From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4323 invoked by alias); 29 Feb 2012 00:11:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 4304 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Feb 2012 00:11:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f47.google.com (HELO mail-lpp01m010-f47.google.com) (209.85.215.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:11:03 +0000 Received: by lagw12 with SMTP id w12so2900606lag.20 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:11:02 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.162.72 with SMTP id xy8mr11084961lab.32.1330474262138; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:11:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.29.67 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:11:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <418BF7963F914614B0CC31F6DF41CB6C@desktop2> <83mx87s98f.fsf@gnu.org> <94A2B27145A446C7ADFE1650F3742448@desktop2> <83d393s68h.fsf@gnu.org> <83boons4ac.fsf@gnu.org> <4F4B4C5A.3000705@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:11:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FW: Compiling and building vital libraries. From: Jonathan Wakely To: Me Myself and I Cc: mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.net, gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org, java@gcc.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact java-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-02/txt/msg00046.txt.bz2 On 29 February 2012 00:02, Me Myself and I wrote: > > > //-----------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------- > I have indeed turned off my firewall for a while, > and have successfully completed > > ./contrib/download_prerequisites; > > which gives me > > gmp > mpfr > mpc > > directories.=A0 However, these 3 new directories are source code director= ies, which need the > > ./configure; make; make check; install; > > treatment. No, they don't. That will happen automatically as part of building GCC. READ THE DOCS I KEEP POINTING YOU TO: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC I didn't write them just for fun, stop ignoring them!