Help installing gcc 4.4.2

[Hung-Hsun Su]

Andi Hellmund wrote:
> Hung-Hsun Su wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if someone could help me install GCC 4.4.2 on one of
>> our system. I did
>> "./configure --prefix=/share/apps/gcc-4.4.2
>> --with-gmp=/share/apps/gmp-4.3.1 --with-mpfr=/share/apps/mpfr-2.4.1"
>> "make"
>>
>> and got the following error message that I couldn't figure out what is
>> wrong.
>>
>> Checking multilib configuration for libgcc...
>> Configuring stage 1 in x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc
>> configure: loading cache ./config.cache
>> checking for --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs... no
>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>> checking for gawk... gawk
>> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>> checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-ar... ar
>> checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-lipo... lipo
>> checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-nm...
>> /home/su/source/gcc/gcc-4.4.2/host-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc/nm
>> checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-ranlib... ranlib
>> checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-strip... strip
>> checking whether ln -s works... yes
>> checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc...
>> /home/su/source/gcc/gcc-4.4.2/host-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc/xgcc
>> -B/home/su/source/gcc/gcc-4.4.2/host-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc/
>> -B/share/apps/gcc-4.4.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/
>> -B/share/apps/gcc-4.4.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem
>> /share/apps/gcc-4.4.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem
>> /share/apps/gcc-4.4.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include
>> checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in
>> `/home/su/source/gcc/gcc-4.4.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc':
>> configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>> make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/su/source/gcc/gcc-4.4.2'
>> make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/su/source/gcc/gcc-4.4.2'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>> [root@alpha gcc-4.4.2]#
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide
>>
>> Hung-Hsun
>>
>>     
> Hey Hung-Hsun,
>
> you shouldn't call configure from the gcc source directory!
>
> Please follow the instructions at this link:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html
>
> Andi
>   
Hi Andi,

I try it as instructed using a clean copy of gcc that I downloaded from 
the web buy still getting the same error message regarding libgcc

[root@alpha gcc-4.4.2]# pwd
/home/su/source/gcc/gcc-4.4.2
[root@alpha gcc]# mkdir gccobjdir
[root@alpha gcc]# cd gccobjdir
[root@alpha gccobjdir]# pwd
/home/su/source/gcc/gccobjdir
[root@alpha gccobjdir]# ../gcc-4.4.2/configure 
--prefix=/share/apps/gcc-4.4.2 --with-gmp=/share/apps/gmp-4.3.1 
--with-mpfr=/share/apps/mpfr-2.4.1
[root@alpha gccobjdir]# make
...
Checking multilib configuration for libgcc...
Configuring stage 1 in x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc
configure: loading cache ./config.cache
checking for --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs... no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for gawk... gawk
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-ar... ar
checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-lipo... lipo
checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-nm... 
/home/su/source/gcc/gccobjdir/./gcc/nm
checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-ranlib... ranlib
checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-strip... strip
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc... 
/home/su/source/gcc/gccobjdir/./gcc/xgcc 
-B/home/su/source/gcc/gccobjdir/./gcc/ 
-B/share/apps/gcc-4.4.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ 
-B/share/apps/gcc-4.4.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem 
/share/apps/gcc-4.4.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem 
/share/apps/gcc-4.4.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include
checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in 
`/home/su/source/gcc/gccobjdir/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc':
configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
See `config.log' for more details.
make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/su/source/gcc/gccobjdir'
make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/su/source/gcc/gccobjdir'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@alpha gccobjdir]#

Hung-Hsun

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Sincerely,
 
Hung-Hsun Su
 
Ph.D. Student, UPC Group Leader, Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant
High-performance Computing and Simulation (HCS) Research Laboratory
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL 32611-6200
Email: su@hcs.ufl.edu, hunghsun@ufl.edu
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