Ah, I see, thank you very much for taking the time to explain that to
me, much appreciated!
Thanks,
Jim
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Brian Dessent wrote:
> James Allsopp wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a library called libbackend.a, produced when gcc is
>> compiled. I need it to install g95, which I need because a program I need
>> to install complains about gfortran. I'm using gcc-4.2.3 on an up to date
>> gentoo install. Any help would be really gratefully received!
>
> libbackend.a will be in the build tree after successfully building gcc.
> It doesn't get installed out of the tree when you install gcc because
> it's not intended to be a an actual library, and you won't find it
> anywhere other than by building gcc. It's just a temporary convenience
> for linking the individual gcc subcompilers (cc1, cc1plus, et cetera)
> and it's superfluous once the gcc build is finished.
>
> Brian
>
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