Thanks a lot! I'll look into it. On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 2:59 PM Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 09:46, Dan via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > > > Hello! > > > > I'm new to open source development and am exploring the domain. I am > trying > > to learn the internals of gcc and the first project that I've chosen for > > myself is to rename gcc to 'myCompiler' from the source and build it so > > that gcc is renamed in the system, and commands such as *myCompiler > > --version* are recognized by my linux system. I know there is an > alternate > > way of using symbolic links but I am specifically interested in altering > > the source code. > > GCC already supports doing this, using a configure option: > > --program-transform-name=PROGRAM run sed PROGRAM on installed program > names > > That's not done in the source code, it's done by the build system > (configure script and makefiles). Have a look at gcc/configure and > gcc/Makefile.in and search for program_transform_name. > That is used to define GCC_INSTALL_NAME, CPP_INSTALL_NAME, > GXX_INSTALL_NAME etc. > > > I've downloaded the source code for gcc but I'm uncertain how to proceed. > > I'm unable to locate main files such as gcc.c or main.c that I could play > > around with. Any guidance on how to begin and what files to check out > would > > be greatly appreciated. > > Well for a start GCC is written in C++ these days, so you're looking > for gcc.cc in the gcc subdirectory. That's the source for the 'gcc' > driver program, but the driver binary's name is not set by the source > code, it's set by the makefiles. > > I hope that gives you somewhere to start looking. >
