When bootstrapping and installing from scratch gcc I always find duplicate files instead of symbolic links in bindir (but i find symbolic links in libdir):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/local/gcc-4.3.2/bin> ll total 5952 -rwxr-xr-x 4 marco users 593797 2008-09-01 10:55 c++ -rwxr-xr-x 1 marco users 591729 2008-09-01 10:55 cpp -rwxr-xr-x 4 marco users 593797 2008-09-01 10:55 g++ -rwxr-xr-x 3 marco users 585690 2008-09-01 10:55 gcc -rwxr-xr-x 1 marco users 15967 2008-09-01 10:55 gccbug -rwxr-xr-x 1 marco users 108380 2008-09-01 10:55 gcov -rwxr-xr-x 2 marco users 594685 2008-09-01 10:55 gfortran -rwxr-xr-x 4 marco users 593797 2008-09-01 10:55 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-c++ -rwxr-xr-x 4 marco users 593797 2008-09-01 10:55 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-g++ -rwxr-xr-x 3 marco users 585690 2008-09-01 10:55 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -rwxr-xr-x 3 marco users 585690 2008-09-01 10:55 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.3.2 -rwxr-xr-x 2 marco users 594685 2008-09-01 10:55 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gfortran My build/install procedure is: mkdir Build cd Build ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/home/marco/local/gcc-4.3.2 --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --with-cpu=opteron make bootstrap make install Apologize if this has already been reported, or if it is due to an error on my side. -- Summary: installation duplicates Product: gcc Version: unknown Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: bootstrap AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: morandini at aero dot polimi dot it GCC build triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37978