Help in installing GCC 4.2.0!

[Tim Prince]

Hua Jie Lee wrote:

> I created an object directory before configure them. I did follow the FAQ
> of GCC to set the path of --prefix=dirname by settings as:-
> 
> .../gcc-4.2.0/configure --prefix=$HOME\bin\gcc420\
> 
> After the make configure it returned few errors such as :-
> 
> mkdir /home/student/leehjbingcc420
> mkdir: Failed to make directory "/home/student/leehjbingcc420"; Permission
> denied

It looks like you have been confused by running Windows. Read up about
the meaning of '\' in your OS.  You may have meant something like
$HOME/gcc420  Note that it is a little nonsensical to ask your gcc build
to install in directories something/bin/gcc420/bin,
something/bin/gcc420/lib, something/bin/gcc420/info, ...
but you can do that if you like.