Robert Jones <robertgbjones@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Am I correct in believing that snapshots include everything for all > supported languages, rather than > the just the core & g++ bits I've built before? Yes. > And consequently > building snapshots takes a while? Yes. > Is there anyway to download and build just those bits I'm interested > in, as I would for a release? If you only want to build C and C++ compiler, then configure with "--enable-languages=c,c++". > My build eventually failed with this.... > > rm -rf asm classes classes.lst asm.lst > make all-am > make[7]: Entering directory > `/home/rgj/Download/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/tools' > make[7]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. > make[7]: Leaving directory > `/home/rgj/Download/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/tools' > make[6]: Leaving directory > `/home/rgj/Download/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/tools' > make[6]: Entering directory > `/home/rgj/Download/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath' > true DO=all multi-do # make > make[6]: Leaving directory > `/home/rgj/Download/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath' > make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[5]: Leaving directory > `/home/rgj/Download/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath' > make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory > `/home/rgj/Download/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava' > make[3]: *** [multi-do] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory > `/home/rgj/Download/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava' > make[2]: *** [all-multi] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/rgj/Download/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava' > make[1]: *** [all-target-libjava] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rgj/Download/build' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > which I think is from building something I'm not really interested in. > Can I get past this failure? This doesn't show the actual failure, which occurred before the lines you are quoting. In any case, if you use --enable-languages=c,c++ then libjava will not be built so this error, whatever it is, will not occur. Ian