I tryied to build gcc 4.5.0 on Linux version 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5, and found the following problems that I couldn't find an answer on Google. I used the following command.
../gcc-4.3.5/configure --prefix=/usr --prefix=/apps --with-gmp=/apps --with-mpc=/apps --with-mpfr=/apps --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix make -j 8
Here is the part when it complained about the error
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cp: preserving ACL for `./asm/org/objectweb/asm/ClassAdapter.class': Operation not supported
cp: preserving permissions for `./asm/org/objectweb/asm': Operation not supported
cp: preserving permissions for `./asm/org/objectweb': Operation not supported
cp: preserving permissions for `./asm/org': Operation not supported
cp: preserving permissions for `./asm': Operation not supported
make[6]: *** [tools.zip] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/gl/gcc4.3obj/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/tools'
make[6]: Entering directory `/home/gl/gcc4.3obj/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath'
true DO=all multi-do # make
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/gl/gcc4.3obj/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath'
make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/gl/gcc4.3obj/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/gl/gcc4.3obj/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libjava'
make[3]: *** [multi-do] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/gl/gcc4.3obj/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava'
make[2]: *** [all-multi] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gl/gcc4.3obj/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libjava'
make[1]: *** [all-target-libjava] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gl/gcc4.3obj'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Any clarification and help will be highly appreciated. Thank you.
You say you're building gcc 4.5.0 but your error messages and ./configure line suggest that you are instead building gcc 4.3.5. I point this out because it's possible you have tripped over a bug in gcc 4.3.x's build scripts.
Second, the error messages you quoted make me think that you are doing your build on a weird file system, or else you have a buggy cp (unlikely but not impossible). What sort of file system is /home? You can find out with the mount command -- type it with no arguments, look for the /home line, see what it says next to "type". I have this:
/dev/sda3 on /home type ext4 (rw)
ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, xfs, and jfs should not be troublesome; anything else might well be for this use.
By the way, the precise version of your kernel ("Linux version 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5") is very unlikely to be relevant; for this sort of problem it would be much more useful to know which distribution you are using, and the version of that.