I compiled gcc 4.9.3 on Mint Linux 17.2 after installing a gnat package. The system installed gcc is “4.8.4”. All steps succeeded except “make -k check && echo SUCCESS!” didn’t echo "SUCCESS!” to the screen. Having never compiled gcc before this worries me. Does “check” only report errors in the event of UNexpected errors or what? Is my 4.9.3 build safe to use? I intended to use it to chain build 5.2.0. The command line used for configure was “/usr/local/src/gcc-4.9.3/configure —disable-multilib —program-suffix=-493”.
