On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:21:55AM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote
> so that means I'm on my own.
You can install a *NON*-default gcc in ${HOME} This is a two-step
process. I used to do this a couple of years ago when Pale Moon was
limited in what versions of gcc it would build on. Note that tarballs
going back to 2.95.1 are available at http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcc
Also, be carefull about the tarball extensions, as of approx June 2017
* gcc-6.1.0.tar.bz2 was released 2016/04/27 with bz2 extension
* gcc-5.4.0.tar.bz2 was released 2016/06/03 with bz2 extension
* gcc-6.2.0.tar.bz2 was released 2016/08/22 with bz2 extension
* gcc-6.3.0.tar.bz2 was released 2016/12/21 with bz2 extension
* gcc-6.4.0.tar.xz was released 2017/07/04 with xz extension
* gcc-5.5.0.tar.xz was released 2017/10/10 with xz extension
The download, building, etc, is done in $HOME/gccstuff. I set up an
automated build script in there. E.g. to build gcc-5.4.0 and have it go
to $HOME/gcc540 execute the script
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#!/bin/bash
#
# Instructions from https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC
wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcc/gcc-5.4.0/gcc-5.4.0.tar.bz2
tar xf gcc-5.4.0.tar.bz2
#
# To get gmp, mpc, mpfr, and isl libs
# You *MUST* run this script from the top-level GCC source dir
cd gcc-5.4.0
contrib/download_prerequisites
#
# You *MUST NOT* run ./configure from the GCC source dir
mkdir gcc-5.4.0/gcc-build && cd gcc-5.4.0/gcc-build
../configure --prefix=$HOME/gcc540 \
--disable-multilib \
--enable-libstdcxx-threads \
--enable-libstdcxx-time \
--enable-shared \
--enable-__cxa_atexit \
--disable-libunwind-exceptions \
--disable-libada \
--with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible
make -j4
make install
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Notes: in the ../configure invocation include the languages and other
options that you need for your situation. "make -j4" is for a machine
with 4 cores. Adjust to fit your machine.
To invoke gcc from $HOME/gcc540 you have to "source" the following
export statements from a plaintext file, early in your build, e.g.
. path/filename
You must *NOT* invoke a separate shell with #!/bin/bash
For a 64 bit build...
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export GCCX_ROOT=$HOME/gcc540
export PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/bin:$PATH
export MANPATH=$GCCX_ROOT/share/man:MANPATH
export INFOPATH=$GCCX_ROOT/share/info:$INFOPATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/lib64:$GCCX_ROOT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_RUN_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/lib64:$GCCX_ROOT/lib:$LD_RUN_PATH
export LIBRARY_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/lib64:$GCCX_ROOT/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
export INCLUDE_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/include:$INCLUDE_PATH
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/include:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
export C_INCLUDE_PATH=$GCCX_ROOT/include:$C_INCLUDE_PATH
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For a 32 bit build do as above, but first search+replace, changing all
instances of "lib64" to "lib".
--
Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
