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64 1.10 mrg <h1 class="settitle" align="center">Installing GCC</h1>
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84 1.10 mrg <a name="index-Configuration"></a>
85 1.10 mrg <a name="index-Installing-GCC_003a-Configuration"></a>
86 1.10 mrg
87 1.10 mrg <p>Like most GNU software, GCC must be configured before it can be built.
88 1.9 mrg This document describes the recommended configuration procedure
89 1.9 mrg for both native and cross targets.
90 1.10 mrg </p>
91 1.10 mrg <p>We use <var>srcdir</var> to refer to the toplevel source directory for
92 1.9 mrg GCC; we use <var>objdir</var> to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
93 1.10 mrg </p>
94 1.10 mrg <p>If you obtained the sources via SVN, <var>srcdir</var> must refer to the top
95 1.10 mrg <samp>gcc</samp> directory, the one where the <samp>MAINTAINERS</samp> file can be
96 1.10 mrg found, and not its <samp>gcc</samp> subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
97 1.10 mrg </p>
98 1.10 mrg <p>If either <var>srcdir</var> or <var>objdir</var> is located on an automounted NFS
99 1.10 mrg file system, the shell’s built-in <code>pwd</code> command will return
100 1.1 mrg temporary pathnames. Using these can lead to various sorts of build
101 1.10 mrg problems. To avoid this issue, set the <code>PWDCMD</code> environment
102 1.10 mrg variable to an automounter-aware <code>pwd</code> command, e.g.,
103 1.10 mrg <code>pawd</code> or ‘<samp>amq -w</samp>’, during the configuration and build
104 1.1 mrg phases.
105 1.10 mrg </p>
106 1.10 mrg <p>First, we <strong>highly</strong> recommend that GCC be built into a
107 1.1 mrg separate directory from the sources which does <strong>not</strong> reside
108 1.1 mrg within the source tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building
109 1.10 mrg where <var>srcdir</var> == <var>objdir</var> should still work, but doesn’t
110 1.1 mrg get extensive testing; building where <var>objdir</var> is a subdirectory
111 1.1 mrg of <var>srcdir</var> is unsupported.
112 1.10 mrg </p>
113 1.10 mrg <p>If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
114 1.10 mrg different target machine, do ‘<samp>make distclean</samp>’ to delete all files
115 1.10 mrg that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is <samp>Makefile</samp>;
116 1.10 mrg if ‘<samp>make distclean</samp>’ complains that <samp>Makefile</samp> does not exist
117 1.10 mrg or issues a message like “don’t know how to make distclean” it probably
118 1.1 mrg means that the directory is already suitably clean. However, with the
119 1.1 mrg recommended method of building in a separate <var>objdir</var>, you should
120 1.1 mrg simply use a different <var>objdir</var> for each target.
121 1.10 mrg </p>
122 1.10 mrg <p>Second, when configuring a native system, either <code>cc</code> or
123 1.10 mrg <code>gcc</code> must be in your path or you must set <code>CC</code> in
124 1.1 mrg your environment before running configure. Otherwise the configuration
125 1.1 mrg scripts may fail.
126 1.10 mrg </p>
127 1.1 mrg
128 1.10 mrg <p>To configure GCC:
129 1.10 mrg </p>
130 1.10 mrg <div class="smallexample">
131 1.10 mrg <pre class="smallexample">% mkdir <var>objdir</var>
132 1.10 mrg % cd <var>objdir</var>
133 1.10 mrg % <var>srcdir</var>/configure [<var>options</var>] [<var>target</var>]
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136 1.10 mrg <a name="Distributor-options"></a>
137 1.10 mrg <h3 class="heading">Distributor options</h3>
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139 1.1 mrg <p>If you will be distributing binary versions of GCC, with modifications
140 1.1 mrg to the source code, you should use the options described in this
141 1.1 mrg section to make clear that your version contains modifications.
142 1.10 mrg </p>
143 1.10 mrg <dl compact="compact">
144 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-pkgversion=<var>version</var></code></dt>
145 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify a string that identifies your package. You may wish
146 1.1 mrg to include a build number or build date. This version string will be
147 1.10 mrg included in the output of <code>gcc --version</code>. This suffix does
148 1.10 mrg not replace the default version string, only the ‘<samp>GCC</samp>’ part.
149 1.10 mrg </p>
150 1.10 mrg <p>The default value is ‘<samp>GCC</samp>’.
151 1.10 mrg </p>
152 1.10 mrg </dd>
153 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-bugurl=<var>url</var></code></dt>
154 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the URL that users should visit if they wish to report a bug.
155 1.1 mrg You are of course welcome to forward bugs reported to you to the FSF,
156 1.1 mrg if you determine that they are not bugs in your modifications.
157 1.10 mrg </p>
158 1.10 mrg <p>The default value refers to the FSF’s GCC bug tracker.
159 1.10 mrg </p>
160 1.10 mrg </dd>
161 1.10 mrg </dl>
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163 1.10 mrg <a name="Target-specification"></a>
164 1.10 mrg <h3 class="heading">Target specification</h3>
165 1.10 mrg <ul>
166 1.10 mrg <li> GCC has code to correctly determine the correct value for <var>target</var>
167 1.1 mrg for nearly all native systems. Therefore, we highly recommend you do
168 1.1 mrg not provide a configure target when configuring a native compiler.
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170 1.10 mrg </li><li> <var>target</var> must be specified as <samp>--target=<var>target</var></samp>
171 1.1 mrg when configuring a cross compiler; examples of valid targets would be
172 1.1 mrg m68k-elf, sh-elf, etc.
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174 1.10 mrg </li><li> Specifying just <var>target</var> instead of <samp>--target=<var>target</var></samp>
175 1.10 mrg implies that the host defaults to <var>target</var>.
176 1.10 mrg </li></ul>
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179 1.10 mrg <a name="Options-specification"></a>
180 1.10 mrg <h3 class="heading">Options specification</h3>
181 1.1 mrg
182 1.1 mrg <p>Use <var>options</var> to override several configure time options for
183 1.10 mrg GCC. A list of supported <var>options</var> follows; ‘<samp>configure
184 1.10 mrg --help</samp>’ may list other options, but those not listed below may not
185 1.1 mrg work and should not normally be used.
186 1.10 mrg </p>
187 1.10 mrg <p>Note that each <samp>--enable</samp> option has a corresponding
188 1.10 mrg <samp>--disable</samp> option and that each <samp>--with</samp> option has a
189 1.10 mrg corresponding <samp>--without</samp> option.
190 1.10 mrg </p>
191 1.10 mrg <dl compact="compact">
192 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--prefix=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
193 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the toplevel installation
194 1.1 mrg directory. This is the recommended way to install the tools into a directory
195 1.1 mrg other than the default. The toplevel installation directory defaults to
196 1.10 mrg <samp>/usr/local</samp>.
197 1.10 mrg </p>
198 1.10 mrg <p>We <strong>highly</strong> recommend against <var>dirname</var> being the same or a
199 1.1 mrg subdirectory of <var>objdir</var> or vice versa. If specifying a directory
200 1.10 mrg beneath a user’s home directory tree, some shells will not expand
201 1.10 mrg <var>dirname</var> correctly if it contains the ‘<samp>~</samp>’ metacharacter; use
202 1.10 mrg <code>$HOME</code> instead.
203 1.10 mrg </p>
204 1.10 mrg <p>The following standard <code>autoconf</code> options are supported. Normally you
205 1.1 mrg should not need to use these options.
206 1.10 mrg </p><dl compact="compact">
207 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--exec-prefix=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
208 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the toplevel installation directory for architecture-dependent
209 1.1 mrg files. The default is <samp><var>prefix</var></samp>.
210 1.10 mrg </p>
211 1.10 mrg </dd>
212 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--bindir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
213 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the installation directory for the executables called by users
214 1.10 mrg (such as <code>gcc</code> and <code>g++</code>). The default is
215 1.10 mrg <samp><var>exec-prefix</var>/bin</samp>.
216 1.10 mrg </p>
217 1.10 mrg </dd>
218 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--libdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
219 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the installation directory for object code libraries and
220 1.10 mrg internal data files of GCC. The default is <samp><var>exec-prefix</var>/lib</samp>.
221 1.10 mrg </p>
222 1.10 mrg </dd>
223 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--libexecdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
224 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the installation directory for internal executables of GCC.
225 1.10 mrg The default is <samp><var>exec-prefix</var>/libexec</samp>.
226 1.10 mrg </p>
227 1.10 mrg </dd>
228 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-slibdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
229 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the installation directory for the shared libgcc library. The
230 1.1 mrg default is <samp><var>libdir</var></samp>.
231 1.10 mrg </p>
232 1.10 mrg </dd>
233 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--datarootdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
234 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the root of the directory tree for read-only architecture-independent
235 1.10 mrg data files referenced by GCC. The default is <samp><var>prefix</var>/share</samp>.
236 1.10 mrg </p>
237 1.10 mrg </dd>
238 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--infodir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
239 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the installation directory for documentation in info format.
240 1.10 mrg The default is <samp><var>datarootdir</var>/info</samp>.
241 1.10 mrg </p>
242 1.10 mrg </dd>
243 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--datadir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
244 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the installation directory for some architecture-independent
245 1.1 mrg data files referenced by GCC. The default is <samp><var>datarootdir</var></samp>.
246 1.10 mrg </p>
247 1.10 mrg </dd>
248 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--docdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
249 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the installation directory for documentation files (other
250 1.10 mrg than Info) for GCC. The default is <samp><var>datarootdir</var>/doc</samp>.
251 1.10 mrg </p>
252 1.10 mrg </dd>
253 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--htmldir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
254 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the installation directory for HTML documentation files.
255 1.1 mrg The default is <samp><var>docdir</var></samp>.
256 1.10 mrg </p>
257 1.10 mrg </dd>
258 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--pdfdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
259 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the installation directory for PDF documentation files.
260 1.1 mrg The default is <samp><var>docdir</var></samp>.
261 1.10 mrg </p>
262 1.10 mrg </dd>
263 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--mandir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
264 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the installation directory for manual pages. The default is
265 1.10 mrg <samp><var>datarootdir</var>/man</samp>. (Note that the manual pages are only extracts
266 1.1 mrg from the full GCC manuals, which are provided in Texinfo format. The manpages
267 1.1 mrg are derived by an automatic conversion process from parts of the full
268 1.1 mrg manual.)
269 1.10 mrg </p>
270 1.10 mrg </dd>
271 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-gxx-include-dir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
272 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify
273 1.1 mrg the installation directory for G++ header files. The default depends
274 1.1 mrg on other configuration options, and differs between cross and native
275 1.1 mrg configurations.
276 1.10 mrg </p>
277 1.10 mrg </dd>
278 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-specs=<var>specs</var></code></dt>
279 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify additional command line driver SPECS.
280 1.3 skrll This can be useful if you need to turn on a non-standard feature by
281 1.10 mrg default without modifying the compiler’s source code, for instance
282 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-specs=%{!fcommon:%{!fno-common:-fno-common}}</samp>.
283 1.3 skrll See “Spec Files” in the main manual
284 1.10 mrg </p>
285 1.10 mrg </dd>
286 1.10 mrg </dl>
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288 1.10 mrg </dd>
289 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--program-prefix=<var>prefix</var></code></dt>
290 1.10 mrg <dd><p>GCC supports some transformations of the names of its programs when
291 1.1 mrg installing them. This option prepends <var>prefix</var> to the names of
292 1.1 mrg programs to install in <var>bindir</var> (see above). For example, specifying
293 1.10 mrg <samp>--program-prefix=foo-</samp> would result in ‘<samp>gcc</samp>’
294 1.10 mrg being installed as <samp>/usr/local/bin/foo-gcc</samp>.
295 1.10 mrg </p>
296 1.10 mrg </dd>
297 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--program-suffix=<var>suffix</var></code></dt>
298 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Appends <var>suffix</var> to the names of programs to install in <var>bindir</var>
299 1.10 mrg (see above). For example, specifying <samp>--program-suffix=-3.1</samp>
300 1.10 mrg would result in ‘<samp>gcc</samp>’ being installed as
301 1.10 mrg <samp>/usr/local/bin/gcc-3.1</samp>.
302 1.10 mrg </p>
303 1.10 mrg </dd>
304 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--program-transform-name=<var>pattern</var></code></dt>
305 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Applies the ‘<samp>sed</samp>’ script <var>pattern</var> to be applied to the names
306 1.1 mrg of programs to install in <var>bindir</var> (see above). <var>pattern</var> has to
307 1.10 mrg consist of one or more basic ‘<samp>sed</samp>’ editing commands, separated by
308 1.10 mrg semicolons. For example, if you want the ‘<samp>gcc</samp>’ program name to be
309 1.10 mrg transformed to the installed program <samp>/usr/local/bin/myowngcc</samp> and
310 1.10 mrg the ‘<samp>g++</samp>’ program name to be transformed to
311 1.10 mrg <samp>/usr/local/bin/gspecial++</samp> without changing other program names,
312 1.1 mrg you could use the pattern
313 1.10 mrg <samp>--program-transform-name='s/^gcc$/myowngcc/; s/^g++$/gspecial++/'</samp>
314 1.1 mrg to achieve this effect.
315 1.10 mrg </p>
316 1.10 mrg <p>All three options can be combined and used together, resulting in more
317 1.1 mrg complex conversion patterns. As a basic rule, <var>prefix</var> (and
318 1.1 mrg <var>suffix</var>) are prepended (appended) before further transformations
319 1.1 mrg can happen with a special transformation script <var>pattern</var>.
320 1.10 mrg </p>
321 1.10 mrg <p>As currently implemented, this option only takes effect for native
322 1.10 mrg builds; cross compiler binaries’ names are not transformed even when a
323 1.1 mrg transformation is explicitly asked for by one of these options.
324 1.10 mrg </p>
325 1.10 mrg <p>For native builds, some of the installed programs are also installed
326 1.1 mrg with the target alias in front of their name, as in
327 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc</samp>’. All of the above transformations happen
328 1.1 mrg before the target alias is prepended to the name—so, specifying
329 1.10 mrg <samp>--program-prefix=foo-</samp> and <samp>program-suffix=-3.1</samp>, the
330 1.1 mrg resulting binary would be installed as
331 1.10 mrg <samp>/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-foo-gcc-3.1</samp>.
332 1.10 mrg </p>
333 1.10 mrg <p>As a last shortcoming, none of the installed Ada programs are
334 1.1 mrg transformed yet, which will be fixed in some time.
335 1.10 mrg </p>
336 1.10 mrg </dd>
337 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-local-prefix=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
338 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the
339 1.1 mrg installation directory for local include files. The default is
340 1.10 mrg <samp>/usr/local</samp>. Specify this option if you want the compiler to
341 1.10 mrg search directory <samp><var>dirname</var>/include</samp> for locally installed
342 1.10 mrg header files <em>instead</em> of <samp>/usr/local/include</samp>.
343 1.10 mrg </p>
344 1.10 mrg <p>You should specify <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp> <strong>only</strong> if your
345 1.10 mrg site has a different convention (not <samp>/usr/local</samp>) for where to put
346 1.1 mrg site-specific files.
347 1.10 mrg </p>
348 1.10 mrg <p>The default value for <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp> is <samp>/usr/local</samp>
349 1.10 mrg regardless of the value of <samp>--prefix</samp>. Specifying
350 1.10 mrg <samp>--prefix</samp> has no effect on which directory GCC searches for
351 1.1 mrg local header files. This may seem counterintuitive, but actually it is
352 1.1 mrg logical.
353 1.10 mrg </p>
354 1.10 mrg <p>The purpose of <samp>--prefix</samp> is to specify where to <em>install
355 1.10 mrg GCC</em>. The local header files in <samp>/usr/local/include</samp>—if you put
356 1.1 mrg any in that directory—are not part of GCC. They are part of other
357 1.1 mrg programs—perhaps many others. (GCC installs its own header files in
358 1.10 mrg another directory which is based on the <samp>--prefix</samp> value.)
359 1.10 mrg </p>
360 1.10 mrg <p>Both the local-prefix include directory and the GCC-prefix include
361 1.10 mrg directory are part of GCC’s “system include” directories. Although these
362 1.1 mrg two directories are not fixed, they need to be searched in the proper
363 1.1 mrg order for the correct processing of the include_next directive. The
364 1.1 mrg local-prefix include directory is searched before the GCC-prefix
365 1.1 mrg include directory. Another characteristic of system include directories
366 1.1 mrg is that pedantic warnings are turned off for headers in these directories.
367 1.10 mrg </p>
368 1.10 mrg <p>Some autoconf macros add <samp>-I <var>directory</var></samp> options to the
369 1.1 mrg compiler command line, to ensure that directories containing installed
370 1.10 mrg packages’ headers are searched. When <var>directory</var> is one of GCC’s
371 1.1 mrg system include directories, GCC will ignore the option so that system
372 1.1 mrg directories continue to be processed in the correct order. This
373 1.1 mrg may result in a search order different from what was specified but the
374 1.1 mrg directory will still be searched.
375 1.10 mrg </p>
376 1.10 mrg <p>GCC automatically searches for ordinary libraries using
377 1.10 mrg <code>GCC_EXEC_PREFIX</code>. Thus, when the same installation prefix is
378 1.1 mrg used for both GCC and packages, GCC will automatically search for
379 1.1 mrg both headers and libraries. This provides a configuration that is
380 1.1 mrg easy to use. GCC behaves in a manner similar to that when it is
381 1.10 mrg installed as a system compiler in <samp>/usr</samp>.
382 1.10 mrg </p>
383 1.10 mrg <p>Sites that need to install multiple versions of GCC may not want to
384 1.1 mrg use the above simple configuration. It is possible to use the
385 1.10 mrg <samp>--program-prefix</samp>, <samp>--program-suffix</samp> and
386 1.10 mrg <samp>--program-transform-name</samp> options to install multiple versions
387 1.1 mrg into a single directory, but it may be simpler to use different prefixes
388 1.10 mrg and the <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp> option to specify the location of the
389 1.1 mrg site-specific files for each version. It will then be necessary for
390 1.1 mrg users to specify explicitly the location of local site libraries
391 1.10 mrg (e.g., with <code>LIBRARY_PATH</code>).
392 1.10 mrg </p>
393 1.10 mrg <p>The same value can be used for both <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp> and
394 1.10 mrg <samp>--prefix</samp> provided it is not <samp>/usr</samp>. This can be used
395 1.10 mrg to avoid the default search of <samp>/usr/local/include</samp>.
396 1.10 mrg </p>
397 1.10 mrg <p><strong>Do not</strong> specify <samp>/usr</samp> as the <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp>!
398 1.10 mrg The directory you use for <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp> <strong>must not</strong>
399 1.10 mrg contain any of the system’s standard header files. If it did contain
400 1.1 mrg them, certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on
401 1.1 mrg certain targets), because this would override and nullify the header
402 1.10 mrg file corrections made by the <code>fixincludes</code> script.
403 1.10 mrg </p>
404 1.10 mrg <p>Indications are that people who use this option use it based on mistaken
405 1.1 mrg ideas of what it is for. People use it as if it specified where to
406 1.1 mrg install part of GCC. Perhaps they make this assumption because
407 1.1 mrg installing GCC creates the directory.
408 1.10 mrg </p>
409 1.10 mrg </dd>
410 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-gcc-major-version-only</code></dt>
411 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specifies that GCC should use only the major number rather than
412 1.9 mrg <var>major</var>.<var>minor</var>.<var>patchlevel</var> in filesystem paths.
413 1.10 mrg </p>
414 1.10 mrg </dd>
415 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-native-system-header-dir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
416 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specifies that <var>dirname</var> is the directory that contains native system
417 1.10 mrg header files, rather than <samp>/usr/include</samp>. This option is most useful
418 1.3 skrll if you are creating a compiler that should be isolated from the system
419 1.3 skrll as much as possible. It is most commonly used with the
420 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-sysroot</samp> option and will cause GCC to search
421 1.3 skrll <var>dirname</var> inside the system root specified by that option.
422 1.10 mrg </p>
423 1.10 mrg </dd>
424 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-shared[=<var>package</var>[,…]]</code></dt>
425 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are supported on
426 1.1 mrg the target platform. Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier, shared libraries
427 1.1 mrg are enabled by default on all platforms that support shared libraries.
428 1.10 mrg </p>
429 1.10 mrg <p>If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared libraries
430 1.1 mrg only for the listed packages. For other packages, only static libraries
431 1.1 mrg will be built. Package names currently recognized in the GCC tree are
432 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>libgcc</samp>’ (also known as ‘<samp>gcc</samp>’), ‘<samp>libstdc++</samp>’ (not
433 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>libstdc++-v3</samp>’), ‘<samp>libffi</samp>’, ‘<samp>zlib</samp>’, ‘<samp>boehm-gc</samp>’,
434 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>ada</samp>’, ‘<samp>libada</samp>’, ‘<samp>libgo</samp>’, and ‘<samp>libobjc</samp>’.
435 1.10 mrg Note ‘<samp>libiberty</samp>’ does not support shared libraries at all.
436 1.10 mrg </p>
437 1.10 mrg <p>Use <samp>--disable-shared</samp> to build only static libraries. Note that
438 1.10 mrg <samp>--disable-shared</samp> does not accept a list of package names as
439 1.10 mrg argument, only <samp>--enable-shared</samp> does.
440 1.10 mrg </p>
441 1.10 mrg <p>Contrast with <samp>--enable-host-shared</samp>, which affects <em>host</em>
442 1.5 mrg code.
443 1.10 mrg </p>
444 1.10 mrg </dd>
445 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-host-shared</code></dt>
446 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the <em>host</em> code should be built into position-independent
447 1.5 mrg machine code (with -fPIC), allowing it to be used within shared libraries,
448 1.5 mrg but yielding a slightly slower compiler.
449 1.10 mrg </p>
450 1.10 mrg <p>This option is required when building the libgccjit.so library.
451 1.10 mrg </p>
452 1.10 mrg <p>Contrast with <samp>--enable-shared</samp>, which affects <em>target</em>
453 1.5 mrg libraries.
454 1.10 mrg </p>
455 1.10 mrg </dd>
456 1.10 mrg <dt><code><a name="with-gnu-as"></a>--with-gnu-as</code></dt>
457 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the compiler should assume that the
458 1.1 mrg assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify
459 1.1 mrg the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if the
460 1.1 mrg assembler found is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion may also
461 1.1 mrg result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been
462 1.10 mrg configured with <samp>--with-gnu-as</samp>.) If you have more than one
463 1.1 mrg assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option in
464 1.10 mrg connection with <samp>--with-as=<var>pathname</var></samp> or
465 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-build-time-tools=<var>pathname</var></samp>.
466 1.10 mrg </p>
467 1.10 mrg <p>The following systems are the only ones where it makes a difference
468 1.1 mrg whether you use the GNU assembler. On any other system,
469 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-gnu-as</samp> has no effect.
470 1.10 mrg </p>
471 1.10 mrg <ul>
472 1.10 mrg <li> ‘<samp>hppa1.0-<var>any</var>-<var>any</var></samp>’
473 1.10 mrg </li><li> ‘<samp>hppa1.1-<var>any</var>-<var>any</var></samp>’
474 1.10 mrg </li><li> ‘<samp>sparc-sun-solaris2.<var>any</var></samp>’
475 1.10 mrg </li><li> ‘<samp>sparc64-<var>any</var>-solaris2.<var>any</var></samp>’
476 1.10 mrg </li></ul>
477 1.10 mrg
478 1.10 mrg </dd>
479 1.10 mrg <dt><code><a name="with-as"></a>--with-as=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
480 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the compiler should use the assembler pointed to by
481 1.1 mrg <var>pathname</var>, rather than the one found by the standard rules to find
482 1.1 mrg an assembler, which are:
483 1.10 mrg </p><ul>
484 1.10 mrg <li> Unless GCC is being built with a cross compiler, check the
485 1.10 mrg <samp><var>libexec</var>/gcc/<var>target</var>/<var>version</var></samp> directory.
486 1.10 mrg <var>libexec</var> defaults to <samp><var>exec-prefix</var>/libexec</samp>;
487 1.1 mrg <var>exec-prefix</var> defaults to <var>prefix</var>, which
488 1.10 mrg defaults to <samp>/usr/local</samp> unless overridden by the
489 1.10 mrg <samp>--prefix=<var>pathname</var></samp> switch described above. <var>target</var>
490 1.10 mrg is the target system triple, such as ‘<samp>sparc-sun-solaris2.7</samp>’, and
491 1.1 mrg <var>version</var> denotes the GCC version, such as 3.0.
492 1.1 mrg
493 1.10 mrg </li><li> If the target system is the same that you are building on, check
494 1.10 mrg operating system specific directories (e.g. <samp>/usr/ccs/bin</samp> on
495 1.1 mrg Sun Solaris 2).
496 1.1 mrg
497 1.10 mrg </li><li> Check in the <code>PATH</code> for a tool whose name is prefixed by the
498 1.1 mrg target system triple.
499 1.1 mrg
500 1.10 mrg </li><li> Check in the <code>PATH</code> for a tool whose name is not prefixed by the
501 1.1 mrg target system triple, if the host and target system triple are
502 1.1 mrg the same (in other words, we use a host tool if it can be used for
503 1.10 mrg the target as well).
504 1.10 mrg </li></ul>
505 1.1 mrg
506 1.10 mrg <p>You may want to use <samp>--with-as</samp> if no assembler
507 1.1 mrg is installed in the directories listed above, or if you have multiple
508 1.1 mrg assemblers installed and want to choose one that is not found by the
509 1.1 mrg above rules.
510 1.10 mrg </p>
511 1.10 mrg </dd>
512 1.10 mrg <dt><code><a name="with-gnu-ld"></a>--with-gnu-ld</code></dt>
513 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Same as <a href="#with-gnu-as"><samp>--with-gnu-as</samp></a>
514 1.1 mrg but for the linker.
515 1.10 mrg </p>
516 1.10 mrg </dd>
517 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-ld=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
518 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Same as <a href="#with-as"><samp>--with-as</samp></a>
519 1.1 mrg but for the linker.
520 1.10 mrg </p>
521 1.10 mrg </dd>
522 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-stabs</code></dt>
523 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that stabs debugging
524 1.1 mrg information should be used instead of whatever format the host normally
525 1.1 mrg uses. Normally GCC uses the same debug format as the host system.
526 1.10 mrg </p>
527 1.10 mrg </dd>
528 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-tls=<var>dialect</var></code></dt>
529 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify the default TLS dialect, for systems were there is a choice.
530 1.3 skrll For ARM targets, possible values for <var>dialect</var> are <code>gnu</code> or
531 1.3 skrll <code>gnu2</code>, which select between the original GNU dialect and the GNU TLS
532 1.3 skrll descriptor-based dialect.
533 1.10 mrg </p>
534 1.10 mrg </dd>
535 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-multiarch</code></dt>
536 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify whether to enable or disable multiarch support. The default is
537 1.3 skrll to check for glibc start files in a multiarch location, and enable it
538 1.3 skrll if the files are found. The auto detection is enabled for native builds,
539 1.10 mrg and for cross builds configured with <samp>--with-sysroot</samp>, and without
540 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-native-system-header-dir</samp>.
541 1.3 skrll More documentation about multiarch can be found at
542 1.7 mrg <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch">https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch</a>.
543 1.10 mrg </p>
544 1.10 mrg </dd>
545 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-sjlj-exceptions</code></dt>
546 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Force use of the <code>setjmp</code>/<code>longjmp</code>-based scheme for exceptions.
547 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>configure</samp>’ ordinarily picks the correct value based on the platform.
548 1.6 mrg Only use this option if you are sure you need a different setting.
549 1.10 mrg </p>
550 1.10 mrg </dd>
551 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-vtable-verify</code></dt>
552 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify whether to enable or disable the vtable verification feature.
553 1.5 mrg Enabling this feature causes libstdc++ to be built with its virtual calls
554 1.5 mrg in verifiable mode. This means that, when linked with libvtv, every
555 1.5 mrg virtual call in libstdc++ will verify the vtable pointer through which the
556 1.5 mrg call will be made before actually making the call. If not linked with libvtv,
557 1.10 mrg the verifier will call stub functions (in libstdc++ itself) and do nothing.
558 1.5 mrg If vtable verification is disabled, then libstdc++ is not built with its
559 1.5 mrg virtual calls in verifiable mode at all. However the libvtv library will
560 1.10 mrg still be built (see <samp>--disable-libvtv</samp> to turn off building libvtv).
561 1.10 mrg <samp>--disable-vtable-verify</samp> is the default.
562 1.10 mrg </p>
563 1.10 mrg </dd>
564 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-multilib</code></dt>
565 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that multiple target
566 1.1 mrg libraries to support different target variants, calling
567 1.1 mrg conventions, etc. should not be built. The default is to build a
568 1.1 mrg predefined set of them.
569 1.10 mrg </p>
570 1.10 mrg <p>Some targets provide finer-grained control over which multilibs are built
571 1.10 mrg (e.g., <samp>--disable-softfloat</samp>):
572 1.10 mrg </p><dl compact="compact">
573 1.10 mrg <dt><code>arm-*-*</code></dt>
574 1.10 mrg <dd><p>fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
575 1.10 mrg </p>
576 1.10 mrg </dd>
577 1.10 mrg <dt><code>m68*-*-*</code></dt>
578 1.10 mrg <dd><p>softfloat, m68881, m68000, m68020.
579 1.10 mrg </p>
580 1.10 mrg </dd>
581 1.10 mrg <dt><code>mips*-*-*</code></dt>
582 1.10 mrg <dd><p>single-float, biendian, softfloat.
583 1.10 mrg </p>
584 1.10 mrg </dd>
585 1.10 mrg <dt><code>powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*</code></dt>
586 1.10 mrg <dd><p>aix64, pthread, softfloat, powercpu, powerpccpu, powerpcos, biendian,
587 1.1 mrg sysv, aix.
588 1.10 mrg </p>
589 1.10 mrg </dd>
590 1.10 mrg </dl>
591 1.1 mrg
592 1.10 mrg </dd>
593 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-multilib-list=<var>list</var></code></dt>
594 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--without-multilib-list</code></dt>
595 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify what multilibs to build. <var>list</var> is a comma separated list of
596 1.9 mrg values, possibly consisting of a single value. Currently only implemented
597 1.10 mrg for aarch64*-*-*, arm*-*-*, sh*-*-* and x86-64-*-linux*. The accepted
598 1.10 mrg alues and meaning for each target is given below.
599 1.10 mrg </p>
600 1.10 mrg <dl compact="compact">
601 1.10 mrg <dt><code>aarch64*-*-*</code></dt>
602 1.10 mrg <dd><p><var>list</var> is a comma separated list of <code>ilp32</code>, and <code>lp64</code>
603 1.10 mrg to enable ILP32 and LP64 run-time libraries, respectively. If
604 1.10 mrg <var>list</var> is empty, then there will be no multilibs and only the
605 1.10 mrg default run-time library will be built. If <var>list</var> is
606 1.10 mrg <code>default</code> or –with-multilib-list= is not specified, then the
607 1.10 mrg default set of libraries is selected based on the value of
608 1.10 mrg <samp>--target</samp>.
609 1.10 mrg </p>
610 1.10 mrg </dd>
611 1.10 mrg <dt><code>arm*-*-*</code></dt>
612 1.10 mrg <dd><p><var>list</var> is a comma separated list of <code>aprofile</code> and <code>rmprofile</code>
613 1.10 mrg to build multilibs for A or R and M architecture profiles respectively. Note
614 1.10 mrg that, due to some limitation of the current multilib framework, using the
615 1.10 mrg combined <code>aprofile,rmprofile</code> multilibs selects in some cases a less
616 1.10 mrg optimal multilib than when using the multilib profile for the architecture
617 1.10 mrg targetted. The special value <code>default</code> is also accepted and is equivalent
618 1.10 mrg to omitting the option, ie. only the default run-time library will be enabled.
619 1.10 mrg </p>
620 1.10 mrg <p>The table below gives the combination of ISAs, architectures, FPUs and
621 1.9 mrg floating-point ABIs for which multilibs are built for each accepted value.
622 1.10 mrg The union of these options is considered when specifying both <code>aprofile</code>
623 1.10 mrg and <code>rmprofile</code>.
624 1.10 mrg </p>
625 1.10 mrg <table>
626 1.10 mrg <tr><td width="15%">Option</td><td width="28%">aprofile</td><td width="30%">rmprofile</td></tr>
627 1.10 mrg <tr><td width="15%">ISAs</td><td width="28%"><code>-marm</code> and <code>-mthumb</code></td><td width="30%"><code>-mthumb</code></td></tr>
628 1.10 mrg <tr><td width="15%">Architectures<br><br><br><br><br><br></td><td width="28%">default architecture<br>
629 1.9 mrg <code>-march=armv7-a</code><br>
630 1.9 mrg <code>-march=armv7ve</code><br>
631 1.10 mrg <code>-march=armv8-a</code><br><br><br></td><td width="30%">default architecture<br>
632 1.9 mrg <code>-march=armv6s-m</code><br>
633 1.9 mrg <code>-march=armv7-m</code><br>
634 1.9 mrg <code>-march=armv7e-m</code><br>
635 1.9 mrg <code>-march=armv8-m.base</code><br>
636 1.9 mrg <code>-march=armv8-m.main</code><br>
637 1.10 mrg <code>-march=armv7</code></td></tr>
638 1.10 mrg <tr><td width="15%">FPUs<br><br><br><br><br></td><td width="28%">none<br>
639 1.9 mrg <code>-mfpu=vfpv3-d16</code><br>
640 1.9 mrg <code>-mfpu=neon</code><br>
641 1.9 mrg <code>-mfpu=vfpv4-d16</code><br>
642 1.9 mrg <code>-mfpu=neon-vfpv4</code><br>
643 1.10 mrg <code>-mfpu=neon-fp-armv8</code></td><td width="30%">none<br>
644 1.9 mrg <code>-mfpu=vfpv3-d16</code><br>
645 1.9 mrg <code>-mfpu=fpv4-sp-d16</code><br>
646 1.9 mrg <code>-mfpu=fpv5-sp-d16</code><br>
647 1.10 mrg <code>-mfpu=fpv5-d16</code><br></td></tr>
648 1.10 mrg <tr><td width="15%">floating-point ABIs<br><br></td><td width="28%"><code>-mfloat-abi=soft</code><br>
649 1.9 mrg <code>-mfloat-abi=softfp</code><br>
650 1.10 mrg <code>-mfloat-abi=hard</code></td><td width="30%"><code>-mfloat-abi=soft</code><br>
651 1.9 mrg <code>-mfloat-abi=softfp</code><br>
652 1.10 mrg <code>-mfloat-abi=hard</code></td></tr>
653 1.10 mrg </table>
654 1.9 mrg
655 1.10 mrg </dd>
656 1.10 mrg <dt><code>sh*-*-*</code></dt>
657 1.10 mrg <dd><p><var>list</var> is a comma separated list of CPU names. These must be of the
658 1.1 mrg form <code>sh*</code> or <code>m*</code> (in which case they match the compiler option
659 1.1 mrg for that processor). The list should not contain any endian options -
660 1.10 mrg these are handled by <samp>--with-endian</samp>.
661 1.10 mrg </p>
662 1.10 mrg <p>If <var>list</var> is empty, then there will be no multilibs for extra
663 1.1 mrg processors. The multilib for the secondary endian remains enabled.
664 1.10 mrg </p>
665 1.10 mrg <p>As a special case, if an entry in the list starts with a <code>!</code>
666 1.10 mrg (exclamation point), then it is added to the list of excluded multilibs.
667 1.10 mrg Entries of this sort should be compatible with ‘<samp>MULTILIB_EXCLUDES</samp>’
668 1.1 mrg (once the leading <code>!</code> has been stripped).
669 1.10 mrg </p>
670 1.10 mrg <p>If <samp>--with-multilib-list</samp> is not given, then a default set of
671 1.10 mrg multilibs is selected based on the value of <samp>--target</samp>. This is
672 1.1 mrg usually the complete set of libraries, but some targets imply a more
673 1.1 mrg specialized subset.
674 1.10 mrg </p>
675 1.10 mrg <p>Example 1: to configure a compiler for SH4A only, but supporting both
676 1.10 mrg endians, with little endian being the default:
677 1.10 mrg </p><div class="smallexample">
678 1.10 mrg <pre class="smallexample">--with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big --with-multilib-list=
679 1.10 mrg </pre></div>
680 1.9 mrg
681 1.10 mrg <p>Example 2: to configure a compiler for both SH4A and SH4AL-DSP, but with
682 1.1 mrg only little endian SH4AL:
683 1.10 mrg </p><div class="smallexample">
684 1.10 mrg <pre class="smallexample">--with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big \
685 1.10 mrg --with-multilib-list=sh4al,!mb/m4al
686 1.10 mrg </pre></div>
687 1.10 mrg
688 1.10 mrg </dd>
689 1.10 mrg <dt><code>x86-64-*-linux*</code></dt>
690 1.10 mrg <dd><p><var>list</var> is a comma separated list of <code>m32</code>, <code>m64</code> and
691 1.3 skrll <code>mx32</code> to enable 32-bit, 64-bit and x32 run-time libraries,
692 1.3 skrll respectively. If <var>list</var> is empty, then there will be no multilibs
693 1.3 skrll and only the default run-time library will be enabled.
694 1.10 mrg </p>
695 1.10 mrg <p>If <samp>--with-multilib-list</samp> is not given, then only 32-bit and
696 1.10 mrg 64-bit run-time libraries will be enabled.
697 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
698 1.3 skrll </dl>
699 1.3 skrll
700 1.10 mrg </dd>
701 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-endian=<var>endians</var></code></dt>
702 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify what endians to use.
703 1.1 mrg Currently only implemented for sh*-*-*.
704 1.10 mrg </p>
705 1.10 mrg <p><var>endians</var> may be one of the following:
706 1.10 mrg </p><dl compact="compact">
707 1.10 mrg <dt><code>big</code></dt>
708 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Use big endian exclusively.
709 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
710 1.10 mrg <dt><code>little</code></dt>
711 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Use little endian exclusively.
712 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
713 1.10 mrg <dt><code>big,little</code></dt>
714 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Use big endian by default. Provide a multilib for little endian.
715 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
716 1.10 mrg <dt><code>little,big</code></dt>
717 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Use little endian by default. Provide a multilib for big endian.
718 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
719 1.1 mrg </dl>
720 1.1 mrg
721 1.10 mrg </dd>
722 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-threads</code></dt>
723 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the target
724 1.1 mrg supports threads. This affects the Objective-C compiler and runtime
725 1.10 mrg library, and exception handling for other languages like C++.
726 1.1 mrg On some systems, this is the default.
727 1.10 mrg </p>
728 1.10 mrg <p>In general, the best (and, in many cases, the only known) threading
729 1.1 mrg model available will be configured for use. Beware that on some
730 1.1 mrg systems, GCC has not been taught what threading models are generally
731 1.10 mrg available for the system. In this case, <samp>--enable-threads</samp> is an
732 1.10 mrg alias for <samp>--enable-threads=single</samp>.
733 1.10 mrg </p>
734 1.10 mrg </dd>
735 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-threads</code></dt>
736 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that threading support should be disabled for the system.
737 1.10 mrg This is an alias for <samp>--enable-threads=single</samp>.
738 1.10 mrg </p>
739 1.10 mrg </dd>
740 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-threads=<var>lib</var></code></dt>
741 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that
742 1.1 mrg <var>lib</var> is the thread support library. This affects the Objective-C
743 1.1 mrg compiler and runtime library, and exception handling for other languages
744 1.9 mrg like C++. The possibilities for <var>lib</var> are:
745 1.10 mrg </p>
746 1.10 mrg <dl compact="compact">
747 1.10 mrg <dt><code>aix</code></dt>
748 1.10 mrg <dd><p>AIX thread support.
749 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
750 1.10 mrg <dt><code>dce</code></dt>
751 1.10 mrg <dd><p>DCE thread support.
752 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
753 1.10 mrg <dt><code>lynx</code></dt>
754 1.10 mrg <dd><p>LynxOS thread support.
755 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
756 1.10 mrg <dt><code>mipssde</code></dt>
757 1.10 mrg <dd><p>MIPS SDE thread support.
758 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
759 1.10 mrg <dt><code>no</code></dt>
760 1.10 mrg <dd><p>This is an alias for ‘<samp>single</samp>’.
761 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
762 1.10 mrg <dt><code>posix</code></dt>
763 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Generic POSIX/Unix98 thread support.
764 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
765 1.10 mrg <dt><code>rtems</code></dt>
766 1.10 mrg <dd><p>RTEMS thread support.
767 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
768 1.10 mrg <dt><code>single</code></dt>
769 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Disable thread support, should work for all platforms.
770 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
771 1.10 mrg <dt><code>tpf</code></dt>
772 1.10 mrg <dd><p>TPF thread support.
773 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
774 1.10 mrg <dt><code>vxworks</code></dt>
775 1.10 mrg <dd><p>VxWorks thread support.
776 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
777 1.10 mrg <dt><code>win32</code></dt>
778 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Microsoft Win32 API thread support.
779 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
780 1.1 mrg </dl>
781 1.1 mrg
782 1.10 mrg </dd>
783 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-tls</code></dt>
784 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the target supports TLS (Thread Local Storage). Usually
785 1.1 mrg configure can correctly determine if TLS is supported. In cases where
786 1.1 mrg it guesses incorrectly, TLS can be explicitly enabled or disabled with
787 1.10 mrg <samp>--enable-tls</samp> or <samp>--disable-tls</samp>. This can happen if
788 1.1 mrg the assembler supports TLS but the C library does not, or if the
789 1.1 mrg assumptions made by the configure test are incorrect.
790 1.10 mrg </p>
791 1.10 mrg </dd>
792 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-tls</code></dt>
793 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the target does not support TLS.
794 1.10 mrg This is an alias for <samp>--enable-tls=no</samp>.
795 1.10 mrg </p>
796 1.10 mrg </dd>
797 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-cpu=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
798 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-cpu-32=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
799 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-cpu-64=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
800 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify which cpu variant the compiler should generate code for by default.
801 1.10 mrg <var>cpu</var> will be used as the default value of the <samp>-mcpu=</samp> switch.
802 1.5 mrg This option is only supported on some targets, including ARC, ARM, i386, M68k,
803 1.10 mrg PowerPC, and SPARC. It is mandatory for ARC. The <samp>--with-cpu-32</samp> and
804 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-cpu-64</samp> options specify separate default CPUs for
805 1.1 mrg 32-bit and 64-bit modes; these options are only supported for i386,
806 1.7 mrg x86-64, PowerPC, and SPARC.
807 1.10 mrg </p>
808 1.10 mrg </dd>
809 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-schedule=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
810 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-arch=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
811 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-arch-32=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
812 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-arch-64=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
813 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-tune=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
814 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-tune-32=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
815 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-tune-64=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
816 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-abi=<var>abi</var></code></dt>
817 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-fpu=<var>type</var></code></dt>
818 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-float=<var>type</var></code></dt>
819 1.10 mrg <dd><p>These configure options provide default values for the <samp>-mschedule=</samp>,
820 1.10 mrg <samp>-march=</samp>, <samp>-mtune=</samp>, <samp>-mabi=</samp>, and <samp>-mfpu=</samp>
821 1.10 mrg options and for <samp>-mhard-float</samp> or <samp>-msoft-float</samp>. As with
822 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-cpu</samp>, which switches will be accepted and acceptable values
823 1.1 mrg of the arguments depend on the target.
824 1.10 mrg </p>
825 1.10 mrg </dd>
826 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-mode=<var>mode</var></code></dt>
827 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify if the compiler should default to <samp>-marm</samp> or <samp>-mthumb</samp>.
828 1.1 mrg This option is only supported on ARM targets.
829 1.10 mrg </p>
830 1.10 mrg </dd>
831 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-stack-offset=<var>num</var></code></dt>
832 1.10 mrg <dd><p>This option sets the default for the -mstack-offset=<var>num</var> option,
833 1.3 skrll and will thus generally also control the setting of this option for
834 1.3 skrll libraries. This option is only supported on Epiphany targets.
835 1.10 mrg </p>
836 1.10 mrg </dd>
837 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-fpmath=<var>isa</var></code></dt>
838 1.10 mrg <dd><p>This options sets <samp>-mfpmath=sse</samp> by default and specifies the default
839 1.10 mrg ISA for floating-point arithmetics. You can select either ‘<samp>sse</samp>’ which
840 1.10 mrg enables <samp>-msse2</samp> or ‘<samp>avx</samp>’ which enables <samp>-mavx</samp> by default.
841 1.3 skrll This option is only supported on i386 and x86-64 targets.
842 1.10 mrg </p>
843 1.10 mrg </dd>
844 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-fp-32=<var>mode</var></code></dt>
845 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, set the default value for the <samp>-mfp</samp> option when using
846 1.5 mrg the o32 ABI. The possibilities for <var>mode</var> are:
847 1.10 mrg </p><dl compact="compact">
848 1.10 mrg <dt><code>32</code></dt>
849 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Use the o32 FP32 ABI extension, as with the <samp>-mfp32</samp> command-line
850 1.10 mrg option.
851 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
852 1.10 mrg <dt><code>xx</code></dt>
853 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Use the o32 FPXX ABI extension, as with the <samp>-mfpxx</samp> command-line
854 1.10 mrg option.
855 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
856 1.10 mrg <dt><code>64</code></dt>
857 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Use the o32 FP64 ABI extension, as with the <samp>-mfp64</samp> command-line
858 1.10 mrg option.
859 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
860 1.5 mrg </dl>
861 1.10 mrg <p>In the absence of this configuration option the default is to use the o32
862 1.5 mrg FP32 ABI extension.
863 1.10 mrg </p>
864 1.10 mrg </dd>
865 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-odd-spreg-32</code></dt>
866 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, set the <samp>-modd-spreg</samp> option by default when using
867 1.5 mrg the o32 ABI.
868 1.10 mrg </p>
869 1.10 mrg </dd>
870 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--without-odd-spreg-32</code></dt>
871 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, set the <samp>-mno-odd-spreg</samp> option by default when using
872 1.5 mrg the o32 ABI. This is normally used in conjunction with
873 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-fp-32=64</samp> in order to target the o32 FP64A ABI extension.
874 1.10 mrg </p>
875 1.10 mrg </dd>
876 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-nan=<var>encoding</var></code></dt>
877 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, set the default encoding convention to use for the
878 1.5 mrg special not-a-number (NaN) IEEE 754 floating-point data. The
879 1.5 mrg possibilities for <var>encoding</var> are:
880 1.10 mrg </p><dl compact="compact">
881 1.10 mrg <dt><code>legacy</code></dt>
882 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Use the legacy encoding, as with the <samp>-mnan=legacy</samp> command-line
883 1.10 mrg option.
884 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
885 1.10 mrg <dt><code>2008</code></dt>
886 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Use the 754-2008 encoding, as with the <samp>-mnan=2008</samp> command-line
887 1.10 mrg option.
888 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
889 1.5 mrg </dl>
890 1.10 mrg <p>To use this configuration option you must have an assembler version
891 1.10 mrg installed that supports the <samp>-mnan=</samp> command-line option too.
892 1.5 mrg In the absence of this configuration option the default convention is
893 1.10 mrg the legacy encoding, as when neither of the <samp>-mnan=2008</samp> and
894 1.10 mrg <samp>-mnan=legacy</samp> command-line options has been used.
895 1.10 mrg </p>
896 1.10 mrg </dd>
897 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-divide=<var>type</var></code></dt>
898 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify how the compiler should generate code for checking for
899 1.10 mrg division by zero. This option is only supported on the MIPS target.
900 1.1 mrg The possibilities for <var>type</var> are:
901 1.10 mrg </p><dl compact="compact">
902 1.10 mrg <dt><code>traps</code></dt>
903 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Division by zero checks use conditional traps (this is the default on
904 1.10 mrg systems that support conditional traps).
905 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
906 1.10 mrg <dt><code>breaks</code></dt>
907 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Division by zero checks use the break instruction.
908 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
909 1.1 mrg </dl>
910 1.1 mrg
911 1.10 mrg
912 1.10 mrg </dd>
913 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-llsc</code></dt>
914 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-mllsc</samp> the default when no
915 1.10 mrg <samp>-mno-llsc</samp> option is passed. This is the default for
916 1.1 mrg Linux-based targets, as the kernel will emulate them if the ISA does
917 1.1 mrg not provide them.
918 1.10 mrg </p>
919 1.10 mrg </dd>
920 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--without-llsc</code></dt>
921 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-mno-llsc</samp> the default when no
922 1.10 mrg <samp>-mllsc</samp> option is passed.
923 1.10 mrg </p>
924 1.10 mrg </dd>
925 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-synci</code></dt>
926 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-msynci</samp> the default when no
927 1.10 mrg <samp>-mno-synci</samp> option is passed.
928 1.10 mrg </p>
929 1.10 mrg </dd>
930 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--without-synci</code></dt>
931 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-mno-synci</samp> the default when no
932 1.10 mrg <samp>-msynci</samp> option is passed. This is the default.
933 1.10 mrg </p>
934 1.10 mrg </dd>
935 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-lxc1-sxc1</code></dt>
936 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-mlxc1-sxc1</samp> the default when no
937 1.10 mrg <samp>-mno-lxc1-sxc1</samp> option is passed. This is the default.
938 1.10 mrg </p>
939 1.10 mrg </dd>
940 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--without-lxc1-sxc1</code></dt>
941 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-mno-lxc1-sxc1</samp> the default when no
942 1.10 mrg <samp>-mlxc1-sxc1</samp> option is passed. The indexed load/store
943 1.9 mrg instructions are not directly a problem but can lead to unexpected
944 1.9 mrg behaviour when deployed in an application intended for a 32-bit address
945 1.9 mrg space but run on a 64-bit processor. The issue is seen because all
946 1.9 mrg known MIPS 64-bit Linux kernels execute o32 and n32 applications
947 1.9 mrg with 64-bit addressing enabled which affects the overflow behaviour
948 1.9 mrg of the indexed addressing mode. GCC will assume that ordinary
949 1.9 mrg 32-bit arithmetic overflow behaviour is the same whether performed
950 1.9 mrg as an <code>addu</code> instruction or as part of the address calculation
951 1.9 mrg in <code>lwxc1</code> type instructions. This assumption holds true in a
952 1.9 mrg pure 32-bit environment and can hold true in a 64-bit environment if
953 1.9 mrg the address space is accurately set to be 32-bit for o32 and n32.
954 1.10 mrg </p>
955 1.10 mrg </dd>
956 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-madd4</code></dt>
957 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-mmadd4</samp> the default when no
958 1.10 mrg <samp>-mno-madd4</samp> option is passed. This is the default.
959 1.10 mrg </p>
960 1.10 mrg </dd>
961 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--without-madd4</code></dt>
962 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-mno-madd4</samp> the default when no
963 1.10 mrg <samp>-mmadd4</samp> option is passed. The <code>madd4</code> instruction
964 1.9 mrg family can be problematic when targeting a combination of cores that
965 1.9 mrg implement these instructions differently. There are two known cores
966 1.9 mrg that implement these as fused operations instead of unfused (where
967 1.9 mrg unfused is normally expected). Disabling these instructions is the
968 1.9 mrg only way to ensure compatible code is generated; this will incur
969 1.9 mrg a performance penalty.
970 1.10 mrg </p>
971 1.10 mrg </dd>
972 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-mips-plt</code></dt>
973 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On MIPS targets, make use of copy relocations and PLTs.
974 1.1 mrg These features are extensions to the traditional
975 1.1 mrg SVR4-based MIPS ABIs and require support from GNU binutils
976 1.1 mrg and the runtime C library.
977 1.10 mrg </p>
978 1.10 mrg </dd>
979 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-__cxa_atexit</code></dt>
980 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Define if you want to use __cxa_atexit, rather than atexit, to
981 1.10 mrg register C++ destructors for local statics and global objects.
982 1.1 mrg This is essential for fully standards-compliant handling of
983 1.1 mrg destructors, but requires __cxa_atexit in libc. This option is currently
984 1.1 mrg only available on systems with GNU libc. When enabled, this will cause
985 1.10 mrg <samp>-fuse-cxa-atexit</samp> to be passed by default.
986 1.10 mrg </p>
987 1.10 mrg </dd>
988 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-gnu-indirect-function</code></dt>
989 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Define if you want to enable the <code>ifunc</code> attribute. This option is
990 1.3 skrll currently only available on systems with GNU libc on certain targets.
991 1.10 mrg </p>
992 1.10 mrg </dd>
993 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-target-optspace</code></dt>
994 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that target
995 1.10 mrg libraries should be optimized for code space instead of code speed.
996 1.1 mrg This is the default for the m32r platform.
997 1.10 mrg </p>
998 1.10 mrg </dd>
999 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-cpp-install-dir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
1000 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the user visible <code>cpp</code> program should be installed
1001 1.10 mrg in <samp><var>prefix</var>/<var>dirname</var>/cpp</samp>, in addition to <var>bindir</var>.
1002 1.10 mrg </p>
1003 1.10 mrg </dd>
1004 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-comdat</code></dt>
1005 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Enable COMDAT group support. This is primarily used to override the
1006 1.1 mrg automatically detected value.
1007 1.10 mrg </p>
1008 1.10 mrg </dd>
1009 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-initfini-array</code></dt>
1010 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Force the use of sections <code>.init_array</code> and <code>.fini_array</code>
1011 1.1 mrg (instead of <code>.init</code> and <code>.fini</code>) for constructors and
1012 1.10 mrg destructors. Option <samp>--disable-initfini-array</samp> has the
1013 1.1 mrg opposite effect. If neither option is specified, the configure script
1014 1.1 mrg will try to guess whether the <code>.init_array</code> and
1015 1.1 mrg <code>.fini_array</code> sections are supported and, if they are, use them.
1016 1.10 mrg </p>
1017 1.10 mrg </dd>
1018 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-link-mutex</code></dt>
1019 1.10 mrg <dd><p>When building GCC, use a mutex to avoid linking the compilers for
1020 1.5 mrg multiple languages at the same time, to avoid thrashing on build
1021 1.5 mrg systems with limited free memory. The default is not to use such a mutex.
1022 1.10 mrg </p>
1023 1.10 mrg </dd>
1024 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-maintainer-mode</code></dt>
1025 1.10 mrg <dd><p>The build rules that regenerate the Autoconf and Automake output files as
1026 1.10 mrg well as the GCC master message catalog <samp>gcc.pot</samp> are normally
1027 1.1 mrg disabled. This is because it can only be rebuilt if the complete source
1028 1.1 mrg tree is present. If you have changed the sources and want to rebuild the
1029 1.10 mrg catalog, configuring with <samp>--enable-maintainer-mode</samp> will enable
1030 1.1 mrg this. Note that you need a recent version of the <code>gettext</code> tools
1031 1.1 mrg to do so.
1032 1.10 mrg </p>
1033 1.10 mrg </dd>
1034 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-bootstrap</code></dt>
1035 1.10 mrg <dd><p>For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
1036 1.10 mrg a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when ‘<samp>make</samp>’ is invoked,
1037 1.1 mrg testing that GCC can compile itself correctly. If you want to disable
1038 1.10 mrg this process, you can configure with <samp>--disable-bootstrap</samp>.
1039 1.10 mrg </p>
1040 1.10 mrg </dd>
1041 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-bootstrap</code></dt>
1042 1.10 mrg <dd><p>In special cases, you may want to perform a 3-stage build
1043 1.10 mrg even if the target and host triplets are different.
1044 1.1 mrg This is possible when the host can run code compiled for
1045 1.10 mrg the target (e.g. host is i686-linux, target is i486-linux).
1046 1.1 mrg Starting from GCC 4.2, to do this you have to configure explicitly
1047 1.10 mrg with <samp>--enable-bootstrap</samp>.
1048 1.10 mrg </p>
1049 1.10 mrg </dd>
1050 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir</code></dt>
1051 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Neither the .c and .h files that are generated from Bison and flex nor the
1052 1.1 mrg info manuals and man pages that are built from the .texi files are present
1053 1.1 mrg in the SVN development tree. When building GCC from that development tree,
1054 1.1 mrg or from one of our snapshots, those generated files are placed in your
1055 1.1 mrg build directory, which allows for the source to be in a readonly
1056 1.1 mrg directory.
1057 1.10 mrg </p>
1058 1.10 mrg <p>If you configure with <samp>--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir</samp> then those
1059 1.1 mrg generated files will go into the source directory. This is mainly intended
1060 1.1 mrg for generating release or prerelease tarballs of the GCC sources, since it
1061 1.1 mrg is not a requirement that the users of source releases to have flex, Bison,
1062 1.1 mrg or makeinfo.
1063 1.10 mrg </p>
1064 1.10 mrg </dd>
1065 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs</code></dt>
1066 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify
1067 1.1 mrg that runtime libraries should be installed in the compiler specific
1068 1.10 mrg subdirectory (<samp><var>libdir</var>/gcc</samp>) rather than the usual places. In
1069 1.10 mrg addition, ‘<samp>libstdc++</samp>’’s include files will be installed into
1070 1.1 mrg <samp><var>libdir</var></samp> unless you overruled it by using
1071 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-gxx-include-dir=<var>dirname</var></samp>. Using this option is
1072 1.1 mrg particularly useful if you intend to use several versions of GCC in
1073 1.10 mrg parallel. This is currently supported by ‘<samp>libgfortran</samp>’,
1074 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>libstdc++</samp>’, and ‘<samp>libobjc</samp>’.
1075 1.10 mrg </p>
1076 1.10 mrg </dd>
1077 1.10 mrg <dt><code><a name="WithAixSoname"></a>--with-aix-soname=‘<samp>aix</samp>’, ‘<samp>svr4</samp>’ or ‘<samp>both</samp>’</code></dt>
1078 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Traditional AIX shared library versioning (versioned <code>Shared Object</code>
1079 1.5 mrg files as members of unversioned <code>Archive Library</code> files named
1080 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>lib.a</samp>’) causes numerous headaches for package managers. However,
1081 1.5 mrg <code>Import Files</code> as members of <code>Archive Library</code> files allow for
1082 1.5 mrg <strong>filename-based versioning</strong> of shared libraries as seen on Linux/SVR4,
1083 1.10 mrg where this is called the "SONAME". But as they prevent static linking,
1084 1.5 mrg <code>Import Files</code> may be used with <code>Runtime Linking</code> only, where the
1085 1.10 mrg linker does search for ‘<samp>libNAME.so</samp>’ before ‘<samp>libNAME.a</samp>’ library
1086 1.10 mrg filenames with the ‘<samp>-lNAME</samp>’ linker flag.
1087 1.10 mrg </p>
1088 1.10 mrg <a name="AixLdCommand"></a><p>For detailed information please refer to the AIX
1089 1.10 mrg <a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/search/%22the%20ld%20command%2C%20also%20called%20the%20linkage%20editor%20or%20binder%22">ld
1090 1.10 mrg Command</a> reference.
1091 1.10 mrg </p>
1092 1.10 mrg <p>As long as shared library creation is enabled, upon:
1093 1.10 mrg </p><dl compact="compact">
1094 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-aix-soname=aix</code></dt>
1095 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-aix-soname=both</code></dt>
1096 1.10 mrg <dd><p>A (traditional AIX) <code>Shared Archive Library</code> file is created:
1097 1.10 mrg </p><ul>
1098 1.10 mrg <li> using the ‘<samp>libNAME.a</samp>’ filename scheme
1099 1.10 mrg </li><li> with the <code>Shared Object</code> file as archive member named
1100 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>libNAME.so.V</samp>’ (except for ‘<samp>libgcc_s</samp>’, where the <code>Shared
1101 1.10 mrg Object</code> file is named ‘<samp>shr.o</samp>’ for backwards compatibility), which
1102 1.10 mrg <ul class="no-bullet">
1103 1.10 mrg <li>- is used for runtime loading from inside the ‘<samp>libNAME.a</samp>’ file
1104 1.10 mrg </li><li>- is used for dynamic loading via
1105 1.10 mrg <code>dlopen("libNAME.a(libNAME.so.V)", RTLD_MEMBER)</code>
1106 1.10 mrg </li><li>- is used for shared linking
1107 1.10 mrg </li><li>- is used for static linking, so no separate <code>Static Archive
1108 1.5 mrg Library</code> file is needed
1109 1.10 mrg </li></ul>
1110 1.10 mrg </li></ul>
1111 1.10 mrg </dd>
1112 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-aix-soname=both</code></dt>
1113 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-aix-soname=svr4</code></dt>
1114 1.10 mrg <dd><p>A (second) <code>Shared Archive Library</code> file is created:
1115 1.10 mrg </p><ul>
1116 1.10 mrg <li> using the ‘<samp>libNAME.so.V</samp>’ filename scheme
1117 1.10 mrg </li><li> with the <code>Shared Object</code> file as archive member named
1118 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>shr.o</samp>’, which
1119 1.10 mrg <ul class="no-bullet">
1120 1.10 mrg <li>- is created with the <code>-G linker flag</code>
1121 1.10 mrg </li><li>- has the <code>F_LOADONLY</code> flag set
1122 1.10 mrg </li><li>- is used for runtime loading from inside the ‘<samp>libNAME.so.V</samp>’ file
1123 1.10 mrg </li><li>- is used for dynamic loading via <code>dlopen("libNAME.so.V(shr.o)",
1124 1.5 mrg RTLD_MEMBER)</code>
1125 1.10 mrg </li></ul>
1126 1.10 mrg </li><li> with the <code>Import File</code> as archive member named ‘<samp>shr.imp</samp>’,
1127 1.5 mrg which
1128 1.10 mrg <ul class="no-bullet">
1129 1.10 mrg <li>- refers to ‘<samp>libNAME.so.V(shr.o)</samp>’ as the "SONAME", to be recorded
1130 1.5 mrg in the <code>Loader Section</code> of subsequent binaries
1131 1.10 mrg </li><li>- indicates whether ‘<samp>libNAME.so.V(shr.o)</samp>’ is 32 or 64 bit
1132 1.10 mrg </li><li>- lists all the public symbols exported by ‘<samp>lib.so.V(shr.o)</samp>’,
1133 1.10 mrg eventually decorated with the <code>‘<samp>weak</samp>’ Keyword</code>
1134 1.10 mrg </li><li>- is necessary for shared linking against ‘<samp>lib.so.V(shr.o)</samp>’
1135 1.10 mrg </li></ul>
1136 1.10 mrg </li></ul>
1137 1.10 mrg <p>A symbolic link using the ‘<samp>libNAME.so</samp>’ filename scheme is created:
1138 1.10 mrg </p><ul>
1139 1.10 mrg <li> pointing to the ‘<samp>libNAME.so.V</samp>’ <code>Shared Archive Library</code> file
1140 1.10 mrg </li><li> to permit the <code>ld Command</code> to find ‘<samp>lib.so.V(shr.imp)</samp>’ via
1141 1.10 mrg the ‘<samp>-lNAME</samp>’ argument (requires <code>Runtime Linking</code> to be enabled)
1142 1.10 mrg </li><li> to permit dynamic loading of ‘<samp>lib.so.V(shr.o)</samp>’ without the need
1143 1.10 mrg to specify the version number via <code>dlopen("libNAME.so(shr.o)",
1144 1.5 mrg RTLD_MEMBER)</code>
1145 1.10 mrg </li></ul>
1146 1.10 mrg </dd>
1147 1.10 mrg </dl>
1148 1.5 mrg
1149 1.10 mrg <p>As long as static library creation is enabled, upon:
1150 1.10 mrg </p><dl compact="compact">
1151 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-aix-soname=svr4</code></dt>
1152 1.10 mrg <dd><p>A <code>Static Archive Library</code> is created:
1153 1.10 mrg </p><ul>
1154 1.10 mrg <li> using the ‘<samp>libNAME.a</samp>’ filename scheme
1155 1.10 mrg </li><li> with all the <code>Static Object</code> files as archive members, which
1156 1.10 mrg <ul class="no-bullet">
1157 1.10 mrg <li>- are used for static linking
1158 1.10 mrg </li></ul>
1159 1.10 mrg </li></ul>
1160 1.10 mrg </dd>
1161 1.10 mrg </dl>
1162 1.5 mrg
1163 1.10 mrg <p>While the aix-soname=‘<samp>svr4</samp>’ option does not create <code>Shared Object</code>
1164 1.5 mrg files as members of unversioned <code>Archive Library</code> files any more, package
1165 1.5 mrg managers still are responsible to
1166 1.5 mrg <a href="./specific.html#TransferAixShobj">transfer</a> <code>Shared Object</code> files
1167 1.5 mrg found as member of a previously installed unversioned <code>Archive Library</code>
1168 1.5 mrg file into the newly installed <code>Archive Library</code> file with the same
1169 1.5 mrg filename.
1170 1.10 mrg </p>
1171 1.10 mrg <p><em>WARNING:</em> Creating <code>Shared Object</code> files with <code>Runtime Linking</code>
1172 1.5 mrg enabled may bloat the TOC, eventually leading to <code>TOC overflow</code> errors,
1173 1.10 mrg requiring the use of either the <samp>-Wl,-bbigtoc</samp> linker flag (seen to
1174 1.5 mrg break with the <code>GDB</code> debugger) or some of the TOC-related compiler flags,
1175 1.5 mrg see “RS/6000 and PowerPC Options” in the main manual.
1176 1.10 mrg </p>
1177 1.10 mrg <p><samp>--with-aix-soname</samp> is currently supported by ‘<samp>libgcc_s</samp>’ only, so
1178 1.5 mrg this option is still experimental and not for normal use yet.
1179 1.10 mrg </p>
1180 1.10 mrg <p>Default is the traditional behavior <samp>--with-aix-soname=‘<samp>aix</samp>’</samp>.
1181 1.10 mrg </p>
1182 1.10 mrg </dd>
1183 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-languages=<var>lang1</var>,<var>lang2</var>,…</code></dt>
1184 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that only a particular subset of compilers and
1185 1.1 mrg their runtime libraries should be built. For a list of valid values for
1186 1.1 mrg <var>langN</var> you can issue the following command in the
1187 1.10 mrg <samp>gcc</samp> directory of your GCC source tree:<br>
1188 1.10 mrg </p><div class="smallexample">
1189 1.10 mrg <pre class="smallexample">grep ^language= */config-lang.in
1190 1.10 mrg </pre></div>
1191 1.10 mrg <p>Currently, you can use any of the following:
1192 1.10 mrg <code>all</code>, <code>default</code>, <code>ada</code>, <code>c</code>, <code>c++</code>, <code>fortran</code>,
1193 1.10 mrg <code>go</code>, <code>jit</code>, <code>lto</code>, <code>objc</code>, <code>obj-c++</code>.
1194 1.10 mrg Building the Ada compiler has special requirements, see below.
1195 1.10 mrg If you do not pass this flag, or specify the option <code>default</code>, then the
1196 1.10 mrg default languages available in the <samp>gcc</samp> sub-tree will be configured.
1197 1.7 mrg Ada, Go, Jit, and Objective-C++ are not default languages. LTO is not a
1198 1.10 mrg default language, but is built by default because <samp>--enable-lto</samp> is
1199 1.10 mrg enabled by default. The other languages are default languages. If
1200 1.10 mrg <code>all</code> is specified, then all available languages are built. An
1201 1.10 mrg exception is <code>jit</code> language, which requires
1202 1.10 mrg <samp>--enable-host-shared</samp> to be included with <code>all</code>.
1203 1.10 mrg </p>
1204 1.10 mrg </dd>
1205 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-stage1-languages=<var>lang1</var>,<var>lang2</var>,…</code></dt>
1206 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that a particular subset of compilers and their runtime
1207 1.1 mrg libraries should be built with the system C compiler during stage 1 of
1208 1.1 mrg the bootstrap process, rather than only in later stages with the
1209 1.1 mrg bootstrapped C compiler. The list of valid values is the same as for
1210 1.10 mrg <samp>--enable-languages</samp>, and the option <code>all</code> will select all
1211 1.10 mrg of the languages enabled by <samp>--enable-languages</samp>. This option is
1212 1.1 mrg primarily useful for GCC development; for instance, when a development
1213 1.1 mrg version of the compiler cannot bootstrap due to compiler bugs, or when
1214 1.1 mrg one is debugging front ends other than the C front end. When this
1215 1.1 mrg option is used, one can then build the target libraries for the
1216 1.10 mrg specified languages with the stage-1 compiler by using <code>make
1217 1.10 mrg stage1-bubble all-target</code>, or run the testsuite on the stage-1 compiler
1218 1.10 mrg for the specified languages using <code>make stage1-start check-gcc</code>.
1219 1.10 mrg </p>
1220 1.10 mrg </dd>
1221 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-libada</code></dt>
1222 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the run-time libraries and tools used by GNAT should not
1223 1.1 mrg be built. This can be useful for debugging, or for compatibility with
1224 1.1 mrg previous Ada build procedures, when it was required to explicitly
1225 1.10 mrg do a ‘<samp>make -C gcc gnatlib_and_tools</samp>’.
1226 1.10 mrg </p>
1227 1.10 mrg </dd>
1228 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-libsanitizer</code></dt>
1229 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the run-time libraries for the various sanitizers should
1230 1.5 mrg not be built.
1231 1.10 mrg </p>
1232 1.10 mrg </dd>
1233 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-libssp</code></dt>
1234 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the run-time libraries for stack smashing protection
1235 1.10 mrg should not be built or linked against. On many targets library support
1236 1.10 mrg is provided by the C library instead.
1237 1.10 mrg </p>
1238 1.10 mrg </dd>
1239 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-libquadmath</code></dt>
1240 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the GCC quad-precision math library should not be built.
1241 1.3 skrll On some systems, the library is required to be linkable when building
1242 1.10 mrg the Fortran front end, unless <samp>--disable-libquadmath-support</samp>
1243 1.3 skrll is used.
1244 1.10 mrg </p>
1245 1.10 mrg </dd>
1246 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-libquadmath-support</code></dt>
1247 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the Fortran front end and <code>libgfortran</code> do not add
1248 1.3 skrll support for <code>libquadmath</code> on systems supporting it.
1249 1.10 mrg </p>
1250 1.10 mrg </dd>
1251 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-libgomp</code></dt>
1252 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the GNU Offloading and Multi Processing Runtime Library
1253 1.5 mrg should not be built.
1254 1.10 mrg </p>
1255 1.10 mrg </dd>
1256 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-libvtv</code></dt>
1257 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the run-time libraries used by vtable verification
1258 1.5 mrg should not be built.
1259 1.10 mrg </p>
1260 1.10 mrg </dd>
1261 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-dwarf2</code></dt>
1262 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the compiler should
1263 1.1 mrg use DWARF 2 debugging information as the default.
1264 1.10 mrg </p>
1265 1.10 mrg </dd>
1266 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-advance-toolchain=<var>at</var></code></dt>
1267 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On 64-bit PowerPC Linux systems, configure the compiler to use the
1268 1.7 mrg header files, library files, and the dynamic linker from the Advance
1269 1.7 mrg Toolchain release <var>at</var> instead of the default versions that are
1270 1.7 mrg provided by the Linux distribution. In general, this option is
1271 1.7 mrg intended for the developers of GCC, and it is not intended for general
1272 1.7 mrg use.
1273 1.10 mrg </p>
1274 1.10 mrg </dd>
1275 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-targets=all</code></dt>
1276 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-targets=<var>target_list</var></code></dt>
1277 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Some GCC targets, e.g. powerpc64-linux, build bi-arch compilers.
1278 1.1 mrg These are compilers that are able to generate either 64-bit or 32-bit
1279 1.10 mrg code. Typically, the corresponding 32-bit target, e.g.
1280 1.1 mrg powerpc-linux for powerpc64-linux, only generates 32-bit code. This
1281 1.1 mrg option enables the 32-bit target to be a bi-arch compiler, which is
1282 1.1 mrg useful when you want a bi-arch compiler that defaults to 32-bit, and
1283 1.10 mrg you are building a bi-arch or multi-arch binutils in a combined tree.
1284 1.1 mrg On mips-linux, this will build a tri-arch compiler (ABI o32/n32/64),
1285 1.10 mrg defaulted to o32.
1286 1.3 skrll Currently, this option only affects sparc-linux, powerpc-linux, x86-linux,
1287 1.3 skrll mips-linux and s390-linux.
1288 1.10 mrg </p>
1289 1.10 mrg </dd>
1290 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-default-pie</code></dt>
1291 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Turn on <samp>-fPIE</samp> and <samp>-pie</samp> by default.
1292 1.10 mrg </p>
1293 1.10 mrg </dd>
1294 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-secureplt</code></dt>
1295 1.10 mrg <dd><p>This option enables <samp>-msecure-plt</samp> by default for powerpc-linux.
1296 1.1 mrg See “RS/6000 and PowerPC Options” in the main manual
1297 1.10 mrg </p>
1298 1.10 mrg </dd>
1299 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-default-ssp</code></dt>
1300 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Turn on <samp>-fstack-protector-strong</samp> by default.
1301 1.10 mrg </p>
1302 1.10 mrg </dd>
1303 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-cld</code></dt>
1304 1.10 mrg <dd><p>This option enables <samp>-mcld</samp> by default for 32-bit x86 targets.
1305 1.1 mrg See “i386 and x86-64 Options” in the main manual
1306 1.10 mrg </p>
1307 1.10 mrg </dd>
1308 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-win32-registry</code></dt>
1309 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-win32-registry=<var>key</var></code></dt>
1310 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-win32-registry</code></dt>
1311 1.10 mrg <dd><p>The <samp>--enable-win32-registry</samp> option enables Microsoft Windows-hosted GCC
1312 1.1 mrg to look up installations paths in the registry using the following key:
1313 1.10 mrg </p>
1314 1.10 mrg <div class="smallexample">
1315 1.10 mrg <pre class="smallexample"><code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Free Software Foundation\<var>key</var></code>
1316 1.10 mrg </pre></div>
1317 1.1 mrg
1318 1.10 mrg <p><var>key</var> defaults to GCC version number, and can be overridden by the
1319 1.10 mrg <samp>--enable-win32-registry=<var>key</var></samp> option. Vendors and distributors
1320 1.1 mrg who use custom installers are encouraged to provide a different key,
1321 1.1 mrg perhaps one comprised of vendor name and GCC version number, to
1322 1.1 mrg avoid conflict with existing installations. This feature is enabled
1323 1.10 mrg by default, and can be disabled by <samp>--disable-win32-registry</samp>
1324 1.1 mrg option. This option has no effect on the other hosts.
1325 1.10 mrg </p>
1326 1.10 mrg </dd>
1327 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--nfp</code></dt>
1328 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that the machine does not have a floating point unit. This
1329 1.10 mrg option only applies to ‘<samp>m68k-sun-sunos<var>n</var></samp>’. On any other
1330 1.10 mrg system, <samp>--nfp</samp> has no effect.
1331 1.10 mrg </p>
1332 1.10 mrg </dd>
1333 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-werror</code></dt>
1334 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-werror</code></dt>
1335 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-werror=yes</code></dt>
1336 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-werror=no</code></dt>
1337 1.10 mrg <dd><p>When you specify this option, it controls whether certain files in the
1338 1.10 mrg compiler are built with <samp>-Werror</samp> in bootstrap stage2 and later.
1339 1.10 mrg If you don’t specify it, <samp>-Werror</samp> is turned on for the main
1340 1.1 mrg development trunk. However it defaults to off for release branches and
1341 1.10 mrg final releases. The specific files which get <samp>-Werror</samp> are
1342 1.1 mrg controlled by the Makefiles.
1343 1.10 mrg </p>
1344 1.10 mrg </dd>
1345 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-checking</code></dt>
1346 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-checking=<var>list</var></code></dt>
1347 1.10 mrg <dd><p>When you specify this option, the compiler is built to perform internal
1348 1.1 mrg consistency checks of the requested complexity. This does not change the
1349 1.1 mrg generated code, but adds error checking within the compiler. This will
1350 1.1 mrg slow down the compiler and may only work properly if you are building
1351 1.10 mrg the compiler with GCC. This is ‘<samp>yes,extra</samp>’ by default when building
1352 1.10 mrg from SVN or snapshots, but ‘<samp>release</samp>’ for releases. The default
1353 1.10 mrg for building the stage1 compiler is ‘<samp>yes</samp>’. More control
1354 1.1 mrg over the checks may be had by specifying <var>list</var>. The categories of
1355 1.10 mrg checks available are ‘<samp>yes</samp>’ (most common checks
1356 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>assert,misc,tree,gc,rtlflag,runtime</samp>’), ‘<samp>no</samp>’ (no checks at
1357 1.10 mrg all), ‘<samp>all</samp>’ (all but ‘<samp>valgrind</samp>’), ‘<samp>release</samp>’ (cheapest
1358 1.10 mrg checks ‘<samp>assert,runtime</samp>’) or ‘<samp>none</samp>’ (same as ‘<samp>no</samp>’).
1359 1.10 mrg Individual checks can be enabled with these flags ‘<samp>assert</samp>’,
1360 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>df</samp>’, ‘<samp>fold</samp>’, ‘<samp>gc</samp>’, ‘<samp>gcac</samp>’, ‘<samp>misc</samp>’, ‘<samp>rtl</samp>’,
1361 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>rtlflag</samp>’, ‘<samp>runtime</samp>’, ‘<samp>tree</samp>’, ‘<samp>extra</samp>’ and ‘<samp>valgrind</samp>’.
1362 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>extra</samp>’ adds for ‘<samp>misc</samp>’ checking extra checks that might affect
1363 1.9 mrg code generation and should therefore not differ between stage1 and later
1364 1.9 mrg stages.
1365 1.10 mrg </p>
1366 1.10 mrg <p>The ‘<samp>valgrind</samp>’ check requires the external <code>valgrind</code>
1367 1.1 mrg simulator, available from <a href="http://valgrind.org/">http://valgrind.org/</a>. The
1368 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>df</samp>’, ‘<samp>rtl</samp>’, ‘<samp>gcac</samp>’ and ‘<samp>valgrind</samp>’ checks are very expensive.
1369 1.10 mrg To disable all checking, ‘<samp>--disable-checking</samp>’ or
1370 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>--enable-checking=none</samp>’ must be explicitly requested. Disabling
1371 1.1 mrg assertions will make the compiler and runtime slightly faster but
1372 1.1 mrg increase the risk of undetected internal errors causing wrong code to be
1373 1.1 mrg generated.
1374 1.10 mrg </p>
1375 1.10 mrg </dd>
1376 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-stage1-checking</code></dt>
1377 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-stage1-checking</code></dt>
1378 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-stage1-checking=<var>list</var></code></dt>
1379 1.10 mrg <dd><p>If no <samp>--enable-checking</samp> option is specified the stage1
1380 1.10 mrg compiler will be built with ‘<samp>yes</samp>’ checking enabled, otherwise
1381 1.1 mrg the stage1 checking flags are the same as specified by
1382 1.10 mrg <samp>--enable-checking</samp>. To build the stage1 compiler with
1383 1.10 mrg different checking options use <samp>--enable-stage1-checking</samp>.
1384 1.10 mrg The list of checking options is the same as for <samp>--enable-checking</samp>.
1385 1.1 mrg If your system is too slow or too small to bootstrap a released compiler
1386 1.10 mrg with checking for stage1 enabled, you can use ‘<samp>--disable-stage1-checking</samp>’
1387 1.1 mrg to disable checking for the stage1 compiler.
1388 1.10 mrg </p>
1389 1.10 mrg </dd>
1390 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-coverage</code></dt>
1391 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-coverage=<var>level</var></code></dt>
1392 1.10 mrg <dd><p>With this option, the compiler is built to collect self coverage
1393 1.1 mrg information, every time it is run. This is for internal development
1394 1.1 mrg purposes, and only works when the compiler is being built with gcc. The
1395 1.1 mrg <var>level</var> argument controls whether the compiler is built optimized or
1396 1.10 mrg not, values are ‘<samp>opt</samp>’ and ‘<samp>noopt</samp>’. For coverage analysis you
1397 1.1 mrg want to disable optimization, for performance analysis you want to
1398 1.1 mrg enable optimization. When coverage is enabled, the default level is
1399 1.1 mrg without optimization.
1400 1.10 mrg </p>
1401 1.10 mrg </dd>
1402 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-gather-detailed-mem-stats</code></dt>
1403 1.10 mrg <dd><p>When this option is specified more detailed information on memory
1404 1.1 mrg allocation is gathered. This information is printed when using
1405 1.10 mrg <samp>-fmem-report</samp>.
1406 1.10 mrg </p>
1407 1.10 mrg </dd>
1408 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-valgrind-annotations</code></dt>
1409 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Mark selected memory related operations in the compiler when run under
1410 1.7 mrg valgrind to suppress false positives.
1411 1.10 mrg </p>
1412 1.10 mrg </dd>
1413 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-nls</code></dt>
1414 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-nls</code></dt>
1415 1.10 mrg <dd><p>The <samp>--enable-nls</samp> option enables Native Language Support (NLS),
1416 1.1 mrg which lets GCC output diagnostics in languages other than American
1417 1.1 mrg English. Native Language Support is enabled by default if not doing a
1418 1.10 mrg canadian cross build. The <samp>--disable-nls</samp> option disables NLS.
1419 1.10 mrg </p>
1420 1.10 mrg </dd>
1421 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-included-gettext</code></dt>
1422 1.10 mrg <dd><p>If NLS is enabled, the <samp>--with-included-gettext</samp> option causes the build
1423 1.10 mrg procedure to prefer its copy of GNU <code>gettext</code>.
1424 1.10 mrg </p>
1425 1.10 mrg </dd>
1426 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-catgets</code></dt>
1427 1.10 mrg <dd><p>If NLS is enabled, and if the host lacks <code>gettext</code> but has the
1428 1.1 mrg inferior <code>catgets</code> interface, the GCC build procedure normally
1429 1.10 mrg ignores <code>catgets</code> and instead uses GCC’s copy of the GNU
1430 1.10 mrg <code>gettext</code> library. The <samp>--with-catgets</samp> option causes the
1431 1.10 mrg build procedure to use the host’s <code>catgets</code> in this situation.
1432 1.10 mrg </p>
1433 1.10 mrg </dd>
1434 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-libiconv-prefix=<var>dir</var></code></dt>
1435 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Search for libiconv header files in <samp><var>dir</var>/include</samp> and
1436 1.10 mrg libiconv library files in <samp><var>dir</var>/lib</samp>.
1437 1.10 mrg </p>
1438 1.10 mrg </dd>
1439 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-obsolete</code></dt>
1440 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Enable configuration for an obsoleted system. If you attempt to
1441 1.1 mrg configure GCC for a system (build, host, or target) which has been
1442 1.1 mrg obsoleted, and you do not specify this flag, configure will halt with an
1443 1.1 mrg error message.
1444 1.10 mrg </p>
1445 1.10 mrg <p>All support for systems which have been obsoleted in one release of GCC
1446 1.1 mrg is removed entirely in the next major release, unless someone steps
1447 1.1 mrg forward to maintain the port.
1448 1.10 mrg </p>
1449 1.10 mrg </dd>
1450 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-decimal-float</code></dt>
1451 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-decimal-float=yes</code></dt>
1452 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-decimal-float=no</code></dt>
1453 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-decimal-float=bid</code></dt>
1454 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-decimal-float=dpd</code></dt>
1455 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-decimal-float</code></dt>
1456 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Enable (or disable) support for the C decimal floating point extension
1457 1.1 mrg that is in the IEEE 754-2008 standard. This is enabled by default only
1458 1.1 mrg on PowerPC, i386, and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems. Other systems may also
1459 1.1 mrg support it, but require the user to specifically enable it. You can
1460 1.1 mrg optionally control which decimal floating point format is used (either
1461 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>bid</samp>’ or ‘<samp>dpd</samp>’). The ‘<samp>bid</samp>’ (binary integer decimal)
1462 1.10 mrg format is default on i386 and x86_64 systems, and the ‘<samp>dpd</samp>’
1463 1.1 mrg (densely packed decimal) format is default on PowerPC systems.
1464 1.10 mrg </p>
1465 1.10 mrg </dd>
1466 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-fixed-point</code></dt>
1467 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-fixed-point</code></dt>
1468 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Enable (or disable) support for C fixed-point arithmetic.
1469 1.1 mrg This option is enabled by default for some targets (such as MIPS) which
1470 1.1 mrg have hardware-support for fixed-point operations. On other targets, you
1471 1.1 mrg may enable this option manually.
1472 1.10 mrg </p>
1473 1.10 mrg </dd>
1474 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-long-double-128</code></dt>
1475 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify if <code>long double</code> type should be 128-bit by default on selected
1476 1.1 mrg GNU/Linux architectures. If using <code>--without-long-double-128</code>,
1477 1.10 mrg <code>long double</code> will be by default 64-bit, the same as <code>double</code> type.
1478 1.1 mrg When neither of these configure options are used, the default will be
1479 1.1 mrg 128-bit <code>long double</code> when built against GNU C Library 2.4 and later,
1480 1.1 mrg 64-bit <code>long double</code> otherwise.
1481 1.10 mrg </p>
1482 1.10 mrg </dd>
1483 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-long-double-format=ibm</code></dt>
1484 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-long-double-format=ieee</code></dt>
1485 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify whether <code>long double</code> uses the IBM extended double format
1486 1.10 mrg or the IEEE 128-bit floating point format on PowerPC Linux systems.
1487 1.10 mrg This configuration switch will only work on little endian PowerPC
1488 1.10 mrg Linux systems and on big endian 64-bit systems where the default cpu
1489 1.10 mrg is at least power7 (i.e. <samp>--with-cpu=power7</samp>,
1490 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-cpu=power8</samp>, or <samp>--with-cpu=power9</samp> is used).
1491 1.10 mrg </p>
1492 1.10 mrg <p>If you use the <samp>--with-long-double-64</samp> configuration option,
1493 1.10 mrg the <samp>--with-long-double-format=ibm</samp> and
1494 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-long-double-format=ieee</samp> options are ignored.
1495 1.10 mrg </p>
1496 1.10 mrg <p>The default <code>long double</code> format is to use IBM extended double.
1497 1.10 mrg Until all of the libraries are converted to use IEEE 128-bit floating
1498 1.10 mrg point, it is not recommended to use
1499 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-long-double-format=ieee</samp>.
1500 1.10 mrg </p>
1501 1.10 mrg <p>On little endian PowerPC Linux systems, if you explicitly set the
1502 1.10 mrg <code>long double</code> type, it will build multilibs to allow you to
1503 1.10 mrg select either <code>long double</code> format, unless you disable multilibs
1504 1.10 mrg with the <code>--disable-multilib</code> option. At present,
1505 1.10 mrg <code>long double</code> multilibs are not built on big endian PowerPC Linux
1506 1.10 mrg systems. If you are building multilibs, you will need to configure
1507 1.10 mrg the compiler using the <samp>--with-system-zlib</samp> option.
1508 1.10 mrg </p>
1509 1.10 mrg <p>If you do not set the <code>long double</code> type explicitly, no multilibs
1510 1.10 mrg will be generated.
1511 1.10 mrg </p>
1512 1.10 mrg </dd>
1513 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-fdpic</code></dt>
1514 1.10 mrg <dd><p>On SH Linux systems, generate ELF FDPIC code.
1515 1.10 mrg </p>
1516 1.10 mrg </dd>
1517 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-gmp=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1518 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-gmp-include=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1519 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-gmp-lib=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1520 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-mpfr=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1521 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-mpfr-include=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1522 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-mpfr-lib=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1523 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-mpc=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1524 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-mpc-include=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1525 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-mpc-lib=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1526 1.10 mrg <dd><p>If you want to build GCC but do not have the GMP library, the MPFR
1527 1.1 mrg library and/or the MPC library installed in a standard location and
1528 1.3 skrll do not have their sources present in the GCC source tree then you
1529 1.3 skrll can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
1530 1.10 mrg (‘<samp>--with-gmp=<var>gmpinstalldir</var></samp>’,
1531 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>--with-mpfr=<var>mpfrinstalldir</var></samp>’,
1532 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>--with-mpc=<var>mpcinstalldir</var></samp>’). The
1533 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-gmp=<var>gmpinstalldir</var></samp> option is shorthand for
1534 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-gmp-lib=<var>gmpinstalldir</var>/lib</samp> and
1535 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-gmp-include=<var>gmpinstalldir</var>/include</samp>. Likewise the
1536 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-mpfr=<var>mpfrinstalldir</var></samp> option is shorthand for
1537 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-mpfr-lib=<var>mpfrinstalldir</var>/lib</samp> and
1538 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-mpfr-include=<var>mpfrinstalldir</var>/include</samp>, also the
1539 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-mpc=<var>mpcinstalldir</var></samp> option is shorthand for
1540 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-mpc-lib=<var>mpcinstalldir</var>/lib</samp> and
1541 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-mpc-include=<var>mpcinstalldir</var>/include</samp>. If these
1542 1.1 mrg shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
1543 1.3 skrll include and lib options directly. You might also need to ensure the
1544 1.3 skrll shared libraries can be found by the dynamic linker when building and
1545 1.3 skrll using GCC, for example by setting the runtime shared library path
1546 1.10 mrg variable (<code>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</code> on GNU/Linux and Solaris systems).
1547 1.10 mrg </p>
1548 1.10 mrg <p>These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When building
1549 1.3 skrll a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1550 1.10 mrg </p>
1551 1.10 mrg </dd>
1552 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-isl=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1553 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-isl-include=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1554 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-isl-lib=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1555 1.10 mrg <dd><p>If you do not have the isl library installed in a standard location and you
1556 1.5 mrg want to build GCC, you can explicitly specify the directory where it is
1557 1.10 mrg installed (‘<samp>--with-isl=<var>islinstalldir</var></samp>’). The
1558 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-isl=<var>islinstalldir</var></samp> option is shorthand for
1559 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-isl-lib=<var>islinstalldir</var>/lib</samp> and
1560 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-isl-include=<var>islinstalldir</var>/include</samp>. If this
1561 1.5 mrg shorthand assumption is not correct, you can use the explicit
1562 1.1 mrg include and lib options directly.
1563 1.10 mrg </p>
1564 1.10 mrg <p>These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When building
1565 1.3 skrll a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1566 1.10 mrg </p>
1567 1.10 mrg </dd>
1568 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-stage1-ldflags=<var>flags</var></code></dt>
1569 1.10 mrg <dd><p>This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1570 1.1 mrg stage 1 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1571 1.10 mrg <samp>--disable-bootstrap</samp>. If <samp>--with-stage1-libs</samp> is not set to a
1572 1.10 mrg value, then the default is ‘<samp>-static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc</samp>’, if
1573 1.7 mrg supported.
1574 1.10 mrg </p>
1575 1.10 mrg </dd>
1576 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-stage1-libs=<var>libs</var></code></dt>
1577 1.10 mrg <dd><p>This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 1
1578 1.1 mrg of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1579 1.10 mrg <samp>--disable-bootstrap</samp>.
1580 1.10 mrg </p>
1581 1.10 mrg </dd>
1582 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-boot-ldflags=<var>flags</var></code></dt>
1583 1.10 mrg <dd><p>This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1584 1.7 mrg stage 2 and later when bootstrapping GCC. If –with-boot-libs
1585 1.7 mrg is not is set to a value, then the default is
1586 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>-static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc</samp>’.
1587 1.10 mrg </p>
1588 1.10 mrg </dd>
1589 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-boot-libs=<var>libs</var></code></dt>
1590 1.10 mrg <dd><p>This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 2
1591 1.7 mrg and later when bootstrapping GCC.
1592 1.10 mrg </p>
1593 1.10 mrg </dd>
1594 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-debug-prefix-map=<var>map</var></code></dt>
1595 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Convert source directory names using <samp>-fdebug-prefix-map</samp> when
1596 1.1 mrg building runtime libraries. ‘<samp><var>map</var></samp>’ is a space-separated
1597 1.10 mrg list of maps of the form ‘<samp><var>old</var>=<var>new</var></samp>’.
1598 1.10 mrg </p>
1599 1.10 mrg </dd>
1600 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-linker-build-id</code></dt>
1601 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Tells GCC to pass <samp>--build-id</samp> option to the linker for all final
1602 1.10 mrg links (links performed without the <samp>-r</samp> or <samp>--relocatable</samp>
1603 1.1 mrg option), if the linker supports it. If you specify
1604 1.10 mrg <samp>--enable-linker-build-id</samp>, but your linker does not
1605 1.10 mrg support <samp>--build-id</samp> option, a warning is issued and the
1606 1.10 mrg <samp>--enable-linker-build-id</samp> option is ignored. The default is off.
1607 1.10 mrg </p>
1608 1.10 mrg </dd>
1609 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-linker-hash-style=<var>choice</var></code></dt>
1610 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Tells GCC to pass <samp>--hash-style=<var>choice</var></samp> option to the
1611 1.3 skrll linker for all final links. <var>choice</var> can be one of
1612 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>sysv</samp>’, ‘<samp>gnu</samp>’, and ‘<samp>both</samp>’ where ‘<samp>sysv</samp>’ is the default.
1613 1.10 mrg </p>
1614 1.10 mrg </dd>
1615 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-gnu-unique-object</code></dt>
1616 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-gnu-unique-object</code></dt>
1617 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Tells GCC to use the gnu_unique_object relocation for C++ template
1618 1.1 mrg static data members and inline function local statics. Enabled by
1619 1.5 mrg default for a toolchain with an assembler that accepts it and
1620 1.1 mrg GLIBC 2.11 or above, otherwise disabled.
1621 1.10 mrg </p>
1622 1.10 mrg </dd>
1623 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-diagnostics-color=<var>choice</var></code></dt>
1624 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Tells GCC to use <var>choice</var> as the default for <samp>-fdiagnostics-color=</samp>
1625 1.5 mrg option (if not used explicitly on the command line). <var>choice</var>
1626 1.10 mrg can be one of ‘<samp>never</samp>’, ‘<samp>auto</samp>’, ‘<samp>always</samp>’, and ‘<samp>auto-if-env</samp>’
1627 1.10 mrg where ‘<samp>auto</samp>’ is the default. ‘<samp>auto-if-env</samp>’ means that
1628 1.10 mrg <samp>-fdiagnostics-color=auto</samp> will be the default if <code>GCC_COLORS</code>
1629 1.5 mrg is present and non-empty in the environment, and
1630 1.10 mrg <samp>-fdiagnostics-color=never</samp> otherwise.
1631 1.10 mrg </p>
1632 1.10 mrg </dd>
1633 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-lto</code></dt>
1634 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-lto</code></dt>
1635 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Enable support for link-time optimization (LTO). This is enabled by
1636 1.10 mrg default, and may be disabled using <samp>--disable-lto</samp>.
1637 1.10 mrg </p>
1638 1.10 mrg </dd>
1639 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-linker-plugin-configure-flags=FLAGS</code></dt>
1640 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-linker-plugin-flags=FLAGS</code></dt>
1641 1.10 mrg <dd><p>By default, linker plugins (such as the LTO plugin) are built for the
1642 1.5 mrg host system architecture. For the case that the linker has a
1643 1.5 mrg different (but run-time compatible) architecture, these flags can be
1644 1.5 mrg specified to build plugins that are compatible to the linker. For
1645 1.5 mrg example, if you are building GCC for a 64-bit x86_64
1646 1.10 mrg (‘<samp>x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu</samp>’) host system, but have a 32-bit x86
1647 1.10 mrg GNU/Linux (‘<samp>i686-pc-linux-gnu</samp>’) linker executable (which is
1648 1.5 mrg executable on the former system), you can configure GCC as follows for
1649 1.5 mrg getting compatible linker plugins:
1650 1.10 mrg </p>
1651 1.10 mrg <div class="smallexample">
1652 1.10 mrg <pre class="smallexample">% <var>srcdir</var>/configure \
1653 1.10 mrg --host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu \
1654 1.10 mrg --enable-linker-plugin-configure-flags=--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
1655 1.10 mrg --enable-linker-plugin-flags='CC=gcc\ -m32\ -Wl,-rpath,[...]/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib'
1656 1.10 mrg </pre></div>
1657 1.10 mrg
1658 1.10 mrg </dd>
1659 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-plugin-ld=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1660 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Enable an alternate linker to be used at link-time optimization (LTO)
1661 1.10 mrg link time when <samp>-fuse-linker-plugin</samp> is enabled.
1662 1.3 skrll This linker should have plugin support such as gold starting with
1663 1.10 mrg version 2.20 or GNU ld starting with version 2.21.
1664 1.10 mrg See <samp>-fuse-linker-plugin</samp> for details.
1665 1.10 mrg </p>
1666 1.10 mrg </dd>
1667 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-canonical-system-headers</code></dt>
1668 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-canonical-system-headers</code></dt>
1669 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Enable system header path canonicalization for <samp>libcpp</samp>. This can
1670 1.3 skrll produce shorter header file paths in diagnostics and dependency output
1671 1.3 skrll files, but these changed header paths may conflict with some compilation
1672 1.3 skrll environments. Enabled by default, and may be disabled using
1673 1.10 mrg <samp>--disable-canonical-system-headers</samp>.
1674 1.10 mrg </p>
1675 1.10 mrg </dd>
1676 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-glibc-version=<var>major</var>.<var>minor</var></code></dt>
1677 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Tell GCC that when the GNU C Library (glibc) is used on the target it
1678 1.5 mrg will be version <var>major</var>.<var>minor</var> or later. Normally this can
1679 1.10 mrg be detected from the C library’s header files, but this option may be
1680 1.5 mrg needed when bootstrapping a cross toolchain without the header files
1681 1.5 mrg available for building the initial bootstrap compiler.
1682 1.10 mrg </p>
1683 1.10 mrg <p>If GCC is configured with some multilibs that use glibc and some that
1684 1.10 mrg do not, this option applies only to the multilibs that use glibc.
1685 1.5 mrg However, such configurations may not work well as not all the relevant
1686 1.5 mrg configuration in GCC is on a per-multilib basis.
1687 1.10 mrg </p>
1688 1.10 mrg </dd>
1689 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-as-accelerator-for=<var>target</var></code></dt>
1690 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Build as offload target compiler. Specify offload host triple by <var>target</var>.
1691 1.10 mrg </p>
1692 1.10 mrg </dd>
1693 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-offload-targets=<var>target1</var>[=<var>path1</var>],…,<var>targetN</var>[=<var>pathN</var>]</code></dt>
1694 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Enable offloading to targets <var>target1</var>, …, <var>targetN</var>.
1695 1.5 mrg Offload compilers are expected to be already installed. Default search
1696 1.5 mrg path for them is <samp><var>exec-prefix</var></samp>, but it can be changed by
1697 1.10 mrg specifying paths <var>path1</var>, …, <var>pathN</var>.
1698 1.10 mrg </p>
1699 1.10 mrg <div class="smallexample">
1700 1.10 mrg <pre class="smallexample">% <var>srcdir</var>/configure \
1701 1.10 mrg --enable-offload-target=i686-unknown-linux-gnu=/path/to/i686/compiler,x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
1702 1.10 mrg </pre></div>
1703 1.7 mrg
1704 1.10 mrg <p>If ‘<samp>hsa</samp>’ is specified as one of the targets, the compiler will be
1705 1.7 mrg built with support for HSA GPU accelerators. Because the same
1706 1.7 mrg compiler will emit the accelerator code, no path should be specified.
1707 1.10 mrg </p>
1708 1.10 mrg </dd>
1709 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-hsa-runtime=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1710 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-hsa-runtime-include=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1711 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-hsa-runtime-lib=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1712 1.10 mrg <dd>
1713 1.10 mrg <p>If you configure GCC with HSA offloading but do not have the HSA
1714 1.7 mrg run-time library installed in a standard location then you can
1715 1.7 mrg explicitly specify the directory where they are installed. The
1716 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-hsa-runtime=<var>hsainstalldir</var></samp> option is a
1717 1.7 mrg shorthand for
1718 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-hsa-runtime-lib=<var>hsainstalldir</var>/lib</samp> and
1719 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-hsa-runtime-include=<var>hsainstalldir</var>/include</samp>.
1720 1.10 mrg </p>
1721 1.10 mrg </dd>
1722 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-cet</code></dt>
1723 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--disable-cet</code></dt>
1724 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Enable building target run-time libraries with control-flow
1725 1.10 mrg instrumentation, see <samp>-fcf-protection</samp> option. When
1726 1.10 mrg <code>--enable-cet</code> is specified target libraries are configured
1727 1.10 mrg to add <samp>-fcf-protection</samp> and, if needed, other target
1728 1.10 mrg specific options to a set of building options.
1729 1.10 mrg </p>
1730 1.10 mrg <p>The option is disabled by default. When <code>--enable-cet=auto</code>
1731 1.10 mrg is used, it is enabled on Linux/x86 if target binutils
1732 1.10 mrg supports <code>Intel CET</code> instructions and disabled otherwise.
1733 1.10 mrg In this case the target libraries are configured to get additional
1734 1.10 mrg <samp>-fcf-protection</samp> option.
1735 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
1736 1.6 mrg </dl>
1737 1.1 mrg
1738 1.10 mrg <a name="Cross-Compiler-Specific-Options"></a>
1739 1.10 mrg <h4 class="subheading">Cross-Compiler-Specific Options</h4>
1740 1.1 mrg <p>The following options only apply to building cross compilers.
1741 1.10 mrg </p>
1742 1.10 mrg <dl compact="compact">
1743 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-sysroot</code></dt>
1744 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-sysroot=<var>dir</var></code></dt>
1745 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Tells GCC to consider <var>dir</var> as the root of a tree that contains
1746 1.10 mrg (a subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
1747 1.1 mrg Target system headers, libraries and run-time object files will be
1748 1.3 skrll searched for in there. More specifically, this acts as if
1749 1.10 mrg <samp>--sysroot=<var>dir</var></samp> was added to the default options of the built
1750 1.1 mrg compiler. The specified directory is not copied into the
1751 1.10 mrg install tree, unlike the options <samp>--with-headers</samp> and
1752 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-libs</samp> that this option obsoletes. The default value,
1753 1.10 mrg in case <samp>--with-sysroot</samp> is not given an argument, is
1754 1.10 mrg <samp>${gcc_tooldir}/sys-root</samp>. If the specified directory is a
1755 1.10 mrg subdirectory of <samp>${exec_prefix}</samp>, then it will be found relative to
1756 1.1 mrg the GCC binaries if the installation tree is moved.
1757 1.10 mrg </p>
1758 1.10 mrg <p>This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1759 1.1 mrg target libraries (which runs on the build system) and the compiler newly
1760 1.1 mrg installed with <code>make install</code>; it does not affect the compiler which is
1761 1.1 mrg used to build GCC itself.
1762 1.10 mrg </p>
1763 1.10 mrg <p>If you specify the <samp>--with-native-system-header-dir=<var>dirname</var></samp>
1764 1.3 skrll option then the compiler will search that directory within <var>dirname</var> for
1765 1.10 mrg native system headers rather than the default <samp>/usr/include</samp>.
1766 1.10 mrg </p>
1767 1.10 mrg </dd>
1768 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-build-sysroot</code></dt>
1769 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-build-sysroot=<var>dir</var></code></dt>
1770 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Tells GCC to consider <var>dir</var> as the system root (see
1771 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-sysroot</samp>) while building target libraries, instead of
1772 1.10 mrg the directory specified with <samp>--with-sysroot</samp>. This option is
1773 1.10 mrg only useful when you are already using <samp>--with-sysroot</samp>. You
1774 1.10 mrg can use <samp>--with-build-sysroot</samp> when you are configuring with
1775 1.10 mrg <samp>--prefix</samp> set to a directory that is different from the one in
1776 1.1 mrg which you are installing GCC and your target libraries.
1777 1.10 mrg </p>
1778 1.10 mrg <p>This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1779 1.1 mrg target libraries (which runs on the build system); it does not affect
1780 1.1 mrg the compiler which is used to build GCC itself.
1781 1.10 mrg </p>
1782 1.10 mrg <p>If you specify the <samp>--with-native-system-header-dir=<var>dirname</var></samp>
1783 1.3 skrll option then the compiler will search that directory within <var>dirname</var> for
1784 1.10 mrg native system headers rather than the default <samp>/usr/include</samp>.
1785 1.10 mrg </p>
1786 1.10 mrg </dd>
1787 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-headers</code></dt>
1788 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-headers=<var>dir</var></code></dt>
1789 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Deprecated in favor of <samp>--with-sysroot</samp>.
1790 1.10 mrg Specifies that target headers are available when building a cross compiler.
1791 1.1 mrg The <var>dir</var> argument specifies a directory which has the target include
1792 1.10 mrg files. These include files will be copied into the <samp>gcc</samp> install
1793 1.10 mrg directory. <em>This option with the <var>dir</var> argument is required</em> when
1794 1.10 mrg building a cross compiler, if <samp><var>prefix</var>/<var>target</var>/sys-include</samp>
1795 1.10 mrg doesn’t pre-exist. If <samp><var>prefix</var>/<var>target</var>/sys-include</samp> does
1796 1.10 mrg pre-exist, the <var>dir</var> argument may be omitted. <code>fixincludes</code>
1797 1.1 mrg will be run on these files to make them compatible with GCC.
1798 1.10 mrg </p>
1799 1.10 mrg </dd>
1800 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--without-headers</code></dt>
1801 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Tells GCC not use any target headers from a libc when building a cross
1802 1.1 mrg compiler. When crossing to GNU/Linux, you need the headers so GCC
1803 1.1 mrg can build the exception handling for libgcc.
1804 1.10 mrg </p>
1805 1.10 mrg </dd>
1806 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-libs</code></dt>
1807 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-libs="<var>dir1</var> <var>dir2</var> … <var>dirN</var>"</code></dt>
1808 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Deprecated in favor of <samp>--with-sysroot</samp>.
1809 1.1 mrg Specifies a list of directories which contain the target runtime
1810 1.10 mrg libraries. These libraries will be copied into the <samp>gcc</samp> install
1811 1.1 mrg directory. If the directory list is omitted, this option has no
1812 1.1 mrg effect.
1813 1.10 mrg </p>
1814 1.10 mrg </dd>
1815 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-newlib</code></dt>
1816 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specifies that ‘<samp>newlib</samp>’ is
1817 1.1 mrg being used as the target C library. This causes <code>__eprintf</code> to be
1818 1.10 mrg omitted from <samp>libgcc.a</samp> on the assumption that it will be provided by
1819 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>newlib</samp>’.
1820 1.10 mrg </p>
1821 1.10 mrg </dd>
1822 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-avrlibc</code></dt>
1823 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specifies that ‘<samp>AVR-Libc</samp>’ is
1824 1.3 skrll being used as the target C library. This causes float support
1825 1.10 mrg functions like <code>__addsf3</code> to be omitted from <samp>libgcc.a</samp> on
1826 1.10 mrg the assumption that it will be provided by <samp>libm.a</samp>. For more
1827 1.10 mrg technical details, cf. <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/PR54461">PR54461</a>.
1828 1.3 skrll This option is only supported for the AVR target. It is not supported for
1829 1.3 skrll RTEMS configurations, which currently use newlib. The option is
1830 1.3 skrll supported since version 4.7.2 and is the default in 4.8.0 and newer.
1831 1.10 mrg </p>
1832 1.10 mrg </dd>
1833 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-nds32-lib=<var>library</var></code></dt>
1834 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specifies that <var>library</var> setting is used for building <samp>libgcc.a</samp>.
1835 1.10 mrg Currently, the valid <var>library</var> is ‘<samp>newlib</samp>’ or ‘<samp>mculib</samp>’.
1836 1.5 mrg This option is only supported for the NDS32 target.
1837 1.10 mrg </p>
1838 1.10 mrg </dd>
1839 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-build-time-tools=<var>dir</var></code></dt>
1840 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specifies where to find the set of target tools (assembler, linker, etc.)
1841 1.1 mrg that will be used while building GCC itself. This option can be useful
1842 1.1 mrg if the directory layouts are different between the system you are building
1843 1.1 mrg GCC on, and the system where you will deploy it.
1844 1.10 mrg </p>
1845 1.10 mrg <p>For example, on an ‘<samp>ia64-hp-hpux</samp>’ system, you may have the GNU
1846 1.10 mrg assembler and linker in <samp>/usr/bin</samp>, and the native tools in a
1847 1.6 mrg different path, and build a toolchain that expects to find the
1848 1.10 mrg native tools in <samp>/usr/bin</samp>.
1849 1.10 mrg </p>
1850 1.10 mrg <p>When you use this option, you should ensure that <var>dir</var> includes
1851 1.10 mrg <code>ar</code>, <code>as</code>, <code>ld</code>, <code>nm</code>,
1852 1.10 mrg <code>ranlib</code> and <code>strip</code> if necessary, and possibly
1853 1.10 mrg <code>objdump</code>. Otherwise, GCC may use an inconsistent set of
1854 1.10 mrg tools.
1855 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
1856 1.6 mrg </dl>
1857 1.1 mrg
1858 1.10 mrg <a name="Overriding-configure-test-results"></a>
1859 1.10 mrg <h4 class="subsubheading">Overriding <code>configure</code> test results</h4>
1860 1.1 mrg
1861 1.6 mrg <p>Sometimes, it might be necessary to override the result of some
1862 1.10 mrg <code>configure</code> test, for example in order to ease porting to a new
1863 1.10 mrg system or work around a bug in a test. The toplevel <code>configure</code>
1864 1.6 mrg script provides three variables for this:
1865 1.10 mrg </p>
1866 1.10 mrg <dl compact="compact">
1867 1.10 mrg <dt><code>build_configargs</code></dt>
1868 1.10 mrg <dd><a name="index-build_005fconfigargs"></a>
1869 1.10 mrg <p>The contents of this variable is passed to all build <code>configure</code>
1870 1.6 mrg scripts.
1871 1.10 mrg </p>
1872 1.10 mrg </dd>
1873 1.10 mrg <dt><code>host_configargs</code></dt>
1874 1.10 mrg <dd><a name="index-host_005fconfigargs"></a>
1875 1.10 mrg <p>The contents of this variable is passed to all host <code>configure</code>
1876 1.6 mrg scripts.
1877 1.10 mrg </p>
1878 1.10 mrg </dd>
1879 1.10 mrg <dt><code>target_configargs</code></dt>
1880 1.10 mrg <dd><a name="index-target_005fconfigargs"></a>
1881 1.10 mrg <p>The contents of this variable is passed to all target <code>configure</code>
1882 1.6 mrg scripts.
1883 1.10 mrg </p>
1884 1.10 mrg </dd>
1885 1.10 mrg </dl>
1886 1.1 mrg
1887 1.10 mrg <p>In order to avoid shell and <code>make</code> quoting issues for complex
1888 1.10 mrg overrides, you can pass a setting for <code>CONFIG_SITE</code> and set
1889 1.6 mrg variables in the site file.
1890 1.10 mrg </p>
1891 1.10 mrg <a name="Objective-C-Specific-Options"></a>
1892 1.10 mrg <h4 class="subheading">Objective-C-Specific Options</h4>
1893 1.7 mrg
1894 1.9 mrg <p>The following options apply to the build of the Objective-C runtime library.
1895 1.10 mrg </p>
1896 1.10 mrg <dl compact="compact">
1897 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--enable-objc-gc</code></dt>
1898 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify that an additional variant of the GNU Objective-C runtime library
1899 1.9 mrg is built, using an external build of the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage
1900 1.9 mrg collector (<a href="http://www.hboehm.info/gc/">http://www.hboehm.info/gc/</a>). This library needs to be
1901 1.9 mrg available for each multilib variant, unless configured with
1902 1.10 mrg <samp>--enable-objc-gc=‘<samp>auto</samp>’</samp> in which case the build of the
1903 1.9 mrg additional runtime library is skipped when not available and the build
1904 1.9 mrg continues.
1905 1.10 mrg </p>
1906 1.10 mrg </dd>
1907 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-target-bdw-gc=<var>list</var></code></dt>
1908 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-target-bdw-gc-include=<var>list</var></code></dt>
1909 1.10 mrg <dt><code>--with-target-bdw-gc-lib=<var>list</var></code></dt>
1910 1.10 mrg <dd><p>Specify search directories for the garbage collector header files and
1911 1.9 mrg libraries. <var>list</var> is a comma separated list of key value pairs of the
1912 1.10 mrg form ‘<samp><var>multilibdir</var>=<var>path</var></samp>’, where the default multilib key
1913 1.10 mrg is named as ‘<samp>.</samp>’ (dot), or is omitted (e.g.
1914 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>--with-target-bdw-gc=/opt/bdw-gc,32=/opt-bdw-gc32</samp>’).
1915 1.10 mrg </p>
1916 1.10 mrg <p>The options <samp>--with-target-bdw-gc-include</samp> and
1917 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-target-bdw-gc-lib</samp> must always be specified together
1918 1.9 mrg for each multilib variant and they take precedence over
1919 1.10 mrg <samp>--with-target-bdw-gc</samp>. If <samp>--with-target-bdw-gc-include</samp>
1920 1.9 mrg is missing values for a multilib, then the value for the default
1921 1.10 mrg multilib is used (e.g. ‘<samp>--with-target-bdw-gc-include=/opt/bdw-gc/include</samp>’
1922 1.10 mrg ‘<samp>--with-target-bdw-gc-lib=/opt/bdw-gc/lib64,32=/opt-bdw-gc/lib32</samp>’).
1923 1.9 mrg If none of these options are specified, the library is assumed in
1924 1.10 mrg default locations.
1925 1.10 mrg </p></dd>
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