Re: help with installing gcc in os x please.

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

hiyer fwyzard,

well, i'm not sure. i think i'm just having trouble accessing it, but 
i'm not sure.

putting 'bin' and the linking issue aside, trying to access it directly 
from the objdir folder -

in the objdir are these files & folders:

config.cache		(a 16k document)
config.status		(a 4k document)
gcc				(folder 289 items inside totaling 153mb)
libiberty			(folder 49 items inside totaling 1mb)
Makefile			(a 64k document)
powerpc-apple-darwin6.2		(an empty folder)

while in (in meaning located in, while i'm using the terminal) these 
locations:
the 'objdir' folder, the 'gcc' folder mentioned in the above list, the 
'libiberty' folder and the folder that contains 'objdir',
i've tried both './gcc -v' and './gccc -v'
i tried in the gccfolder as well although that was silly - i knew that 
wasn't going to work but still worth a go.

i've deleted the first install that was without the prefix c option, so 
i guess trying ./gcc was not going to work anyway, but still worth a go.

so the responses to typing those in were:
./gcc: Permission denied.
and
./gccc: Command not found.

but it only says 'permission denied' in response to './gcc -v' when 
there happens to be a folder in the directory that i'm  in, called 
'gcc', otherwise it says 'command not found'.

to me, it appears as if the whole thing has installed successfully and 
it's all there but i'm just not accessing it correctly. that's what it 
looks like to me but i'm not completely sure on that.

> The final GCC is contained in the objdir folder, along with all the 
> temporary thiongs it used to boostrap (all in almost 3 copies, 
> remember). After installing (make install) you can safely delete the 
> objdir folder (and the srcdir one, or course, when you're done 
> building all the things you need)
:/ if the final gcc is contained in the objdir, deleting objdir would 
delete the final installed gcc wouldn't it?! :)

> If in the end you get it working, would you mind writing a small 
> summary of the instrctions and posting it to gcc@gcc.gnu.org, so that 
> it can be linked from GCC 3.2 results page ?
ok, no problem. will do. is gcc@gcc.gnu.org another list like this one?


aha! look what i've found:
[Ben-Ds-Computer:~/cprac] bend% cd ../gcc/objdir/gcc
[Ben-Ds-Computer:~/gcc/objdir/gcc] bend% ./xgcc
xgcc: no input files
[Ben-Ds-Computer:~/gcc/objdir/gcc] bend% ./xgcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Configured with: ../gccfolder/configure --enable-threads=posix 
--enable-shared--program-suffix=c
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.1
[Ben-Ds-Computer:~/gcc/objdir/gcc] bend%

:) so it is there and it's called xgcc ! (for some reason). i thought 
it would be there somewhere. and it's in the gcc folder that's in the 
objdir folder. so surely, deleting the objdir folder is not a good 
thing to do?! but some of it must be redundant. i'm sure the folder 
that's got all the original installation stuff can go. but the objdir 
folder is 150mb so some of it must be erasable too.

> If this works, then the only problem is the missing PATH variable 
> setting. To solve this you need to ask a MacOS user, as I don't know 
> how to set it up on your system (maybe somewhere in a kind of Control 
> Panel, maybe :-)
ok i'll look into that.

thanks a-lot for all the info fwyzard. much appreciated.

ben.