Jennifer Cranfill wrote: > According to the gcc prerequisites, mpfr >= 2.3.0 is required to build > GCC. I'm wondering if the mpfr libraries also have to be installed to > run gcc 4.3.2? Yes. > I get this error when I try to use it on a machine that does not have > the latest mpfr: > /opt/gcc432m64/bin/g++ hello.cpp > /opt/gcc432m64/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.3.2/cc1plus: error > while loading shared libraries: libmpfr.so.1: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory You probably just need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the place where you installed mpfr and gmp if it's not in the system default. > Is it possible to statically link mpfr into ccplus? I tried configure > with --disable-shared, that did not change the error. Do I just need to > change something in the Makefile? If you want that, then don't build gmp and mpfr as shared libraries, i.e. configure them with --disable-shared, not gcc. Or if you do a combined-tree style build then --disable-shared is automatically added to their configures. Brian