> Hmmm, I tried gcc-4.1.2 for 'pdp11-bsd2.11' target and that seemed to > succeed. Maybe gcc-4.3.2 is > broken for PDP11 :( Support dropped (obsolete) in 4.3.3... At your suggestion I tried gcc-4.1.2. > You must like things being as complicate as possible... My simple > configure was : After building binutils 2.20 with target pdp11-bsd2.11, I tried to build gcc with your options. Build fails with the following error: mkdir build-i386-unknown-freebsd8.0/fixincludes Configuring in build-i386-unknown-freebsd8.0/fixincludes configure: loading cache ../config.cache checking build system type... (cached) i386-unknown-freebsd8.0 checking host system type... (cached) i386-unknown-freebsd8.0 checking target system type... pdp11-unknown-bsd2.11 checking for i386-unknown-freebsd8.0-gcc... (cached) gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... (cached) o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking whether gcc supports -W... yes checking whether gcc supports -Wall... yes checking whether gcc supports -Wwrite-strings... yes checking whether gcc supports -Wstrict-prototypes... yes checking whether gcc supports -Wmissing-prototypes... yes checking whether gcc supports -Wold-style-definition... yes checking whether gcc supports -Wmissing-format-attribute... yes checking whether gcc supports -pedantic -Wno-long-long... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E checking for egrep... (cached) grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking for memory.h... (cached) yes checking for strings.h... (cached) yes checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking stddef.h usability... yes checking stddef.h presence... yes checking for stddef.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for strings.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for fcntl.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/file.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes checking for clearerr_unlocked... yes checking for feof_unlocked... yes checking for ferror_unlocked... yes checking for fflush_unlocked... no checking for fgetc_unlocked... no checking for fgets_unlocked... no checking for fileno_unlocked... yes checking for fprintf_unlocked... no checking for fputc_unlocked... no checking for fputs_unlocked... no checking for fread_unlocked... no checking for fwrite_unlocked... no checking for getchar_unlocked... yes checking for getc_unlocked... yes checking for putchar_unlocked... yes checking for putc_unlocked... yes checking whether abort is declared... yes checking whether errno is declared... no checking whether clearerr_unlocked is declared... yes checking whether feof_unlocked is declared... yes checking whether ferror_unlocked is declared... yes checking whether fflush_unlocked is declared... no checking whether fgetc_unlocked is declared... no checking whether fgets_unlocked is declared... no checking whether fileno_unlocked is declared... yes checking whether fprintf_unlocked is declared... no checking whether fputc_unlocked is declared... no checking whether fputs_unlocked is declared... no checking whether fread_unlocked is declared... no checking whether fwrite_unlocked is declared... no checking whether getchar_unlocked is declared... yes checking whether getc_unlocked is declared... yes checking whether putchar_unlocked is declared... yes checking whether putc_unlocked is declared... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... (cached) yes checking for sys/mman.h... (cached) yes checking for mmap... yes checking whether read-only mmap of a plain file works... yes checking whether mmap from /dev/zero works... yes checking for MAP_ANON(YMOUS)... yes checking whether mmap with MAP_ANON(YMOUS) works... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no updating cache ../config.cache configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating mkheaders.almost config.status: creating config.h gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHA VE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes -I../include -I../../../gcc-4.1 .2/fixincludes/../include ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixincl.c In file included from ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixincl.c:101: ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixincl.x:77: warning: string length '4662' is gr eater than the length '509' ISO C90 compilers are required to support ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixincl.x:225: warning: string length ' eater than the length '509' ISO C90 compilers are required to support ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixincl.x:270: warning: string length '532' is gr eater than the length '509' ISO C90 compilers are required to support ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixincl.x:314: warning: string length '808' is gr eater than the length '509' ISO C90 compilers are required to support ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixincl.x:400: warning: string length '5139' is g reater than the length '509' ISO C90 compilers are required to support ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixincl.x:2459: warning: string length '729' is g reater than the length '509' ISO C90 compilers are required to support ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixincl.x:7552: warning: string length '575' is g reater than the length '509' ISO C90 compilers are required to support gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHA VE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes -I../include -I../../../gcc-4.1 .2/fixincludes/../include ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixtests.c gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHA VE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes -I../include -I../../../gcc-4.1 .2/fixincludes/../include ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixfixes.c gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHA VE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes -I../include -I../../../gcc-4.1 .2/fixincludes/../include ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/server.c gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHA VE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes -I../include -I../../../gcc-4.1 .2/fixincludes/../include ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/procopen.c gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHA VE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes -I../include -I../../../gcc-4.1 .2/fixincludes/../include ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixlib.c gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHA VE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes -I../include -I../../../gcc-4.1 .2/fixincludes/../include ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/fixopts.c gcc -g -O2 -o fixincl fixincl.o fixtests.o fixfixes.o server.o procopen.o fixl ib.o fixopts.o ../libiberty/libiberty.a echo timestamp > full-stamp srcdir="../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes" /bin/sh ../../../gcc-4.1.2/fixincludes/m kfixinc.sh pdp11-unknown-bsd2.11 sed -e 's/@gcc_version@//' < > mkheadersT Syntax error: redirection unexpected *** Error code 2 Stop in /var/tmp/gcc-4.1.2-obj/build-i386-unknown-freebsd8.0/fixincludes. *** Error code 1 Stop in /var/tmp/gcc-4.1.2-obj. I am using FreeBSD 8.0. Can this be FreeBSD related? Should I install a Linux box and try there? Thanks, -- Aram Hăvărneanu