gcc and linux newbie's question

[Tim Prince]

>1) Is "source directory" the directory where I place the
>   decompressed and unpackaged gcc bzip2 files?

Yes, e.g. <source directory>/gcc-2.95.2...

>set
>   CC in your environment before running configure.

>2) Does it mean I should set those things before configuration?

yes, according to your shell, along the lines of

export CC=/usr/bin/gcc

or

setenv CC /bin/cc

so that $CC invokes the compiler you wish to use for initial bootstrap


Tim Prince
tprince@computer.org