Ok, I originally attempted to configure and make gcc 3.4.1 on a RedHat 2.1 ix86 machine specifying a location with --prefix: /home/joe/gcc-3.4.1-source/configure --prefix=/home/joe/gcc-3.4.1 --enable-threads I received a Bootstrap comparison failure error cp/tree.o differs .... I then attempted to configure and install gcc 3.4.1 specifying only a suffix allowing it to default to /usr/local : /home/joe/gcc-3.4.1-source/configure --program-suffix=-3.4.1 This completed successfully. Not sure if something was originally wrong with my original configuration or if it is an issue in the script. Joe