Help building GCC

[Andrew Haley]

Maldonado-Salgado, Jose (Space Technology) writes:
 > 
 > 
 > I'm using cygwin to try to build a cross compiler for powerpc 603.
 > 
 > In this case I untar the gcc 4.1.1 in:
 > 
 > /cygdrive/c/josesdata/gnu/gcc-4.1.1
 > 
 > I followed steps in your configuration link by creating a directory
 > objdirppc inside the gnu directory, same level as gcc-4.1.1.
 > 
 > /cygdrive/c/josesdata/gnu/objdirppc
 > 
 > I copy to that directory the Makefile.in file and from that directory I
 > did the following step:
 > 
 > /cygdrive/c/josesdata/gnu/gcc-4.1.1/configure --target=powerpc
 > --program-suffix=ppc --enable-threads=vxworks --with-cpu=603
 > --with-arch=603
 > 
 > That step completed, and then I did a make.
 > 
 > make is giving the following error:
 > 
 > cd . && autoconf
 > autoconf-2.61: no input file
 > make: *** [configure] Error 1
 > 
 > 
 > Any ideas, what my problem is?

It's to do with timestamps.  If the file configure.ac has been
changed, gcc tries to regenerate the file configure.  Have a look at
the timestamps on configure.ac and configure.

Andrew.