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diff --git a/translate/gcc/README b/translate/gcc/README deleted file mode 100644 index 1152e99..0000000 --- a/translate/gcc/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,87 +0,0 @@ -This is the README from the source distribution of GHDL. - -To get the binary distribution or more information, go to http://ghdl.free.fr - -Copyright: -********** -GHDL is copyright (c) 2002 - 2010 Tristan Gingold. -See the GHDL manual for more details. - -This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify -it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or -(at your option) any later version. - -This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the -GNU General Public License for more details. - -You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software -Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, -Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. - - -Building GHDL from sources: -*************************** - -Required: -* the sources of @GCCVERSION@ (at least the core part). - Note: other versions of gcc sources have not been tested. -* the Ada95 GNAT compiler (GNAT GPL 2008 are known to work; - Ada compilers in most Linux distributions are more or less buggy) -* GNU/Linux for ix86 (pc systems) (porting is necessary for other systems) - -Procedure: -* Check your Ada compiler. On some systems (or with some distribution), the - GNAT compiler seems broken. Try this very simple example, using file - example.adb -<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< -procedure Example is -begin - null; -end Example; -<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< - Compile with - $ gnatmake example - It should create an executable, 'example'. - If this doesn't work, your GNAT installation is broken. It may be a PATH - problem or something else. -* untar the gcc tarball -* untar the ghdl tarball (this sould have been done, since you are reading a - file from it). -* move or copy the vhdl directory of ghdl into the gcc subdirectory of - the gcc distribution. - You should have a @GCCVERSION@/gcc/vhdl directory. -* configure gcc with the --enable-languages=vhdl option. You may of course - add other languages. Also you'd better to disable bootstraping using - --disable-bootstrap. - Refer to the gcc installation documentation. -* compile gcc. - 'make CFLAGS="-O"' is OK -* install gcc. This installs the ghdl driver too. - 'make install' is OK. - -There is a mailing list for any questions. You can subscribe via: - https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss/ -Please report bugs on https://gna.org/bugs/?group=ghdl - -If you cannot compile, please report the gcc version, GNAT version and gcc -source version. - -* Note for ppc64 (and AIX ?) platform: -The object file format contains an identifier for the source language. Because -gcc doesn't know about the VHDL, gcc crashes very early. This could be fixed -with a very simple change in gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c, -function rs6000_output_function_epilogue (as of gcc 4.8): - else if (! strcmp (language_string, "GNU Objective-C")) - i = 14; - else -- gcc_unreachable (); -+ i = 0; - fprintf (file, "%d,", i); - - /* 8 single bit fields: global linkage (not set for C extern linkage, - -Tristan Gingold. |