Poor Yorick writes: > I'd like to compile a native gcc on an x86_64 machine with an > altertanative prefix and with --with-multilib=all. In particular, > I want to be able to compile 32-bit binaries using -m32. Problem > is, this machine does not have 32-bit crt*.o files, and I do not > have root or sudo access to /usr. Currently, the only way I can > succesfully compile gcc is with --disable-multilib. Is there any > way to get gcc to bootstrap its own 32-bit crt*.o, or do I have to > scrounge up 32-bit crt*.o files which have been compiled elsewhere? The problem here is that crt?.o isn't part of gcc, it's part of the C library. So, whatever else you do you'll have to get the 32-bit C library from somewhere. Andrew.