On 05/05/2010 11:17 AM, Kai Ruottu wrote: > 5.5.2010 13:12, Kai Ruottu kirjoitti: > >> The easy way would be to symlink the mpc-x.y sources into the main >> gcc-4.5.0 source dir as 'pmc'. > > Oops, of course as 'mpc' ! > >> Please see the other discussion on >> the gcc-help list just now too, NOT ONLY that sent personally to you ! > > The problems related to symlinking 'ppl' additionally with > 'gmp', 'mpfr' and 'mpc' is what I mean... It seems that building gcc is a pain in the ass for a great many newbies. I wonder if we could provide a simple script in contrib that downloads a correct version of each prerequisite and puts each one in the right place. Then you could do cd gcc ./contrib/download-prerequisites Andrew.