I have been trying unsuccessfully to install gcc-4.6.2, on a Redhat Linux VM. The configure step seems to work fine. I'm using the following configure options (installing 4.6.2 from a 'gcc_build' directory as suggested on the website; I already installed the required dependencies under /usr/local as indicated): ../gcc-4.6.2/configure --with-gmp=/usr/local --with-mpfr=/usr/local --with-mpc=/usr/local --with-ppl=/usr/local --with-cloog=/usr/local \ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -Xlinker -R/usr/local/lib" CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash -enable-languages=c,c++,fortran Under 'make' I am getting the following error: checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/E341484/gnu-install/gcc_build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc': configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details. I found more detail on the make failure in the file ./i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc/config.log, which shows an error occurring at this statement: configure:3028: /home/E341484/gnu-install/gcc_build/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/E341484/gnu-install/gcc_build/./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 -V >&5 xgcc: error: unrecognized option '-V' xgcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated. I think this is really the cause of the problem. I think the upper-case V might be an error, and should be a lower case '-v'. If I run this command with the 'V' changed to 'v', it executes successfully, returning an assortment of information, including info on the gcc version (and no error). Is this a bug in the Makefile? Is the upper-case '-V' supposed to be a '-v', or am I missing something? If the 'V' should be a 'v', any suggestions how to fix this in the Makefile? Thanks! Wharton Sinkler
