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64<h1 class="settitle" align="center">Installing GCC</h1>
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84<a name="index-Configuration"></a>
85<a name="index-Installing-GCC_003a-Configuration"></a>
86
87<p>Like most GNU software, GCC must be configured before it can be built.
88This document describes the recommended configuration procedure
89for both native and cross targets.
90</p>
91<p>We use <var>srcdir</var> to refer to the toplevel source directory for
92GCC; we use <var>objdir</var> to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
93</p>
94<p>If you obtained the sources via SVN, <var>srcdir</var> must refer to the top
95<samp>gcc</samp> directory, the one where the <samp>MAINTAINERS</samp> file can be
96found, and not its <samp>gcc</samp> subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
97</p>
98<p>If either <var>srcdir</var> or <var>objdir</var> is located on an automounted NFS
99file system, the shell&rsquo;s built-in <code>pwd</code> command will return
100temporary pathnames.  Using these can lead to various sorts of build
101problems.  To avoid this issue, set the <code>PWDCMD</code> environment
102variable to an automounter-aware <code>pwd</code> command, e.g.,
103<code>pawd</code> or &lsquo;<samp>amq -w</samp>&rsquo;, during the configuration and build
104phases.
105</p>
106<p>First, we <strong>highly</strong> recommend that GCC be built into a
107separate directory from the sources which does <strong>not</strong> reside
108within the source tree.  This is how we generally build GCC; building
109where <var>srcdir</var> == <var>objdir</var> should still work, but doesn&rsquo;t
110get extensive testing; building where <var>objdir</var> is a subdirectory
111of <var>srcdir</var> is unsupported.
112</p>
113<p>If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
114different target machine, do &lsquo;<samp>make distclean</samp>&rsquo; to delete all files
115that might be invalid.  One of the files this deletes is <samp>Makefile</samp>;
116if &lsquo;<samp>make distclean</samp>&rsquo; complains that <samp>Makefile</samp> does not exist
117or issues a message like &ldquo;don&rsquo;t know how to make distclean&rdquo; it probably
118means that the directory is already suitably clean.  However, with the
119recommended method of building in a separate <var>objdir</var>, you should
120simply use a different <var>objdir</var> for each target.
121</p>
122<p>Second, when configuring a native system, either <code>cc</code> or
123<code>gcc</code> must be in your path or you must set <code>CC</code> in
124your environment before running configure.  Otherwise the configuration
125scripts may fail.
126</p>
127
128<p>To configure GCC:
129</p>
130<div class="smallexample">
131<pre class="smallexample">% mkdir <var>objdir</var>
132% cd <var>objdir</var>
133% <var>srcdir</var>/configure [<var>options</var>] [<var>target</var>]
134</pre></div>
135
136<a name="Distributor-options"></a>
137<h3 class="heading">Distributor options</h3>
138
139<p>If you will be distributing binary versions of GCC, with modifications
140to the source code, you should use the options described in this
141section to make clear that your version contains modifications.
142</p>
143<dl compact="compact">
144<dt><code>--with-pkgversion=<var>version</var></code></dt>
145<dd><p>Specify a string that identifies your package.  You may wish
146to include a build number or build date.  This version string will be
147included in the output of <code>gcc --version</code>.  This suffix does
148not replace the default version string, only the &lsquo;<samp>GCC</samp>&rsquo; part.
149</p>
150<p>The default value is &lsquo;<samp>GCC</samp>&rsquo;.
151</p>
152</dd>
153<dt><code>--with-bugurl=<var>url</var></code></dt>
154<dd><p>Specify the URL that users should visit if they wish to report a bug.
155You are of course welcome to forward bugs reported to you to the FSF,
156if you determine that they are not bugs in your modifications.
157</p>
158<p>The default value refers to the FSF&rsquo;s GCC bug tracker.
159</p>
160</dd>
161</dl>
162
163<a name="Target-specification"></a>
164<h3 class="heading">Target specification</h3>
165<ul>
166<li> GCC has code to correctly determine the correct value for <var>target</var>
167for nearly all native systems.  Therefore, we highly recommend you do
168not provide a configure target when configuring a native compiler.
169
170</li><li> <var>target</var> must be specified as <samp>--target=<var>target</var></samp>
171when configuring a cross compiler; examples of valid targets would be
172m68k-elf, sh-elf, etc.
173
174</li><li> Specifying just <var>target</var> instead of <samp>--target=<var>target</var></samp>
175implies that the host defaults to <var>target</var>.
176</li></ul>
177
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179<a name="Options-specification"></a>
180<h3 class="heading">Options specification</h3>
181
182<p>Use <var>options</var> to override several configure time options for
183GCC.  A list of supported <var>options</var> follows; &lsquo;<samp>configure
184--help</samp>&rsquo; may list other options, but those not listed below may not
185work and should not normally be used.
186</p>
187<p>Note that each <samp>--enable</samp> option has a corresponding
188<samp>--disable</samp> option and that each <samp>--with</samp> option has a
189corresponding <samp>--without</samp> option.
190</p>
191<dl compact="compact">
192<dt><code>--prefix=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
193<dd><p>Specify the toplevel installation
194directory.  This is the recommended way to install the tools into a directory
195other than the default.  The toplevel installation directory defaults to
196<samp>/usr/local</samp>.
197</p>
198<p>We <strong>highly</strong> recommend against <var>dirname</var> being the same or a
199subdirectory of <var>objdir</var> or vice versa.  If specifying a directory
200beneath a user&rsquo;s home directory tree, some shells will not expand
201<var>dirname</var> correctly if it contains the &lsquo;<samp>~</samp>&rsquo; metacharacter; use
202<code>$HOME</code> instead.
203</p>
204<p>The following standard <code>autoconf</code> options are supported.  Normally you
205should not need to use these options.
206</p><dl compact="compact">
207<dt><code>--exec-prefix=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
208<dd><p>Specify the toplevel installation directory for architecture-dependent
209files.  The default is <samp><var>prefix</var></samp>.
210</p>
211</dd>
212<dt><code>--bindir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
213<dd><p>Specify the installation directory for the executables called by users
214(such as <code>gcc</code> and <code>g++</code>).  The default is
215<samp><var>exec-prefix</var>/bin</samp>.
216</p>
217</dd>
218<dt><code>--libdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
219<dd><p>Specify the installation directory for object code libraries and
220internal data files of GCC.  The default is <samp><var>exec-prefix</var>/lib</samp>.
221</p>
222</dd>
223<dt><code>--libexecdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
224<dd><p>Specify the installation directory for internal executables of GCC.
225The default is <samp><var>exec-prefix</var>/libexec</samp>.
226</p>
227</dd>
228<dt><code>--with-slibdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
229<dd><p>Specify the installation directory for the shared libgcc library.  The
230default is <samp><var>libdir</var></samp>.
231</p>
232</dd>
233<dt><code>--datarootdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
234<dd><p>Specify the root of the directory tree for read-only architecture-independent
235data files referenced by GCC.  The default is <samp><var>prefix</var>/share</samp>.
236</p>
237</dd>
238<dt><code>--infodir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
239<dd><p>Specify the installation directory for documentation in info format.
240The default is <samp><var>datarootdir</var>/info</samp>.
241</p>
242</dd>
243<dt><code>--datadir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
244<dd><p>Specify the installation directory for some architecture-independent
245data files referenced by GCC.  The default is <samp><var>datarootdir</var></samp>.
246</p>
247</dd>
248<dt><code>--docdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
249<dd><p>Specify the installation directory for documentation files (other
250than Info) for GCC.  The default is <samp><var>datarootdir</var>/doc</samp>.
251</p>
252</dd>
253<dt><code>--htmldir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
254<dd><p>Specify the installation directory for HTML documentation files.
255The default is <samp><var>docdir</var></samp>.
256</p>
257</dd>
258<dt><code>--pdfdir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
259<dd><p>Specify the installation directory for PDF documentation files.
260The default is <samp><var>docdir</var></samp>.
261</p>
262</dd>
263<dt><code>--mandir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
264<dd><p>Specify the installation directory for manual pages.  The default is
265<samp><var>datarootdir</var>/man</samp>.  (Note that the manual pages are only extracts
266from the full GCC manuals, which are provided in Texinfo format.  The manpages
267are derived by an automatic conversion process from parts of the full
268manual.)
269</p>
270</dd>
271<dt><code>--with-gxx-include-dir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
272<dd><p>Specify
273the installation directory for G++ header files.  The default depends
274on other configuration options, and differs between cross and native
275configurations.
276</p>
277</dd>
278<dt><code>--with-specs=<var>specs</var></code></dt>
279<dd><p>Specify additional command line driver SPECS.
280This can be useful if you need to turn on a non-standard feature by
281default without modifying the compiler&rsquo;s source code, for instance
282<samp>--with-specs=%{!fcommon:%{!fno-common:-fno-common}}</samp>.
283See &ldquo;Spec Files&rdquo; in the main manual
284</p>
285</dd>
286</dl>
287
288</dd>
289<dt><code>--program-prefix=<var>prefix</var></code></dt>
290<dd><p>GCC supports some transformations of the names of its programs when
291installing them.  This option prepends <var>prefix</var> to the names of
292programs to install in <var>bindir</var> (see above).  For example, specifying
293<samp>--program-prefix=foo-</samp> would result in &lsquo;<samp>gcc</samp>&rsquo;
294being installed as <samp>/usr/local/bin/foo-gcc</samp>.
295</p>
296</dd>
297<dt><code>--program-suffix=<var>suffix</var></code></dt>
298<dd><p>Appends <var>suffix</var> to the names of programs to install in <var>bindir</var>
299(see above).  For example, specifying <samp>--program-suffix=-3.1</samp>
300would result in &lsquo;<samp>gcc</samp>&rsquo; being installed as
301<samp>/usr/local/bin/gcc-3.1</samp>.
302</p>
303</dd>
304<dt><code>--program-transform-name=<var>pattern</var></code></dt>
305<dd><p>Applies the &lsquo;<samp>sed</samp>&rsquo; script <var>pattern</var> to be applied to the names
306of programs to install in <var>bindir</var> (see above).  <var>pattern</var> has to
307consist of one or more basic &lsquo;<samp>sed</samp>&rsquo; editing commands, separated by
308semicolons.  For example, if you want the &lsquo;<samp>gcc</samp>&rsquo; program name to be
309transformed to the installed program <samp>/usr/local/bin/myowngcc</samp> and
310the &lsquo;<samp>g++</samp>&rsquo; program name to be transformed to
311<samp>/usr/local/bin/gspecial++</samp> without changing other program names,
312you could use the pattern
313<samp>--program-transform-name='s/^gcc$/myowngcc/; s/^g++$/gspecial++/'</samp>
314to achieve this effect.
315</p>
316<p>All three options can be combined and used together, resulting in more
317complex conversion patterns.  As a basic rule, <var>prefix</var> (and
318<var>suffix</var>) are prepended (appended) before further transformations
319can happen with a special transformation script <var>pattern</var>.
320</p>
321<p>As currently implemented, this option only takes effect for native
322builds; cross compiler binaries&rsquo; names are not transformed even when a
323transformation is explicitly asked for by one of these options.
324</p>
325<p>For native builds, some of the installed programs are also installed
326with the target alias in front of their name, as in
327&lsquo;<samp>i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc</samp>&rsquo;.  All of the above transformations happen
328before the target alias is prepended to the name&mdash;so, specifying
329<samp>--program-prefix=foo-</samp> and <samp>program-suffix=-3.1</samp>, the
330resulting binary would be installed as
331<samp>/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-foo-gcc-3.1</samp>.
332</p>
333<p>As a last shortcoming, none of the installed Ada programs are
334transformed yet, which will be fixed in some time.
335</p>
336</dd>
337<dt><code>--with-local-prefix=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
338<dd><p>Specify the
339installation directory for local include files.  The default is
340<samp>/usr/local</samp>.  Specify this option if you want the compiler to
341search directory <samp><var>dirname</var>/include</samp> for locally installed
342header files <em>instead</em> of <samp>/usr/local/include</samp>.
343</p>
344<p>You should specify <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp> <strong>only</strong> if your
345site has a different convention (not <samp>/usr/local</samp>) for where to put
346site-specific files.
347</p>
348<p>The default value for <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp> is <samp>/usr/local</samp>
349regardless of the value of <samp>--prefix</samp>.  Specifying
350<samp>--prefix</samp> has no effect on which directory GCC searches for
351local header files.  This may seem counterintuitive, but actually it is
352logical.
353</p>
354<p>The purpose of <samp>--prefix</samp> is to specify where to <em>install
355GCC</em>.  The local header files in <samp>/usr/local/include</samp>&mdash;if you put
356any in that directory&mdash;are not part of GCC.  They are part of other
357programs&mdash;perhaps many others.  (GCC installs its own header files in
358another directory which is based on the <samp>--prefix</samp> value.)
359</p>
360<p>Both the local-prefix include directory and the GCC-prefix include
361directory are part of GCC&rsquo;s &ldquo;system include&rdquo; directories.  Although these
362two directories are not fixed, they need to be searched in the proper
363order for the correct processing of the include_next directive.  The
364local-prefix include directory is searched before the GCC-prefix
365include directory.  Another characteristic of system include directories
366is that pedantic warnings are turned off for headers in these directories.
367</p>
368<p>Some autoconf macros add <samp>-I <var>directory</var></samp> options to the
369compiler command line, to ensure that directories containing installed
370packages&rsquo; headers are searched.  When <var>directory</var> is one of GCC&rsquo;s
371system include directories, GCC will ignore the option so that system
372directories continue to be processed in the correct order.  This
373may result in a search order different from what was specified but the
374directory will still be searched.
375</p>
376<p>GCC automatically searches for ordinary libraries using
377<code>GCC_EXEC_PREFIX</code>.  Thus, when the same installation prefix is
378used for both GCC and packages, GCC will automatically search for
379both headers and libraries.  This provides a configuration that is
380easy to use.  GCC behaves in a manner similar to that when it is
381installed as a system compiler in <samp>/usr</samp>.
382</p>
383<p>Sites that need to install multiple versions of GCC may not want to
384use the above simple configuration.  It is possible to use the
385<samp>--program-prefix</samp>, <samp>--program-suffix</samp> and
386<samp>--program-transform-name</samp> options to install multiple versions
387into a single directory, but it may be simpler to use different prefixes
388and the <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp> option to specify the location of the
389site-specific files for each version.  It will then be necessary for
390users to specify explicitly the location of local site libraries
391(e.g., with <code>LIBRARY_PATH</code>).
392</p>
393<p>The same value can be used for both <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp> and
394<samp>--prefix</samp> provided it is not <samp>/usr</samp>.  This can be used
395to avoid the default search of <samp>/usr/local/include</samp>.
396</p>
397<p><strong>Do not</strong> specify <samp>/usr</samp> as the <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp>!
398The directory you use for <samp>--with-local-prefix</samp> <strong>must not</strong>
399contain any of the system&rsquo;s standard header files.  If it did contain
400them, certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on
401certain targets), because this would override and nullify the header
402file corrections made by the <code>fixincludes</code> script.
403</p>
404<p>Indications are that people who use this option use it based on mistaken
405ideas of what it is for.  People use it as if it specified where to
406install part of GCC.  Perhaps they make this assumption because
407installing GCC creates the directory.
408</p>
409</dd>
410<dt><code>--with-native-system-header-dir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
411<dd><p>Specifies that <var>dirname</var> is the directory that contains native system
412header files, rather than <samp>/usr/include</samp>.  This option is most useful
413if you are creating a compiler that should be isolated from the system
414as much as possible.  It is most commonly used with the
415<samp>--with-sysroot</samp> option and will cause GCC to search
416<var>dirname</var> inside the system root specified by that option.
417</p>
418</dd>
419<dt><code>--enable-shared[=<var>package</var>[,&hellip;]]</code></dt>
420<dd><p>Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are supported on
421the target platform.  Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier, shared libraries
422are enabled by default on all platforms that support shared libraries.
423</p>
424<p>If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared libraries
425only for the listed packages.  For other packages, only static libraries
426will be built.  Package names currently recognized in the GCC tree are
427&lsquo;<samp>libgcc</samp>&rsquo; (also known as &lsquo;<samp>gcc</samp>&rsquo;), &lsquo;<samp>libstdc++</samp>&rsquo; (not
428&lsquo;<samp>libstdc++-v3</samp>&rsquo;), &lsquo;<samp>libffi</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>zlib</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>boehm-gc</samp>&rsquo;,
429&lsquo;<samp>ada</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>libada</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>libjava</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>libgo</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp>libobjc</samp>&rsquo;.
430Note &lsquo;<samp>libiberty</samp>&rsquo; does not support shared libraries at all.
431</p>
432<p>Use <samp>--disable-shared</samp> to build only static libraries.  Note that
433<samp>--disable-shared</samp> does not accept a list of package names as
434argument, only <samp>--enable-shared</samp> does.
435</p>
436<p>Contrast with <samp>--enable-host-shared</samp>, which affects <em>host</em>
437code.
438</p>
439</dd>
440<dt><code>--enable-host-shared</code></dt>
441<dd><p>Specify that the <em>host</em> code should be built into position-independent
442machine code (with -fPIC), allowing it to be used within shared libraries,
443but yielding a slightly slower compiler.
444</p>
445<p>This option is required when building the libgccjit.so library.
446</p>
447<p>Contrast with <samp>--enable-shared</samp>, which affects <em>target</em>
448libraries.
449</p>
450</dd>
451<dt><code><a name="with_002dgnu_002das"></a>--with-gnu-as</code></dt>
452<dd><p>Specify that the compiler should assume that the
453assembler it finds is the GNU assembler.  However, this does not modify
454the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if the
455assembler found is not actually the GNU assembler.  (Confusion may also
456result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been
457configured with <samp>--with-gnu-as</samp>.)  If you have more than one
458assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option in
459connection with <samp>--with-as=<var>pathname</var></samp> or
460<samp>--with-build-time-tools=<var>pathname</var></samp>.
461</p>
462<p>The following systems are the only ones where it makes a difference
463whether you use the GNU assembler.  On any other system,
464<samp>--with-gnu-as</samp> has no effect.
465</p>
466<ul>
467<li> &lsquo;<samp>hppa1.0-<var>any</var>-<var>any</var></samp>&rsquo;
468</li><li> &lsquo;<samp>hppa1.1-<var>any</var>-<var>any</var></samp>&rsquo;
469</li><li> &lsquo;<samp>sparc-sun-solaris2.<var>any</var></samp>&rsquo;
470</li><li> &lsquo;<samp>sparc64-<var>any</var>-solaris2.<var>any</var></samp>&rsquo;
471</li></ul>
472
473</dd>
474<dt><code><a name="with_002das"></a>--with-as=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
475<dd><p>Specify that the compiler should use the assembler pointed to by
476<var>pathname</var>, rather than the one found by the standard rules to find
477an assembler, which are:
478</p><ul>
479<li> Unless GCC is being built with a cross compiler, check the
480<samp><var>libexec</var>/gcc/<var>target</var>/<var>version</var></samp> directory.
481<var>libexec</var> defaults to <samp><var>exec-prefix</var>/libexec</samp>;
482<var>exec-prefix</var> defaults to <var>prefix</var>, which
483defaults to <samp>/usr/local</samp> unless overridden by the
484<samp>--prefix=<var>pathname</var></samp> switch described above.  <var>target</var>
485is the target system triple, such as &lsquo;<samp>sparc-sun-solaris2.7</samp>&rsquo;, and
486<var>version</var> denotes the GCC version, such as 3.0.
487
488</li><li> If the target system is the same that you are building on, check
489operating system specific directories (e.g. <samp>/usr/ccs/bin</samp> on
490Sun Solaris 2).
491
492</li><li> Check in the <code>PATH</code> for a tool whose name is prefixed by the
493target system triple.
494
495</li><li> Check in the <code>PATH</code> for a tool whose name is not prefixed by the
496target system triple, if the host and target system triple are
497the same (in other words, we use a host tool if it can be used for
498the target as well).
499</li></ul>
500
501<p>You may want to use <samp>--with-as</samp> if no assembler
502is installed in the directories listed above, or if you have multiple
503assemblers installed and want to choose one that is not found by the
504above rules.
505</p>
506</dd>
507<dt><code><a name="with_002dgnu_002dld"></a>--with-gnu-ld</code></dt>
508<dd><p>Same as <a href="#with-gnu-as"><samp>--with-gnu-as</samp></a>
509but for the linker.
510</p>
511</dd>
512<dt><code>--with-ld=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
513<dd><p>Same as <a href="#with-as"><samp>--with-as</samp></a>
514but for the linker.
515</p>
516</dd>
517<dt><code>--with-stabs</code></dt>
518<dd><p>Specify that stabs debugging
519information should be used instead of whatever format the host normally
520uses.  Normally GCC uses the same debug format as the host system.
521</p>
522<p>On MIPS based systems and on Alphas, you must specify whether you want
523GCC to create the normal ECOFF debugging format, or to use BSD-style
524stabs passed through the ECOFF symbol table.  The normal ECOFF debug
525format cannot fully handle languages other than C.  BSD stabs format can
526handle other languages, but it only works with the GNU debugger GDB.
527</p>
528<p>Normally, GCC uses the ECOFF debugging format by default; if you
529prefer BSD stabs, specify <samp>--with-stabs</samp> when you configure GCC.
530</p>
531<p>No matter which default you choose when you configure GCC, the user
532can use the <samp>-gcoff</samp> and <samp>-gstabs+</samp> options to specify explicitly
533the debug format for a particular compilation.
534</p>
535<p><samp>--with-stabs</samp> is meaningful on the ISC system on the 386, also, if
536<samp>--with-gas</samp> is used.  It selects use of stabs debugging
537information embedded in COFF output.  This kind of debugging information
538supports C++ well; ordinary COFF debugging information does not.
539</p>
540<p><samp>--with-stabs</samp> is also meaningful on 386 systems running SVR4.  It
541selects use of stabs debugging information embedded in ELF output.  The
542C++ compiler currently (2.6.0) does not support the DWARF debugging
543information normally used on 386 SVR4 platforms; stabs provide a
544workable alternative.  This requires gas and gdb, as the normal SVR4
545tools can not generate or interpret stabs.
546</p>
547</dd>
548<dt><code>--with-tls=<var>dialect</var></code></dt>
549<dd><p>Specify the default TLS dialect, for systems were there is a choice.
550For ARM targets, possible values for <var>dialect</var> are <code>gnu</code> or
551<code>gnu2</code>, which select between the original GNU dialect and the GNU TLS
552descriptor-based dialect.
553</p>
554</dd>
555<dt><code>--enable-multiarch</code></dt>
556<dd><p>Specify whether to enable or disable multiarch support.  The default is
557to check for glibc start files in a multiarch location, and enable it
558if the files are found.  The auto detection is enabled for native builds,
559and for cross builds configured with <samp>--with-sysroot</samp>, and without
560<samp>--with-native-system-header-dir</samp>.
561More documentation about multiarch can be found at
562<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch">https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch</a>.
563</p>
564</dd>
565<dt><code>--enable-sjlj-exceptions</code></dt>
566<dd><p>Force use of the <code>setjmp</code>/<code>longjmp</code>-based scheme for exceptions.
567&lsquo;<samp>configure</samp>&rsquo; ordinarily picks the correct value based on the platform.
568Only use this option if you are sure you need a different setting.
569</p>
570</dd>
571<dt><code>--enable-vtable-verify</code></dt>
572<dd><p>Specify whether to enable or disable the vtable verification feature.
573Enabling this feature causes libstdc++ to be built with its virtual calls
574in verifiable mode.  This means that, when linked with libvtv, every
575virtual call in libstdc++ will verify the vtable pointer through which the
576call will be made before actually making the call.  If not linked with libvtv,
577the verifier will call stub functions (in libstdc++ itself) and do nothing.
578If vtable verification is disabled, then libstdc++ is not built with its
579virtual calls in verifiable mode at all.  However the libvtv library will
580still be built (see <samp>--disable-libvtv</samp> to turn off building libvtv).
581<samp>--disable-vtable-verify</samp> is the default.
582</p>
583</dd>
584<dt><code>--disable-multilib</code></dt>
585<dd><p>Specify that multiple target
586libraries to support different target variants, calling
587conventions, etc. should not be built.  The default is to build a
588predefined set of them.
589</p>
590<p>Some targets provide finer-grained control over which multilibs are built
591(e.g., <samp>--disable-softfloat</samp>):
592</p><dl compact="compact">
593<dt><code>arm-*-*</code></dt>
594<dd><p>fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
595</p>
596</dd>
597<dt><code>m68*-*-*</code></dt>
598<dd><p>softfloat, m68881, m68000, m68020.
599</p>
600</dd>
601<dt><code>mips*-*-*</code></dt>
602<dd><p>single-float, biendian, softfloat.
603</p>
604</dd>
605<dt><code>powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*</code></dt>
606<dd><p>aix64, pthread, softfloat, powercpu, powerpccpu, powerpcos, biendian,
607sysv, aix.
608</p>
609</dd>
610</dl>
611
612</dd>
613<dt><code>--with-multilib-list=<var>list</var></code></dt>
614<dt><code>--without-multilib-list</code></dt>
615<dd><p>Specify what multilibs to build.
616Currently only implemented for arm*-*-*, sh*-*-* and x86-64-*-linux*.
617</p>
618<dl compact="compact">
619<dt><code>arm*-*-*</code></dt>
620<dd><p><var>list</var> is either <code>default</code> or <code>aprofile</code>.  Specifying
621<code>default</code> is equivalent to omitting this option while specifying
622<code>aprofile</code> builds multilibs for each combination of ISA (<code>-marm</code> or
623<code>-mthumb</code>), architecture (<code>-march=armv7-a</code>, <code>-march=armv7ve</code>,
624or <code>-march=armv8-a</code>), FPU available (none, <code>-mfpu=vfpv3-d16</code>,
625<code>-mfpu=neon</code>, <code>-mfpu=vfpv4-d16</code>, <code>-mfpu=neon-vfpv4</code> or
626<code>-mfpu=neon-fp-armv8</code> depending on architecture) and floating-point ABI
627(<code>-mfloat-abi=softfp</code> or <code>-mfloat-abi=hard</code>).
628</p>
629</dd>
630<dt><code>sh*-*-*</code></dt>
631<dd><p><var>list</var> is a comma separated list of CPU names.  These must be of the
632form <code>sh*</code> or <code>m*</code> (in which case they match the compiler option
633for that processor).  The list should not contain any endian options -
634these are handled by <samp>--with-endian</samp>.
635</p>
636<p>If <var>list</var> is empty, then there will be no multilibs for extra
637processors.  The multilib for the secondary endian remains enabled.
638</p>
639<p>As a special case, if an entry in the list starts with a <code>!</code>
640(exclamation point), then it is added to the list of excluded multilibs.
641Entries of this sort should be compatible with &lsquo;<samp>MULTILIB_EXCLUDES</samp>&rsquo;
642(once the leading <code>!</code> has been stripped).
643</p>
644<p>If <samp>--with-multilib-list</samp> is not given, then a default set of
645multilibs is selected based on the value of <samp>--target</samp>.  This is
646usually the complete set of libraries, but some targets imply a more
647specialized subset.
648</p>
649<p>Example 1: to configure a compiler for SH4A only, but supporting both
650endians, with little endian being the default:
651</p><div class="smallexample">
652<pre class="smallexample">--with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big --with-multilib-list=
653</pre></div>
654
655<p>Example 2: to configure a compiler for both SH4A and SH4AL-DSP, but with
656only little endian SH4AL:
657</p><div class="smallexample">
658<pre class="smallexample">--with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big \
659--with-multilib-list=sh4al,!mb/m4al
660</pre></div>
661
662</dd>
663<dt><code>x86-64-*-linux*</code></dt>
664<dd><p><var>list</var> is a comma separated list of <code>m32</code>, <code>m64</code> and
665<code>mx32</code> to enable 32-bit, 64-bit and x32 run-time libraries,
666respectively.  If <var>list</var> is empty, then there will be no multilibs
667and only the default run-time library will be enabled.
668</p>
669<p>If <samp>--with-multilib-list</samp> is not given, then only 32-bit and
67064-bit run-time libraries will be enabled.
671</p></dd>
672</dl>
673
674</dd>
675<dt><code>--with-endian=<var>endians</var></code></dt>
676<dd><p>Specify what endians to use.
677Currently only implemented for sh*-*-*.
678</p>
679<p><var>endians</var> may be one of the following:
680</p><dl compact="compact">
681<dt><code>big</code></dt>
682<dd><p>Use big endian exclusively.
683</p></dd>
684<dt><code>little</code></dt>
685<dd><p>Use little endian exclusively.
686</p></dd>
687<dt><code>big,little</code></dt>
688<dd><p>Use big endian by default.  Provide a multilib for little endian.
689</p></dd>
690<dt><code>little,big</code></dt>
691<dd><p>Use little endian by default.  Provide a multilib for big endian.
692</p></dd>
693</dl>
694
695</dd>
696<dt><code>--enable-threads</code></dt>
697<dd><p>Specify that the target
698supports threads.  This affects the Objective-C compiler and runtime
699library, and exception handling for other languages like C++ and Java.
700On some systems, this is the default.
701</p>
702<p>In general, the best (and, in many cases, the only known) threading
703model available will be configured for use.  Beware that on some
704systems, GCC has not been taught what threading models are generally
705available for the system.  In this case, <samp>--enable-threads</samp> is an
706alias for <samp>--enable-threads=single</samp>.
707</p>
708</dd>
709<dt><code>--disable-threads</code></dt>
710<dd><p>Specify that threading support should be disabled for the system.
711This is an alias for <samp>--enable-threads=single</samp>.
712</p>
713</dd>
714<dt><code>--enable-threads=<var>lib</var></code></dt>
715<dd><p>Specify that
716<var>lib</var> is the thread support library.  This affects the Objective-C
717compiler and runtime library, and exception handling for other languages
718like C++ and Java.  The possibilities for <var>lib</var> are:
719</p>
720<dl compact="compact">
721<dt><code>aix</code></dt>
722<dd><p>AIX thread support.
723</p></dd>
724<dt><code>dce</code></dt>
725<dd><p>DCE thread support.
726</p></dd>
727<dt><code>lynx</code></dt>
728<dd><p>LynxOS thread support.
729</p></dd>
730<dt><code>mipssde</code></dt>
731<dd><p>MIPS SDE thread support.
732</p></dd>
733<dt><code>no</code></dt>
734<dd><p>This is an alias for &lsquo;<samp>single</samp>&rsquo;.
735</p></dd>
736<dt><code>posix</code></dt>
737<dd><p>Generic POSIX/Unix98 thread support.
738</p></dd>
739<dt><code>rtems</code></dt>
740<dd><p>RTEMS thread support.
741</p></dd>
742<dt><code>single</code></dt>
743<dd><p>Disable thread support, should work for all platforms.
744</p></dd>
745<dt><code>tpf</code></dt>
746<dd><p>TPF thread support.
747</p></dd>
748<dt><code>vxworks</code></dt>
749<dd><p>VxWorks thread support.
750</p></dd>
751<dt><code>win32</code></dt>
752<dd><p>Microsoft Win32 API thread support.
753</p></dd>
754</dl>
755
756</dd>
757<dt><code>--enable-tls</code></dt>
758<dd><p>Specify that the target supports TLS (Thread Local Storage).  Usually
759configure can correctly determine if TLS is supported.  In cases where
760it guesses incorrectly, TLS can be explicitly enabled or disabled with
761<samp>--enable-tls</samp> or <samp>--disable-tls</samp>.  This can happen if
762the assembler supports TLS but the C library does not, or if the
763assumptions made by the configure test are incorrect.
764</p>
765</dd>
766<dt><code>--disable-tls</code></dt>
767<dd><p>Specify that the target does not support TLS.
768This is an alias for <samp>--enable-tls=no</samp>.
769</p>
770</dd>
771<dt><code>--with-cpu=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
772<dt><code>--with-cpu-32=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
773<dt><code>--with-cpu-64=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
774<dd><p>Specify which cpu variant the compiler should generate code for by default.
775<var>cpu</var> will be used as the default value of the <samp>-mcpu=</samp> switch.
776This option is only supported on some targets, including ARC, ARM, i386, M68k,
777PowerPC, and SPARC.  It is mandatory for ARC.  The <samp>--with-cpu-32</samp> and
778<samp>--with-cpu-64</samp> options specify separate default CPUs for
77932-bit and 64-bit modes; these options are only supported for i386,
780x86-64, PowerPC, and SPARC.
781</p>
782</dd>
783<dt><code>--with-schedule=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
784<dt><code>--with-arch=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
785<dt><code>--with-arch-32=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
786<dt><code>--with-arch-64=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
787<dt><code>--with-tune=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
788<dt><code>--with-tune-32=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
789<dt><code>--with-tune-64=<var>cpu</var></code></dt>
790<dt><code>--with-abi=<var>abi</var></code></dt>
791<dt><code>--with-fpu=<var>type</var></code></dt>
792<dt><code>--with-float=<var>type</var></code></dt>
793<dd><p>These configure options provide default values for the <samp>-mschedule=</samp>,
794<samp>-march=</samp>, <samp>-mtune=</samp>, <samp>-mabi=</samp>, and <samp>-mfpu=</samp>
795options and for <samp>-mhard-float</samp> or <samp>-msoft-float</samp>.  As with
796<samp>--with-cpu</samp>, which switches will be accepted and acceptable values
797of the arguments depend on the target.
798</p>
799</dd>
800<dt><code>--with-mode=<var>mode</var></code></dt>
801<dd><p>Specify if the compiler should default to <samp>-marm</samp> or <samp>-mthumb</samp>.
802This option is only supported on ARM targets.
803</p>
804</dd>
805<dt><code>--with-stack-offset=<var>num</var></code></dt>
806<dd><p>This option sets the default for the -mstack-offset=<var>num</var> option,
807and will thus generally also control the setting of this option for
808libraries.  This option is only supported on Epiphany targets.
809</p>
810</dd>
811<dt><code>--with-fpmath=<var>isa</var></code></dt>
812<dd><p>This options sets <samp>-mfpmath=sse</samp> by default and specifies the default
813ISA for floating-point arithmetics.  You can select either &lsquo;<samp>sse</samp>&rsquo; which
814enables <samp>-msse2</samp> or &lsquo;<samp>avx</samp>&rsquo; which enables <samp>-mavx</samp> by default.
815This option is only supported on i386 and x86-64 targets.
816</p>
817</dd>
818<dt><code>--with-fp-32=<var>mode</var></code></dt>
819<dd><p>On MIPS targets, set the default value for the <samp>-mfp</samp> option when using
820the o32 ABI.  The possibilities for <var>mode</var> are:
821</p><dl compact="compact">
822<dt><code>32</code></dt>
823<dd><p>Use the o32 FP32 ABI extension, as with the <samp>-mfp32</samp> command-line
824option.
825</p></dd>
826<dt><code>xx</code></dt>
827<dd><p>Use the o32 FPXX ABI extension, as with the <samp>-mfpxx</samp> command-line
828option.
829</p></dd>
830<dt><code>64</code></dt>
831<dd><p>Use the o32 FP64 ABI extension, as with the <samp>-mfp64</samp> command-line
832option.
833</p></dd>
834</dl>
835<p>In the absence of this configuration option the default is to use the o32
836FP32 ABI extension.
837</p>
838</dd>
839<dt><code>--with-odd-spreg-32</code></dt>
840<dd><p>On MIPS targets, set the <samp>-modd-spreg</samp> option by default when using
841the o32 ABI.
842</p>
843</dd>
844<dt><code>--without-odd-spreg-32</code></dt>
845<dd><p>On MIPS targets, set the <samp>-mno-odd-spreg</samp> option by default when using
846the o32 ABI.  This is normally used in conjunction with
847<samp>--with-fp-32=64</samp> in order to target the o32 FP64A ABI extension.
848</p>
849</dd>
850<dt><code>--with-nan=<var>encoding</var></code></dt>
851<dd><p>On MIPS targets, set the default encoding convention to use for the
852special not-a-number (NaN) IEEE 754 floating-point data.  The
853possibilities for <var>encoding</var> are:
854</p><dl compact="compact">
855<dt><code>legacy</code></dt>
856<dd><p>Use the legacy encoding, as with the <samp>-mnan=legacy</samp> command-line
857option.
858</p></dd>
859<dt><code>2008</code></dt>
860<dd><p>Use the 754-2008 encoding, as with the <samp>-mnan=2008</samp> command-line
861option.
862</p></dd>
863</dl>
864<p>To use this configuration option you must have an assembler version
865installed that supports the <samp>-mnan=</samp> command-line option too.
866In the absence of this configuration option the default convention is
867the legacy encoding, as when neither of the <samp>-mnan=2008</samp> and
868<samp>-mnan=legacy</samp> command-line options has been used.
869</p>
870</dd>
871<dt><code>--with-divide=<var>type</var></code></dt>
872<dd><p>Specify how the compiler should generate code for checking for
873division by zero.  This option is only supported on the MIPS target.
874The possibilities for <var>type</var> are:
875</p><dl compact="compact">
876<dt><code>traps</code></dt>
877<dd><p>Division by zero checks use conditional traps (this is the default on
878systems that support conditional traps).
879</p></dd>
880<dt><code>breaks</code></dt>
881<dd><p>Division by zero checks use the break instruction.
882</p></dd>
883</dl>
884
885
886</dd>
887<dt><code>--with-llsc</code></dt>
888<dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-mllsc</samp> the default when no
889<samp>-mno-llsc</samp> option is passed.  This is the default for
890Linux-based targets, as the kernel will emulate them if the ISA does
891not provide them.
892</p>
893</dd>
894<dt><code>--without-llsc</code></dt>
895<dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-mno-llsc</samp> the default when no
896<samp>-mllsc</samp> option is passed.
897</p>
898</dd>
899<dt><code>--with-synci</code></dt>
900<dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-msynci</samp> the default when no
901<samp>-mno-synci</samp> option is passed.
902</p>
903</dd>
904<dt><code>--without-synci</code></dt>
905<dd><p>On MIPS targets, make <samp>-mno-synci</samp> the default when no
906<samp>-msynci</samp> option is passed.  This is the default.
907</p>
908</dd>
909<dt><code>--with-mips-plt</code></dt>
910<dd><p>On MIPS targets, make use of copy relocations and PLTs.
911These features are extensions to the traditional
912SVR4-based MIPS ABIs and require support from GNU binutils
913and the runtime C library.
914</p>
915</dd>
916<dt><code>--enable-__cxa_atexit</code></dt>
917<dd><p>Define if you want to use __cxa_atexit, rather than atexit, to
918register C++ destructors for local statics and global objects.
919This is essential for fully standards-compliant handling of
920destructors, but requires __cxa_atexit in libc.  This option is currently
921only available on systems with GNU libc.  When enabled, this will cause
922<samp>-fuse-cxa-atexit</samp> to be passed by default.
923</p>
924</dd>
925<dt><code>--enable-gnu-indirect-function</code></dt>
926<dd><p>Define if you want to enable the <code>ifunc</code> attribute.  This option is
927currently only available on systems with GNU libc on certain targets.
928</p>
929</dd>
930<dt><code>--enable-target-optspace</code></dt>
931<dd><p>Specify that target
932libraries should be optimized for code space instead of code speed.
933This is the default for the m32r platform.
934</p>
935</dd>
936<dt><code>--with-cpp-install-dir=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
937<dd><p>Specify that the user visible <code>cpp</code> program should be installed
938in <samp><var>prefix</var>/<var>dirname</var>/cpp</samp>, in addition to <var>bindir</var>.
939</p>
940</dd>
941<dt><code>--enable-comdat</code></dt>
942<dd><p>Enable COMDAT group support.  This is primarily used to override the
943automatically detected value.
944</p>
945</dd>
946<dt><code>--enable-initfini-array</code></dt>
947<dd><p>Force the use of sections <code>.init_array</code> and <code>.fini_array</code>
948(instead of <code>.init</code> and <code>.fini</code>) for constructors and
949destructors.  Option <samp>--disable-initfini-array</samp> has the
950opposite effect.  If neither option is specified, the configure script
951will try to guess whether the <code>.init_array</code> and
952<code>.fini_array</code> sections are supported and, if they are, use them.
953</p>
954</dd>
955<dt><code>--enable-link-mutex</code></dt>
956<dd><p>When building GCC, use a mutex to avoid linking the compilers for
957multiple languages at the same time, to avoid thrashing on build
958systems with limited free memory.  The default is not to use such a mutex.
959</p>
960</dd>
961<dt><code>--enable-maintainer-mode</code></dt>
962<dd><p>The build rules that regenerate the Autoconf and Automake output files as
963well as the GCC master message catalog <samp>gcc.pot</samp> are normally
964disabled.  This is because it can only be rebuilt if the complete source
965tree is present.  If you have changed the sources and want to rebuild the
966catalog, configuring with <samp>--enable-maintainer-mode</samp> will enable
967this.  Note that you need a recent version of the <code>gettext</code> tools
968to do so.
969</p>
970</dd>
971<dt><code>--disable-bootstrap</code></dt>
972<dd><p>For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
973a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when &lsquo;<samp>make</samp>&rsquo; is invoked,
974testing that GCC can compile itself correctly.  If you want to disable
975this process, you can configure with <samp>--disable-bootstrap</samp>.
976</p>
977</dd>
978<dt><code>--enable-bootstrap</code></dt>
979<dd><p>In special cases, you may want to perform a 3-stage build
980even if the target and host triplets are different.
981This is possible when the host can run code compiled for
982the target (e.g. host is i686-linux, target is i486-linux).
983Starting from GCC 4.2, to do this you have to configure explicitly
984with <samp>--enable-bootstrap</samp>.
985</p>
986</dd>
987<dt><code>--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir</code></dt>
988<dd><p>Neither the .c and .h files that are generated from Bison and flex nor the
989info manuals and man pages that are built from the .texi files are present
990in the SVN development tree.  When building GCC from that development tree,
991or from one of our snapshots, those generated files are placed in your
992build directory, which allows for the source to be in a readonly
993directory.
994</p>
995<p>If you configure with <samp>--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir</samp> then those
996generated files will go into the source directory.  This is mainly intended
997for generating release or prerelease tarballs of the GCC sources, since it
998is not a requirement that the users of source releases to have flex, Bison,
999or makeinfo.
1000</p>
1001</dd>
1002<dt><code>--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs</code></dt>
1003<dd><p>Specify
1004that runtime libraries should be installed in the compiler specific
1005subdirectory (<samp><var>libdir</var>/gcc</samp>) rather than the usual places.  In
1006addition, &lsquo;<samp>libstdc++</samp>&rsquo;&rsquo;s include files will be installed into
1007<samp><var>libdir</var></samp> unless you overruled it by using
1008<samp>--with-gxx-include-dir=<var>dirname</var></samp>.  Using this option is
1009particularly useful if you intend to use several versions of GCC in
1010parallel.  This is currently supported by &lsquo;<samp>libgfortran</samp>&rsquo;,
1011&lsquo;<samp>libjava</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>libstdc++</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp>libobjc</samp>&rsquo;.
1012</p>
1013</dd>
1014<dt><code><a name="WithAixSoname"></a>--with-aix-soname=&lsquo;<samp>aix</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>svr4</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>both</samp>&rsquo;</code></dt>
1015<dd><p>Traditional AIX shared library versioning (versioned <code>Shared Object</code>
1016files as members of unversioned <code>Archive Library</code> files named
1017&lsquo;<samp>lib.a</samp>&rsquo;) causes numerous headaches for package managers. However,
1018<code>Import Files</code> as members of <code>Archive Library</code> files allow for
1019<strong>filename-based versioning</strong> of shared libraries as seen on Linux/SVR4,
1020where this is called the &quot;SONAME&quot;. But as they prevent static linking,
1021<code>Import Files</code> may be used with <code>Runtime Linking</code> only, where the
1022linker does search for &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.so</samp>&rsquo; before &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.a</samp>&rsquo; library
1023filenames with the &lsquo;<samp>-lNAME</samp>&rsquo; linker flag.
1024</p>
1025<a name="AixLdCommand"></a><p>For detailed information please refer to the AIX
1026<a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/search/%22the%20ld%20command%2C%20also%20called%20the%20linkage%20editor%20or%20binder%22">ld
1027Command</a> reference.
1028</p>
1029<p>As long as shared library creation is enabled, upon:
1030</p><dl compact="compact">
1031<dt><code>--with-aix-soname=aix</code></dt>
1032<dt><code>--with-aix-soname=both</code></dt>
1033<dd><p>A (traditional AIX) <code>Shared Archive Library</code> file is created:
1034 </p><ul>
1035<li> using the &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.a</samp>&rsquo; filename scheme
1036  </li><li> with the <code>Shared Object</code> file as archive member named
1037  &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.so.V</samp>&rsquo; (except for &lsquo;<samp>libgcc_s</samp>&rsquo;, where the <code>Shared
1038  Object</code> file is named &lsquo;<samp>shr.o</samp>&rsquo; for backwards compatibility), which
1039  <ul class="no-bullet">
1040<li>- is used for runtime loading from inside the &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.a</samp>&rsquo; file
1041   </li><li>- is used for dynamic loading via
1042   <code>dlopen(&quot;libNAME.a(libNAME.so.V)&quot;, RTLD_MEMBER)</code>
1043   </li><li>- is used for shared linking
1044   </li><li>- is used for static linking, so no separate <code>Static Archive
1045   Library</code> file is needed
1046  </li></ul>
1047</li></ul>
1048</dd>
1049<dt><code>--with-aix-soname=both</code></dt>
1050<dt><code>--with-aix-soname=svr4</code></dt>
1051<dd><p>A (second) <code>Shared Archive Library</code> file is created:
1052 </p><ul>
1053<li> using the &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.so.V</samp>&rsquo; filename scheme
1054 </li><li> with the <code>Shared Object</code> file as archive member named
1055 &lsquo;<samp>shr.o</samp>&rsquo;, which
1056  <ul class="no-bullet">
1057<li>- is created with the <code>-G linker flag</code>
1058   </li><li>- has the <code>F_LOADONLY</code> flag set
1059   </li><li>- is used for runtime loading from inside the &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.so.V</samp>&rsquo; file
1060   </li><li>- is used for dynamic loading via <code>dlopen(&quot;libNAME.so.V(shr.o)&quot;,
1061   RTLD_MEMBER)</code>
1062  </li></ul>
1063</li><li> with the <code>Import File</code> as archive member named &lsquo;<samp>shr.imp</samp>&rsquo;,
1064 which
1065  <ul class="no-bullet">
1066<li>- refers to &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.so.V(shr.o)</samp>&rsquo; as the &quot;SONAME&quot;, to be recorded
1067   in the <code>Loader Section</code> of subsequent binaries
1068   </li><li>- indicates whether &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.so.V(shr.o)</samp>&rsquo; is 32 or 64 bit
1069   </li><li>- lists all the public symbols exported by &lsquo;<samp>lib.so.V(shr.o)</samp>&rsquo;,
1070   eventually decorated with the <code>&lsquo;<samp>weak</samp>&rsquo; Keyword</code>
1071   </li><li>- is necessary for shared linking against &lsquo;<samp>lib.so.V(shr.o)</samp>&rsquo;
1072   </li></ul>
1073</li></ul>
1074<p>A symbolic link using the &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.so</samp>&rsquo; filename scheme is created:
1075  </p><ul>
1076<li> pointing to the &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.so.V</samp>&rsquo; <code>Shared Archive Library</code> file
1077  </li><li> to permit the <code>ld Command</code> to find &lsquo;<samp>lib.so.V(shr.imp)</samp>&rsquo; via
1078  the &lsquo;<samp>-lNAME</samp>&rsquo; argument (requires <code>Runtime Linking</code> to be enabled)
1079  </li><li> to permit dynamic loading of &lsquo;<samp>lib.so.V(shr.o)</samp>&rsquo; without the need
1080  to specify the version number via <code>dlopen(&quot;libNAME.so(shr.o)&quot;,
1081  RTLD_MEMBER)</code>
1082  </li></ul>
1083</dd>
1084</dl>
1085
1086<p>As long as static library creation is enabled, upon:
1087</p><dl compact="compact">
1088<dt><code>--with-aix-soname=svr4</code></dt>
1089<dd><p>A <code>Static Archive Library</code> is created:
1090 </p><ul>
1091<li> using the &lsquo;<samp>libNAME.a</samp>&rsquo; filename scheme
1092 </li><li> with all the <code>Static Object</code> files as archive members, which
1093  <ul class="no-bullet">
1094<li>- are used for static linking
1095  </li></ul>
1096</li></ul>
1097</dd>
1098</dl>
1099
1100<p>While the aix-soname=&lsquo;<samp>svr4</samp>&rsquo; option does not create <code>Shared Object</code>
1101files as members of unversioned <code>Archive Library</code> files any more, package
1102managers still are responsible to
1103<a href="./specific.html#TransferAixShobj">transfer</a> <code>Shared Object</code> files
1104found as member of a previously installed unversioned <code>Archive Library</code>
1105file into the newly installed <code>Archive Library</code> file with the same
1106filename.
1107</p>
1108<p><em>WARNING:</em> Creating <code>Shared Object</code> files with <code>Runtime Linking</code>
1109enabled may bloat the TOC, eventually leading to <code>TOC overflow</code> errors,
1110requiring the use of either the <samp>-Wl,-bbigtoc</samp> linker flag (seen to
1111break with the <code>GDB</code> debugger) or some of the TOC-related compiler flags,
1112see &ldquo;RS/6000 and PowerPC Options&rdquo; in the main manual.
1113</p>
1114<p><samp>--with-aix-soname</samp> is currently supported by &lsquo;<samp>libgcc_s</samp>&rsquo; only, so
1115this option is still experimental and not for normal use yet.
1116</p>
1117<p>Default is the traditional behavior <samp>--with-aix-soname=&lsquo;<samp>aix</samp>&rsquo;</samp>.
1118</p>
1119</dd>
1120<dt><code>--enable-languages=<var>lang1</var>,<var>lang2</var>,&hellip;</code></dt>
1121<dd><p>Specify that only a particular subset of compilers and
1122their runtime libraries should be built.  For a list of valid values for
1123<var>langN</var> you can issue the following command in the
1124<samp>gcc</samp> directory of your GCC source tree:<br>
1125</p><div class="smallexample">
1126<pre class="smallexample">grep ^language= */config-lang.in
1127</pre></div>
1128<p>Currently, you can use any of the following:
1129<code>all</code>, <code>ada</code>, <code>c</code>, <code>c++</code>, <code>fortran</code>,
1130<code>go</code>, <code>java</code>, <code>jit</code>, <code>lto</code>, <code>objc</code>, <code>obj-c++</code>.
1131Building the Ada compiler has special requirements, see below.
1132If you do not pass this flag, or specify the option <code>all</code>, then all
1133default languages available in the <samp>gcc</samp> sub-tree will be configured.
1134Ada, Go, Jit, and Objective-C++ are not default languages.  LTO is not a
1135default language, but is built by default because <samp>--enable-lto</samp> is
1136enabled by default.  The other languages are default languages.
1137</p>
1138</dd>
1139<dt><code>--enable-stage1-languages=<var>lang1</var>,<var>lang2</var>,&hellip;</code></dt>
1140<dd><p>Specify that a particular subset of compilers and their runtime
1141libraries should be built with the system C compiler during stage 1 of
1142the bootstrap process, rather than only in later stages with the
1143bootstrapped C compiler.  The list of valid values is the same as for
1144<samp>--enable-languages</samp>, and the option <code>all</code> will select all
1145of the languages enabled by <samp>--enable-languages</samp>.  This option is
1146primarily useful for GCC development; for instance, when a development
1147version of the compiler cannot bootstrap due to compiler bugs, or when
1148one is debugging front ends other than the C front end.  When this
1149option is used, one can then build the target libraries for the
1150specified languages with the stage-1 compiler by using <code>make
1151stage1-bubble all-target</code>, or run the testsuite on the stage-1 compiler
1152for the specified languages using <code>make stage1-start check-gcc</code>.
1153</p>
1154</dd>
1155<dt><code>--disable-libada</code></dt>
1156<dd><p>Specify that the run-time libraries and tools used by GNAT should not
1157be built.  This can be useful for debugging, or for compatibility with
1158previous Ada build procedures, when it was required to explicitly
1159do a &lsquo;<samp>make -C gcc gnatlib_and_tools</samp>&rsquo;.
1160</p>
1161</dd>
1162<dt><code>--disable-libsanitizer</code></dt>
1163<dd><p>Specify that the run-time libraries for the various sanitizers should
1164not be built.
1165</p>
1166</dd>
1167<dt><code>--disable-libssp</code></dt>
1168<dd><p>Specify that the run-time libraries for stack smashing protection
1169should not be built.
1170</p>
1171</dd>
1172<dt><code>--disable-libquadmath</code></dt>
1173<dd><p>Specify that the GCC quad-precision math library should not be built.
1174On some systems, the library is required to be linkable when building
1175the Fortran front end, unless <samp>--disable-libquadmath-support</samp>
1176is used.
1177</p>
1178</dd>
1179<dt><code>--disable-libquadmath-support</code></dt>
1180<dd><p>Specify that the Fortran front end and <code>libgfortran</code> do not add
1181support for <code>libquadmath</code> on systems supporting it.
1182</p>
1183</dd>
1184<dt><code>--disable-libgomp</code></dt>
1185<dd><p>Specify that the GNU Offloading and Multi Processing Runtime Library
1186should not be built.
1187</p>
1188</dd>
1189<dt><code>--disable-libvtv</code></dt>
1190<dd><p>Specify that the run-time libraries used by vtable verification
1191should not be built.
1192</p>
1193</dd>
1194<dt><code>--with-dwarf2</code></dt>
1195<dd><p>Specify that the compiler should
1196use DWARF 2 debugging information as the default.
1197</p>
1198</dd>
1199<dt><code>--with-advance-toolchain=<var>at</var></code></dt>
1200<dd><p>On 64-bit PowerPC Linux systems, configure the compiler to use the
1201header files, library files, and the dynamic linker from the Advance
1202Toolchain release <var>at</var> instead of the default versions that are
1203provided by the Linux distribution.  In general, this option is
1204intended for the developers of GCC, and it is not intended for general
1205use.
1206</p>
1207</dd>
1208<dt><code>--enable-targets=all</code></dt>
1209<dt><code>--enable-targets=<var>target_list</var></code></dt>
1210<dd><p>Some GCC targets, e.g. powerpc64-linux, build bi-arch compilers.
1211These are compilers that are able to generate either 64-bit or 32-bit
1212code.  Typically, the corresponding 32-bit target, e.g.
1213powerpc-linux for powerpc64-linux, only generates 32-bit code.  This
1214option enables the 32-bit target to be a bi-arch compiler, which is
1215useful when you want a bi-arch compiler that defaults to 32-bit, and
1216you are building a bi-arch or multi-arch binutils in a combined tree.
1217On mips-linux, this will build a tri-arch compiler (ABI o32/n32/64),
1218defaulted to o32.
1219Currently, this option only affects sparc-linux, powerpc-linux, x86-linux,
1220mips-linux and s390-linux.
1221</p>
1222</dd>
1223<dt><code>--enable-default-pie</code></dt>
1224<dd><p>Turn on <samp>-fPIE</samp> and <samp>-pie</samp> by default.
1225</p>
1226</dd>
1227<dt><code>--enable-secureplt</code></dt>
1228<dd><p>This option enables <samp>-msecure-plt</samp> by default for powerpc-linux.
1229See &ldquo;RS/6000 and PowerPC Options&rdquo; in the main manual
1230</p>
1231</dd>
1232<dt><code>--enable-default-ssp</code></dt>
1233<dd><p>Turn on <samp>-fstack-protector-strong</samp> by default.
1234</p>
1235</dd>
1236<dt><code>--enable-cld</code></dt>
1237<dd><p>This option enables <samp>-mcld</samp> by default for 32-bit x86 targets.
1238See &ldquo;i386 and x86-64 Options&rdquo; in the main manual
1239</p>
1240</dd>
1241<dt><code>--enable-win32-registry</code></dt>
1242<dt><code>--enable-win32-registry=<var>key</var></code></dt>
1243<dt><code>--disable-win32-registry</code></dt>
1244<dd><p>The <samp>--enable-win32-registry</samp> option enables Microsoft Windows-hosted GCC
1245to look up installations paths in the registry using the following key:
1246</p>
1247<div class="smallexample">
1248<pre class="smallexample"><code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Free Software Foundation\<var>key</var></code>
1249</pre></div>
1250
1251<p><var>key</var> defaults to GCC version number, and can be overridden by the
1252<samp>--enable-win32-registry=<var>key</var></samp> option.  Vendors and distributors
1253who use custom installers are encouraged to provide a different key,
1254perhaps one comprised of vendor name and GCC version number, to
1255avoid conflict with existing installations.  This feature is enabled
1256by default, and can be disabled by <samp>--disable-win32-registry</samp>
1257option.  This option has no effect on the other hosts.
1258</p>
1259</dd>
1260<dt><code>--nfp</code></dt>
1261<dd><p>Specify that the machine does not have a floating point unit.  This
1262option only applies to &lsquo;<samp>m68k-sun-sunos<var>n</var></samp>&rsquo;.  On any other
1263system, <samp>--nfp</samp> has no effect.
1264</p>
1265</dd>
1266<dt><code>--enable-werror</code></dt>
1267<dt><code>--disable-werror</code></dt>
1268<dt><code>--enable-werror=yes</code></dt>
1269<dt><code>--enable-werror=no</code></dt>
1270<dd><p>When you specify this option, it controls whether certain files in the
1271compiler are built with <samp>-Werror</samp> in bootstrap stage2 and later.
1272If you don&rsquo;t specify it, <samp>-Werror</samp> is turned on for the main
1273development trunk.  However it defaults to off for release branches and
1274final releases.  The specific files which get <samp>-Werror</samp> are
1275controlled by the Makefiles.
1276</p>
1277</dd>
1278<dt><code>--enable-checking</code></dt>
1279<dt><code>--enable-checking=<var>list</var></code></dt>
1280<dd><p>When you specify this option, the compiler is built to perform internal
1281consistency checks of the requested complexity.  This does not change the
1282generated code, but adds error checking within the compiler.  This will
1283slow down the compiler and may only work properly if you are building
1284the compiler with GCC.  This is &lsquo;<samp>yes</samp>&rsquo; by default when building
1285from SVN or snapshots, but &lsquo;<samp>release</samp>&rsquo; for releases.  The default
1286for building the stage1 compiler is &lsquo;<samp>yes</samp>&rsquo;.  More control
1287over the checks may be had by specifying <var>list</var>.  The categories of
1288checks available are &lsquo;<samp>yes</samp>&rsquo; (most common checks
1289&lsquo;<samp>assert,misc,tree,gc,rtlflag,runtime</samp>&rsquo;), &lsquo;<samp>no</samp>&rsquo; (no checks at
1290all), &lsquo;<samp>all</samp>&rsquo; (all but &lsquo;<samp>valgrind</samp>&rsquo;), &lsquo;<samp>release</samp>&rsquo; (cheapest
1291checks &lsquo;<samp>assert,runtime</samp>&rsquo;) or &lsquo;<samp>none</samp>&rsquo; (same as &lsquo;<samp>no</samp>&rsquo;).
1292Individual checks can be enabled with these flags &lsquo;<samp>assert</samp>&rsquo;,
1293&lsquo;<samp>df</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>fold</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>gc</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>gcac</samp>&rsquo; &lsquo;<samp>misc</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>rtl</samp>&rsquo;,
1294&lsquo;<samp>rtlflag</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>runtime</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>tree</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp>valgrind</samp>&rsquo;.
1295</p>
1296<p>The &lsquo;<samp>valgrind</samp>&rsquo; check requires the external <code>valgrind</code>
1297simulator, available from <a href="http://valgrind.org/">http://valgrind.org/</a>.  The
1298&lsquo;<samp>df</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>rtl</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>gcac</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>valgrind</samp>&rsquo; checks are very expensive.
1299To disable all checking, &lsquo;<samp>--disable-checking</samp>&rsquo; or
1300&lsquo;<samp>--enable-checking=none</samp>&rsquo; must be explicitly requested.  Disabling
1301assertions will make the compiler and runtime slightly faster but
1302increase the risk of undetected internal errors causing wrong code to be
1303generated.
1304</p>
1305</dd>
1306<dt><code>--disable-stage1-checking</code></dt>
1307<dt><code>--enable-stage1-checking</code></dt>
1308<dt><code>--enable-stage1-checking=<var>list</var></code></dt>
1309<dd><p>If no <samp>--enable-checking</samp> option is specified the stage1
1310compiler will be built with &lsquo;<samp>yes</samp>&rsquo; checking enabled, otherwise
1311the stage1 checking flags are the same as specified by
1312<samp>--enable-checking</samp>.  To build the stage1 compiler with
1313different checking options use <samp>--enable-stage1-checking</samp>.
1314The list of checking options is the same as for <samp>--enable-checking</samp>.
1315If your system is too slow or too small to bootstrap a released compiler
1316with checking for stage1 enabled, you can use &lsquo;<samp>--disable-stage1-checking</samp>&rsquo;
1317to disable checking for the stage1 compiler.
1318</p>
1319</dd>
1320<dt><code>--enable-coverage</code></dt>
1321<dt><code>--enable-coverage=<var>level</var></code></dt>
1322<dd><p>With this option, the compiler is built to collect self coverage
1323information, every time it is run.  This is for internal development
1324purposes, and only works when the compiler is being built with gcc.  The
1325<var>level</var> argument controls whether the compiler is built optimized or
1326not, values are &lsquo;<samp>opt</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>noopt</samp>&rsquo;.  For coverage analysis you
1327want to disable optimization, for performance analysis you want to
1328enable optimization.  When coverage is enabled, the default level is
1329without optimization.
1330</p>
1331</dd>
1332<dt><code>--enable-gather-detailed-mem-stats</code></dt>
1333<dd><p>When this option is specified more detailed information on memory
1334allocation is gathered.  This information is printed when using
1335<samp>-fmem-report</samp>.
1336</p>
1337</dd>
1338<dt><code>--enable-valgrind-annotations</code></dt>
1339<dd><p>Mark selected memory related operations in the compiler when run under
1340valgrind to suppress false positives.
1341</p>
1342</dd>
1343<dt><code>--enable-nls</code></dt>
1344<dt><code>--disable-nls</code></dt>
1345<dd><p>The <samp>--enable-nls</samp> option enables Native Language Support (NLS),
1346which lets GCC output diagnostics in languages other than American
1347English.  Native Language Support is enabled by default if not doing a
1348canadian cross build.  The <samp>--disable-nls</samp> option disables NLS.
1349</p>
1350</dd>
1351<dt><code>--with-included-gettext</code></dt>
1352<dd><p>If NLS is enabled, the <samp>--with-included-gettext</samp> option causes the build
1353procedure to prefer its copy of GNU <code>gettext</code>.
1354</p>
1355</dd>
1356<dt><code>--with-catgets</code></dt>
1357<dd><p>If NLS is enabled, and if the host lacks <code>gettext</code> but has the
1358inferior <code>catgets</code> interface, the GCC build procedure normally
1359ignores <code>catgets</code> and instead uses GCC&rsquo;s copy of the GNU
1360<code>gettext</code> library.  The <samp>--with-catgets</samp> option causes the
1361build procedure to use the host&rsquo;s <code>catgets</code> in this situation.
1362</p>
1363</dd>
1364<dt><code>--with-libiconv-prefix=<var>dir</var></code></dt>
1365<dd><p>Search for libiconv header files in <samp><var>dir</var>/include</samp> and
1366libiconv library files in <samp><var>dir</var>/lib</samp>.
1367</p>
1368</dd>
1369<dt><code>--enable-obsolete</code></dt>
1370<dd><p>Enable configuration for an obsoleted system.  If you attempt to
1371configure GCC for a system (build, host, or target) which has been
1372obsoleted, and you do not specify this flag, configure will halt with an
1373error message.
1374</p>
1375<p>All support for systems which have been obsoleted in one release of GCC
1376is removed entirely in the next major release, unless someone steps
1377forward to maintain the port.
1378</p>
1379</dd>
1380<dt><code>--enable-decimal-float</code></dt>
1381<dt><code>--enable-decimal-float=yes</code></dt>
1382<dt><code>--enable-decimal-float=no</code></dt>
1383<dt><code>--enable-decimal-float=bid</code></dt>
1384<dt><code>--enable-decimal-float=dpd</code></dt>
1385<dt><code>--disable-decimal-float</code></dt>
1386<dd><p>Enable (or disable) support for the C decimal floating point extension
1387that is in the IEEE 754-2008 standard.  This is enabled by default only
1388on PowerPC, i386, and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems.  Other systems may also
1389support it, but require the user to specifically enable it.  You can
1390optionally control which decimal floating point format is used (either
1391&lsquo;<samp>bid</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>dpd</samp>&rsquo;).  The &lsquo;<samp>bid</samp>&rsquo; (binary integer decimal)
1392format is default on i386 and x86_64 systems, and the &lsquo;<samp>dpd</samp>&rsquo;
1393(densely packed decimal) format is default on PowerPC systems.
1394</p>
1395</dd>
1396<dt><code>--enable-fixed-point</code></dt>
1397<dt><code>--disable-fixed-point</code></dt>
1398<dd><p>Enable (or disable) support for C fixed-point arithmetic.
1399This option is enabled by default for some targets (such as MIPS) which
1400have hardware-support for fixed-point operations.  On other targets, you
1401may enable this option manually.
1402</p>
1403</dd>
1404<dt><code>--with-long-double-128</code></dt>
1405<dd><p>Specify if <code>long double</code> type should be 128-bit by default on selected
1406GNU/Linux architectures.  If using <code>--without-long-double-128</code>,
1407<code>long double</code> will be by default 64-bit, the same as <code>double</code> type.
1408When neither of these configure options are used, the default will be
1409128-bit <code>long double</code> when built against GNU C Library 2.4 and later,
141064-bit <code>long double</code> otherwise.
1411</p>
1412</dd>
1413<dt><code>--enable-fdpic</code></dt>
1414<dd><p>On SH Linux systems, generate ELF FDPIC code.
1415</p>
1416</dd>
1417<dt><code>--with-gmp=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1418<dt><code>--with-gmp-include=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1419<dt><code>--with-gmp-lib=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1420<dt><code>--with-mpfr=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1421<dt><code>--with-mpfr-include=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1422<dt><code>--with-mpfr-lib=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1423<dt><code>--with-mpc=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1424<dt><code>--with-mpc-include=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1425<dt><code>--with-mpc-lib=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1426<dd><p>If you want to build GCC but do not have the GMP library, the MPFR
1427library and/or the MPC library installed in a standard location and
1428do not have their sources present in the GCC source tree then you
1429can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
1430(&lsquo;<samp>--with-gmp=<var>gmpinstalldir</var></samp>&rsquo;,
1431&lsquo;<samp>--with-mpfr=<var>mpfrinstalldir</var></samp>&rsquo;,
1432&lsquo;<samp>--with-mpc=<var>mpcinstalldir</var></samp>&rsquo;).  The
1433<samp>--with-gmp=<var>gmpinstalldir</var></samp> option is shorthand for
1434<samp>--with-gmp-lib=<var>gmpinstalldir</var>/lib</samp> and
1435<samp>--with-gmp-include=<var>gmpinstalldir</var>/include</samp>.  Likewise the
1436<samp>--with-mpfr=<var>mpfrinstalldir</var></samp> option is shorthand for
1437<samp>--with-mpfr-lib=<var>mpfrinstalldir</var>/lib</samp> and
1438<samp>--with-mpfr-include=<var>mpfrinstalldir</var>/include</samp>, also the
1439<samp>--with-mpc=<var>mpcinstalldir</var></samp> option is shorthand for
1440<samp>--with-mpc-lib=<var>mpcinstalldir</var>/lib</samp> and
1441<samp>--with-mpc-include=<var>mpcinstalldir</var>/include</samp>.  If these
1442shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
1443include and lib options directly.  You might also need to ensure the
1444shared libraries can be found by the dynamic linker when building and
1445using GCC, for example by setting the runtime shared library path
1446variable (<code>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</code> on GNU/Linux and Solaris systems).
1447</p>
1448<p>These flags are applicable to the host platform only.  When building
1449a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1450</p>
1451</dd>
1452<dt><code>--with-isl=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1453<dt><code>--with-isl-include=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1454<dt><code>--with-isl-lib=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1455<dd><p>If you do not have the isl library installed in a standard location and you
1456want to build GCC, you can explicitly specify the directory where it is
1457installed (&lsquo;<samp>--with-isl=<var>islinstalldir</var></samp>&rsquo;). The
1458<samp>--with-isl=<var>islinstalldir</var></samp> option is shorthand for
1459<samp>--with-isl-lib=<var>islinstalldir</var>/lib</samp> and
1460<samp>--with-isl-include=<var>islinstalldir</var>/include</samp>. If this
1461shorthand assumption is not correct, you can use the explicit
1462include and lib options directly.
1463</p>
1464<p>These flags are applicable to the host platform only.  When building
1465a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1466</p>
1467</dd>
1468<dt><code>--with-stage1-ldflags=<var>flags</var></code></dt>
1469<dd><p>This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1470stage 1 of GCC.  These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1471<samp>--disable-bootstrap</samp>.  If <samp>--with-stage1-libs</samp> is not set to a
1472value, then the default is &lsquo;<samp>-static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc</samp>&rsquo;, if
1473supported.
1474</p>
1475</dd>
1476<dt><code>--with-stage1-libs=<var>libs</var></code></dt>
1477<dd><p>This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 1
1478of GCC.  These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1479<samp>--disable-bootstrap</samp>.
1480</p>
1481</dd>
1482<dt><code>--with-boot-ldflags=<var>flags</var></code></dt>
1483<dd><p>This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1484stage 2 and later when bootstrapping GCC.  If &ndash;with-boot-libs
1485is not is set to a value, then the default is
1486&lsquo;<samp>-static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc</samp>&rsquo;.
1487</p>
1488</dd>
1489<dt><code>--with-boot-libs=<var>libs</var></code></dt>
1490<dd><p>This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 2
1491and later when bootstrapping GCC.
1492</p>
1493</dd>
1494<dt><code>--with-debug-prefix-map=<var>map</var></code></dt>
1495<dd><p>Convert source directory names using <samp>-fdebug-prefix-map</samp> when
1496building runtime libraries.  &lsquo;<samp><var>map</var></samp>&rsquo; is a space-separated
1497list of maps of the form &lsquo;<samp><var>old</var>=<var>new</var></samp>&rsquo;.
1498</p>
1499</dd>
1500<dt><code>--enable-linker-build-id</code></dt>
1501<dd><p>Tells GCC to pass <samp>--build-id</samp> option to the linker for all final
1502links (links performed without the <samp>-r</samp> or <samp>--relocatable</samp>
1503option), if the linker supports it.  If you specify
1504<samp>--enable-linker-build-id</samp>, but your linker does not
1505support <samp>--build-id</samp> option, a warning is issued and the
1506<samp>--enable-linker-build-id</samp> option is ignored.  The default is off.
1507</p>
1508</dd>
1509<dt><code>--with-linker-hash-style=<var>choice</var></code></dt>
1510<dd><p>Tells GCC to pass <samp>--hash-style=<var>choice</var></samp> option to the
1511linker for all final links. <var>choice</var> can be one of
1512&lsquo;<samp>sysv</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>gnu</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp>both</samp>&rsquo; where &lsquo;<samp>sysv</samp>&rsquo; is the default.
1513</p>
1514</dd>
1515<dt><code>--enable-gnu-unique-object</code></dt>
1516<dt><code>--disable-gnu-unique-object</code></dt>
1517<dd><p>Tells GCC to use the gnu_unique_object relocation for C++ template
1518static data members and inline function local statics.  Enabled by
1519default for a toolchain with an assembler that accepts it and
1520GLIBC 2.11 or above, otherwise disabled.
1521</p>
1522</dd>
1523<dt><code>--with-diagnostics-color=<var>choice</var></code></dt>
1524<dd><p>Tells GCC to use <var>choice</var> as the default for <samp>-fdiagnostics-color=</samp>
1525option (if not used explicitly on the command line).  <var>choice</var>
1526can be one of &lsquo;<samp>never</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>auto</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>always</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp>auto-if-env</samp>&rsquo;
1527where &lsquo;<samp>auto</samp>&rsquo; is the default.  &lsquo;<samp>auto-if-env</samp>&rsquo; means that
1528<samp>-fdiagnostics-color=auto</samp> will be the default if <code>GCC_COLORS</code>
1529is present and non-empty in the environment, and
1530<samp>-fdiagnostics-color=never</samp> otherwise.
1531</p>
1532</dd>
1533<dt><code>--enable-lto</code></dt>
1534<dt><code>--disable-lto</code></dt>
1535<dd><p>Enable support for link-time optimization (LTO).  This is enabled by
1536default, and may be disabled using <samp>--disable-lto</samp>.
1537</p>
1538</dd>
1539<dt><code>--enable-linker-plugin-configure-flags=FLAGS</code></dt>
1540<dt><code>--enable-linker-plugin-flags=FLAGS</code></dt>
1541<dd><p>By default, linker plugins (such as the LTO plugin) are built for the
1542host system architecture.  For the case that the linker has a
1543different (but run-time compatible) architecture, these flags can be
1544specified to build plugins that are compatible to the linker.  For
1545example, if you are building GCC for a 64-bit x86_64
1546(&lsquo;<samp>x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu</samp>&rsquo;) host system, but have a 32-bit x86
1547GNU/Linux (&lsquo;<samp>i686-pc-linux-gnu</samp>&rsquo;) linker executable (which is
1548executable on the former system), you can configure GCC as follows for
1549getting compatible linker plugins:
1550</p>
1551<div class="smallexample">
1552<pre class="smallexample">% <var>srcdir</var>/configure \
1553    --host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu \
1554    --enable-linker-plugin-configure-flags=--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
1555    --enable-linker-plugin-flags='CC=gcc\ -m32\ -Wl,-rpath,[...]/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib'
1556</pre></div>
1557
1558</dd>
1559<dt><code>--with-plugin-ld=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1560<dd><p>Enable an alternate linker to be used at link-time optimization (LTO)
1561link time when <samp>-fuse-linker-plugin</samp> is enabled.
1562This linker should have plugin support such as gold starting with
1563version 2.20 or GNU ld starting with version 2.21.
1564See <samp>-fuse-linker-plugin</samp> for details.
1565</p>
1566</dd>
1567<dt><code>--enable-canonical-system-headers</code></dt>
1568<dt><code>--disable-canonical-system-headers</code></dt>
1569<dd><p>Enable system header path canonicalization for <samp>libcpp</samp>.  This can
1570produce shorter header file paths in diagnostics and dependency output
1571files, but these changed header paths may conflict with some compilation
1572environments.  Enabled by default, and may be disabled using
1573<samp>--disable-canonical-system-headers</samp>.
1574</p>
1575</dd>
1576<dt><code>--with-glibc-version=<var>major</var>.<var>minor</var></code></dt>
1577<dd><p>Tell GCC that when the GNU C Library (glibc) is used on the target it
1578will be version <var>major</var>.<var>minor</var> or later.  Normally this can
1579be detected from the C library&rsquo;s header files, but this option may be
1580needed when bootstrapping a cross toolchain without the header files
1581available for building the initial bootstrap compiler.
1582</p>
1583<p>If GCC is configured with some multilibs that use glibc and some that
1584do not, this option applies only to the multilibs that use glibc.
1585However, such configurations may not work well as not all the relevant
1586configuration in GCC is on a per-multilib basis.
1587</p>
1588</dd>
1589<dt><code>--enable-as-accelerator-for=<var>target</var></code></dt>
1590<dd><p>Build as offload target compiler. Specify offload host triple by <var>target</var>.
1591</p>
1592</dd>
1593<dt><code>--enable-offload-targets=<var>target1</var>[=<var>path1</var>],&hellip;,<var>targetN</var>[=<var>pathN</var>]</code></dt>
1594<dd><p>Enable offloading to targets <var>target1</var>, &hellip;, <var>targetN</var>.
1595Offload compilers are expected to be already installed.  Default search
1596path for them is <samp><var>exec-prefix</var></samp>, but it can be changed by
1597specifying paths <var>path1</var>, &hellip;, <var>pathN</var>.
1598</p>
1599<div class="smallexample">
1600<pre class="smallexample">% <var>srcdir</var>/configure \
1601    --enable-offload-target=i686-unknown-linux-gnu=/path/to/i686/compiler,x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
1602</pre></div>
1603
1604<p>If &lsquo;<samp>hsa</samp>&rsquo; is specified as one of the targets, the compiler will be
1605built with support for HSA GPU accelerators.  Because the same
1606compiler will emit the accelerator code, no path should be specified.
1607</p>
1608</dd>
1609<dt><code>--with-hsa-runtime=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1610<dt><code>--with-hsa-runtime-include=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1611<dt><code>--with-hsa-runtime-lib=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1612<dd>
1613<p>If you configure GCC with HSA offloading but do not have the HSA
1614run-time library installed in a standard location then you can
1615explicitly specify the directory where they are installed.  The
1616<samp>--with-hsa-runtime=<var>hsainstalldir</var></samp> option is a
1617shorthand for
1618<samp>--with-hsa-runtime-lib=<var>hsainstalldir</var>/lib</samp> and
1619<samp>--with-hsa-runtime-include=<var>hsainstalldir</var>/include</samp>.
1620</p>
1621</dd>
1622<dt><code>--with-hsa-kmt-lib=<var>pathname</var></code></dt>
1623<dd>
1624<p>If you configure GCC with HSA offloading but do not have the HSA
1625KMT library installed in a standard location then you can
1626explicitly specify the directory where it resides.
1627</p></dd>
1628</dl>
1629
1630<a name="Cross_002dCompiler_002dSpecific-Options"></a>
1631<h4 class="subheading">Cross-Compiler-Specific Options</h4>
1632<p>The following options only apply to building cross compilers.
1633</p>
1634<dl compact="compact">
1635<dt><code>--with-sysroot</code></dt>
1636<dt><code>--with-sysroot=<var>dir</var></code></dt>
1637<dd><p>Tells GCC to consider <var>dir</var> as the root of a tree that contains
1638(a subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
1639Target system headers, libraries and run-time object files will be
1640searched for in there.  More specifically, this acts as if
1641<samp>--sysroot=<var>dir</var></samp> was added to the default options of the built
1642compiler.  The specified directory is not copied into the
1643install tree, unlike the options <samp>--with-headers</samp> and
1644<samp>--with-libs</samp> that this option obsoletes.  The default value,
1645in case <samp>--with-sysroot</samp> is not given an argument, is
1646<samp>${gcc_tooldir}/sys-root</samp>.  If the specified directory is a
1647subdirectory of <samp>${exec_prefix}</samp>, then it will be found relative to
1648the GCC binaries if the installation tree is moved.
1649</p>
1650<p>This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1651target libraries (which runs on the build system) and the compiler newly
1652installed with <code>make install</code>; it does not affect the compiler which is
1653used to build GCC itself.
1654</p>
1655<p>If you specify the <samp>--with-native-system-header-dir=<var>dirname</var></samp>
1656option then the compiler will search that directory within <var>dirname</var> for
1657native system headers rather than the default <samp>/usr/include</samp>.
1658</p>
1659</dd>
1660<dt><code>--with-build-sysroot</code></dt>
1661<dt><code>--with-build-sysroot=<var>dir</var></code></dt>
1662<dd><p>Tells GCC to consider <var>dir</var> as the system root (see
1663<samp>--with-sysroot</samp>) while building target libraries, instead of
1664the directory specified with <samp>--with-sysroot</samp>.  This option is
1665only useful when you are already using <samp>--with-sysroot</samp>.  You
1666can use <samp>--with-build-sysroot</samp> when you are configuring with
1667<samp>--prefix</samp> set to a directory that is different from the one in
1668which you are installing GCC and your target libraries.
1669</p>
1670<p>This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1671target libraries (which runs on the build system); it does not affect
1672the compiler which is used to build GCC itself.
1673</p>
1674<p>If you specify the <samp>--with-native-system-header-dir=<var>dirname</var></samp>
1675option then the compiler will search that directory within <var>dirname</var> for
1676native system headers rather than the default <samp>/usr/include</samp>.
1677</p>
1678</dd>
1679<dt><code>--with-headers</code></dt>
1680<dt><code>--with-headers=<var>dir</var></code></dt>
1681<dd><p>Deprecated in favor of <samp>--with-sysroot</samp>.
1682Specifies that target headers are available when building a cross compiler.
1683The <var>dir</var> argument specifies a directory which has the target include
1684files.  These include files will be copied into the <samp>gcc</samp> install
1685directory.  <em>This option with the <var>dir</var> argument is required</em> when
1686building a cross compiler, if <samp><var>prefix</var>/<var>target</var>/sys-include</samp>
1687doesn&rsquo;t pre-exist.  If <samp><var>prefix</var>/<var>target</var>/sys-include</samp> does
1688pre-exist, the <var>dir</var> argument may be omitted.  <code>fixincludes</code>
1689will be run on these files to make them compatible with GCC.
1690</p>
1691</dd>
1692<dt><code>--without-headers</code></dt>
1693<dd><p>Tells GCC not use any target headers from a libc when building a cross
1694compiler.  When crossing to GNU/Linux, you need the headers so GCC
1695can build the exception handling for libgcc.
1696</p>
1697</dd>
1698<dt><code>--with-libs</code></dt>
1699<dt><code>--with-libs=&quot;<var>dir1</var> <var>dir2</var> &hellip; <var>dirN</var>&quot;</code></dt>
1700<dd><p>Deprecated in favor of <samp>--with-sysroot</samp>.
1701Specifies a list of directories which contain the target runtime
1702libraries.  These libraries will be copied into the <samp>gcc</samp> install
1703directory.  If the directory list is omitted, this option has no
1704effect.
1705</p>
1706</dd>
1707<dt><code>--with-newlib</code></dt>
1708<dd><p>Specifies that &lsquo;<samp>newlib</samp>&rsquo; is
1709being used as the target C library.  This causes <code>__eprintf</code> to be
1710omitted from <samp>libgcc.a</samp> on the assumption that it will be provided by
1711&lsquo;<samp>newlib</samp>&rsquo;.
1712</p>
1713</dd>
1714<dt><code>--with-avrlibc</code></dt>
1715<dd><p>Specifies that &lsquo;<samp>AVR-Libc</samp>&rsquo; is
1716being used as the target C library.  This causes float support
1717functions like <code>__addsf3</code> to be omitted from <samp>libgcc.a</samp> on
1718the assumption that it will be provided by <samp>libm.a</samp>.  For more
1719technical details, cf. <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/PR54461">PR54461</a>.
1720This option is only supported for the AVR target.  It is not supported for
1721RTEMS configurations, which currently use newlib.  The option is
1722supported since version 4.7.2 and is the default in 4.8.0 and newer.
1723</p>
1724</dd>
1725<dt><code>--with-nds32-lib=<var>library</var></code></dt>
1726<dd><p>Specifies that <var>library</var> setting is used for building <samp>libgcc.a</samp>.
1727Currently, the valid <var>library</var> is &lsquo;<samp>newlib</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>mculib</samp>&rsquo;.
1728This option is only supported for the NDS32 target.
1729</p>
1730</dd>
1731<dt><code>--with-build-time-tools=<var>dir</var></code></dt>
1732<dd><p>Specifies where to find the set of target tools (assembler, linker, etc.)
1733that will be used while building GCC itself.  This option can be useful
1734if the directory layouts are different between the system you are building
1735GCC on, and the system where you will deploy it.
1736</p>
1737<p>For example, on an &lsquo;<samp>ia64-hp-hpux</samp>&rsquo; system, you may have the GNU
1738assembler and linker in <samp>/usr/bin</samp>, and the native tools in a
1739different path, and build a toolchain that expects to find the
1740native tools in <samp>/usr/bin</samp>.
1741</p>
1742<p>When you use this option, you should ensure that <var>dir</var> includes
1743<code>ar</code>, <code>as</code>, <code>ld</code>, <code>nm</code>,
1744<code>ranlib</code> and <code>strip</code> if necessary, and possibly
1745<code>objdump</code>.  Otherwise, GCC may use an inconsistent set of
1746tools.
1747</p></dd>
1748</dl>
1749
1750<a name="Overriding-configure-test-results"></a>
1751<h4 class="subsubheading">Overriding <code>configure</code> test results</h4>
1752
1753<p>Sometimes, it might be necessary to override the result of some
1754<code>configure</code> test, for example in order to ease porting to a new
1755system or work around a bug in a test.  The toplevel <code>configure</code>
1756script provides three variables for this:
1757</p>
1758<dl compact="compact">
1759<dt><code>build_configargs</code></dt>
1760<dd><a name="index-build_005fconfigargs"></a>
1761<p>The contents of this variable is passed to all build <code>configure</code>
1762scripts.
1763</p>
1764</dd>
1765<dt><code>host_configargs</code></dt>
1766<dd><a name="index-host_005fconfigargs"></a>
1767<p>The contents of this variable is passed to all host <code>configure</code>
1768scripts.
1769</p>
1770</dd>
1771<dt><code>target_configargs</code></dt>
1772<dd><a name="index-target_005fconfigargs"></a>
1773<p>The contents of this variable is passed to all target <code>configure</code>
1774scripts.
1775</p>
1776</dd>
1777</dl>
1778
1779<p>In order to avoid shell and <code>make</code> quoting issues for complex
1780overrides, you can pass a setting for <code>CONFIG_SITE</code> and set
1781variables in the site file.
1782</p>
1783<a name="Java_002dSpecific-Options"></a>
1784<h4 class="subheading">Java-Specific Options</h4>
1785
1786<p>The following option applies to the build of the Java front end.
1787</p>
1788<dl compact="compact">
1789<dt><code>--disable-libgcj</code></dt>
1790<dd><p>Specify that the run-time libraries
1791used by GCJ should not be built.  This is useful in case you intend
1792to use GCJ with some other run-time, or you&rsquo;re going to install it
1793separately, or it just happens not to build on your particular
1794machine.  In general, if the Java front end is enabled, the GCJ
1795libraries will be enabled too, unless they&rsquo;re known to not work on
1796the target platform.  If GCJ is enabled but &lsquo;<samp>libgcj</samp>&rsquo; isn&rsquo;t built, you
1797may need to port it; in this case, before modifying the top-level
1798<samp>configure.ac</samp> so that &lsquo;<samp>libgcj</samp>&rsquo; is enabled by default on this platform,
1799you may use <samp>--enable-libgcj</samp> to override the default.
1800</p>
1801</dd>
1802</dl>
1803
1804<p>The following options apply to building &lsquo;<samp>libgcj</samp>&rsquo;.
1805</p>
1806<a name="General-Options"></a>
1807<h4 class="subsubheading">General Options</h4>
1808
1809<dl compact="compact">
1810<dt><code>--enable-java-maintainer-mode</code></dt>
1811<dd><p>By default the &lsquo;<samp>libjava</samp>&rsquo; build will not attempt to compile the
1812<samp>.java</samp> source files to <samp>.class</samp>.  Instead, it will use the
1813<samp>.class</samp> files from the source tree.  If you use this option you
1814must have executables named <code>ecj1</code> and <code>gjavah</code> in your path
1815for use by the build.  You must use this option if you intend to
1816modify any <samp>.java</samp> files in <samp>libjava</samp>.
1817</p>
1818</dd>
1819<dt><code>--with-java-home=<var>dirname</var></code></dt>
1820<dd><p>This &lsquo;<samp>libjava</samp>&rsquo; option overrides the default value of the
1821&lsquo;<samp>java.home</samp>&rsquo; system property.  It is also used to set
1822&lsquo;<samp>sun.boot.class.path</samp>&rsquo; to <samp><var>dirname</var>/lib/rt.jar</samp>.  By
1823default &lsquo;<samp>java.home</samp>&rsquo; is set to <samp><var>prefix</var></samp> and
1824&lsquo;<samp>sun.boot.class.path</samp>&rsquo; to
1825<samp><var>datadir</var>/java/libgcj-<var>version</var>.jar</samp>.
1826</p>
1827</dd>
1828<dt><code>--with-ecj-jar=<var>filename</var></code></dt>
1829<dd><p>This option can be used to specify the location of an external jar
1830file containing the Eclipse Java compiler.  A specially modified
1831version of this compiler is used by <code>gcj</code> to parse
1832<samp>.java</samp> source files.  If this option is given, the
1833&lsquo;<samp>libjava</samp>&rsquo; build will create and install an <samp>ecj1</samp> executable
1834which uses this jar file at runtime.
1835</p>
1836<p>If this option is not given, but an <samp>ecj.jar</samp> file is found in
1837the topmost source tree at configure time, then the &lsquo;<samp>libgcj</samp>&rsquo;
1838build will create and install <samp>ecj1</samp>, and will also install the
1839discovered <samp>ecj.jar</samp> into a suitable place in the install tree.
1840</p>
1841<p>If <samp>ecj1</samp> is not installed, then the user will have to supply one
1842on his path in order for <code>gcj</code> to properly parse <samp>.java</samp>
1843source files.  A suitable jar is available from
1844<a href="ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/">ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/</a>.
1845</p>
1846</dd>
1847<dt><code>--disable-getenv-properties</code></dt>
1848<dd><p>Don&rsquo;t set system properties from <code>GCJ_PROPERTIES</code>.
1849</p>
1850</dd>
1851<dt><code>--enable-hash-synchronization</code></dt>
1852<dd><p>Use a global hash table for monitor locks.  Ordinarily,
1853&lsquo;<samp>libgcj</samp>&rsquo;&rsquo;s &lsquo;<samp>configure</samp>&rsquo; script automatically makes
1854the correct choice for this option for your platform.  Only use
1855this if you know you need the library to be configured differently.
1856</p>
1857</dd>
1858<dt><code>--enable-interpreter</code></dt>
1859<dd><p>Enable the Java interpreter.  The interpreter is automatically
1860enabled by default on all platforms that support it.  This option
1861is really only useful if you want to disable the interpreter
1862(using <samp>--disable-interpreter</samp>).
1863</p>
1864</dd>
1865<dt><code>--disable-java-net</code></dt>
1866<dd><p>Disable java.net.  This disables the native part of java.net only,
1867using non-functional stubs for native method implementations.
1868</p>
1869</dd>
1870<dt><code>--disable-jvmpi</code></dt>
1871<dd><p>Disable JVMPI support.
1872</p>
1873</dd>
1874<dt><code>--disable-libgcj-bc</code></dt>
1875<dd><p>Disable BC ABI compilation of certain parts of libgcj.  By default,
1876some portions of libgcj are compiled with <samp>-findirect-dispatch</samp>
1877and <samp>-fno-indirect-classes</samp>, allowing them to be overridden at
1878run-time.
1879</p>
1880<p>If <samp>--disable-libgcj-bc</samp> is specified, libgcj is built without
1881these options.  This allows the compile-time linker to resolve
1882dependencies when statically linking to libgcj.  However it makes it
1883impossible to override the affected portions of libgcj at run-time.
1884</p>
1885</dd>
1886<dt><code>--enable-reduced-reflection</code></dt>
1887<dd><p>Build most of libgcj with <samp>-freduced-reflection</samp>.  This reduces
1888the size of libgcj at the expense of not being able to do accurate
1889reflection on the classes it contains.  This option is safe if you
1890know that code using libgcj will never use reflection on the standard
1891runtime classes in libgcj (including using serialization, RMI or CORBA).
1892</p>
1893</dd>
1894<dt><code>--with-ecos</code></dt>
1895<dd><p>Enable runtime eCos target support.
1896</p>
1897</dd>
1898<dt><code>--without-libffi</code></dt>
1899<dd><p>Don&rsquo;t use &lsquo;<samp>libffi</samp>&rsquo;.  This will disable the interpreter and JNI
1900support as well, as these require &lsquo;<samp>libffi</samp>&rsquo; to work.
1901</p>
1902</dd>
1903<dt><code>--enable-libgcj-debug</code></dt>
1904<dd><p>Enable runtime debugging code.
1905</p>
1906</dd>
1907<dt><code>--enable-libgcj-multifile</code></dt>
1908<dd><p>If specified, causes all <samp>.java</samp> source files to be
1909compiled into <samp>.class</samp> files in one invocation of
1910&lsquo;<samp>gcj</samp>&rsquo;.  This can speed up build time, but is more
1911resource-intensive.  If this option is unspecified or
1912disabled, &lsquo;<samp>gcj</samp>&rsquo; is invoked once for each <samp>.java</samp>
1913file to compile into a <samp>.class</samp> file.
1914</p>
1915</dd>
1916<dt><code>--with-libiconv-prefix=DIR</code></dt>
1917<dd><p>Search for libiconv in <samp>DIR/include</samp> and <samp>DIR/lib</samp>.
1918</p>
1919</dd>
1920<dt><code>--with-system-zlib</code></dt>
1921<dd><p>Use installed &lsquo;<samp>zlib</samp>&rsquo; rather than that included with GCC.
1922</p>
1923</dd>
1924<dt><code>--with-win32-nlsapi=ansi, unicows or unicode</code></dt>
1925<dd><p>Indicates how MinGW &lsquo;<samp>libgcj</samp>&rsquo; translates between UNICODE
1926characters and the Win32 API.
1927</p>
1928</dd>
1929<dt><code>--enable-java-home</code></dt>
1930<dd><p>If enabled, this creates a JPackage compatible SDK environment during install.
1931Note that if &ndash;enable-java-home is used, &ndash;with-arch-directory=ARCH must also
1932be specified.
1933</p>
1934</dd>
1935<dt><code>--with-arch-directory=ARCH</code></dt>
1936<dd><p>Specifies the name to use for the <samp>jre/lib/ARCH</samp> directory in the SDK
1937environment created when &ndash;enable-java-home is passed. Typical names for this
1938directory include i386, amd64, ia64, etc.
1939</p>
1940</dd>
1941<dt><code>--with-os-directory=DIR</code></dt>
1942<dd><p>Specifies the OS directory for the SDK include directory. This is set to auto
1943detect, and is typically &rsquo;linux&rsquo;.
1944</p>
1945</dd>
1946<dt><code>--with-origin-name=NAME</code></dt>
1947<dd><p>Specifies the JPackage origin name. This defaults to the &rsquo;gcj&rsquo; in
1948java-1.5.0-gcj.
1949</p>
1950</dd>
1951<dt><code>--with-arch-suffix=SUFFIX</code></dt>
1952<dd><p>Specifies the suffix for the sdk directory. Defaults to the empty string.
1953Examples include &rsquo;.x86_64&rsquo; in &rsquo;java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0.x86_64&rsquo;.
1954</p>
1955</dd>
1956<dt><code>--with-jvm-root-dir=DIR</code></dt>
1957<dd><p>Specifies where to install the SDK. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm.
1958</p>
1959</dd>
1960<dt><code>--with-jvm-jar-dir=DIR</code></dt>
1961<dd><p>Specifies where to install jars. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm-exports.
1962</p>
1963</dd>
1964<dt><code>--with-python-dir=DIR</code></dt>
1965<dd><p>Specifies where to install the Python modules used for aot-compile. DIR should
1966not include the prefix used in installation. For example, if the Python modules
1967are to be installed in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, then
1968&ndash;with-python-dir=/lib/python2.5/site-packages should be passed. If this is
1969not specified, then the Python modules are installed in $(prefix)/share/python.
1970</p>
1971</dd>
1972<dt><code>--enable-aot-compile-rpm</code></dt>
1973<dd><p>Adds aot-compile-rpm to the list of installed scripts.
1974</p>
1975</dd>
1976<dt><code>--enable-browser-plugin</code></dt>
1977<dd><p>Build the gcjwebplugin web browser plugin.
1978</p>
1979</dd>
1980<dt><code>--enable-static-libjava</code></dt>
1981<dd><p>Build static libraries in libjava. The default is to only build shared
1982libraries.
1983</p>
1984<dl compact="compact">
1985<dt><code>ansi</code></dt>
1986<dd><p>Use the single-byte <code>char</code> and the Win32 A functions natively,
1987translating to and from UNICODE when using these functions.  If
1988unspecified, this is the default.
1989</p>
1990</dd>
1991<dt><code>unicows</code></dt>
1992<dd><p>Use the <code>WCHAR</code> and Win32 W functions natively.  Adds
1993<code>-lunicows</code> to <samp>libgcj.spec</samp> to link with &lsquo;<samp>libunicows</samp>&rsquo;.
1994<samp>unicows.dll</samp> needs to be deployed on Microsoft Windows 9X machines
1995running built executables.  <samp>libunicows.a</samp>, an open-source
1996import library around Microsoft&rsquo;s <code>unicows.dll</code>, is obtained from
1997<a href="http://libunicows.sourceforge.net/">http://libunicows.sourceforge.net/</a>, which also gives details
1998on getting <samp>unicows.dll</samp> from Microsoft.
1999</p>
2000</dd>
2001<dt><code>unicode</code></dt>
2002<dd><p>Use the <code>WCHAR</code> and Win32 W functions natively.  Does <em>not</em>
2003add <code>-lunicows</code> to <samp>libgcj.spec</samp>.  The built executables will
2004only run on Microsoft Windows NT and above.
2005</p></dd>
2006</dl>
2007</dd>
2008</dl>
2009
2010<a name="AWT_002dSpecific-Options"></a>
2011<h4 class="subsubheading">AWT-Specific Options</h4>
2012
2013<dl compact="compact">
2014<dt><code>--with-x</code></dt>
2015<dd><p>Use the X Window System.
2016</p>
2017</dd>
2018<dt><code>--enable-java-awt=PEER(S)</code></dt>
2019<dd><p>Specifies the AWT peer library or libraries to build alongside
2020&lsquo;<samp>libgcj</samp>&rsquo;.  If this option is unspecified or disabled, AWT
2021will be non-functional.  Current valid values are <samp>gtk</samp> and
2022<samp>xlib</samp>.  Multiple libraries should be separated by a
2023comma (i.e. <samp>--enable-java-awt=gtk,xlib</samp>).
2024</p>
2025</dd>
2026<dt><code>--enable-gtk-cairo</code></dt>
2027<dd><p>Build the cairo Graphics2D implementation on GTK.
2028</p>
2029</dd>
2030<dt><code>--enable-java-gc=TYPE</code></dt>
2031<dd><p>Choose garbage collector.  Defaults to <samp>boehm</samp> if unspecified.
2032</p>
2033</dd>
2034<dt><code>--disable-gtktest</code></dt>
2035<dd><p>Do not try to compile and run a test GTK+ program.
2036</p>
2037</dd>
2038<dt><code>--disable-glibtest</code></dt>
2039<dd><p>Do not try to compile and run a test GLIB program.
2040</p>
2041</dd>
2042<dt><code>--with-libart-prefix=PFX</code></dt>
2043<dd><p>Prefix where libart is installed (optional).
2044</p>
2045</dd>
2046<dt><code>--with-libart-exec-prefix=PFX</code></dt>
2047<dd><p>Exec prefix where libart is installed (optional).
2048</p>
2049</dd>
2050<dt><code>--disable-libarttest</code></dt>
2051<dd><p>Do not try to compile and run a test libart program.
2052</p>
2053</dd>
2054</dl>
2055
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