Possibly hindering error when invoking "make"

[Brian Lee]

Dear Mr. Taylor:

I have successfully gone through the process of installing GCC 4.6.2. Thank you for helping me resolve my issue.

Sincerely,

Brian Lee

On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> Brian Lee <brian.h.lee.90@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I tried to follow the instructions on the page http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html to the best of my ability. I created a directory called "objdir" under my home directory, entered that directory, and invoked "gcc/configure --enable-languages=c,c++". Thank you.
> 
> If you literally typed "gcc/configure", that won't work.  It implies
> that you put the gcc sources in a gcc subdirectory of your objdir
> directory.  That will fail.
> 
> If you have unpacked your sources into a directory gcc, then do
> something like
> 
> mkdir objdir
> cd objdir
> ../gcc/configure --enable-languages=c,c++
> 
> That is, run the configure script in an empty directory.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
>> On Jan 12, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> 
>>> Brian Lee <brian.h.lee.90@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> How exactly did you run the configure script?
>>> 
>>> Ian