As per your suggestion, I changed the configure options to include --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/sfw/bin/gld It successfully completed "make bootstrap". I will still submit the bug report. Thanks for the help. -----Original Message----- From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:iant@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:18 PM To: Tovrea, George W (US SSA) Cc: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: gcc fails to build on Solaris 5.10 "Tovrea, George W (US SSA)" <george.tovrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > GCC build fails on SunOS siamese 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4u sparc > SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500 with the following errors: This looks like a bug. Please open a bug report. See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html . Thanks. It will mostly work if you use the GNU linker, but it ought to work with the native linker. Ian