_dir.]/translation=concealed, - + dua1:[gcc.source_dir.]/translation=concealed gcc_build $ set default gcc_build:[000000] - where `dua1:[gcc.source_dir.]' contains the source code, and - `dua0:[gcc.build_dir.]' is meant to contain all of the generated - object files and executables. Once you have done this, you can - proceed building GCC as described above. (Keep in mind that - `gcc_build' is a rooted logical name, and thus the device names in - each element of the search list must be an actual physical device - name rather than another rooted logical name). + where the directory `dua1:[gcc.source_dir]' contains the source + code, and the directory `dua0:[gcc.build_dir]' is meant to contain + all of the generated object files and executables. Once you have + done this, you can proceed building GCC as described above. (Keep + in mind that `gcc_build' is a rooted logical name, and thus the + device names in each element of the search list must be an actual + physical device name rather than another rooted logical name). - *If you are building GNU CC with a previous version of GNU CC, you + 7. *If you are building GNU CC with a previous version of GNU CC, you also should check to see that you have the newest version of the assembler*. In particular, GNU CC version 2 treats global constant variables slightly differently from GNU CC version 1, and GAS version 1.38.1 does not have the patches required to work with GCC - version 2. If you use GAS 1.38.1, then `extern const' variables + version 2. If you use GAS 1.38.1, then `extern const' variables will not have the read-only bit set, and the linker will generate warning messages about mismatched psect attributes for these variables. These warning messages are merely a nuisance, and can @@ -908,33 +1049,219 @@ to recompile the sources. If you must r If you are compiling with a version of GNU CC older than 1.33, specify `/DEFINE=("inline=")' as an option in all the compilations. This requires editing all the `gcc' commands in - `make-cc1.com'. (The older versions had problems supporting + `make-cc1.com'. (The older versions had problems supporting `inline'.) Once you have a working 1.33 or newer GNU CC, you can change this file back. + 8. If you want to build GNU CC with the VAX C compiler, you will need + to make minor changes in `make-cccp.com' and `make-cc1.com' to + choose alternate definitions of `CC', `CFLAGS', and `LIBS'. See + comments in those files. However, you must also have a working + version of the GNU assembler (GNU as, aka GAS) as it is used as + the back-end for GNU CC to produce binary object modules and is + not included in the GNU CC sources. GAS is also needed to compile + `libgcc2' in order to build `gcclib' (see above); `make-l2.com' + expects to be able to find it operational in + `gnu_cc:[000000]gnu-as.exe'. + + To use GNU CC on VMS, you need the VMS driver programs `gcc.exe', + `gcc.com', and `gcc.cld'. They are distributed with the VMS + binaries (`gcc-vms') rather than the GNU CC sources. GAS is also + included in `gcc-vms', as is Bison. + + Once you have successfully built GNU CC with VAX C, you should use + the resulting compiler to rebuild itself. Before doing this, be + sure to restore the `CC', `CFLAGS', and `LIBS' definitions in + `make-cccp.com' and `make-cc1.com'. The second generation + compiler will be able to take advantage of many optimizations that + must be suppressed when building with other compilers. + Under previous versions of GNU CC, the generated code would -occasionally give strange results when linked to the sharable `VAXCRTL' -library. Now this should work. +occasionally give strange results when linked with the sharable +`VAXCRTL' library. Now this should work. Even with this version, however, GNU CC itself should not be linked -to the sharable `VAXCRTL'. The `qsort' routine supplied with `VAXCRTL' -has a bug which can cause a compiler crash. +with the sharable `VAXCRTL'. The version of `qsort' in `VAXCRTL' has a +bug (known to be present in VMS versions V4.6 through V5.5) which +causes the compiler to fail. + + The executables are generated by `make-cc1.com' and `make-cccp.com' +use the object library version of `VAXCRTL' in order to make use of the +`qsort' routine in `gcclib.olb'. If you wish to link the compiler +executables with the shareable image version of `VAXCRTL', you should +edit the file `tm.h' (created by `vmsconfig.com') to define the macro +`QSORT_WORKAROUND'. + + `QSORT_WORKAROUND' is always defined when GNU CC is compiled with +VAX C, to avoid a problem in case `gcclib.olb' is not yet available. + +Installing GNU CC on the WE32K +============================== + + These computers are also known as the 3b2, 3b5, 3b20 and other +similar names. (However, the 3b1 is actually a 68000; see *Note 3b1 +Install::.) + + Don't use `-g' when compiling with the system's compiler. The +system's linker seems to be unable to handle such a large program with +debugging information. + + The system's compiler runs out of capacity when compiling `stmt.c' +in GNU CC. You can work around this by building `cpp' in GNU CC first, +then use that instead of the system's preprocessor with the system's C +compiler to compile `stmt.c'. Here is how: + + mv /lib/cpp /lib/cpp.att + cp cpp /lib/cpp.gnu + echo "/lib/cpp.gnu -traditional $*" > /lib/cpp + chmod +x /lib/cpp + + The system's compiler produces bad code for some of the GNU CC +optimization files. So you must build the stage 2 compiler without +optimization. Then build a stage 3 compiler with optimization. That +executable should work. Here are the necessary commands: + + make LANGUAGES=c CC=stage1/xgcc CFLAGS="-Bstage1/ -g" + make stage2 + make CC=stage2/xgcc CFLAGS="-Bstage2/ -g -O" + + You may need to raise the ULIMIT setting to build a C++ compiler, as +the file `cc1plus' is larger than one megabyte. + +Installing GNU CC on the MIPS +============================= + + See *Note Installation:: about whether to use either of the options +`--with-stabs' or `--with-gnu-as'. + + The MIPS C compiler needs to be told to increase its table size for +switch statements with the `-Wf,-XNg1500' option in order to compile +`cp-parse.c'. If you use the `-O2' optimization option, you also need +to use `-Olimit 3000'. Both of these options are automatically +generated in the `Makefile' that the shell script `configure' builds. +If you override the `CC' make variable and use the MIPS compilers, you +may need to add `-Wf,-XNg1500 -Olimit 3000'. + + MIPS computers running RISC-OS can support four different +personalities: default, BSD 4.3, System V.3, and System V.4 (older +versions of RISC-OS don't support V.4). To configure GCC for these +platforms use the following configurations: + +`mips-mips-riscos`rev'' + Default configuration for RISC-OS, revision `rev'. + +`mips-mips-riscos`rev'bsd' + BSD 4.3 configuration for RISC-OS, revision `rev'. + +`mips-mips-riscos`rev'sysv4' + System V.4 configuration for RISC-OS, revision `rev'. + +`mips-mips-riscos`rev'sysv' + System V.3 configuration for RISC-OS, revision `rev'. + + The revision `rev' mentioned above is the revision of RISC-OS to +use. You must reconfigure GCC when going from a RISC-OS revision 4 to +RISC-OS revision 5. This has the effect of avoiding a linker bug. + + DECstations can support three different personalities: Ultrix, DEC +OSF/1, and OSF/rose. To configure GCC for these platforms use the +following configurations: + +`decstation-ultrix' + Ultrix configuration. + +`decstation-osf1' + Dec's version of OSF/1. + +`decstation-osfrose' + Open Software Foundation reference port of OSF/1 which uses the + OSF/rose object file format instead of ECOFF. Normally, you would + not select this configuration. + + On Irix version 4.0.5F, and perhaps on some other versions as well, +there is an assembler bug that reorders instructions incorrectly. To +work around it, specify the target configuration `mips-sgi-irix4loser'. +This configuration inhibits assembler optimization. + + You can turn off assembler optimization in a compiler configured with +target `mips-sgi-irix4' using the `-noasmopt' option. This compiler +option passes the option `-O0' to the assembler, to inhibit reordering. + + The `-noasmopt' option can be useful for testing whether a problem +is due to erroneous assembler reordering. Even if a problem does not go +away with `-noasmopt', it may still be due to assembler +reordering--perhaps GNU CC itself was miscompiled as a result. + + We know this is inconvenient, but it's the best that can be done at +the last minute. + +`collect2' +========== + + Many target systems do not have support in the assembler and linker +for "constructors"--initialization functions to be called before the +official "start" of `main'. On such systems, GNU CC uses a utility +called `collect2' to arrange to call these functions at start time. + + The program `collect2' works by linking the program once and looking +through the linker output file for symbols with particular names +indicating they are constructor functions. If it finds any, it creates +a new temporary `.c' file containing a table of them, compiles it, and +links the program a second time including that file. + + The actual calls to the constructors are carried out by a subroutine +called `__main', which is called (automatically) at the beginning of +the body of `main' (provided `main' was compiled with GNU CC). + + The program `collect2' is installed as `ld' in the directory where +the passes of the compiler are installed. When `collect2' needs to +find the *real* `ld', it tries the following file names: + + * `gld' in the directories listed in the compiler's search + directories. + + * `gld' in the directories listed in the environment variable `PATH'. + + * `real-ld' in the compiler's search directories. + + * `real-ld' in `PATH'. + + * `ld' in `PATH'. + + "The compiler's search directories" means all the directories where +`gcc' searches for passes of the compiler. This includes directories +that you specify with `-B'. + + Cross compilers search a little differently: + + * `gld' in the compiler's search directories. + + * `TARGET-gld' in `PATH'. + + * `real-ld' in the compiler's search directories. + + * `TARGET-real-ld' in `PATH'. + + * `TARGET-ld' in `PATH'. + + `collect2' does not search for `ld' using the compiler's search +directories, because if it did, it would find itself--not the real +`ld'--and this could lead to infinite recursion. However, the +directory where `collect2' is installed might happen to be in `PATH'. +That could lead `collect2' to invoke itself anyway. when looking for +`ld'. + + To prevent this, `collect2' explicitly avoids running `ld' using the +file name under which `collect2' itself was invoked. In fact, it +remembers up to two such names--in case one copy of `collect2' finds +another copy (or version) of `collect2' installed as `ld' in a second +place in the search path. + + If two file names to avoid are not sufficient, you may still +encounter an infinite recursion of `collect2' processes. When this +happens. check all the files installed as `ld' in any of the +directories searched, and straighten out the situation. - Similarly, the preprocessor should not be linked to the sharable -`VAXCRTL'. The `strncat' routine supplied with `VAXCRTL' has a bug -which can cause the preprocessor to go into an infinite loop. - - If you attempt to link to the sharable `VAXCRTL', the VMS linker -will strongly resist any effort to force it to use the `qsort' and -`strncat' routines from `gcclib'. Until the bugs in `VAXCRTL' have -been fixed, linking any of the compiler components to the sharable -VAXCRTL is not recommended. (These routines can be bypassed by placing -duplicate copies of `qsort' and `strncat' in `gcclib' under different -names, and patching the compiler sources to use these routines). Both -of the bugs in `VAXCRTL' are still present in VMS version 5.4-1, which -is the most recent version as of this writing. - - The executables that are generated by `make-cc1.com' and -`make-cccp.com' use the nonshared version of `VAXCRTL' (and thus use -the `qsort' and `strncat' routines from `gcclib.olb'). + (In a future version, we will probably change `collect2' to avoid +any reinvocation of a file from which any parent `collect2' was run.)