On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 01:43:56PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > The compilation I just did of gcc 4.6.0 seems to have worked. I did > two things differently. I used a build directory outside of the source > directory. And secondly I compiled with c++ support. I used the > --enable-languages=c,c++ switch also. > > I would rather have compiled without the c++ support. I don't use c++ > much and it took a very long time to compile. Does anyone know which two > of these things may have really made the difference? Hi Bill, as documented on http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html it's a bad idea to use a build directory inside the source tree: "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. " So probably that made the difference... Axel
