I received the following error message when trying to compile gcc 3.4.2 on an IBM RS6000 (The messages have been reformatted) ranlib libbackend.a stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/acct/rlg0301/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0/bin/ \ -g -O2 -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes \ -Wmissing-prototypes -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wold-style-definition \ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o cc1 c-parse.o c-lang.o c-pretty-print.o stub-objc.o \ attribs.o c-errors.o c-lex.o c-pragma.o c-decl.o c-typeck.o c-convert.o \ c-aux-info.o c-common.o c-opts.o c-format.o c-semantics.o c-incpath.o \ cppdefault.o c-ppoutput.o c-cppbuiltin.o prefix.o c-objc-common.o \ c-dump.o c-pch.o libcpp.a rs6000-c.o main.o libbackend.a \ ../libiberty/libiberty.a ../intl/libintl.a -liconv ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libiconv ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libiconv_open ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libiconv_close ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information. collect2: ld returned 8 exit status make[2]: *** [cc1] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/acct/rlg0301/PROGS/C/UNIX/gcc_obj/gcc' make[1]: *** [stage2_build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/acct/rlg0301/PROGS/C/UNIX/gcc_obj/gcc' make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 I do not have GNU libiconv installed. When I run: nm -g /usr/lib/libiconv.a The closest symbols I see are .iconv, .iconv_open, and .iconv_close What could be wrong? Thanks.