I am trying to install the gcc-4.8.2 compiler on a remote Debian 7 system, to which I have no root privileges, but only a ssh access. I figured out that the simplest way would be to compile the compiler from source.
I am following this short installation manual from the GCC webpage.
Basically I did the most simple installation, which is summarized at the bottom of the page:
tar xzf gcc-4.8.2.tar.gz
cd gcc-4.8.2
./contrib/download_prerequisites
cd ..
mkdir objdir
cd objdir
$PWD/../gcc-4.8.2/configure --prefix=$HOME/gcc-4.8.2 --enable-languages=c++
make
with the small exception that I did not run the ./contrib/download_prerequisites
script on the remote machine because of firewall restrictions. Instead I ran it on my local machine, then compressed the entire folder back into gcc-4.8.2.tar.gz
and scp'd it to the remote machine. There I re-created the symbolic links to the prerequisite libraries (gmp,...) and ran make
. After several seconds I receive incredible errors:
In file included from ./tm.h:19:0,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:24:
./options.h:4078:2: error: #error too many masks for ix86_isa_flags
In file included from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/tree.h:26:0,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:25:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/statistics.h:25:2: error: #error GATHER_STATISTICS must be defined
In file included from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:268:0,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:22:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/hwint.h:16:39: error: division by zero in #if
In file included from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/tree.h:29:0,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:25:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/real.h:103:9: error: #error "REAL_WIDTH > 6 not supported"
In file included from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c-family/c-common.h:24:0,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-tree.h:23,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:26:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libcpp/include/cpplib.h:265:3: error: #error "Cannot find a least-32-bit signed integer type"
In file included from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:22:0:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:500:34: error: declaration of C function ‘const char* strsignal(int)’ conflicts with
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.7/cstring:44:0,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:205,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:22:
/usr/include/string.h:566:14: error: previous declaration ‘char* strsignal(int)’ here
In file included from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:645:0,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:22:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../include/libiberty.h:110:36: error: new declaration ‘char* basename(const char*)’
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.7/cstring:44:0,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:205,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:22:
/usr/include/string.h:603:28: error: ambiguates old declaration ‘const char* basename(const char*)’
In file included from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/tree.h:27:0,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:25:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/vec.h: In static member function ‘static void va_heap::reserve(vec<T, va_heap, vl_embed>*&, unsigned int, bool)’:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/vec.h:295:7: error: ‘GATHER_STATISTICS’ was not declared in this scope
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/vec.h:303:7: error: ‘GATHER_STATISTICS’ was not declared in this scope
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/vec.h: In static member function ‘static void va_heap::release(vec<T, va_heap, vl_embed>*&)’:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/vec.h:317:7: error: ‘GATHER_STATISTICS’ was not declared in this scope
In file included from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/tree.h:29:0,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:25:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/real.h: At global scope:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/real.h:51:21: error: ‘SIZEOF_LONG’ was not declared in this scope
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/real.h:51:21: error: ‘SIZEOF_LONG’ was not declared in this scope
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/real.h:76:31: error: ‘SIZEOF_LONG’ was not declared in this scope
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/real.h:76:31: error: ‘SIZEOF_LONG’ was not declared in this scope
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/real.h:76:31: error: ‘SIZEOF_LONG’ was not declared in this scope
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/real.h:76:31: error: ‘SIZEOF_LONG’ was not declared in this scope
In file included from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c-family/c-common.h:24:0,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-tree.h:23,
from ../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/c/c-lang.c:26:
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libcpp/include/cpplib.h:267:35: error: expected initializer before ‘cppchar_t’
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libcpp/include/cpplib.h:268:9: error: ‘CPPCHAR_SIGNED_T’ does not name a type
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libcpp/include/cpplib.h:777:8: error: ‘cppchar_t’ does not name a type
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libcpp/include/cpplib.h:788:8: error: ‘cppchar_t’ does not name a type
../../gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libcpp/include/cpplib.h:966:8: error: ‘cppchar_t’ does not name a type
make[3]: *** [c/c-lang.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mdrozdik/gccbuild/gcc'
make[2]: *** [all-stage1-gcc] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mdrozdik/gccbuild'
make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mdrozdik/gccbuild'
make: *** [all] Error 2
I am compiling with gcc 4.7.2-5 on Debian.
On the local machine there is Ubuntu 13.10 with gcc 4.7.3 and the build seems fine so far (still running).
Please, what could be the cause of these errors?
EDIT:
I checked the /home/mdrozdik/gccbuild/libcpp/config.log
file. It is very longm but in two places there are these errors:
configure:3086: gcc -V >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3097: $? = 4
configure:3086: gcc -qversion >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3097: $? = 4
But the log continues for several pages nevertheless.
The name of the assembler program with gcc is just as . So the error message tells you, that running the assembler fails, because the assembler executable contains an illegal instruction. This might really be an hardware error, meaning that the executable of the assembler is broken.
In the meantime major Linux distributions have updated their compilers to GCC 4.9 which supports C++11 and partially C++14 or even to GCC 5, which fully supports C++14.
I had a similar problem (gcc 4.8.3) and this solved it: g++ 4.7.1 compilation error : conflicting types for ‘strsignal’
The solution was to unset a bunch of C compiler flags (CPATH, etc.)
https://stackoverflow.com/users/1224886/tsbertalan reported this worked for him (and it's what I used):
unset LIBRARY_PATH CPATH C_INCLUDE_PATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH INCLUDE
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