This message concerns problems building binutils - 2.25.
Sorry, I could not see a separate "help" mailing list for binutils, and it seems to be
a part of the gcc infrastructure.
Please forward if this is not the correct place.
Thanks
Ellis Thomas
Notes on installation of binutils - 2.25
1 Introduction
Already have gcc-4.7.2, but this was built on an older version of
Mac OS X
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.8.0
>uname -mpv
Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
After upgrading Mac OS to OS X Mavericks (Sep 2014)
System Version: OS X 10.9.5 (13F1077)
Kernel Version: Darwin 13.4.0
> uname -mpv
Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Wed Mar 18 16:20:14 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2422.115.14~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 i386
now planning to upgrade to a later gcc version. Initially intending to obtain
gnu "as" because there was a problem concerning "as" during the building of
gcc-4.7.2, and also when use of gcc-4.7.2 was tried with OS X 10.9.5 at first
no "as" was available (although the earlier one has been re-instated it is
possible that it has problems).
Trying to build the latest release of GNU binutils - 2.25 from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/
binutils-2.25.tar.gz 23-Dec-2014 10:03 31M
binutils-2.25.tar.gz.sig 23-Dec-2014 10:03 194
Several problems have arisen as noted below, and the result so far is
that most of binutils is installed BUT NOT the part actually wanted (as and ld).
2 Build Attempts
2.1 Using files as downloaded
Created object directory obj/. Set up path to make gcc-4.7.2 available.
Tried configure:
../binutils-2.25/configure &>../logs/config.log
Seems to be OK. Ran make: Ran to completion - seems OK - some warnings.
Ran sudo make install - ran to completion, but no as, gas, or ld in tree below
/usr/local/
Not clear why ld and as have not been built.
Re-examined the output from configure: logs/config.log includes:
checking for version 0.10 of ISL... no
checking for version 0.11 of ISL... no
checking for version 0.12 of ISL... no
*** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:
ld gas gprof
2.2 Adding prerequisites
Notes for GCC 4.8.4 include:
"To enable the Graphite framework for loop optimizations you now need CLooG version 0.18.0 and ISL version 0.11.1. Both can be obtained from the GCC infrastructure directory. The installation manual contains more information about requirements to build GCC"
Prerequisites for GCC says: "ISL Library version 0.14 (or 0.12.2)
Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations. It can be downloaded from ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/ as isl-0.12.2.tar.bz2. If an ISL source distribution is found in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named isl, it will be built together with GCC."
Obtained isl-0.14.tar.bz2 from
ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure
Reran configure as before, but with isl subdirectory
../binutils-2.25/configure &>../logs/config2.log
Now says:
configure: WARNING: using in-tree ISL, disabling version check
checking for version 0.17.0 of CLooG... no
checking for version 0.18.0 of CLooG... no
*** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:
ld gas gprof isl
so this will still not work - compiling isl is not supported!
Obtained cloog-0.18.1.tar.gz from same place. (This seems to include
another ISL.)
Reran configure as before, but with cloog subdirectory
../binutils-2.25/configure &>../logs/config3.log
Now says:
configure: WARNING: using in-tree ISL, disabling version check
configure: WARNING: using in-tree CLooG, disabling version check
*** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:
ld gas gprof
(Any other directories should still work fine.)
3 Prerequisites
The information for how to build binutils is not very clear about
prerequisites (as specified for gcc for example).
The message from configure does not make it clear why it is not
supported. There seems to be no other problem identified up to the point of
the message, now that the "checking for version ... no" ones have been avoided.
The full text from configure up to the message is at the end.
4 Work Round
What can be done to proceed with building binutils?
Do ISL and CLooG need to be installed first, or is there some other
problem?
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Output of configure (../logs/config3.log) up to "not supported" message
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checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln works... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc... yes
checking for gnatbind... gnatbind
checking for gnatmake... gnatmake
checking whether compiler driver understands Ada... yes
checking how to compare bootstrapped objects... cmp --ignore-initial=16 $$f1 $$f2
checking for objdir... .libs
configure: WARNING: using in-tree ISL, disabling version check
configure: WARNING: using in-tree CLooG, disabling version check
*** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:
ld gas gprof
(Any other directories should still work fine.)
...
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ENT/ 8-Jun-2015
