From: "jonathan bailey" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Compile gcc 3.0 Lines: 50 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:56:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.163.5.139 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rr DOT com X-Trace: typhoon.southeast.rr.com 993347761 24.163.5.139 (Sat, 23 Jun 2001 21:56:01 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 21:56:01 EDT Organization: RoadRunner - Triad To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello All, I am currently trying to compile gcc3.0 from the sources released a few days ago. I am having 2 problems at the moment: 1. At some point during configure, I see a line that says 'Determining maximum length of command line input' or something close to this statement, after a minute or so, the computer either locks up completly, or if I'm lucky I get a error message stating that a invalid opcode error has occured, either way I have to reboot the computer. However I can fix this particular problem by commenting out the lines of code that run this test. 2. Once I get past the first problem, I run into another problem which is more serious, The configure part has finished by now, so all of the makefiles have been created, I then go to the root of the sources and type 'make bootstrap', this runs for a while and then eventually stops with the error 'xgcc ./specs permission denied (EACCES)'. Normally this would indicate a file conflict somewhere, but there are no other 'specs' files on the path other then the one for the compiler I am trying to use to build gcc3.0. One thing I have tried to correct this problem is to erase the specs file in the gcc3 directory and replace it with a dummy file called specs with nothing in the file. This seems to at least affect the problem a little, but then I get a new error message '-imacros unknown command .file stdlin', probably because the defs for this command was in the specs file I just erased. I then tried typing in just what was required to satisfy the -imacros command, but then I started getting the permission denied error again. So at the moment I don't know how to get around this particular problem. A few specs: cpu - Celeron 700 Mhz mem - 256 megs compiler being used to try and build gcc3.0 - gcc 2.95.2 latest versions of utilities have been installed, this had no affect on the problem. I have read all the faq's and other info I could find both in the root directory of gcc3.0 and on a few sites related to gcc. No info was found concerning this problem. If anyone knows what is going on here and knows a solution, please send email to jbailey8 AT triad DOT rr DOT com and/or reply back to this group. thanks! john