Redirected to gcc-help. pengliang@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi I am new to this list. I try compiling gcc4.3.0 on mips machine > with the follow command : > ../gcc-4.3.0/configure --prefix=/home/lpeng/install/gcc-4.3.0 > --target=mipsel-linux --host=mipsel-linux --bui\ > ld=mipsel-linux --enable-threads=posix --enable-shared --disable-checking > --with-gmp=/home/lpeng/install/gcc-4.3.\ > 0/gmp/ --with-mpfr=/home/lpeng/install/gcc-4.3.0/mpfr/ -v > > but an error as follow described happened when making gcc : > checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: cannot compute > suffix of object files: cannot compile > See `config.log' for more details. It seems that your system's C compiler is borked. Can you compile trivial C programs? Andrew.