On 4 June 2011 18:56, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > To be honest, gcc should do what ATLAS linear algebra library does - just refuses to build if one attempts to build in the source directory. Dave
