failing to build gcc 3.1 or 3.0.4 on a Linux machine

[Andrea 'Fyre Wyzard' Bocci]

At 18.30 03/06/2002 (GMT -0400), Fernando Jeronymo wrote:


>I have gcc 2.96 installed in a Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) on this
>machine: Linux sablel 2.4.2-2smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 8 20:21:34 EDT 2001 i686 
>unknown
>
>
>So, now I downloaded both gcc 3.1 and 3.0.4, and it doesn't matter which 
>one of
>them I try to build. I am doing:
>
>$ configure /gcc/3.0.4
>
>then I do:
>
>$ make bootstrap (or just make)
>
>
>and in the end, I get the following message:
>
>configure: error: please upgrade to GCC 3.0 or above
>
>
>Any ideas?

No :-)
But you can upgrade to 3.0.4 or 3.1 with RedHat's prebuilt RPMs 
(gcc3-3.0.4...rpm, etc. or gcc-3.1...rpm, etc.) , and then bootstrap from 
those.

HTH, fwyzard