You need to configure with --prefix=<directory name> and while install it will place the binary in that folder. I think you have not used --prefix and the binaries were installed in default /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. Thanks & Regards Ajit -----Original Message----- From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jihene Abdennadher Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 2:08 PM To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Failure while installing gcc Hi I have compiled gcc4.4.7 version with sucess. The installation seems to be OK also (success with make install with no error message) but there is no creation of the bin directory on the path that I had processed in building!!! In particular there is no creation of the gcc binary! Can you help me please Best regards -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jihene Abdennadher Maitre Assistante (physique) Institut préparatoire aux etudes d'ingenieur de Tunis (IPEIT) 2 Rue Jawaher Lel Nehru 1089 Montfleury-Tunis. Tunisie tel =+216 98 692 465 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------