On 6 June 2012 11:02, David Given wrote: > Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> On 6 June 2012 06:48, Anup Ghatage wrote: > [...] >>> Untar'ed it. >>> ./configure >> >> You didn't read the docs then, see http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC > > If you're referring to the need to set objdir, the documentation that > actually ships with gcc says: > >> First, we highly recommend that GCC be built into a separate directory >> from the sources which does not reside within the source tree. This is >> how we generally build GCC; building where srcdir == objdir should still >> work, but doesn't get extensive testing; building where objdir is a >> subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported. > > In others, it says firmly that srcdir == objdir should actually work. Which others? It might work, but if you don't know what you're doing or get a failure using ./configure then following the recommended approach seems like a good idea.
