woow.. !! thanks for all replies... i will download binutils before configuring gcc.. but i have a problem here.. i have a scratchbox environment in my debian system.. what i need to do is to have a host-gcc (4.0.1) as a compiler inside the scratchbox environment ... also i have a prebulit gcc 4.1.2 outside the scratchbox environment in my debian system having binutils, now i am configuring and building and installing gcc-4.0.1 in a seperate folder, so ranlib and strip are not present, can i directly copy the binaries(binutils : ranlib and strip ) from my system to this new gcc installed folder ??? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/gcc-4.0.1-giving-problems-tp14276817p14289038.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.