Hello all, I am getting an error while building gcc 4.1.0 build error for powerpc-eabi Host Environment OS : windows 2000 service pack 4 (with cygwin environment) Processor : AMD Athlon 1500+ RAM : 256 MB RAM target architecture : powerpc-eabi sources downloaded/compiling: binutils-2.16.1.tar.gz gcc-core-4.1.0.tar.gz gcc-g++-4.1.0.tar.gz newlib-1.14.0.tar.gz commands given : $ gunzip < binutils-2.16.1.tar.gz | tar xvf - $ gunzip < gcc-g++-4.1.0.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - $ gunzip < gcc-g++-4.1.0.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - $ gunzip < newlib-1.14.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - $ mv newlib-1.14.0/newlib gcc-4.1.0 $ mv newlib-1.14.0/libgloss gcc-4.1.0 $ mkdir -p /tmp/build/binutils $ cd /tmp/build/binutils/ $ /src/binutils-2.16.1/configure --target=powerpc-eabi --prefix=/gnutools -v 2> &1 | tee configure.out $ make -w all install 2 >&1 | tee make.out $ PATH=/gnutools/bin/:$PATH ; export PATH $ mkdir -p /tmp/build/gcc $ /src/gcc-3.2.1/configure --target=powerpc-eabi --prefix=/gnutools --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-newlib --with-gxx-include-dir= /gnutools/powerpc-eabi/include -v 2>&1 | tee configure.out $ make -w all install 2>&1 | tee make.out gcc 4.1.0 build error for powerpc-eabi checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... no checking for strings.h... no checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for C locale to use... generic checking for std::allocator base class... new configure: "C" header strategy set to c_std checking wchar.h usability... yes checking wchar.h presence... yes checking for wchar.h... yes checking for mbstate_t... yes checking for ISO C99 support in <math.h>... yes checking complex.h usability... no checking complex.h presence... no checking for complex.h... no no checking for ISO C99 support in <stdio.h>... yes checking for ISO C99 support in <stdlib.h>... no checking wctype.h usability... yes checking wctype.h presence... yes checking for wctype.h... yes checking for ISO C99 support in <wchar.h>... no checking for fully enabled ISO C99 support... no checking for enabled long long specializations... yes checking for enabled wchar_t specializations... yes configure: Debug build flags set to -g3 -O0 checking for additional debug build... no checking for extra compiler flags for building... checking for thread model used by GCC... single checking for shared libgcc... configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES. make[1]: *** [configure-target-libstdc++-v3] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/build/gcc' make: *** [all] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/build/gcc' Can any body help me to find what might have gone wrong? Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanking you, Ram --