I am trying to install the new version of gcc and am getting an error in the process.
Version of gcc: 4.5.0 System type: Ubuntu 10.04 I downloaded the package gcc-4.5.0.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/languages/gcc/releases/gcc-4.5.0/ and extracted the file to my Desktop directory and I tried ./configure sudo make Then I found out I needed GMP, MPFR, and MPC installed. I downloaded the packages to my desktop and built and installed them, several times since some of the latest versions did not seem to be compatible with each other. So after a few tries I found a combination of versions of these that would install correctly and still met the stated requirements for installing gcc 4.5.0 Then, finally I tried building gcc again with ./configure sudo make but then I get the error described in the summary above. Here is the last part of the make process: Checking multilib configuration for libgcc... Configuring stage 1 in i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc configure: loading cache ./config.cache checking for --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs... no checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for gawk... gawk checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... ar checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-lipo... lipo checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm... /home/justin/Desktop/gcc-4.5.0/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/nm checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... ranlib checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... strip checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... /home/justin/Desktop/gcc-4.5.0/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/xgcc -B/home/justin/Desktop/gcc-4.5.0/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -isystem /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/justin/Desktop/gcc-4.5.0/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc': configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details. make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/justin/Desktop/gcc-4.5.0' make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/justin/Desktop/gcc-4.5.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 Thanks for the help! -- Summary: libgcc configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files Product: gcc Version: 4.5.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: bootstrap AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: jbare7 at gmail dot com http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44714
