gcc installation problem

[Marc Glisse]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Emmanuel Thomé wrote:

> gcc has (or had, at some point) provision for building its
> requirements gmp/mpfr/mpc with its own stage1 compiler, which maybe
> works better at compiling gmp.
[...]
> Alas, I'm not sure it still works as is, out of the box (I'm pretty
> sure it once did).

It is still the recommended method when you can't install them in the 
system directories, with even a script that does it for you: 
./contrib/download_prerequisites
(it downloads old versions though, so it may be better to do it by hand 
like you suggested)

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Marc Glisse