On 2/17/19 10:00 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 00:07, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >> On 2/17/19 5:48 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote: >>> >>> Have you seen https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FAQ#configure_suffix by the way? >> >> Hrmmmm ... nope .... going there now. Seems to suggest I need to look >> in other places. I do have MPFR, GMP and MPC already built and installed >> into the target sysroot within /usr/local/lib. Okay .. these are good >> hints. I will keep digging. > > But are they in LD_LIBRARY_PATH? If not, you'll get the "cannot > compute suffix" error. > > You should just stop building them separately, and do it the simple > way: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC > Actually I did try to place the sources into the gcc-8.2.0 source tree as per usual and recommeded. However they would blow up early long before getting to anything from gcc itself. So I tore them out and went hacking in other directions. Wrongly. Heading back to placing them back in the source tree and also getting LD_LIBRARY_PATH setup ... however I did try that too and that failed also .. In fact ... I'll give this another go. Dennis