Rudy wrote: > All I want to do is install GCC in my machine so > that when I make or make install another program, I > have a valid C compiler on my machine. I am not a > power user and just need it to be on the machine. If you do not currently have a C compiler installed there is no way that you are going to be able to build gcc from source. Unless you have a specific reason to compile gcc, you are much better off installing the packaged version of gcc that your vendor provides. This is especially the case for someone that is not sure what he's doing, because there are many issues to be aware of when building and installing the compiler, especially if you want it to interact gracefully with other programs that you already have on your system. You did not mention what platform or distro you are using, so it makes helping you much harder. But it looks like Linux from the output below, and so you should just install the 'gcc' package, using 'rpm' or 'apt-get' or 'urpmi' or 'yum' or whatever command your system uses to install a new package. Note that you will need many other packages in addition to gcc if you do not have a working development environment, so you should use whatever tool your distro offers for handling dependencies. > configure: error: Building in the source directory is > not supported in this release. See > http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html for more > details. You can't just run ./configure. You need to build in a separate directory from the source. Go back and re-read the configure.html URL carefully. The ninth paragraph ("To configure GCC") gives you a sample of how you are to run configure. Note that 'objdir' and 'srcdir' are not literal words, but they represent the relative paths of two different directories. Brian
