Yes I have built outside the source directory in objdir, I am trying to build it again because the application which is using gfortran is not working after the previous build. Every step is same I am trying to build the same way. I am trying to build 4.6.3 now, it has been more than 1 hour but still its not completed. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 21 June 2012 08:21, Syed Ahsan Ali Bokhari wrote: >> Dear Jonathan >> >> For the sake of building static libraries I tried to configure with >> option --disable-shared. > > That's a waste of time, the default is to build both static and > dynamic libs so you should have them already. > > Your problem is that you haven't given the correct path to the linker, > why are you trying to build GCC again? > >> But that was not successful. And now even the >> previous build is not working. > > Then you're not following the same steps. > >> I have cleaned the source directory >> again > > That's not necessary if you build *outside* the source directory, as I > keep suggesting. If you never build in the source directory then it > never gets altered and you only need to clean the *build* directory. > > If you haven't followed the advice and are building in the source > directory then you may need to remove everything and start from > scratch. -- Engr. Syed Ahsan Ali Bokhari Electronic Engineer (EE) Research & Development Division Pakistan Meteorological Department H-8/2, Islamabad. Phone # off +92518358714 Cell # +923155145014 www.pmd.gov.pk