I have been struggling for two days to get gcc to compile and install in a specific directory without success. If there is a HOWTO for this please point me to it. I have installed mpc-0.8.1, mpfr-2.4.2 and gmp-4.3.2 to specific directories as follows mpc-0.8.1=”/home/somebody/apps/gcc/mpc-0.8.1” mpfr-2.4.2=”/home/somebody/apps/gcc/mpfr-2.4.2” gmp-4.3.2=”/home/somebody/apps/gcc/gmp-4.3.2” I am compiling gcc-4.8.0 using the following options. date;time ~/apps/src/gcc-4.8.0/configure --with-mpc=/home/somebody/apps/gcc/mpc-0.8.1 --with-mpfr=/home/somebody/apps/gcc/mpfr-2.4.2 --with-gmp=/home/somebody/apps/gcc/gmp-4.3.2 --prefix=/home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0 --with-gmp-lib=/home/somebody/apps/gcc/gmp-4.3.2/lib --with-gmp-include=/home/somebody/apps/gcc/gmp-4.3.2/include --with-mpfr-lib=/home/somebody/apps/gcc/mpfr-2.4.2/lib --with-mpfr-include=/home/somebody/apps/gcc/mpfr-2.4.2/include --with-mpc-lib=/home/somebody/apps/gcc/mpc-0.8.1/lib --with-mpc-include=/home/somebody/apps/gcc/mpc-0.8.1/include;date; The error is as follows checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc... /home/somebody/apps/src/gcc-build/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/somebody/apps/src/gcc-build/./gcc/ -B/home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem /home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/somebody/apps/src/gcc-build/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 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/somebody/apps/src/gcc-build' make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/somebody/apps/src/gcc-build' make: *** [all] Error 2 The file "/home/somebody/apps/src/gcc-build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc/config.log" contains the error lines below: Thread model: posix gcc version 4.8.0 (GCC) configure:3358: $? = 0 configure:3347: /home/somebody/apps/src/gcc-build/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/somebody/apps/src/gcc-build/./gcc/ -B/home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem /home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include -V >&5 xgcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V' xgcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated. configure:3358: $? = 1 configure:3347: /home/somebody/apps/src/gcc-build/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/somebody/apps/src/gcc-build/./gcc/ -B/home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem /home/somebody/apps/gcc/gcc-4.8.0/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include -qversion >&5 xgcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion' xgcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated. configure:3358: $? = 1
