Hi, > Shouldn't you allow that choice for your host? If you configure so as > to over-write your host installation if you should reach the install > step, shouldn't your target be the same, since you don't intend a > cross-compiler? yes, it seems your right. I shortened the config-command-line to ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-languages=c,ada --with-ld=/mingw/bin/ld.exe --disable-bootstrap and now the make process passed the problem. Thanks for your help. (Now another error occurs, which I will post in a separate thread. I hope that is OK with list rules.) Thanks again, Wolfgang -- "Ein Herz für Kinder" - Ihre Spende hilft! Aktion: www.deutschlandsegelt.de Unser Dankeschön: Ihr Name auf dem Segel der 1. deutschen America's Cup-Yacht!