From 73aedd1d35747ff2fad4ddf514dca810721a612a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Gronenwoud Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 22:31:50 +0000 Subject: Merging caption and installation sections for all packages in chapters 5 and 6. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3052 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml | 51 --------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 51 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml (limited to 'chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml') diff --git a/chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml b/chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 782f708bc..000000000 --- a/chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -   - - -Installation of GCC - -This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its -default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). -Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override -default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting -or modifying them when building GCC. - -This is an older release of GCC which we are going to install for the -purpose of compiling the Linux kernel in . This -version is recommended -by the kernel developers when you need absolute stability. Later versions of -GCC have not received as much testing for Linux kernel compilation. Using a -later version is likely to work, however, we recommend adhering to the kernel -developer's advice and using the version here to compile your kernel. - -We don't install the C++ compiler or libraries here. However, there -may be reasons why you would want to install them. More information can be found -at . - -We'll install this older release of GCC into the non-standard prefix of -/opt so as to avoid interfering with -the system GCC already installed in /usr - . - -Apply the patches and make a small adjustment: - -patch -Np1 -i ../&gcc-2953-patch; -patch -Np1 -i ../&gcc-2953-no-fixinc-patch; -patch -Np1 -i ../&gcc-2953-returntype-fix-patch; -echo timestamp > gcc/cstamp-h.in - -The GCC documentation recommends building GCC outside of the source -directory in a dedicated build directory: - -mkdir ../gcc-2-build -cd ../gcc-2-build - -Compile and install gcc: - -../gcc-2.95.3/configure --prefix=/opt/gcc-2.95.3 \ -    --enable-shared --enable-languages=c \ -    --enable-threads=posix -make bootstrap -make install - - - -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf