llvm dev - Sep 2006 - [LLVMdev] Installing binary gcc-4.0 frontend on x86-linux: where is llvm-gcc?

Hi all,

I recently downloaded the gcc 4 frontend from:
http://llvm.org/releases/1.8/llvm-gcc4-1.8-x86-linux.tar.gz

I checked out the source from CVS using:
cvs -d :pserver:anon at llvm.org:/var/cvs/llvm login
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon at llvm.org:/var/cvs/llvm co llvm

Running the configure script fails to find llvm-gcc.  Inspecting
the untarred frontend, it doesn't contain any such binary, although
it does have gcc and g++ (sans llvm- prefix).  Is this a problem with
the configure script, the download, or the procedure I followed?

If it matters, I ran the configure script like this:
cd /usr/local/llvm/debug/
../src/configure --prefix=/usr/local/llvm/debug/ 
--with-llvmgccdir=/usr/local/bin/llvm/4.0 --enable-debug-runtime 
--enable-jit --enable-targets=x86

I'm running Gentoo Linux on an x86 system.

Cheers,
Warren

PS: I changed the configure script to look for plain 'gcc' and
'g++' in
the directory
specified, which it finds ok.  I haven't included a patch because I
don't
know exactly where the problem is.

On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Warren Armstrong wrote:
> Running the configure script fails to find llvm-gcc.  Inspecting
> the untarred frontend, it doesn't contain any such binary, although
> it does have gcc and g++ (sans llvm- prefix).  Is this a problem with
> the configure script, the download, or the procedure I followed?
>
I hypothesize that this is intentional because llvm-gcc3 is still in  
use. My suggestion is to do sym-links like so:

$ cd /usr/local/bin/llvm/4.0/bin
$ for i in `ls -1`; do ln -s $i llvm-$i; done

or something similar. Then you'll have your llvm-* things.

Share and enjoy!
-bw

Warren Armstrong wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently downloaded the gcc 4 frontend from:
> http://llvm.org/releases/1.8/llvm-gcc4-1.8-x86-linux.tar.gz
>
> I checked out the source from CVS using:
> cvs -d :pserver:anon at llvm.org:/var/cvs/llvm login
> cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon at llvm.org:/var/cvs/llvm co llvm
>
> Running the configure script fails to find llvm-gcc.  Inspecting
> the untarred frontend, it doesn't contain any such binary, although
> it does have gcc and g++ (sans llvm- prefix).  Is this a problem with
> the configure script, the download, or the procedure I followed?
>   
I should probably send a patch to update the "Build gcc4" section. If 
you're building the frontend from scratch, as it looks like you are, 
then you won't have llvm-gcc. You can still build all of the tools, but 
you can't build the complete package.

The build process that works for me was:

a) Compile the llvm source using "make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 tools-only"
b) Compile the gcc frontentd with the "--enable-llvm" option pointing
to
the llvm object
    directory, and install (at least somewhere on your path...)
c) Recompile llvm, "make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1", which should now use
your
   newly compiled tools.