From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28828 invoked by alias); 6 Jun 2012 10:02:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 28820 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jun 2012 10:02:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_PGP_SIGNED,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_BJ,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from a.painless.aa.net.uk (HELO a.painless.aa.net.uk) (81.187.30.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:02:27 +0000 Received: from [81.187.191.218] (helo=gate.cowlark.com) by a.painless.aa.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1ScD4K-0007R6-QI for gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:02:24 +0100 Received: from [172.22.67.145] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.cowlark.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD314315A4 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:02:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from starling.antixlabs.com and verified by Spey connected from starling.antixlabs.com:57665 with envelope Message-ID: <4FCF2AA1.2000406@cowlark.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:02:00 -0000 From: David Given User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Building and Installing gcc-4.7.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig297AB0614EFF50782CBB2CA9" 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: 2012-06/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig297AB0614EFF50782CBB2CA9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1346 Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 6 June 2012 06:48, Anup Ghatage wrote: [...] >> Untar'ed it. >> ./configure >=20 > You didn't read the docs then, see http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC If you're referring to the need to set objdir, the documentation that actually ships with gcc says: > First, we highly recommend that GCC be built into a separate directory > from the sources which does not reside within the source tree. This is > how we generally build GCC; building where srcdir =3D=3D objdir should st= ill > work, but doesn't get extensive testing; building where objdir is a > subdirectory of srcdir is unsupported. In others, it says firmly that srcdir =3D=3D objdir should actually work. Given that it doesn't, is there any chance of getting this document changed? As it stands it's highly misleading. --=20 =E2=94=8C=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 =EF=BD=84=EF=BD=87=EF=BC=A0=EF=BD=83= =EF=BD=8F=EF=BD=97=EF=BD=8C=EF=BD=81=EF=BD=92=EF=BD=8B=EF=BC=8E=EF=BD=83=EF= =BD=8F=EF=BD=8D =E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 http://www.co= wlark.com =E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 =E2=94=82 "Parents let children ride bicycles on the street. But parents do= not =E2=94=82 allow children to hear vulgar words. Therefore we can deduce that =E2=94=82 cursing is more dangerous than being hit by a car." --- Scott Ada= ms --------------enig297AB0614EFF50782CBB2CA9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 262 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/PKqcACgkQf9E0noFvlzjPGgCeLO+1KYq7uXySecaCXHKDC4CX jycAoLdkLaws+h/bkCeqLg3xHxfE0iFT =ytrr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig297AB0614EFF50782CBB2CA9--