Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Marcus Elderic Koenig Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: RE: compile gcc 3.1 under cygwin Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:33:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9511f0e.dip.t-dialin.net X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024317206 19310 217.81.31.14 (17 Jun 2002 12:33:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:33:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 "Dockeen" wrote in news:NCBBLKKJGBJOLDFMCKFPIEIJCAAA.dockeen@mchsi.com: > One thing that gave me problems, and I should have known better is > that it is not a good idea to do your configure, make bootstrap, > make install steps from within the source directory you created > when you unzipped and untarred the gcc source. > > I put my source in a directory called srcdir, which is within > another directory called objdir. I run all of my commands from > objdir, not srcdir. > > One question for comparison purposes David, my configure takes > a couple of minutes, make bootstrap takes about an hour, and > make install takes a couple of minutes. I am installing on a > 1.1 GHz PIII, XP Pro, and I am building C,C++ and F77. What > does your install typically run? > > Wayne Keen exactly that was the problem :) I ran it from within the source dir. This overwrote some base Makefiles I think. it took about 1.5 hours on my Celeron 500 to compile it. configure took long, too. install was handled in minutes. thankx for the help, btw :) have a nice day. -elderic -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/