Buliding 4.1.0 on SLES 11.1

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 26 January 2012 17:32, Jonathan Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 17:16 +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> On 26 January 2012 16:23, jonatha@QX.Net wrote:
>> > I am attempting to build gcc 4.1.0 on SLES 11.1.  It
>> > is failing on fastjar with complaints about makeinfo.
>>
>> What commands did you use to configure and build gcc?
>>
>> What is the error?
>
> (In the source directory)
> mkdir obj
> cd obj
> ../configure --prefix=/opt/gnu

There's your problem.

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html says "building where objdir
is a subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported."

Try the method given at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC