On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The failure is occurring when the newly built gcc is being used to > compile gcc's support library. > > Building a cross-compiler to a GNU/Linux system is tricky. I recommend > looking at the scripts found via http://crosstool.org/ . crosstool looks clunky to me. I solved the problem by adding a few more command-line parameters to the configure script: ../gcc-4.3.3/configure --target=powerpc-linux --program-prefix=powerpc-linux- --enable-languages="c" --without-headers --disable-shared --with-newlib --disable-threads --disable-nls -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale