On 30 December 2010 13:27, Kai Ruottu wrote: > 30.12.2010 14:25, Jonathan Wakely kirjoitti: > >> Please read the installation instructions, particularly >> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html >> >> "First, we highly recommend that GCC be built into a separate >> directory from 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." >> >> I showed you a working sequence of commands, and it involved running >> ../gcc-4.5.2/configure NOT ../configure >> >> I haven't looked in detail but this is most likely the cause of your >> compilation failure, so please correct it and try again. > > I myself have always used a "build" subdir in the main src directory, > for instance 'gcc-4.5.2/build', 'binutils-2.20.51/build' etc. NEVER > any problems with this choice after 100's of tool builds! Neither > some of the big guys seem to care about this "recommendation", my > CentOS 5.5 GCC tells : Fair enough, but you're not asking for support and neither are the Fedora and CentOS package maintainers. If the official docs say something is not supported (N.B. it's not a recommendation, it says unsupported) then don't do it and then ask for support. Doing so indicates a failure to read the docs, so a reasonable response is RTFM.
