Igor Chudov <ichudov@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ./configure ; make clean all 1. do not build in source directory, read http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html 2. "make clean" doesn't do what you want, you need "make distclean" or rm -r objdir (see above) This is why --disable-multilib option didn't work for you as it should. > ./configure --disable-multilib ; make clean all [stuff snipped] > > The result I invariably get is this. HELP!!!!!!!!!!! Or if you want to compile with multilibs, install ia32-libs-dev package. You may also want to compile only c and c++ language frontends, see --enable-languages configure option.