README
1 README for GNU development tools
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3 This directory contains various GNU compilers, assemblers, linkers,
4 debuggers, etc., plus their support routines, definitions, and documentation.
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6 If you are receiving this as part of a GDB release, see the file gdb/README.
7 If with a binutils release, see binutils/README; if with a libg++ release,
8 see libg++/README, etc. That'll give you info about this
9 package -- supported targets, how to use it, how to report bugs, etc.
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11 It is now possible to automatically configure and build a variety of
12 tools with one command. To build all of the tools contained herein,
13 run the ``configure'' script here, e.g.:
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15 ./configure
16 make
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18 To install them (by default in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, etc),
19 then do:
20 make install
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22 (If the configure script can't determine your type of computer, give it
23 the name as an argument, for instance ``./configure sun4''. You can
24 use the script ``config.sub'' to test whether a name is recognized; if
25 it is, config.sub translates it to a triplet specifying CPU, vendor,
26 and OS.)
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28 If you have more than one compiler on your system, it is often best to
29 explicitly set CC in the environment before running configure, and to
30 also set CC when running make. For example (assuming sh/bash/ksh):
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32 CC=gcc ./configure
33 make
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35 A similar example using csh:
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37 setenv CC gcc
38 ./configure
39 make
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41 Much of the code and documentation enclosed is copyright by
42 the Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the file COPYING or
43 COPYING.LIB in the various directories, for a description of the
44 GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files.
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46 REPORTING BUGS: Again, see gdb/README, binutils/README, etc., for info
47 on where and how to report problems.
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README-maintainer-mode
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2 Notes on enabling maintainer mode
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4 Note that if you configure with --enable-maintainer-mode, you will need
5 special versions of automake, autoconf, libtool and gettext. You will
6 find the sources for these in the respective upstream directories:
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8 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf
9 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake
10 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool
11 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext
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13 The required versions of the tools for this tree are
14 autoconf 2.64
15 automake 1.11
16 libtool 2.2.6
17 gettext 0.14.5
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19 Note - "make distclean" does not work with maintainer mode enabled.
20 The Makefiles in the some of the po/ subdirectories depend upon the
21 Makefiles in their parent directories, and distclean will delete the
22 Makefiles in the parent directories before running the Makefiles in
23 the child directories. There is no easy way around this (short of
24 changing the automake macros) as these dependencies need to exist in
25 order to correctly build the NLS files.
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