Re: [Mingw-users] A few questions regarding building GCC/Mingw from CVS

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

TROCHU Xavier wrote:
> I finally achieved to have a correct method to build
> GCC targetted as i686-pc-mingw under MSYS with a
> merged tree from the binutils CVS and the subversions
> CVS.
> 
> I also have made a patch for collect2 so that it can
> be compiled. I will post this patch to the sourceforge
> tracker as soon as my collect2 not only compiles and
> link, but also work :-)
> 

The MinGW SF patch tracker would be the wrong place to post the patch, 
you need to send it a GCC patch list.  FWIW, there is already a collect2 
patch submitted to GCC.  I do not know the state of that patch.

> I have a few questions that are probably more GCC
> related but I suspect that some people here may have
> answers.
> 
> First, what is the purpose of the stage4 in the build
> process ? Bootstraping the compiler stops at stage3,
> and doing "make install" does not build the stage4.
> 

Not familiar with the semantics.

> A maybe related question : I can't find a way to
> specify CFLAGS for the build process. I tried 
> make CFLAGS="...", make BOOT_CFLAGS="..." and make
> TCFLAGS="..." but none of these gave me the result I
> expected. What is the correct way of overriding the
> compiler flags ?
> 
> I had lots of difficulties with texinfo documentations
> in the binutils. I finally gave up and used make
> MAKEINFO=".../src/missing makeinfo" so that the build
> process could continue. I'm using MSYS v1.0.8 from the
> sourceforge site. Is the texinfo package in this
> version MSYS broken or is there something else causing
> these troubles ? The problems are, as far as I can
> remember, related to missing references.
> 
> I tried to build texinfo from CVS. Saw that it
> required automake, which in turn required autoconf.
> autoconf does want to work, and I suspect it's related
> to the fact that I use Activestate Perl and not an
> MSYS-aware perl. Do I really need to build perl under
> MSYS to be able to have autoconf/automake work ?
> 

You need the msysDTK (Developer Tool Kit) to help with that problem.

Earnie.