Installation help (simple)

[Rudy]

Hi,

   I am a very inexperienced Linux user and am having
a hell of a time trying to understand the installation
instructions for GCC.  Apparently I am missing
something, becasue I cannot for the life of me
understand the "configuration" instructions that were
included in the download.
   All I want to do is install GCC in my machine so
that when I make or make install another program, I
have a valid C compiler on my machine. I am not a
power user and just need it to be on the machine.
   Below is the message I get when trying to install
the package.  
   Can anyone help me with this one?  Thanks in
advance....

James

[jef@localhost gcc-4.0.1]$ ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install...
/usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln works... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
configure: error: Building in the source directory is
not supported in this release. See
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html for more
details.


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