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From: Kai Ruottu <kai.ruottu@wippies.com>
To: Jun Leng <jun_leng@brown.edu>, gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Building gcc-8.3.0 into a separate directory from the sources but failed
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:44:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ec877e4-f391-ca40-2a95-0893ed76622e@wippies.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A74BE295-E97F-4661-A5C0-3AA61D3F246E@brown.edu>

Jun Leng via Gcc-help kirjoitti 12.11.2020 klo 2.46:
> Dear all, I built gcc-8.3.0 into a separate directory from the sources but still failed.
>
> My commands are as follows:
> 1 cd ..
> 2 mkdir gcc1
> 3 cd gcc1
> 4 ../gcc-8.3.0/configure --prefix=/public/home/lengjun/softwares/gcc1
> <snip>
> 5 make
> The error is:
> configure: error: source directory already configured; run "make distclean" there first
Maybe you did something as weird as using the build directory as the 
becoming install
directory?  So '/public/home/lengjun/softwares/gcc1' was your build 
directory?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-12  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-12  0:46 Jun Leng
2020-11-12  3:26 ` Jim Wilson
2020-11-12  7:44 ` Kai Ruottu [this message]

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