On 9 September 2015 at 09:50, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > 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. Also https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC Please don't cross-post to both the gcc and gcc-help lists, we have separate lists for a reason not just so you have additional places to email to. You're asking for help building GCC so your email is off-topic on the gcc list.
