On 26 January 2012 17:32, Jonathan Edwards wrote: > On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 17:16 +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> On 26 January 2012 16:23, jonatha@xxxxxx wrote: >> > I am attempting to build gcc 4.1.0 on SLES 11.1. It >> > is failing on fastjar with complaints about makeinfo. >> >> What commands did you use to configure and build gcc? >> >> What is the error? > > (In the source directory) > mkdir obj > cd obj > ../configure --prefix=/opt/gnu There's your problem. http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html says "building where objdir is a subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported." Try the method given at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC
