On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:50 PM, eric lin <ericlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear gcc programers: > > Âwhen I tried to make(after ./configure, in my downloaded/extracted 4.5.2 of gcc), it fail to compile.(from 4.4.3) > > Âalso what is difference of gcc and gcc-core? should I install both? Âwhen I > extracted gcc-core after I extract gcc, I find it gointo same folder as gcc. You should only need gcc. gcc-core is only if you don't want c++, fortran or other languages. The gcc archive contains all of the other languages and test-suites. > looking to see your help and thanks a lot in advance, Eric > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > checking whether ln -s works... yes > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... /home/eric/disk/gcc-4.5.2/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/xgcc -B/home/eric/disk/gcc-4.5.2/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -isystem /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include > checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/eric/disk/gcc-4.5.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc': > configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile > See `config.log' for more details. > make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/eric/disk/gcc-4.5.2' > make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/eric/disk/gcc-4.5.2' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > root@eric-laptop:/home/eric/disk/gcc-4.5.2# > -Bryan