[Please do not cross post between lists, it's gcc-help material] > By the way don't bother flaming back at me I am way beyond > this and thus impervious! Hopefully by fixing the issues documented > below you will open up the GCC software to be usable by a larger > audience of users. Everything is documented so there is not much to fix. See in particular http://gcc.gnu.org/install and the pages linked to from there. > Issue 1) The configure and build scripts insist (read that fight to the > death) on using the solaris linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) despite every > effort to the contrary, and this of course causes errors. The following > were my failed efforts to redirect it to the Gnu Linker (/opt/sfw/bin/gld): > a) Providing explicit command line direction to configure. > /export/home/tools/gcc/gcc-4.0.4/configure --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as > --with-as=/opt/sfw/bin/as --with-ld=/opt/sfw/bin/ld There is an inconsistency here: your GNU linker is /opt/sfw/bin/gld and you pass /opt/sfw/bin/ld to the configure script. Otherwise, it's the correct configure line if /opt/sfw/bin/as and /opt/sfw/bin/ld are working GNU tools. > Issue 2) Same as Issue 1 except for the Gnu assembler > (/opt/sfw/bin/gas). Likewise. > Issue 4) What's In A Name? Or what the hell should we name it? > When I down load and install various releases of GNU Bintools a > tool like GNU Make is sometimes called gmake and sometimes called > make. This causes confusion and thus errors in that the Gcc build scripts > use make. I would suggest standardizing on the names to prevent confusion. > To this end I would suggest that GNU Make always, always, always be > called gmake and when you want to use GNU Make in your project that > you type gmake. 'gmake' will work just fine for GCC. > Issue 5) The build process is way to complicated for the average user > to negotiate successfully. The user interface should be simplified to the > following for a native compiler: > ./configure > gmake > gmake install export CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh $srcdir/configure ... gmake gmake install is not much more complicated and works flawlessly on Solaris. -- Eric Botcazou
