On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 19:40 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 28 June 2011 00:04, eric wrote: > >> > >>> You need to configure gcc with --enable-clocale=gnu and reinstall it. > >>> > >>> That should be the default on GNU/Linux but apparently your system is > >>> missing something necessary to support named locales. > >> > >> so I do > >> ./configure --enable-clocale=gnu > > > > (You obviously didn't read the installation docs, you're not supposed > > to run ./configure in the source directory) > This seems to come up alot. > > Perhaps ./configure should result in error if cwd is the source > directory. If it does not error, perhaps it should lock up the > keyboard, or shut down the machine to keep folks from moving forward > ;). > > At minimum, it will probably reduce questions on the list. > > Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Jeff: you ask us to make a different directory to build rather than source directory but in my system, just at configure, it meet error ----------------------- root@eric-laptop:/home/eric/disk# ls Contents-i386 gcc-4.5.2 gcc-build gmp-5.0.2 mpc-0.9 mpfr-3.0.1 root@eric-laptop:/home/eric/disk# cd gcc-build root@eric-laptop:/home/eric/disk/gcc-build# ../gcc-4.5.2/configure --enable-clocale=gnu checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln works... yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for gawk... gawk configure: error: building out of tree but ../gcc-4.5.2 contains host-i686-pc-linux-gnu. Use a pristine source tree when building in a separate tree root@eric-laptop:/home/eric/disk/gcc-build# -------------------------------------------------------------- plz help actually I still do that configure in my source directory gcc-4.5.2 I do ./configure --enable-clocale=gnu make bootstrap make install-no-fixedincludes still same error of my localetest program -------------------- the doc about how to install/build gcc is from the following link ---- http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/4.1/LFS-BOOK-4.1-HTML/chapter06/gcc.html ---------- installing gcc 3.2.1 sincerely, Eric
