Compiling problem with gcc4.5 libgcc

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/05/2010 11:17 AM, Kai Ruottu wrote:
> 5.5.2010 13:12, Kai Ruottu kirjoitti:
> 
>> The easy way would be to symlink the mpc-x.y sources into the main
>> gcc-4.5.0 source dir as 'pmc'.
> 
> Oops, of course as 'mpc' !
> 
>> Please see the other discussion on
>> the gcc-help list just now too, NOT ONLY that sent personally to you !
> 
> The problems related to symlinking 'ppl' additionally with
> 'gmp', 'mpfr' and 'mpc' is what I mean...

It seems that building gcc is a pain in the ass for a great many newbies.
I wonder if we could provide a simple script in contrib that downloads
a correct version of each prerequisite and puts each one in the right place.

Then you could do

   cd gcc
   ./contrib/download-prerequisites

Andrew.