On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 17:57 +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > 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." > D'oh. I knew that. really.... Thank you. > Try the method given at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC
