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author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:49:22 +0000 |
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1 As of GC6.0alpha8, we attempt to support GNU-style builds based on automake, | |
2 autoconf and libtool. This is based almost entirely on Tom Tromey's work | |
3 with gcj. | |
4 | |
5 To build and install libraries use | |
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7 configure; make; make install | |
8 | |
9 The advantages of this process are: | |
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11 1) It should eventually do a better job of automatically determining the | |
12 right compiler to use, etc. It probably already does in some cases. | |
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14 2) It tries to automatically set a good set of default GC parameters for | |
15 the platform (e.g. thread support). It provides an easier way to configure | |
16 some of the others. | |
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18 3) It integrates better with other projects using a GNU-style build process. | |
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20 4) It builds both dynamic and static libraries. | |
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22 The known disadvantages are: | |
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24 1) The build scripts are much more complex and harder to debug (though largely | |
25 standard). I don't understand them all, and there's probably lots of redundant | |
26 stuff. | |
27 | |
28 2) It probably doesn't work on all Un*x-like platforms yet. It probably will | |
29 never work on the rest. | |
30 | |
31 3) The scripts are not yet complete. Some of the standard GNU targets don't | |
32 yet work. (Corrections/additions are very welcome.) | |
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34 The distribution should contain all files needed to run "configure" and "make", | |
35 as well as the sources needed to regenerate the derived files. (If I missed | |
36 some, please let me know.) | |
37 | |
38 Note that the distribution comes with a "Makefile" which will be overwritten | |
39 by "configure" with one that is not at all equiavelent to the original. The | |
40 distribution contains a copy of the original "Makefile" in "Makefile.direct". | |
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42 Important options to configure: | |
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44 --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX | |
45 [/usr/local] | |
46 --exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX | |
47 [same as prefix] | |
48 --enable-threads=TYPE choose threading package | |
49 --enable-parallel-mark parallelize marking and free list construction | |
50 --enable-full-debug include full support for pointer backtracing etc. | |
51 | |
52 Unless --prefix is set (or --exec-prefix or one of the more obscure options), | |
53 make install will install libgc.a and libgc.so in /usr/local/bin, which | |
54 would typically require the "make install" to be run as root. | |
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56 Most commonly --enable-threads=posix or will be needed. --enable-parallel-mark | |
57 is recommended for multiprocessors if it is supported on the platform. | |
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