Brian Dessent wrote: > For example I seem to recall a recent PR in which gmp was configured on > e.g. sparc-sun-solaris2.10 but it detected that the machine was really > sparc64-* and built binaries of the wrong flavor, leading to an error in > the gcc build when it tried to link the stage 1 xgcc. For the sake of the archives, it was PR 35628 and it was powerpc-darwin not sparc: <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35628>. In any case, the solution was to configure gmp and mpfr with explicit --host=powerpc-darwin so that they didn't try to build 64 bit libraries. Brian