I seem to be hitting a bad luck streak here. First with Solaris 8 Sparc and now with Solaris Nevada on x86. In this case the error message is related to the file unwind-dw2.o configure line is thus : bash-3.2$ /export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2/configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --enab le-threads=posix --disable-nls --prefix=/export/home/dclarke/local --with-local-prefix=/export/home/dclarke/local --enable-shared -- enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran --with-gmp=/export/home/dclarke/local --with-mpfr=/export/home/dclarke/local --enable-bootstrap Which is all well and good. until this happens : /export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2-build/./gcc/xgcc -B/export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2-build/./gcc/ -B/export/home/dclarke/local/i386-pc-solaris2.11/bin/ -B/export/home/dclarke/local/i386-pc-solaris2.11/lib/ -isystem /export/home/dclarke/local/i386-pc-solaris2.11/include -isystem /export/home/dclarke/local/i386-pc-solaris2.11/sys-include -O2 -O2 -g -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -isystem ./include -fPIC -g -DHAVE_GTHR_DEFAULT -DIN_LIBGCC2 -D__GCC_FLOAT_NOT_NEEDED -I. -I. -I/export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2/gcc -I/export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2/gcc/. -I/export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2/gcc/../include -I/export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2/gcc/../libcpp/include -I/export/home/dclarke/local/include -I/export/home/dclarke/local/include -I/export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2/gcc/../libdecnumber -I../libdecnumber -m64 -fexceptions -c /export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2/gcc/unwind-dw2.c -o libgcc/amd64/unwind-dw2.o Assembler: unwind-dw2.c "/var/tmp//cc_taiSb.s", line 396 : Warning: Illegal subtraction - symbols from different sections: ".L63", ".L73" "/var/tmp//cc_taiSb.s", line 397 : Warning: Illegal subtraction - symbols from different sections: ".L63", ".L73" "/var/tmp//cc_taiSb.s", line 398 : Warning: Illegal subtraction - symbols from different sections: ".L63", ".L73" "/var/tmp//cc_taiSb.s", line 399 : Warning: Illegal subtraction - symbols from different sections: ".L63", ".L73" "/var/tmp//cc_taiSb.s", line 840 : Warning: Illegal subtraction - symbols from different sections: ".L111", ".L141" . . . lot of similar lines of Warnings . . "/var/tmp//cc_taiSb.s", line 391 : Illegal subtraction - symbols from different sections: ".L72", ".L73" make[4]: *** [libgcc/amd64/unwind-dw2.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2-build/gcc' make[3]: *** [stmp-multilib] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2-build/gcc' make[2]: *** [all-stage1-gcc] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2-build' make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2-build' make: *** [all] Error 2 bash-3.2$ Did xgcc get created ? Yes : bash-3.2$ bash-3.2$ file /export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2-build/./gcc/xgcc /export/home/dclarke/build/gcc-4.2.2-build/./gcc/xgcc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1 [FPU], dynamically linked, not stripped bash-3.2$ But the idea of a bootstrap just went out the window it seems. The entire filthy gory mess of output can be see at : http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/gcc-4.2.2/gcc-4.2.2-i386-pc-solaris2.11-bootstrap-failure.txt I am going to go backwards and simply bootstrap GCC 4.2.1 on the exact same machine with the exact same methods. If GCC 4.2.1 is able to build to completion then I hold the new GCC 4.2.2 a little suspect here. I do thank, in advance, anyone curious enough to even look at all this. I really do feel strongly that GCC should be able to bootstrap on sparc-sun-solaris2.8 or sparc-sun-solaris2.10 or any variation thereof with the free Sun Studio 12 compilers or with the ( $big money$ ) Sun Studio 8 compilers. Thus far I am quite able to get GCC 4.2.1 to bootstrap. I'll verify that with a test. In the meantime I appeal to anyone that sees the error of my ways. Please don't hesitate to provide me with suitable correction. Dennis Clarke