Nik-R wrote: > i am a beginner linux user using Ubuntu. If you are a beginner then you should almost certainly be using the gcc packages that your distro provides. It is much easier and more reliable than doing it yourself. > WARNING: `bison' missing on your system. You should only need it if > you modified a `.y' file. You may need the `Bison' package > in order for those modifications to take effect. You can get > `Bison' from any GNU archive site. > /home/nik/gcc/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/prev-gcc/xgcc > -B/home/nik/gcc/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/prev-gcc/ > -B/opt//i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -c -O2 -g -fomit-frame-pointer -DIN_GCC > -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -pedantic > -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings > -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-error > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Ijava -I../.././gcc -I../.././gcc/java > -I../.././gcc/../include -I../.././gcc/../libcpp/include > -I../.././gcc/../libdecnumber -I../libdecnumber java/parse-scan.c -o > java/parse-scan.o > xgcc: java/parse-scan.c: No such file or directory > xgcc: no input files > make[3]: *** [java/parse-scan.o] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/nik/gcc/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc' > make[2]: *** [all-stage2-gcc] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nik/gcc' > make[1]: *** [stage2-bubble] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nik/gcc' > make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 > > I unfortunatly do not understand what it is doing and how to fix the probme > that it is having. any advice and solutions would be very much appreciated. You need to either install bison or ensure that the file timestamps are being preserved, assuming that you're building from a release tarball and not from a SVN checkout. If you aren't building from a release tarball then you'll probably require bison (and other tools) regardless; see the install.html instructions. Brian
