On 2015.09.09 at 08:36 +0000, Michael Mishourovsky wrote: > At my work I would like to have recent gcc installed but i have no > sudo rights to update the current gcc (its 4.4.7, and OS is redhat > linux). > > So I checked out latest version of gcc via svn, and following > guidelines given at gcc webpage, tried to download prerequisites, > configure gcc to be compiled into a separate folder and to start > make. But got a lot of errors including errors in test files (that > are easy to fix), errors during linkage (seems to be almost final > step); eventually failed to build it up. As it is supposed that this > SW is extensively tested, could you tell me: whether someone tried to > build latest gcc (say, gcc 5.1 or 5.2) from scratch and was succeed > in this (if he/she follows the guidelines given at the gcc web-site? > If possible, could you check -whether it is still possible to compile > gcc or not and update guidelines, if something has been changed when > time passes by? Please make sure that you use a build directory outside the gcc source tree. You may simply follow: https://gcc.gnu.org/install/ If the issue still persists, please post the exact errors that you encounter. -- Markus
