Installation

To install GCC to your POSIX-like system you should follow instructions described in GCC installation manual[1]. For GNU/Linux, quick installation instructions for the GCC source tarballs present on CD follows:

To successfully compile GCC, you need recent version of bison, autoconf, working C compiler, make and shell sh. All these packages are present in major Linux distributions today, or available at GNU homepage^2.1.

For outdated systems you will need to install new binutils first. You can install binunits this way:

tar xzvf <path>/binutils.tar.gz
mkdir build
cd build
../binutils-1.12/configure --prefix=<dir>
make 
make install

To install GCC itself, you need:

tar xzvf <file_name>
mkdir build
cd build
../gcc/configure --disable-checking --prefix=<dir>
make bootstrap
make install

To debug programs generated by new GCC you need recent GDB that is not present in most Linux distributions yet. To install you do:

tar xzvf <path>/gdb.tar.gz
mkdir build
cd build
../gdb-5.1.1/configure --prefix=<dir>
make 
make install

where <dir> is a directory where you want GCC to be installed.