Failing to build gcc 4.7.1

[Tim Prince]

On 07/26/2012 03:43 PM, Philip Boulton wrote:
> Working on FreeBSD8.1, in a jailed environment.  I have an ancient
> (gcc3.4.6) version of gcc that works as my C compiler.  gmake version 3.8.1
>
> I do the following, as root:
>> tar zxf gcc-4.7.1.tar.gz
>> cd gcc-4.7.1
>> ls -atlG contrib/downl*
>> ./contrib/download_prerequisites<-- seems to work
>> ./contrib/download_ecj<-- seems to work
>>   cd ..
>>   mkdir obj_gcc471
>>   cd obj_gcc471
>>   ../gcc-4.7.1/configure<-- runs successfully.
>>   gmake
> During the make process, I get the following error:
>
> checking for math/rint... yes
> checking for long double... yes
> checking format of `long double' floating point... IEEE extended, little
> endian
> checking for gmp.h... no
> configure: error: gmp.h can't be found, or is unusable.
> gmake[2]: *** [configure-stage1-mpfr] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/local/obj_gcc471'
> gmake[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/local/obj_gcc471'
>
> N.B., gmp.h is *not* present anywhere in gcc-4.7.1 after the
> download_prerequisites.  Should it be?
>
> Any help is appreciated,
>
> Thanks.
>
> PB
>
You could attempt to configure and build those prerequisites separately 
in place where download_prerequisites put them (making a clean build 
directory for each), to get an idea more easily what the issues might 
be.  Inability to complete these individual builds would block the gcc 
build.

-- 
Tim Prince