I am currently trying to build a gcc 4.4 on a newly updated ubuntu 11.10. However building the compiler always fails with some problems, when trying to bootstrap.
First crti.o and crtn.o could not be found. I symlinked them into another directory within the search path, and so I could get a bootstrap compiler. However now it fails with the message:
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
I tried out to use the intermediate compiler on a simple test program, and I get the message:
$ ./host-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/prev-gcc/xgcc test.c
xgcc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: File or directory not found
So something is seriously messed up with the paths of my intermediate compiler it seems. When I did the same thing on ubuntu 11.04 everything just worked fine.
I used the following command line to configure:
./configure --prefix=/opt --program-suffix=44
I also tried both a VPATH-built, as well as an in source build, but both have the same problem. I still have the gcc44 from before the update lying around within /opt, but it has become unusable since the update.
Is there any easy way to get gcc 4.4 working under Ubuntu 11.10? I does not have to be a self build compiler, if I can just download a package and install that, it would be fine as well.
