Possibly hindering error when invoking "make"

[Brian Lee]

To Whom It May Concern:

I cannot retrieve the output when I invoked "make" at the time of the error. However, I just invoked "make" and the following output showed up:

[ -f stage_final ] || echo stage3 > stage_final
rm -f stage_current
/bin/sh: gcc/mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [stage1-start] Error 127
Makefile:786: gcc/config/bootstrap-debug.mk: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `gcc/config/bootstrap-debug.mk'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

The "gcc" directory under the build/object directory that I created appears to be missing, but there is a "stage1-gcc" directory. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Brian Lee

P.S. The following is the correspondence that I had with Mr. Taylor:

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Date: January 11, 2012 6:45:52 AM PST
To: Brian Lee <brian.h.lee.90@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Possibly hindering error when invoking "make"

Brian Lee <brian.h.lee.90@gmail.com> writes:

I had GNU Make 3.81 at the time of the error. Perhaps I needed a newer version of GNU Make? Thank you.

Please reply to the mailing list, not just to me.  Thanks.

As the web site explains, you need GNU make version 3.80.  But if you
are using GNU make, then that is probably not the problem.  Show us the
lines in the Makefile that make is complaining about.

Ian

On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

Brian Lee <brian.h.lee.90@gmail.com> writes:

I got an error when I tried invoking "make" in order to install GCC 4.6.2. This is some of the output:

Makefile:26: *** missing separator.  Stop.
make[2]: *** [all-stage1-gcc] Error 2
make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Is this an expected error? Thank you.

This is not an expected error.

Note that gcc can only be built with GNU make.  See
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html .

Ian