I would like to install the latest version of gcc in a local account (not having administrator privileges). I need the latest version to be used by default in my local account since it is required for the installation of another software. I have ended up using Windows for running my programs just because of this problem with the gcc installation. I am still hoping to find a solution and convert to Linux since it is much faster.

I have installed first successfully all the dependencies and I have attached the code in installdependencies.txt.

I have modified the bash profile as follows (although I got the error even before this modification):

PATH=/home/geo6/build/gmp-6.0.0:/home/geo6/build/mpfr-3.1.2:/home/geo6/build/mpc-1.0.2:$PATH

Code used to install gcc:

Build gcc:
#tar xjf gcc-g++-4.5.0.tar.bz2 # optional
mkdir ~/gcc-4.9.2
cd ~/build
tar xzf /home/geo6/contrib/gcc-4.9.2.tar.gz
cd gcc-4.9.2
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/geo6/gmp-6.0.0/lib:/home/geo6/mpfr-3.1.2/lib:/home/geo6/mpc-1.0.2/lib
./configure --disable-shared --enable-static --prefix=/home/geo6/gcc-4.9.2 --with-gmp=/home/geo6/build/gmp-6.0.0 --with-mpfr=/home/geo6/build/mpfr-3.1.2 --with-mpc=/home/geo6/build/mpc-1.0.2 --disable-multilib


I also checked the folder home/geo6/build/gmp-6.0.0 and gmp.h is listed there.

The error I get is the following:

checking for the correct version of gmp.h... no
configure: error: Building GCC requires GMP 4.2+, MPFR 2.4.0+ and MPC 0.8.0+.
Try the --with-gmp, --with-mpfr and/or --with-mpc options to specify
their locations. Source code for these libraries can be found at
their respective hosting sites as well as at
ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/. See also
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html for additional info. If
you obtained GMP, MPFR and/or MPC from a vendor distribution package,
make sure that you have installed both the libraries and the header
files. They may be located in separate packages.

This issue has been reported and asked in other questions and as far as I have understood one solution is to move the gmp and mpfr into the gcc folder so I tried:

mv gmp-6.0.0 gcc-4.9.2/gmp
mv mpfr-3.1.2 gcc-4.9.2/mpfr

However I got the same error.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Attached Files

installdependencies.txt (2.6 KB, 99 views)

when i've done gcc building i've always been root, but it should work under a regular user account.
The big thing is having the prerequisists built, off hand i know gmp and mpfr are the 2 big ones.
when i did mine i would put everything under /usr/local so
for gmp i would do 'configure --prefix=/usr/local/gmp4.2' and 'configure --prefix=/usr/local/mpfr2.4'.
once those were installed... for you change to prefix=/home/youraccount/gmp... you then need to update your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH so those newly created libraries get referenced first before the system libraries.
I use tcsh so in /etc/csh.cshrc.local I would do "setenv PATH /home/your/account/gmp4.2:${PATH}"
and also "setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /home/youraccount/gmp4.2/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}".
with that done when you run configure for the gcc build it should then find those latest versions of gmp and mpfr.
do the same with any other prereq's such as ppl and cloog, whatever you build.

if configure for gcc still doesn't find the gmp or mpfr then do a configure --help for the gcc build. It will spit out the syntax for using the options --with-gmp and --with-mpr for which you say --with-gmp=/home/youraccount/gmp-4.2.
It may also do --with-gmp-include and --with-gmp-lib. so try those, that's what's worked for me.

the easiest way would be to have your system administrator install gcc49 ( 32 bit or 64 bit or arm ) in /home/YourUserName/bin
the one already built for this unknown operating system

you will need a ton more things than JUST gcc ( and not many programs will YET build in 4.9 without hacking the code)

what operating system is this ?
and are you 100% sure that this unknown program WILL ONLY build in gcc 4.9.2
see the changes for porting 4.8 code to 4.9
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html

4.8 is default on a lot of OS's
and 4.4 is default on RHEL6



or

why not just use a operating system that ALREADY has gcc4.9 installed by default

Fedora 21
-- it is do to be released on Dec 9

I am running Linux on a cluster computer which has a lot of memory and is faster so it is not my own computer. However I am just allowed to use my own local account and I do not have administrator support for software installations or installation rights. This is why I am trying to install locally.

I finally used config without the --with commands and it worked without errors.
./configure --disable-shared --enable-static --prefix=/home/geo6/gcc-4.9.2 --disable-multilib

However when I use make I get 2 errors (see below the errors). If anybody knows what it means please let me know.



rm -rf asm classes classes.lst asm.lst
make all-am
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/geo6/build/gcc-4.9.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava/classpath/tools'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/geo6/build/gcc-4.9.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava/classpath/tools'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/geo6/build/gcc-4.9.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava/classpath/tools'
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/geo6/build/gcc-4.9.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava/classpath'
true DO=all multi-do # make
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/geo6/build/gcc-4.9.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava/classpath'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/geo6/build/gcc-4.9.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava/classpath'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/geo6/build/gcc-4.9.2/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava'
make[1]: *** [all-target-libjava] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/geo6/build/gcc-4.9.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

← #4 and others.

Two fundamental errors :
1) The build/ folder is for the build only.
I.e. you must configure like this, in the empty build/ folder :
$ ../gcc-4.9.2/configure --prefix=/home/<etc.> --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-multilib
* The unpacked gmp/ (ver.=6.0.0a), mpfr/ (-3.1.2), mpc/ (-1.0.2) must be present in gcc-4.9.2/.

2) You don't want the "gcc java" etc.: Hence --enable-languages=c,c++.

Please read about gcc-4.9.2 in "LFS development"
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/

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One more required option :

$ ../gcc-4.9.2/configure \
--prefix=/home/<etc.> \
--program-suffix=49
--enable-languages=c,c++ \
--disable-multilib

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