On 5 May 2005, Saurabh Bhatnagar uttered the following: > ./genmodes: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected > gmake[2]: *** [s-modes] Error 2 > gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/user/sbhatnag/gcc-3.4.2/objdir/gcc' > gmake[1]: *** [stage2_build] Error 2 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/user/sbhatnag/gcc-3.4.2/objdir/gcc' > gmake: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 Please read the installation guide. You cannot build GCC in an objdir that is a subdirectory of the GCC source tree: you must build it in a parallel directory (e.g. /user/sbhatnag/gcc-build, running configure via a relative path, as ../gcc-3.4.2/configure). This has been true pretty much forever (certainly since gcc-2.7.2). (I don't know if this is causing your problem, but I've seen *exactly* that error when generating with an objdir as a subdirectory of the GCC source tree before.) -- `End users are just test loads for verifying that the system works, kind of like resistors in an electrical circuit.' - Kaz Kylheku in c.o.l.d.s