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Old 01-28-2006, 01:11 PM   #1
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Compiling gcc without any gcc installed


Anyone got an idea how to compile a gcc from scratch without having any gcc/other C-Compiler installed? I've heard that I have to use some unoptimized-precompiled binary to compile the real compiler, but I have no idea where to get such a thing.

I am looking forward to your replies!
 
Old 01-28-2006, 01:39 PM   #2
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By your profile you have Debian, so you should be able to do:
apt-get install gcc
I believe you'll also need make to compile a standard source tarball:
apt-get install make

Although it's generally easier to just apt-get install rather than compiling...
 
Old 01-29-2006, 03:52 AM   #3
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Yeah, sure, I would do so if I had Debian installed on the machine I wish to have gcc on. But on that machine is a very plain Linux, since it is only a 386 w/ 4mb of RAM.
 
Old 01-29-2006, 09:13 AM   #4
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Yeah, sure, I would do so if I had Debian installed on the machine I wish to have gcc on. But on that machine is a very plain Linux, since it is only a 386 w/ 4mb of RAM.
very simple, you just use a live CD like Knoppix
But I'm not still try about this so it may be wrong
 
Old 01-29-2006, 11:17 PM   #5
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Hm, lauching Knoppix would be difficult since there is no CD-ROM drive.
 
Old 01-30-2006, 12:15 AM   #6
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Also, Knoppix wouldn't run on such an old machine (particularly since it caches a lot in RAM -- I doubt you could even start the kernel with 4 MB).

In fact, I'm not sure if gcc is evcen going to run with anything approaching tolerable speed on a machine that old. But if you want to try there are a number of sites with gcc binaries available. What distro of Linux is on your system (or is it LFS)? If it's from scratch, you will probably just have to find a generic binary (or use a distro's binary), otherwise use the gcc packaged with your distro.
 
  


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