Install gcc install from scratch, how?
 

How can you install gnu ar, cc, gcc and make from scratch; especially gcc? How can I install the compiler gcc from scratch? Let's say I have a bare Linux system with just the kernel, binutils and minimal libraries; and I want to install gcc without the capabilities of rpm, yum or apt-get - how do you do it?

I tried downloading the gcc-4.1.1.tar.bz2, extracted and tried running ./configure but it says that I need a c compiler. How can the installation of a c compiler say that it needs a c compiler in order to compile.

Install the gcc package from the CD's of your distro and then you will be able to compile the new gcc package that you downloaded.

-twantrd

It's one of those chicken and the egg things. But one thing is for sure you do have to have a pre-compiled gcc to make your own. LFS goes into some good detail about the compilation proccess. Of course installing LFS you have to compile gcc 3 times.

You can also check out the GCC Website.

In particular the install document and the prereq. document.

That's what I thought. It makes me think more than twice about building my own custom mini distro. I'm in the process of creating a routine to setup gcc and yum with a scratch install.