Hua Jie Lee wrote: > I created an object directory before configure them. I did follow the FAQ > of GCC to set the path of --prefix=dirname by settings as:- > > .../gcc-4.2.0/configure --prefix=$HOME\bin\gcc420\ > > After the make configure it returned few errors such as :- > > mkdir /home/student/leehjbingcc420 > mkdir: Failed to make directory "/home/student/leehjbingcc420"; Permission > denied It looks like you have been confused by running Windows. Read up about the meaning of '\' in your OS. You may have meant something like $HOME/gcc420 Note that it is a little nonsensical to ask your gcc build to install in directories something/bin/gcc420/bin, something/bin/gcc420/lib, something/bin/gcc420/info, ... but you can do that if you like.
