Building gcc-4.3.2 using gcc-g++3.3.3

[Franklyn Simon]

I have SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES9) 
with gcc-g++3.3.3 and make3.80-184.1 installed on 
i686-pc.  I am trying to migrate from IRIX6.2 OS 
to Linux.  However, I am having several problems 
with compiling the source codes.  Some of the 
problems are with c++ stream as well as return a 
char* to the calling function.  Therefore, I am 
trying to install gcc-4.3.2 with the upgrade 
gcc-g++ compiler, but I am still using the 
current and old gcc with make3.80-184.1 to build 
gcc-4.3.2.  I cannot trust this compiler, and I 
am wondering if this is the problem I might be having building gcc-4.3.2.

I have run out of options in building 
gcc-4.3.2.  I cannot configure and build 
gcc-4.3.2, gmp-4.2.4, and mpfr-2.3.2 together.  I 
have to configure and build gmp and mpfr 
separately to get the library and include files 
to be generated.  Also, depending on where I 
build them, I might have to do a make distclean 
when it is time to build gcc-4.3.2.  The attached 
is the configuration files and make –j1.  I have 
tried all the suggestions to build gcc-4.3.2 from 
gcc help as well as following the directions from 
<http://gcc.gnu.org/install>http://gcc.gnu.org/install
Also just before make failed, there were several 
warning message: duplicate const



Do you have any suggestions to help me?

Thanks


At 07:05 AM 1/26/2009, you wrote:
>Franklyn Simon wrote:
>
>>Here is the attached config.log file and output from make -j1
>>It appears that configuration was okay, but I cannot get to build.
>>After looking at the config.log file its 
>>indicates the following two possible errors.  I 
>>do not know how to go about solving then
>>Please help. I am using gcc-g++3.3.3 compiler 
>>and SLES9 on hp pavilion a305w (i686-pc).  I am going a native build
>
>Your log tells that you aren't trying to build "only gcc-4.3.2" but to
>try some kind of "everything at the same time" : binutils, gmp, GCC,...
>and your build crashing during the 'gmp' build...
>
>Traditionally these things have been splitted into smaller pieces so the
>GNU binutils, the GCC, the 'gmp' etc. sources are 'stand-alone' with
>their own 'bfd', 'libiberty' etc. subdirs.  But there can be those
>"combined GNU sources" like those GNUpro ones from Red Hat and in them
>builds like yours should work. But in them many people have worked in
>order to get things to work together.
>
>Ok, something is wrong in your 'gmp' source install :
>
>----------- clip -------------
>make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/gcc-4.3.2/binutils'
>Configuring stage 1 in ./gmp
>configure: loading cache ./config.cache
>checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
>checking host system type... none-pc-linux-gnu
>checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>checking for gawk... gawk
>checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/gcc-4.3.2'
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/gcc-4.3.2'
>
>configure: error: source directory already configured; run "make
>distclean" there first
>make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-gmp] Error 1
>----------- clip -------------
>
>The GCC's "Prerequisites" say that the 'gmp-*' and 'mpfr-*' sources
>could be installed as 'gmp' and 'mpfr' subdirs into the GCC sources.
>Did you really do this?  Not for instance installing them being
>"parallel with the GCC sources" ?
>
>Building binutils then happens "parallel", totally separately from
>the GCC sources so one can have '$src/gcc-4.3.2' and
>'$src/binutils-2.19' but '$src/gcc-4.3.2/gmp' and '$src/gcc-4.3.2/mpfr'
>for the 'gmp-*' and 'mpfr-*' sources...
>
>The $build directory should be a separate one from the sources...
>Where are your GCC sources? They MUST NOT be in '/usr/local' ! Using
>that as your chosen '$build' directory sounds really weird. Something
>like :
>
>   /usr/local/src
>
>for the unpacked srcs like '/usr/local/src/gcc-4.3.2',
>'/usr/local/src/gmp-4.2.1', '/usr/local/src/mpfr-2.3.2' etc. would
>be more "normal". After unpacking the srcs there a suitable $build
>directory could be the :
>
>  /usr/local/build
>
>and configuring & building there... Just as the "Install" Prerequisites
>are telling, one could then have in '/usr/local/src/gcc-4.3.2' :
>
>    gmp -> ../gmp-4.2.1
>    mpfr -> ../mpfr-2.3.2
>
>and both 'gmp' and 'mpfr' being built during the GCC build....
>
>The '/usr/local' is quite like '/usr' in a Linux system, aimed for
>local-made apps ('bin'), libraries ('lib'), headers ('include') etc.
>Anything might happen if one thinks that it is not used for anything
>in the system...  I myself use '/home/src' as the install place for
>all kind of source distributions...
>
>I tried the "build 'gmp' and 'mpfr' during the gcc-4.3.2 build and
>things seemed to work even in a $build != $host case (cross-compiling
>also 'gmp' and 'mpfr' for the '$host' platform while producing GCC
>binaries for that...