Brian: Yes I knew about that and I had been careful to supply the appropriate "--with" options to the configure script. What I didn't know was how aggressive the stage 3 configuration was in searching for the gnu tools. I only discovered the problem because I just happened to be watching the screen at the moment stage 3 started. Of course everything scrolled off too quickly for me to read but a repeat of the build piped through tee showed "Target ld ..." and "Target as ..." to be something other than the native AIX tools. I purged all traces of binutils and everything worked. Subsequently I did restore cxxfilt because that is useful and harmless but I think a warning should be added to the text which you mentioned. -----Original Message----- From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent Sent: 18 March, 2008 10:41 To: Jonathan Saxton Cc: 'Ben Scurr'; gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: AIX 5.3 gcc 4.1.2 bootstrap error Jonathan Saxton wrote: > > I had lots of difficulty building 4.2.2 on AIX 5.2. Problem turned out to > be binutils. I found that I had to delete binutils altogether. It was not > sufficient to use the make options to specify the native versions of ld and For what it's worth gcc documents this requirement: <http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-ibm-aix> quote: > The native as and ld are recommended for bootstrapping on AIX 4 and > required for bootstrapping on AIX 5L. The GNU Assembler reports that it > supports WEAK symbols on AIX 4, which causes GCC to try to utilize weak > symbol functionality although it is not supported. The GNU Assembler and > Linker do not support AIX 5L sufficiently to bootstrap GCC. The native > AIX tools do interoperate with GCC. Brian
