tina raj wrote: > Thanks for responding so quickly. I have been stuck > since morning with this :-(... > I have followed the steps as mentioned in the gcc > install "http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html" You should check the archives of this list, someone asked about this just the other day. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2005-07/msg00155.html and http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2005-07/msg00156.html are both relevent. > mkdir objdir > % cd objdir > % ../configure Sorry but this is still building in a subdirectory of the source directory, which is not correct. tar jxvf gcc-x.y.z.tar.bz2 # creates subdirectory gcc-x.y.z/ mkdir build cd build ../gcc-x.y.z/configure --options Brian