Kay Schröer wrote: > Hi, > > I've some problems to configure, build and install the gcc collection. > I downloaded the file gcc-4.3.0.tar.gz. > Then I started the console (bash) and decompressed the archive by typing: > gzip -d gcc-4.3.0.tar.gz > tar -xf gcc-4.3.0.tar > The source files are placed in the directory /usr/gcc-4.3.0, for example > /usr/gcc-4.3.0/compile > /usr/gcc-4.3.0/configure > /usr/gcc-4.3.0/install-sh > ... > Now I want to install the package to the directory /usr/gcc to use the > compilers. > I already read the documentation but there are so many commands and > options, so I don't know what I have to do step by step. > Can you give me the necessary commands and options to configure, build > and install a standard version of gcc (with all libraries installed to > compile standard C-applications) to my system? All you usually need on a Linux system is to specify a prefix. So, make a clean directory and in that directory do /usr/gcc-4.3.0/configure --prefix=/usr/gcc make make install Andrew.
