Hi, I tried to build gcc 3.4 in the same way as it was succesful with all previous versions, but boostrapping fails with ar rc libiberty.a \ regex.o cplus-dem.o cp-demangle.o cp-demint.o md5.o alloca.o argv.o choose-temp.o concat.o dyn-string.o fdmatch.o fibheap.o floatformat.o fnmatch.o getopt.o getopt1.o getpwd.o getruntime.o hashtab.o hex.o lbasename.o lrealpath.o make-relative-prefix.o make-temp-file.o objalloc.o obstack.o partition.o physmem.o pex-unix.o safe-ctype.o sort.o spaces.o splay-tree.o strerror.o strsignal.o ternary.o xatexit.o xexit.o xmalloc.o xmemdup.o xstrdup.o xstrerror.o mkstemps.o ar: regex.o: file or directory not found which doesn't astonish me, since neither regex.o nor any of the other files has been built yet, so imho it should fail?!?! Below I have copied the whole process (with the output --- hope it's not too much). The version of gcc used for compilation is kullmann@csltok:~/csoliver/GCC/Imp_3.4.0> g++ -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/specs Konfiguriert mit: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking --enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit i586-suse-linux Thread model: posix gcc-Version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux) but it seems to me that the problem does not lie here, but with the build process itself. Oliver kullmann@csltok:~/csoliver/GCC> mkdir Imp_3.4.0 kullmann@csltok:~/csoliver/GCC> mkdir Include_3.4.0 kullmann@csltok:~/csoliver/GCC> cd Imp_3.4.0/ kullmann@csltok:~/csoliver/GCC/Imp_3.4.0> /home/kullmann/csoliver/GCC/gcc-3.4.0/configure --enable-threads=posix --enable-long-long --prefix=/home/kullmann/csoliver/GCC/gcc-3.4.0 --with-local-prefix=/home/kullmann/csoliver/GCC/Include_3.4.0 --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-nls --enable-shared creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c *** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories: target-libf2c target-libffi target-boehm-gc target-zlib target-libjava zlib fastjar target-libobjc (Any other directories should still work fine.) checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... no checking for ar... ar checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-as... no checking for as... as checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-dlltool... no checking for dlltool... dlltool checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld... /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm... no checking for nm... nm checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres... no checking for windres... windres checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objcopy... no checking for objcopy... objcopy checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objdump... no checking for objdump... objdump checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... no checking for ar... ar checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-as... no checking for as... as checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-dlltool... no checking for dlltool... dlltool checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld... no checking for ld... ld checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm... no checking for nm... nm checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres... no checking for windres... windres checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating Makefile kullmann@csltok:~/csoliver/GCC/Imp_3.4.0> make bootstrap Configuring in libiberty configure: creating cache ./config.cache checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for makeinfo... no checking for perl... perl checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... ar checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... ranlib checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c Appending /home/kullmann/csoliver/GCC/gcc-3.4.0/libiberty/../config/mh-x86pic to xhost-mkfrag checking for sys/file.h... yes checking for sys/param.h... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for malloc.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for time.h... yes checking for sys/resource.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for sys/mman.h... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking for alloca.h... yes checking for sys/pstat.h... no checking for sys/sysmp.h... no checking for sys/sysinfo.h... yes checking for machine/hal_sysinfo.h... no checking for sys/table.h... no checking for sys/sysctl.h... yes checking for sys/systemcfg.h... no checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking whether errno must be declared... no checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... (cached) yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for uintptr_t... yes checking for pid_t... yes checking for library containing strerror... none required checking for asprintf... yes checking for atexit... yes checking for basename... yes checking for bcmp... yes checking for bcopy... yes checking for bsearch... yes checking for bzero... yes checking for calloc... yes checking for clock... yes checking for ffs... yes checking for getcwd... yes checking for getpagesize... yes checking for index... yes checking for insque... yes checking for memchr... yes checking for memcmp... yes checking for memcpy... yes checking for memmove... yes checking for mempcpy... yes checking for memset... yes checking for mkstemps... no checking for putenv... yes checking for random... yes checking for rename... yes checking for rindex... yes checking for setenv... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for sigsetmask... yes checking for stpcpy... yes checking for stpncpy... yes checking for strcasecmp... yes checking for strchr... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for strncasecmp... yes checking for strrchr... yes checking for strstr... yes checking for strtod... yes checking for strtol... yes checking for strtoul... yes checking for tmpnam... yes checking for vasprintf... yes checking for vfprintf... yes checking for vprintf... yes checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for vsprintf... yes checking for waitpid... yes checking whether alloca needs Cray hooks... no checking stack direction for C alloca... -1 checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for vfork.h... no checking for fork... yes checking for vfork... yes checking for working fork... yes checking for working vfork... (cached) yes checking for _doprnt... no checking for sys_errlist... yes checking for sys_nerr... yes checking for sys_siglist... yes checking for external symbol _system_configuration... no checking for getrusage... yes checking for on_exit... yes checking for psignal... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for strsignal... yes checking for sysconf... yes checking for times... yes checking for sbrk... yes checking for gettimeofday... yes checking for realpath... yes checking for canonicalize_file_name... yes checking for pstat_getstatic... no checking for pstat_getdynamic... no checking for sysmp... no checking for getsysinfo... no checking for table... no checking for sysctl... yes checking whether canonicalize_file_name must be declared... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for getpagesize... (cached) yes checking for working mmap... yes checking for working strncmp... yes updating cache ./config.cache configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating testsuite/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: executing default commands make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kullmann/csoliver/GCC/Imp_3.4.0/libiberty' if [ x"-fpic" != x ] && [ ! -d pic ]; then \ mkdir pic; \ else true; fi touch stamp-picdir rm -f libiberty.a pic/libiberty.a ar rc libiberty.a \ regex.o cplus-dem.o cp-demangle.o cp-demint.o md5.o alloca.o argv.o choose-temp.o concat.o dyn-string.o fdmatch.o fibheap.o floatformat.o fnmatch.o getopt.o getopt1.o getpwd.o getruntime.o hashtab.o hex.o lbasename.o lrealpath.o make-relative-prefix.o make-temp-file.o objalloc.o obstack.o partition.o physmem.o pex-unix.o safe-ctype.o sort.o spaces.o splay-tree.o strerror.o strsignal.o ternary.o xatexit.o xexit.o xmalloc.o xmemdup.o xstrdup.o xstrerror.o mkstemps.o ar: regex.o: file or directory not found make[1]: *** [libiberty.a] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kullmann/csoliver/GCC/Imp_3.4.0/libiberty' make: *** [all-libiberty] Error 2