Hi Andrew, Sorry, that was a typo on my part. The "--host" should be replaced with "--target" in the configure line for gcc. Scott On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Scott Phuong wrote: > > Hello gcc, > > > > I am running into a problem when I am trying to compile GCC to run on > > a i686-pc-linux-gnu (host) but to build source code for target, > > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. I have build binutils first with the following > > configure parameters: > > > > configure --target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --prefix==mydirectoryforinstall. > > > > After I make and install binutils into my own directory, I build gcc > > using the following configure parameter: > > > > configure --prefix=mygccdirectoryfor install --enable-shared > > --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib > > --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions > > --enable-libgcj-multifile > > --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,fortran,ada --disable-dssi > > --enable-plugin --with-cpu=generic --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > > This is wrong: you just told us that the host is i686-pc-linux-gnu. > > You're also going to need a set of x86_64-pc-linux-gnu libraries in > your sysroot. > > Andrew. >