make install

[Salvatore Filippone]

Well, then, how do  you build the first time??? 
Isn't bootstrap supposed to be just that, a bootstrap???? 

More to the point, is there any other workaround ? 

Il giorno lun, 29/01/2007 alle 05.23 -0800, Tim Prince ha scritto:
> Salvatore Filippone wrote:
> > HI, 
> > I am installing a 4.2 snapshot on a machine with an ancient distribution
> > (RH 7.2), and I am getting the following error from make install 
> > gcc -c   -g -O2 -DIN_GCC   -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute    -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../gcc-4.2-20070124/gcc -I../../gcc-4.2-20070124/gcc/. -I../../gcc-4.2-20070124/gcc/../include -I../../gcc-4.2-20070124/gcc/../libcpp/include -I/devel/pasqua/GNU/gmp/include -I/devel/pasqua/GNU/mpfr/include -I../../gcc-4.2-20070124/gcc/../libdecnumber -I../libdecnumber    cc1-checksum.c -o cc1-checksum.o
> > cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-variadic-macros"
> > cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-overlength-strings"
> > make[2]: *** [cc1-checksum.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home1/devel/pasqua/GNU/obj-4.2-20070124/gcc'
> > make[1]: *** [install-gcc] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home1/devel/pasqua/GNU/obj-4.2-20070124'
> > make: *** [install] Error 2
> >
> > Prior to this I installed a 3.4.6 release which I then used to bootstrap the 4.2. 
> >   
> I have been seeing a similar problem with 4.3.  Apparently, the default 
> 3.4 compiler is used with options which are implemented only in 4.x.  I 
> avoid this by setting PATH to a previously built gcc-4.3.