Thanks. I have solved the problem. The reason why i encounter the error is I seted the wrong configure options. On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Eus <eus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ho! > > On Sunday, October 5, 2008, "simon Ye" <kuangye19840410@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. > > Go to /home/simon/gcc/gcc-4.3.2/objdir/./gcc/xgcc and open the `config.log' there 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. > > Here I modified a bit what Brian Dessent has ever written before: > http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agcc.gnu.org+inurl%3Aml+inurl%3A%22gcc-help%22+%22compute suffix of object files%22 > >> Any hint to solve this problem is appreciated. > > It depends on what is written on your /home/simon/gcc/gcc-4.3.2/objdir/./gcc/xgcc/config.log > > Your search with Google should give you an answer in case the same problem as reported in your `config.log' has ever been encountered before. > > Best regards, > Eus > > > > -- miss you!