From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: n8tm@aol.comnojunk (Tim Prince)
To: help-gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gcc and linux newbie's question
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 22:24:00 -0000
Message-ID: <19991220085554.10619.00000113@ng-ch1.aol.com>
References: <385DD787.2EA064EC@polyu.edu.hk>
X-SW-Source: 1999-12n/msg00274.html
Message-ID: <19991231222400.1hJweNsAI3M9WrbYYxhxyUeeJ-IgZI2aqKrQttlH40w@z>

>1) Is "source directory" the directory where I place the
>   decompressed and unpackaged gcc bzip2 files?

Yes, e.g. <source directory>/gcc-2.95.2...

>set
>   CC in your environment before running configure.

>2) Does it mean I should set those things before configuration?

yes, according to your shell, along the lines of

export CC=/usr/bin/gcc

or

setenv CC /bin/cc

so that $CC invokes the compiler you wish to use for initial bootstrap


Tim Prince
tprince@computer.org