checking for suffix of object files failed when build gcc4.3.2 in ubuntu Hi, all. I am a newbie to ubuntu and gcc. When I tried to build gcc4.3.2, I encountered the following compilation error: ..... Checking multilib configuration for libgcc... Configuring stage 1 in i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc configure: loading cache ./config.cache checking for --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs... no checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for gawk... gawk checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... ar checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-lipo... lipo checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm... /home/simon/gcc/gcc-4.3.2/objdir/./gcc/nm checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... ranlib checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... strip checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... /home/simon/gcc/gcc-4.3.2/objdir/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/simon/gcc/gcc-4.3.2/objdir/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/gcc-4.3.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/local/gcc-4.3.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/gcc-4.3.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -isystem /usr/local/gcc-4.3.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details. make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/simon/gcc/gcc-4.3.2/objdir' make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/simon/gcc/gcc-4.3.2/objdir' make: *** [all] Error 2 ----------------- Is there anybody encountering the error too. Any hint to solve this problem is appreciated.