Thanks to the helpfull people but it seems I haven't explained myself very well: I have alrleady done the configure in objdir ../srcdir/configure but then I cannot run make from the objdir because the only file in the objdir is a config.log. 2008/6/6 Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Nick, > >> However, in the insctutions on building it only says to do a make. > > The configure is step #3. > > The build is step #4. > > Before you can do a make, you need to do the configure. > > And, as per the instructions, do not make your objdir anywhere within the > GCC source code directory. (You can make it a peer to the source code, so > it's "../objdir" relative to the GCC source.) > > You'd configure it by: > ../gcc-4.3.0/configure > > Or use a full path: > /home/nickengland/gcc-4.3.0/configure > > HTH, > --Eljay > >
