On 6 June 2011 20:33, Syed Bilal Mehdi <bilal.mehdi87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I was trying to build gcc 4.6. Configure goes fine with the following > command: > > ./configure prefix=/scratch/local/Bilal/gcc/ > --with-gmp=/scratch/local/Bilal/gmp --with-mpfr=/scratch/local/Bilal/mpfr > --with-mpc=/scratch/local/Bilal/mpc Don't do that http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FAQ#configure > but make fails with the following error: > > checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in > `/scratch/local/Bilal/gccSource/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc': > configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile > See `config.log' for more details. http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FAQ#configure_suffix > /scratch/local/Bilal/gccSource2/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/cc1: error while > loading shared libraries: libmpc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory This is the problem, because you didn't read the documentation for --with-gmp and --with-mpc See http://advogato.org/person/redi/diary/240.html