Re: FW: Errors issued while building GCC

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>
> You probably ought not to use the unusual make targets  unless you
> really know what you're doing--the defaults work fine.
> Hopefully that should eliminate the problems.
>

Thanks for your quick response, Tom.

I was doing the same as u said, anyways the problem is solved now.
Problem was in CVS checkout. One file was not updated correctly while
commiting the source in CVS. This had wasted both of ours time.. :)

Thanks again for your support.


On Nov 28, 2007 4:53 PM, Tom Browder <tom.browder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 4:23 AM, Ankur Gupta <ankurgupta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> ...
> > I am newly assigned to GNU CC work. I am using Win-xp-sp2 and Cygwin to
> > build GCC. I have successfully installed the 'binutils', but while building
> > GCC below errors are being issued:
> ...
> > I am using below procedure to build GCC:
> >
> > 1. Configure the GCC by giving the following command in the directory where
> > GCC package is placed.
>
> From the gcc installation page, quote:
>
> First, we highly recommend that GCC be built into a separate directory
> than the sources which does not reside within the source tree. This is
> how we generally build GCC; building where srcdir == objdir should
> still work, but doesn't get extensive testing; building where objdir
> is a subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported.
>
> End quote.
>
> Say your gcc source directory is /somedir/gcc-4.3.  Then
>
>  cd /somedir
>  mkdir gcc_build
>  cd gcc_build
>  ../gcc-4.3/configure ... [configure options...]
>
>  make [options...]
>  make install
>
> You probably ought not to specify the --prefix since /usr/local is the default.
>
> You probably ought not to specify the target and let the gcc scripts
> figure it out.
>
> You probably ought not to use the unusual make targets  unless you
> really know what you're doing--the defaults work fine.
> Hopefully that should eliminate the problems.
>
> -Tom
>
> Tom Browder
> Niceville, Florida
> USA
>

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