I'm building gcc 4.3.3 on Mac OS X 10.5. binutils seems to build fine, but gcc itself fails with this error: checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for powerpc-linux-gcc... /Volumes/Goliath/Users/timur/dev/gcc-bin/./gcc/xgcc -B/Volumes/Goliath/Users/timur/dev/gcc-bin/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/powerpc-linux/bin/ -B/usr/local/powerpc-linux/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/powerpc-linux/include -isystem /usr/local/powerpc-linux/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[1]: *** [configure-target-libgcc] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 A Google search of this error message shows several people with this problem, mostly on Solaris, but no real solution. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale