MUCH appreciated for the assist...1st time building this for me, now I know the "right" way. Thank you, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Wakely [mailto:jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 1:15 PM To: Koenig, Mark (ISS SCI - Plano, TX) Cc: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: help building 4.7.1 On 8 March 2013 19:10, Koenig, Mark (ISS SCI - Plano, TX) wrote: > I'm trying to build gcc 4.7.1 on a Sandybridge system, running RHEL6.2 > > Doesn't seem to matter what I do, I always get this error... > > mkdir -p -- x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc Checking multilib > configuration for libgcc... > Configuring stage 1 in x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc > configure: creating cache ./config.cache checking build system type... > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for > --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs... no checking for a > BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for gawk... > gawk checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-ar... ar checking for > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-lipo... lipo checking for > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-nm... > /mops/linux/gcc/gcc-4.7.1/buildobjs/./gcc/nm > checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-ranlib... ranlib checking for > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-strip... strip checking whether ln -s > works... yes checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc... > /mops/linux/gcc/gcc-4.7.1/buildobjs/./gcc/xgcc > -B/mops/linux/gcc/gcc-4.7.1/buildobjs/./gcc/ > -B/usr/local/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ > -B/usr/local/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem > /usr/local/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem > /usr/local/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include > checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/mops/linux/gcc/gcc-4.7.1/buildobjs/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc': > configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot > compile See `config.log' for more details. > make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 1 See http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FAQ#configure_suffix Try the build instructions at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC instead, 9 out of 10 cats prefer it.
