On 19 October 2011 17:50, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 19 October 2011 17:48, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> >> Why? I've not heard of anyone trying to build only libstdc++ before, My reason is simply that I wanted libstdc++ with debugging symbols on my machine as my distro (Arch Linux) seems to strip them. It seems perfectly reasonable to me to want to build only libstdc++ and not the whole gcc project because building the whole project is a complete waste of time seeing as I already have the other binaries compiled on my system from my distribution's packages. However as Ian very helpfully pointed out, I can only do this if I have the source code for libstdc++ that matches the version of g++ on my system. In other words I need to use the same source that my distro used to build my packages. It turned out my distribution requires me to modify the script that builds the gnu-libs package to not strip the debugging symbols, then compile, rebuild the gnu-libs package and then install this package. I did this and it showed quite nicely how my distribution builds its package containing libstdc++ . Dan.
