From: "bowman" <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Compile gcc 3.0
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"jonathan bailey" <jbailey8 AT triad DOT rr DOT com> wrote in message
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>    so all of the makefiles have been created, I then go to the root
>    of the sources and type 'make bootstrap', this runs for a while
>    and then eventually stops with the error 'xgcc ./specs permission
>    denied (EACCES)'.

Are you trying to build in the same directory as the source tree?  I haven't
built 3.0 yet, but prior
versions strongly suggested you expanded the tarball in src_dir, and then
created another directory at the same level, obj_dir (the names aren't
important) cd into obj_dir for the configure and build. For 2.95, this was
covered in /gcc-2.95.2/install/CONFIGURE