Hi Eric, On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:37:26PM -0700, eric wrote: > 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 The problem is, that your source tree is no longer "clean" -- as you did already some ./configure or make calls in the source tree. The easiest would be to remove the source tree and download a new one If not, you can try "make distclean" inside the source-tree (that should be sufficient, but I think it's not officially supported) > 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 That is the new, up-to-date documentation: http://gcc.gnu.org/install/ Axel
