FW: Compiling and building vital libraries.

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 29 February 2012 00:02, Me Myself and I wrote:
>
>
> //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I have indeed turned off my firewall for a while,
> and have successfully completed
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> ./contrib/download_prerequisites;
>
> which gives me
>
> gmp
> mpfr
> mpc
>
> directories.  However, these 3 new directories are source code directories, which need the
>
> ./configure; make; make check; install;
>
> treatment.

No, they don't.  That will happen automatically as part of building GCC.

READ THE DOCS I KEEP POINTING YOU TO:
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC

I didn't write them just for fun, stop ignoring them!