Thank you for getting back to me. I ran ./contrib/download_prerequisites as it states in the FAQ. I then configured like this: ../gcc-4.8.1/configure --prefix=/home/mdl/ids103/gcc-4.8.1-install --with-ld=/home/mdl/ids103/binutils-2.24-install/bin --with-as=/home/mdl/ids103/binutils-2.24-install/bin I used --prefix because I do not have sudo permissions to install in default directory. I use --with-ld and --with-as because the default installed versions are old and the software that I will be compiling requires newer versions of the binutils. Unfortunately, I still get the same error. On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 14 June 2014 21:07, Ivan Stalev <idstalev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Okay, now I configured like this: >> >> ../gcc-4.8.1/configure --prefix=/home/mdl/ids103/gcc-4.8.1-install >> --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit >> --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-lto --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran >> --with-ld=/home/mdl/ids103/binutils-2.24-install/bin >> --with-as=/home/mdl/ids103/binutils-2.24-install/bin >> --disable-multilib --with-cloog=/home/mdl/ids103/install >> --with-gmp=/home/mdl/ids103/install >> --with-mpfr=/home/mdl/ids103/install >> --with-mpc=/home/mdl/ids103/install >> >> I started the build, and 10 minutes into it, I get this error: >> >> checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc... >> /home/mdl/ids103/gcc-4.8.1-build/./gcc/xgcc >> -B/home/mdl/ids103/gcc-4.8.1-build/./gcc/ >> -B/home/mdl/ids103/gcc-4.8.1-install/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ >> -B/home/mdl/ids103/gcc-4.8.1-install/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ >> -isystem /home/mdl/ids103/gcc-4.8.1-install/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include >> -isystem /home/mdl/ids103/gcc-4.8.1-install/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include >> checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in >> `/home/mdl/ids103/gcc-4.8.1-build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc': >> configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile > > Read the link I gave you. It links to the FAQ explaining this error: > https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FAQ#configure_suffix > > And it also shows a much simpler way to build GCC that avoids this > problem. Stop trying to do it the complicated way.
