This is a list of problems (and some apparent problems which don't
really mean anything is wrong) that show up during installation of GNU
CC.
On certain systems, defining certain environment variables such as
CC can interfere with the functioning of make.
If you encounter seemingly strange errors when trying to build the
compiler in a directory other than the source directory, it could be
because you have previously configured the compiler in the source
directory. Make sure you have done all the necessary preparations.
See section 3.3 Compilation in a Separate Directory.
If you build GCC on a BSD system using a directory stored in a System
V file system, problems may occur in running fixincludes if the
System V file system doesn't support symbolic links. These problems
result in a failure to fix the declaration of size_t in
`sys/types.h'. If you find that size_t is a signed type and
that type mismatches occur, this could be the cause.
The solution is not to use such a directory for building GCC.
In previous versions of GCC, the gcc driver program looked for
as and ld in various places; for example, in files
beginning with `/usr/local/lib/gcc-'. GCC version 2 looks for
them in the directory
`/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/target/version'.
Thus, to use a version of as or ld that is not the system
default, for example gas or GNU ld, you must put them in
that directory (or make links to them from that directory).
Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a
non-zero status) and be ignored by make. These failures, which
are often due to files that were not found, are expected, and can safely
be ignored.
It is normal to have warnings in compiling certain files about
unreachable code and about enumeration type clashes. These files' names
begin with `insn-'. Also, `real.c' may get some warnings that
you can ignore.
Sometimes make recompiles parts of the compiler when installing
the compiler. In one case, this was traced down to a bug in
make. Either ignore the problem or switch to GNU Make.
If you have installed a program known as purify, you may find that it
causes errors while linking enquire, which is part of building
GCC. The fix is to get rid of the file real-ld which purify
installs--so that GCC won't try to use it.
On GNU/Linux SLS 1.01, there is a problem with `libc.a': it does not
contain the obstack functions. However, GCC assumes that the obstack
functions are in `libc.a' when it is the GNU C library. To work
around this problem, change the __GNU_LIBRARY__ conditional
around line 31 to `#if 1'.
On some 386 systems, building the compiler never finishes because
enquire hangs due to a hardware problem in the motherboard--it
reports floating point exceptions to the kernel incorrectly. You can
install GCC except for `float.h' by patching out the command to
run enquire. You may also be able to fix the problem for real by
getting a replacement motherboard. This problem was observed in
Revision E of the Micronics motherboard, and is fixed in Revision F.
It has also been observed in the MYLEX MXA-33 motherboard.
If you encounter this problem, you may also want to consider removing
the FPU from the socket during the compilation. Alternatively, if you
are running SCO Unix, you can reboot and force the FPU to be ignored.
To do this, type `hd(40)unix auto ignorefpu'.
On some 386 systems, GCC crashes trying to compile `enquire.c'.
This happens on machines that don't have a 387 FPU chip. On 386
machines, the system kernel is supposed to emulate the 387 when you
don't have one. The crash is due to a bug in the emulator.
One of these systems is the Unix from Interactive Systems: 386/ix.
On this system, an alternate emulator is provided, and it does work.
To use it, execute this command as super-user:
ln /etc/emulator.rel1 /etc/emulator
and then reboot the system. (The default emulator file remains present
under the name `emulator.dflt'.)
Try using `/etc/emulator.att', if you have such a problem on the
SCO system.
Another system which has this problem is Esix. We don't know whether it
has an alternate emulator that works.
On NetBSD 0.8, a similar problem manifests itself as these error messages:
enquire.c: In function `fprop':
enquire.c:2328: floating overflow
On SCO systems, when compiling GCC with the system's compiler,
do not use `-O'. Some versions of the system's compiler miscompile
GCC with `-O'.
Sometimes on a Sun 4 you may observe a crash in the program
genflags or genoutput while building GCC. This is said to
be due to a bug in sh. You can probably get around it by running
genflags or genoutput manually and then retrying the
make.
On Solaris 2, executables of GCC version 2.0.2 are commonly
available, but they have a bug that shows up when compiling current
versions of GCC: undefined symbol errors occur during assembly if you
use `-g'.
The solution is to compile the current version of GCC without
`-g'. That makes a working compiler which you can use to recompile
with `-g'.
Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these
packages are needed to use GCC fully. If you did not install all
optional packages when installing Solaris, you will need to verify that
the packages that GCC needs are installed.
To check whether an optional package is installed, use
the pkginfo command. To add an optional package, use the
pkgadd command. For further details, see the Solaris
documentation.
For Solaris 2.0 and 2.1, GCC needs six packages: `SUNWarc',
`SUNWbtool', `SUNWesu', `SUNWhea', `SUNWlibm', and
`SUNWtoo'.
For Solaris 2.2, GCC needs an additional seventh package: `SUNWsprot'.
On Solaris 2, trying to use the linker and other tools in
`/usr/ucb' to install GCC has been observed to cause trouble.
For example, the linker may hang indefinitely. The fix is to remove
`/usr/ucb' from your PATH.
If you use the 1.31 version of the MIPS assembler (such as was shipped
with Ultrix 3.1), you will need to use the -fno-delayed-branch switch
when optimizing floating point code. Otherwise, the assembler will
complain when the GCC compiler fills a branch delay slot with a
floating point instruction, such as add.d.
If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying "does not have gp
sections for all it's [sic] sectons [sic]", don't worry about it. This
happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not
really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can
stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.
It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are
optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.
In Ultrix 4.0 on the MIPS machine, `stdio.h' does not work with GNU
CC at all unless it has been fixed with fixincludes. This causes
problems in building GCC. Once GCC is installed, the problems go
away.
To work around this problem, when making the stage 1 compiler, specify
this option to Make:
GCC_FOR_TARGET="./xgcc -B./ -I./include"
When making stage 2 and stage 3, specify this option:
CFLAGS="-g -I./include"
Users have reported some problems with version 2.0 of the MIPS
compiler tools that were shipped with Ultrix 4.1. Version 2.10
which came with Ultrix 4.2 seems to work fine.
Users have also reported some problems with version 2.20 of the
MIPS compiler tools that were shipped with RISC/os 4.x. The earlier
version 2.11 seems to work fine.
Some versions of the MIPS linker will issue an assertion failure
when linking code that uses alloca against shared
libraries on RISC-OS 5.0, and DEC's OSF/1 systems. This is a bug
in the linker, that is supposed to be fixed in future revisions.
To protect against this, GCC passes `-non_shared' to the
linker unless you pass an explicit `-shared' or
`-call_shared' switch.
On System V release 3, you may get this error message
while linking:
ld fatal: failed to write symbol name something
in strings table for file whatever
This probably indicates that the disk is full or your ULIMIT won't allow
the file to be as large as it needs to be.
This problem can also result because the kernel parameter MAXUMEM
is too small. If so, you must regenerate the kernel and make the value
much larger. The default value is reported to be 1024; a value of 32768
is said to work. Smaller values may also work.
On System V, if you get an error like this,
/usr/local/lib/bison.simple: In function `yyparse':
/usr/local/lib/bison.simple:625: virtual memory exhausted
that too indicates a problem with disk space, ULIMIT, or MAXUMEM.
Current GCC versions probably do not work on version 2 of the NeXT
operating system.
On NeXTStep 3.0, the Objective C compiler does not work, due,
apparently, to a kernel bug that it happens to trigger. This problem
does not happen on 3.1.
On the Tower models 4n0 and 6n0, by default a process is not
allowed to have more than one megabyte of memory. GCC cannot compile
itself (or many other programs) with `-O' in that much memory.
To solve this problem, reconfigure the kernel adding the following line
to the configuration file:
MAXUMEM = 4096
On HP 9000 series 300 or 400 running HP-UX release 8.0, there is a bug
in the assembler that must be fixed before GCC can be built. This
bug manifests itself during the first stage of compilation, while
building `libgcc2.a':
_floatdisf
cc1: warning: `-g' option not supported on this version of GCC
cc1: warning: `-g1' option not supported on this version of GCC
./xgcc: Internal compiler error: program as got fatal signal 11
A patched version of the assembler is available by anonymous ftp from
altdorf.ai.mit.edu as the file
`archive/cph/hpux-8.0-assembler'. If you have HP software support,
the patch can also be obtained directly from HP, as described in the
following note:
This is the patched assembler, to patch SR#1653-010439, where the
assembler aborts on floating point constants.
The bug is not really in the assembler, but in the shared library
version of the function "cvtnum(3c)". The bug on "cvtnum(3c)" is
SR#4701-078451. Anyway, the attached assembler uses the archive
library version of "cvtnum(3c)" and thus does not exhibit the bug.
This patch is also known as PHCO_4484.
On HP-UX version 8.05, but not on 8.07 or more recent versions,
the fixproto shell script triggers a bug in the system shell.
If you encounter this problem, upgrade your operating system or
use BASH (the GNU shell) to run fixproto.
Some versions of the Pyramid C compiler are reported to be unable to
compile GCC. You must use an older version of GCC for
bootstrapping. One indication of this problem is if you get a crash
when GCC compiles the function muldi3 in file `libgcc2.c'.
You may be able to succeed by getting GCC version 1, installing it,
and using it to compile GCC version 2. The bug in the Pyramid C
compiler does not seem to affect GCC version 1.
There may be similar problems on System V Release 3.1 on 386 systems.
On the Intel Paragon (an i860 machine), if you are using operating
system version 1.0, you will get warnings or errors about redefinition
of va_arg when you build GCC.
If this happens, then you need to link most programs with the library
`iclib.a'. You must also modify `stdio.h' as follows: before
the lines
extern int vprintf(const char *, va_list );
extern int vsprintf(char *, const char *, va_list );
#endif
insert the line
#endif /* __PGC__ */
These problems don't exist in operating system version 1.1.
On the Altos 3068, programs compiled with GCC won't work unless you
fix a kernel bug. This happens using system versions V.2.2 1.0gT1 and
V.2.2 1.0e and perhaps later versions as well. See the file
`README.ALTOS'.
You will get several sorts of compilation and linking errors on the
we32k if you don't follow the special instructions. See section 3.2 Configurations Supported by GNU CC.
A bug in the HP-UX 8.05 (and earlier) shell will cause the fixproto
program to report an error of the form:
./fixproto: sh internal 1K buffer overflow
To fix this, change the first line of the fixproto script to look like: