Mauricio Alvarez Mesa <alvarez@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Eljay > > Thanks for your reply. > > I am running the gcc configure program in a subdirectory that is not > part of the gcc-3.4.0 source directory > > my directory structure is like that > > - gcc source directory > /$BASE_DIR/powerpc-aix-gnu/build/gcc-3.4.0 > > - gcc install directory > /$BASE_DIR/powerpc-aix-gnu/result > > - gcc build directory > /$BASE_DIR/powerpc-aix-gnu/build/build-gcc-3.4.0 > > and the configuration command is like that > > cd $BUILD_DIR > ../gcc-3.4.0/configure --prefix=$PREFIX_DIR --enable-altivec > --enable-languages=c,c++ > > so, the problem seems to be not related with the file structure I configured gcc 2.95 through gcc 3.3.3 this way, without problems. However, gcc-3.4 does not configure correctly (at least, not on i686-freebsd5.2) when the path to configure is relative. So I configured it with an absolute path, and that worked. I suggest you use an absolute path.