On 4 June 2011 18:43, 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? http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-06/msg00066.html Do you not believe all the documentation saying that configuring inside the source tree might fail? Even when doing so causes your build to fail, and not doing so causes it to succeed?