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Re: couldn't understand your installation instructions
- To: hgraber at netmail dot hscbklyn dot edu
- Subject: Re: couldn't understand your installation instructions
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 09 May 2000 18:27:59 -0300
- Cc: <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <chorlian at spot dot cns dot hscbklyn dot edu>
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company
- References: <0005099579.AA957910907@netmail.hscbklyn.edu>
On May 9, 2000, hgraber@netmail.hscbklyn.edu wrote:
> Problems began when I couldn't understand the sentence 'Second,
> when configuring a native system, either "cc" or "gcc" must be in your
> path or you must set CC in your environment before running configure.'
It means you need a working compiler in order to build GCC from the
sources.
> Ultimately, I just followed your directions to '% mkdir objdir % cd
> objdir % srcdir/configure', and hoped for the best.
This means configure found a working C compiler.
> 'make bootstrap' command, the building process stopped after just a
> few seconds, with the message that a file it needed, 'argv.c', could
> not be found.
Then you don't have a POSIX-compliant make. Try GNU make.
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