help with installing gcc in os x please.

[Ben Dougall <bend at freenet dot co dot uk>]

hiyer

could someone give me a hand as to how you go about installing gcc 
please? i've started to follow the installing documents but i'm not 
understanding them.

so far i've downloaded gcc 3.1

i've got two folders in an otherwise empty folder. one is the 
uncompressed/unpacked gcc 3.1 and the other is an empty folder called 
'objdir'

i'm on a mac with os x 10.2 which has apple's gcc, that comes with the 
developer tools, installed. i understand all this needs to be done 
through the terminal and i have navigated in the terminal to the 
previously mentioned 'objdir' folder.

i've typed 'limit stack 800' as instructed by the host/target specific 
installation notes - no error, so i assume that was successful.

also in the host/target specific notes is says:
"It's also convenient to use the GNU preprocessor instead of Apple's 
during the first stage of bootstrapping; this is automatic when doing 
make bootstrap, but to do it from the toplevel objdir you will need to 
say make CC='cc -no-cpp-precomp' bootstrap."
i didn't understand that bit at all. hopefully it's not important.

then near the top of the general configuration page it says to 
configure:

srcdir/configure [options] [target]

not sure what to do there. didn't get any further :/ if anyone could 
help me make sense of the instructions it'd be very much appreciated.

i think part of the problem is because i don't really have any previous 
experience of the command line/console thing. all i've done with it is 
compile c using the already installed gcc, so don't hold back with any 
'simple' information for fear of patronising. - any info is going to be 
appreciated.

thanks, ben.