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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 18537e8..da67319 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2013-12-09 Francois-Xavier Coudert <fxcoudert@gcc.gnu.org> + + * doc/install.texi (Prerequisites): Explicitly mention C library + and its headers for multilib builds. + 2013-12-08 Oleg Endo <olegendo@gcc.gnu.org> PR target/52898 diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index a8f9f8a..85899b0 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -255,6 +255,22 @@ may need to use @option{--disable-stage1-checking}, though bootstrapping the compiler with such earlier compilers is strongly discouraged. +@item C standard library and headers + +In order to build GCC, the C standard library and headers must be present +for all target variants for which target libraries will be built (and not +only the variant of the host C++ compiler). + +This affects the popular @samp{x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu} platform (among +other multilib targets), for which 64-bit (@samp{x86_64}) and 32-bit +(@samp{i386}) libc headers are usually packaged separately. If you do a +build of a native compiler on @samp{x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu}, make sure you +either have the 32-bit libc developer package properly installed (the exact +name of the package depends on your distro) or you must build GCC as a +64-bit only compiler by configuring with the option +@option{--disable-multilib}. Otherwise, you may encounter an error such as +@samp{fatal error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file} + @item GNAT In order to build the Ada compiler (GNAT) you must already have GNAT |