couldn't understand your installation instructions

[Alexandre Oliva]

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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