Hi John,
Thank you Damian. Tried the first suggestion. It said I already had
gfortran; it turned out to be version 13. Tried the second suggestion.
My system has not heard of git. Managed to find gcc-14.2.0.tar so I am
now struggling to do something with that.
Assuming you have the top level of the gcc sources (where the configure
script resides) in the ~/Gcc directory, you can do the following:
$ cd ~/Gcc
$ contrib/download-prerequisites
$ cd
$ mkdir Gcc-build
$ cd Gcc-build
$ ../Gcc/configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran
$ make -j8
$ make -j4 install
The --prefix=$HOME option will install binaries, support libraries etc
under your home directory; if you want to put it somewhere else, specify
it as an alternative argument.
The build directory has to be separate from the source directory,
this is a frequent source of weird build errors. Adjust directory
names to taste.
The "-j8" option will use eight parallel compilations if possible;
adjust to approximately the number of CPUs on your system. Having
2GB memory per job is quite sufficient.
Hope this helps
Thomas
