Compiled GCC 4.4 from source and everything was broken

[Neo_The_User]

EDIT! SOLVED! BAD HARD DRIVE!

Hi. I compiled GCC 4.4 from source and it was i686 optimized, X86, 32-bit architecture and I ran ./configure --prefix=/usr, make, sudo make install, no errors. It all worked wonderfully. After I reboot, HAL, Dbus, and networking don't work. I run sudo Xorg -configure to not use HAL, keyboard and mouse work. Networking still doesn't. I spend about 10 minutes trying to fix it and I decide to do a fresh install. Why did GCC 4.4 break my system? How can I prevent it from happening? How can I have GCC 4.4 and all its sub applications compiled from source and not have problems?

My goal of doing all this: To compile a kernel with GCC 4.4 and G++ 4.4

For those who want to help (Linux beginners do not try this)

cd && mkdir devel && cd devel && wget http://gcc.releasenotes.org/snapshots/LATEST-4.4/gcc-4.4-20090306.tar.bz2 && tar xjf gcc-4.4* && cd gcc* && sudo apt-get build-dep libstdc++5 libstdc++6 gcc g++ && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

Read that code line carefully so you know what you're about to do! IF IN DOUBT, DON'T DO THAT COMMAND! BY THE WAY, IT WILL TAKE OVER 7 HOURS DEPENDING ON CPU CLOCK SPEED!

[InfinityCircuit]

Or just:

aptitude install gcc-snapshot

[Neo_The_User]

Or just:

aptitude install gcc-snapshot

That's older than 4.3. It's 4.2. sudo apt-get install gcc-4.3 is newer than that even.

[Neo_The_User]

bump. please help. has anybody compiled ANY version of gcc from source and their system worked afterwards?

Problem: gcc 4.4 breaks my system.

What I want to accomplish: compile a kernel under 700K using gcc 4.4 and then continue doing mesa and libdrm development with gcc 4.4.

[Neo_The_User]

nobody compiles gcc eh? bump bump bump!! Ugh ok nobody wants to help me out eh? I help others and don't get back much. Well that sure sucks. I'll be compiling and trying to debug this problem myself on my other machines. If anybody feels like giving me a little tip of advice, suggestion, or an explanation on why gcc broke my system, feel free to post! Nobody is stopping you!

[Culexian]

I've compiled gcc from source a few times now. You say everything was broken, in what way?

[Neo_The_User]

networking didn't work, display screens were completely blanked, everything you could imagine, right after ubuntu finishes starting up. i still want gcc 4.4 but i'm not compiling it until i find out what happened.

[Culexian]

Did you run 'sudo ldconfig' after installing?

If you ran 'make -k check' after the build, were there many errors?(That's a command that will take quite a while too)

If there were just a few, that's normal.

[Neo_The_User]

OK I was wrong this whole time. My hard drive got corrupted which is why my system broke. I compiled the gcc suite to /usr again and it works wonderfully. Just coincidence that I was compiling gcc 4.4 right before my entire system broke. But yeah... wrong diagnostic.

[Culexian]

Glad that you got it sorted out. How's the performance of 4.4? I noticed a large jump in performance from 4.3.2 to 4.3.3.