thanks for the reply I ended up removing what I could, and getting enough free space for it but yeah, I was already doing a make bootstrap4-lean, and before that I had tried a make bootstrap-lean, both stopped due to low disk space but no worries now, I've gotten GCC completly compiled, thanks anyways! On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:28:02 -0700, lrtaylor@xxxxxxxxxx <lrtaylor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It builds three copies of the compiler, so it can take up a lot of > space. From the installation docs: > > If you are short on disk space you might consider make bootstrap-lean > instead. This is identical to make bootstrap except that object files > from the stage1 and stage2 of the 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler are > deleted as soon as they are no longer needed. > > Try "make bootstrap-lean". > > Thanks, > Lyle > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Mike Wyatt > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 9:47 AM > To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: required disk space? > > I'm trying to make bootstrap4-lean with over a gig free, and I am > getting errors due to no disk space > > low and behold, it's true, the gcc make has used up over a gig > > is this normal? > > how much disk space does it usually take up, so that I can see if the > note from the install instructions will be of any use > > -- > - Mike Wyatt > -- - Mike Wyatt