On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:12:14PM -0400, Kevin Yohe wrote: > I'm still a bit confused. When I download gcc, I get a tarball that > extracts everything to ./gcc-4.x.x/, and likewise with newlib and binutils. > Under that directory there is another directory called gcc that contains all > the source files. I have read somewhere that my directories should look > something like this. > > src/ > +-- gcc > +-- newlib > +-- binutils > build/ > +-- gcc > +-- newlib > +-- binutils > > Then you can do this > cd build > ../src/configure > make > > That's all well and good but exactly how do I set this up with what I am > given? This has been answered before, so it's in the archives: <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2007-06/msg00210.html> <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2007-06/msg00230.html> > This looks like it might work but begs the question, which configure (or > other conflicting files) from which tarball do I use? gcc? Generall, gcc holds the master copy, but if e.g. you try to build an old release of gcc and a new release of binutils, you may have to use the newer one. -- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
