From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16252 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2007 01:25:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 16244 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Oct 2007 01:25:43 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dessent.net (HELO dessent.net) (69.60.119.225) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:25:35 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dessent.net) by dessent.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IgVkz-0004Se-4T; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:25:33 +0000 Message-ID: <47101E8C.3DF9F1EF@dessent.net> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:25:00 -0000 From: Brian Dessent Reply-To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jay caverte CC: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: error References: <369962.94096.qm@web51709.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-10/txt/msg00157.txt.bz2 jay caverte wrote: > can you tell me what i have to do? ive read the > installation manual, and it does say that you have to > out gcc or cc in your path first but i don't know how > to do it. Thank you What you currently have is the source code to gcc. In order to build something from source code requires a compiler, and gcc is no different. So without already having an existing compiler installed, the gcc source code is useless. But you probably do not want or need to actually build gcc from scratch this way; if your end goal is to have a working compiler then install gcc through the packages that your vendor/distro/operating system provides. Brian