D'arito wrote: > I have a fresh Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty installation which use by default 4.1.2 > Version. The main reason is that I cannot create "library.a" when using gcc > 4.1.2. I don't follow. There is no inherent reason why creating a static archive (.a) file should matter between gcc versions. If you're saying that your code is not compatible with gcc 4.x and won't compile, then that's one thing, but the fact that it's a static library shouldn't matter. > However, my advisor pointed that I need to use 3.3 version, which > works properly. So I decided to follow the official manual: build from a > "gcc_temp_directory" (outside source code), however, it fails at the > ./configure step. I'll appreciate any kind of help . I can post any log > you'll need for guess whether my settings are wrong or my dependencies are > not solved, etc...I'n not sure if this post should be placed here , but I > have no way to solve my problem. You're making this a lot harder than it needs to be. Your distro already includes many packaged versions of gcc. Just install their packages, e.g. "apt-get install gcc-3.3" and you're done. Compiling gcc from source is not really the best thing for a beginner to spend time worrying about. To answer your specific question, you don't run "./configure" when building in a separate dir. The path to configure is the relative location of the source dir in relation to the build dir. In other words, the configure script lives in the source dir, not the build dir. Brian
