gcc 4.6.0

[Axel Freyn]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 01:43:56PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>    The compilation I just did of gcc 4.6.0 seems to have worked. I did 
> two things differently. I used a build directory outside of the source  
> directory. And secondly I compiled with c++ support. I used the 
> --enable-languages=c,c++ switch also.
>
>    I would rather have compiled without the c++ support. I don't use c++  
> much and it took a very long time to compile. Does anyone know which two 
> of these things may have really made the difference?

Hi Bill,


as documented on http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html it's a bad
idea to use a build directory inside the source tree:
"First, we highly recommend that GCC be built into a separate directory
from the sources which does not reside within the source tree. This is
how we generally build GCC; building where srcdir == objdir should still
work, but doesn't get extensive testing; building where objdir is a
subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported. "

So probably that made the difference...

Axel