We recommend installing the following GNU tools before attempting to build the GNU C Library:
make 3.79 or newer
You need the latest version of GNU make. Modifying the GNU C Library
to work with other make programs would be so difficult that
we recommend you port GNU make instead. Really. We
recommend GNU make version 3.79. All earlier versions have severe
bugs or lack features.
GCC 4.3 or higher is required; as of this writing, GCC 4.6 is the compiler we advise to use to build the GNU C Library.
You can use whatever compiler you like to compile programs that use the GNU C Library.
Check the FAQ for any special compiler issues on particular platforms.
binutils 2.20 or later
You must use GNU binutils (as and ld) to build the GNU C Library.
No other assembler or linker has the necessary functionality at the
moment.
texinfo 4.5 or later
To correctly translate and install the Texinfo documentation you need
this version of the texinfo package. Earlier versions do not
understand all the tags used in the document, and the installation
mechanism for the info files is not present or works differently.
awk 3.0, or higher
Awk is used in several places to generate files.
gawk 3.0 is known to work.
Perl is not required, but it is used if present to test the installation. We may decide to use it elsewhere in the future.
sed 3.02 or newer
Sed is used in several places to generate files. Most scripts work
with any version of sed. The known exception is the script
po2test.sed in the intl subdirectory which is used to
generate msgs.h for the test suite. This script works correctly
only with GNU sed 3.02. If you like to run the test suite, you
should definitely upgrade sed.
If you change any of the configure.in files you will also need
autoconf 2.53 or higher
and if you change any of the message translation files you will need
gettext 0.10.36 or later
You may also need these packages if you upgrade your source tree using patches, although we try to avoid this.