Dear Mr. Taylor: I have successfully gone through the process of installing GCC 4.6.2. Thank you for helping me resolve my issue. Sincerely, Brian Lee On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Brian Lee <brian.h.lee.90@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I tried to follow the instructions on the page http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html to the best of my ability. I created a directory called "objdir" under my home directory, entered that directory, and invoked "gcc/configure --enable-languages=c,c++". Thank you. > > If you literally typed "gcc/configure", that won't work. It implies > that you put the gcc sources in a gcc subdirectory of your objdir > directory. That will fail. > > If you have unpacked your sources into a directory gcc, then do > something like > > mkdir objdir > cd objdir > ../gcc/configure --enable-languages=c,c++ > > That is, run the configure script in an empty directory. > > Ian > > >> On Jan 12, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >>> Brian Lee <brian.h.lee.90@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> To Whom It May Concern: >>>> >>>> I cannot retrieve the output when I invoked "make" at the time of the error. However, I just invoked "make" and the following output showed up: >>>> >>>> [ -f stage_final ] || echo stage3 > stage_final >>>> rm -f stage_current >>>> /bin/sh: gcc/mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory >>>> make[2]: *** [stage1-start] Error 127 >>>> Makefile:786: gcc/config/bootstrap-debug.mk: No such file or directory >>>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `gcc/config/bootstrap-debug.mk'. Stop. >>>> make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 >>>> make: *** [all] Error 2 >>>> >>>> The "gcc" directory under the build/object directory that I created appears to be missing, but there is a "stage1-gcc" directory. Thank you. >>> >>> How exactly did you run the configure script? >>> >>> Ian