Bash script to download, build and install gcc 4.6.2 and boost 1.48

I recently had to build gcc 4.6.2 on CentOS 5.5 and found it to be quite painful so I put together this script to do all of the work: http://projects.joelinoff.com/gcc-4.6.2/bld.sh.txt. I am releasing it in text mode so that you can cut-n-paste it from the web page.

The shell version is also available: http://projects.joelinoff.com/gcc-4.6.2/bld.sh if you want to download it directly using something like wget.

Disk Space Usage

Beware that building gcc-4.6.2 and boost-1.48 requires almost 4 GB of disk space. Here is the breakdown:

% du -s -h gcc-4.6.2/*
147M    gcc-4.6.2/archives
572M    gcc-4.6.2/rtf
3.2G    gcc-4.6.2/src
% du -s -h gcc-4.6.2/src/*
602M    gcc-4.6.2/src/boost_1_48_0
25M     gcc-4.6.2/src/cloog-0.17.0
2.1G    gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2
22M     gcc-4.6.2/src/gmp-5.0.3
30M     gcc-4.6.2/src/libiconv-1.14
133K    gcc-4.6.2/src/LOCAL-TEST
4.5M    gcc-4.6.2/src/mpc-0.9
14M     gcc-4.6.2/src/mpfr-3.1.0
481M    gcc-4.6.2/src/ppl-0.11.2

% du -s -h gcc-4.6.2/*

147M gcc-4.6.2/archives

572M gcc-4.6.2/rtf

3.2G gcc-4.6.2/src

% du -s -h gcc-4.6.2/src/*

602M gcc-4.6.2/src/boost_1_48_0

25M gcc-4.6.2/src/cloog-0.17.0

2.1G gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2

22M gcc-4.6.2/src/gmp-5.0.3

30M gcc-4.6.2/src/libiconv-1.14

133K gcc-4.6.2/src/LOCAL-TEST

4.5M gcc-4.6.2/src/mpc-0.9

14M gcc-4.6.2/src/mpfr-3.1.0

481M gcc-4.6.2/src/ppl-0.11.2

After the build is complete you can delete the archives and src directory trees to reclaim about 3.3GB of disk space.

Using bld.sh

Here is how you might use build script described above to install gcc-4.6.2 and boost-1.48 on your system.

#!/bin/bash
umask 0
mkdir -p /shared/tools/gcc/gcc-4.6.2
cd /shared/tools/gcc/gcc-4.6.2
wget http://projects.joelinoff.com/gcc-4.6.2/bld.sh
chmod a+x bld.sh
./bld.sh 2>&1 | tee bld.log

#!/bin/bash

umask 0

mkdir -p /shared/tools/gcc/gcc-4.6.2

cd /shared/tools/gcc/gcc-4.6.2

wget http://projects.joelinoff.com/gcc-4.6.2/bld.sh

chmod a+x bld.sh

./bld.sh 2>&1 | tee bld.log

Simple Test Program: x.cc

If you want, you can create a simple program like this:

#include <iostream>
#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
using namespace std;
using namespace boost;
int main()
{
  string s1(" hello world! ");
  cout << "value      : '" << s1 << "'" <<endl;

  to_upper(s1);
  cout << "to_upper() : '" << s1 << "'" <<endl;

  trim(s1);
  cout << "trim()     : '" << s1 << "'" <<endl;

  return 0;
}

#include <iostream>

#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

using namespace std;

using namespace boost;

int main()

{

string s1(" hello world! ");

cout << "value : '" << s1 << "'" <<endl;

to_upper(s1);

cout << "to_upper() : '" << s1 << "'" <<endl;

trim(s1);

cout << "trim() : '" << s1 << "'" <<endl;

return 0;

}

And then compile, link and run it as follows.

#!/bin/bash
GHM="/shared/tools/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf"
GXX="${GHM}/bin/g++"   # OR PATH="${GHM}/bin:${PATH}"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GHM}/lib64"
$GXX -O3 -Wall -o x.exe x.cc
./x.exe
# Expected output
# value      : ' hello world! '
# to_upper() : ' HELLO WORLD! '
# trim()     : 'HELLO WORLD!'

#!/bin/bash

GHM="/shared/tools/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf"

GXX="${GHM}/bin/g++" # OR PATH="${GHM}/bin:${PATH}"

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GHM}/lib64"

$GXX -O3 -Wall -o x.exe x.cc

./x.exe

# Expected output

# value : ' hello world! '

# to_upper() : ' HELLO WORLD! '

# trim() : 'HELLO WORLD!'

Final Thoughts

This script has been tested on CentOS 5.5 (x86_64).

I am in the process of testing it on Ubuntu 11.10 (x86_64).

UPDATE #1
The Ubuntu 11.10 build failed during the stage1 compilation of gcc because it could not find bits/predefs.h. That file is available under /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu so I expect that it would fairly easy to fix this by adding -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu to the command line using CPPFLAGS. I will try that and post an update.

Note that I decided to use the latest version CLooG (0.17.0) so I had to put in a small hack to fix the gcc/g++ source code. Specifically I had to change LANGUAGE_C to CLOOG_LANGUAGE_C in the <gcc-4.6.2-source>/gcc/graphite-clast-to-gimple.c to track the same change in CLooG. This hack is done automatically by the script. I also had to turn off version checking because it specifically requires 0.16.0.

Please report problems or suggestions via the comments section.

Enjoy!

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ioana says:

February 10, 2012 at 3:48 pm

Hi!
I have tried your bld.sh script to install gcc-4.6.2 on redhat release 5.7 with gcc 4.1.2 default and it worked very well. Later when I tried to run it on redhat 6.1 with default gcc 4.4.5 it didn’t work anymore it gives the error when installing ppl that it doesn’t find gmp. These are the last lines of the bld.log
Do you have any ideas what I could try?
Thanks

checking for ld used by GCC… /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld… yes
checking for shared library run path origin… done
checking how to link with libgmp… /data/mbotezat/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib/libgmp.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/data/mbotezat/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib
checking how to link with libgmpxx… /data/mbotezat/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib/libgmpxx.so /data/mbotezat/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib/libgmp.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/data/mbotezat/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/data/mbotezat/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib
checking for the GMP library version 4.1.3 or above… no
configure: error: Cannot find GMP version 4.1.3 or higher.
GMP is the GNU Multi-Precision library:
see http://www.swox.com/gmp/ for more information.
When compiling the GMP library, do not forget to enable the C++ interface:
add –enable-cxx to the configuration options.
STATUS = 1

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1. jlinoff says:
  
  February 10, 2012 at 6:02 pm
  
  Hmmm, GMP 5.0.3 should have been installed earlier in the process so there must be one of two problems: the GMP installation failed, or the GMP installation went someplace that the GCC configure can’t find. That latter problem could be occurring because of a change in how autoconf works or it could be that my script has a bug for that platform. It could even be an indicate of some other incompatibility (I saw something similar on Ubuntu 11.10).
  
  Since I have no experience with CentOS 6.x, I can’t comment specifically. Here are some general ideas.
  
  First check to see whether libgmp is in the area that you expect.
  
  Second, check to see whether the configuration setup is correct in the gcc area.
  
  You might also check to see if there are other errors or warnings in the log.
  
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2. jasonchou77 says:
  
  July 16, 2012 at 3:18 pm
  
  To jlinoff: Nice job!!! This script is very useful, and I really appreciate your sharing.
  
  To ioana: The similar problem occurred when I run this script on CentOS 6.1 with a default gcc 4.4.5. I found that some configuration options of ppl can’t work appropriately on this kernel. For example, even if you specify the –with-gmp-prefix option, the linker can’t find the correct library files, libgmp.so and libgmpxx.so. This probably stems from the fact that there is a default gmp 4.3.1 on CentOS 6.1. Therefore, I specified the –libdir option instead. After I specified the –libdir option, the linker can find the correct library files which this script just built. However, I encountered the same error message as yours. I thought I can specify the –includedir option to resolve this problem but I failed. The compiler can’t find the correct header files, gmp.h and gmpxx.h. Fortunately,after adding the include directory into the environment variable, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I can successfully install ppl and gcc 4.6.2 on CentOS 6.1. I hope this information can help you with the installation of your gcc 4.6.2.
  
  – Jason
  
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stan says:

February 13, 2012 at 9:26 pm

Impressive script, great job!

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1. jlinoff says:
  
  April 2, 2012 at 1:16 am
  
  Thank you.
  
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Great work. I already have gcc-4.6 installed in home directory. How to change this to just install boost. I could not see the option. Can you tell? Thanks.

You should be able to simply install boost as specified on the boost.org site but here is how you could do it manually. This is typed basically from memory so please forgive any typos.

% mkdir -p ~/tmp/boost
% cd ~/tmp/boost
% wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.49.0/boost_1_49_0.tar.bz2
% tar jxf boost_1_49_0.tar.bz2
% cd boost_1_49_0
% # Set RTFDIR to directory where your version of gcc is 
% # installed. This is the directory that contains the bin and lib
% # subdirectories.
% export RTFDIR=<path_to_gcc> # Fill this in manually
% export PATH=${RTFDIR}/bin:${PATH}
% export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${RTFDIR}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
% ./bootstrap.sh \
        --prefix=${RTFDIR} \
        --with-python=python2.7
% ./b2
% ./b2 install

% mkdir -p ~/tmp/boost

% cd ~/tmp/boost

% wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.49.0/boost_1_49_0.tar.bz2

% tar jxf boost_1_49_0.tar.bz2

% cd boost_1_49_0

% # Set RTFDIR to directory where your version of gcc is

% # installed. This is the directory that contains the bin and lib

% # subdirectories.

% export RTFDIR=<path_to_gcc> # Fill this in manually

% export PATH=${RTFDIR}/bin:${PATH}

% export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${RTFDIR}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

% ./bootstrap.sh \

--prefix=${RTFDIR} \

--with-python=python2.7

% ./b2

% ./b2 install

Please let me know whether this works for you.

sparsh says:

April 2, 2012 at 1:36 pm

Currently, I am using entire script to get both boost and gcc.
I have gcc4.6.0 and 4.1 which I used to install your unmodified bld.sh script (for both boost and gcc). However, I get error:

configure: error: Cannot find GMP version 4.1.3 or higher.
..When compiling the GMP library, do not forget to enable the C++ interface:
add –enable-cxx to the configuration options.
Can you please help in this regard. Let me know, if I should send the log file.

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1. jlinoff says:
  
  April 3, 2012 at 4:06 pm
  
  Are you trying to install this on CentOS 5.5? It sounds more like another OS such as Ubuntu. If that is the case, I am afraid that I can’t help.
  
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Jun says:

April 3, 2012 at 3:24 pm

Best script ever 🙂

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Appi says:

June 6, 2012 at 8:40 am

Hi

When we include java in enable langauges options getting the above error after running the script?

–enable-languages=’c,c++,java’ in the script to enable libjava… it doesn’t work

libtool: compile: /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/./gcc/ -B/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include -m32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libjava/classpath/native/jni/java-math -I../../../include -I/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libjava/classpath/include -I/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libjava/classpath/native/jni/classpath -I/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libjava/classpath/native/jni/native-lib -I/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/include -W -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-long-long -I/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/include -g -O2 -m32 -MT gnu_java_math_GMP.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/gnu_java_math_GMP.Tpo -c /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libjava/classpath/native/jni/java-math/gnu_java_math_GMP.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/gnu_java_math_GMP.o
mv -f .deps/gnu_java_math_GMP.Tpo .deps/gnu_java_math_GMP.Plo
/bin/sh ../../../libtool –tag=CC –mode=link /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/./gcc/ -B/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include -m32 -W -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-long-long -I/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/include -g -O2 -m32 -module -version-info 0:0:0 -no-undefined -L/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib -lgmp -avoid-version -m32 -o libjavamath.la -rpath /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib/../lib/gcj-4.6.2-12 gnu_java_math_GMP.lo ../../../native/jni/classpath/jcl.lo
libtool: link: /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/./gcc/ -B/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include -m32 -shared .libs/gnu_java_math_GMP.o ../../../native/jni/classpath/.libs/jcl.o -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib -L/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib/libgmp.so -m32 -m32 -m32 -Wl,-soname -Wl,libjavamath.so -o .libs/libjavamath.so
/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/lib/libgmp.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[8]: *** [libjavamath.la] Error 1
make[8]: Leaving directory /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/native/jni/java-math' make[7]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[7]: Leaving directory/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/native/jni’
make[6]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/native' make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath’
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava' make[3]: *** [multi-do] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava’
make[2]: *** [all-multi] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory /home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava' make[1]: *** [all-target-libjava] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory/home/myhome/srinivasa/gcc/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2′
make: *** [all] Error 2
STATUS = 2

Regards,
Srinivasa

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1. Appi says:
  
  June 6, 2012 at 8:40 am
  
  I’m trying to install it on rhel5
  
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2. jlinoff says:
  
  June 23, 2012 at 8:15 pm
  
  Thank you for letting me know. I will try look into it when I have some time.
  
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thv says:

January 14, 2013 at 4:48 pm

Hi
Great work, but I still have some problems trying to compile it on CentOS 5.5 64bits with installed gcc 4.1.2-48 at ‘multilibs’ building step:

# If this is the top-level multilib, build all the other
# multilibs.
/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/./gcc/ -B/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem /home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/rtf/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include -g -O2 -m32 -O2 -g -O2 -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -isystem ./include -fPIC -g -DHAVE_GTHR_DEFAULT -DIN_LIBGCC2 -D__GCC_FLOAT_NOT_NEEDED -fno-stack-protector -I. -I. -I../../.././gcc -I/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libgcc -I/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libgcc/. -I/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libgcc/../gcc -I/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libgcc/../include -I/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libgcc/config/libbid -DENABLE_DECIMAL_BID_FORMAT -DHAVE_CC_TLS -DUSE_TLS -o _muldi3.o -MT _muldi3.o -MD -MP -MF _muldi3.dep -DL_muldi3 -c /home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libgcc/../gcc/libgcc2.c \
-fvisibility=hidden -DHIDE_EXPORTS
In file included from /home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/./gcc/include-fixed/features.h:361:0,
from /usr/include/stdio.h:28,
from /home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libgcc/../gcc/tsystem.h:87,
from /home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/src/gcc-4.6.2/libgcc/../gcc/libgcc2.c:29:
/usr/include/gnu/stubs.h:7:27: fatal error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[5]: *** [_muldi3.o] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory /home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libgcc' make[4]: *** [multi-do] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc’
make[3]: *** [all-multi] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory /home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc' make[2]: *** [all-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2′
make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/testGCC/gcc-4.6.2/bld/gcc-4.6.2′
make: *** [all] Error 2
STATUS = 2

Can you please help me? Let me know if I need more info.

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