Tom Hawkins <tomahawkins@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Binutils builds find (2.20), but I'm having problems building GCC > (4.5.0). I configure with: > > $ cd build > $ ../gcc-4.5.0/configure --target=powerpc-eabi > --prefix=$HOME/powerpc-eabi --enable-languages=c,ada --with-newlib > --without-headers > > The snippet of the failure is below. It appears it is using the wrong > assembler. Yes. Did you configure the binutils with the exact same --target and --prefix options? Run the failing gcc command with the -v option to see which assembler it is invoking. It appears that your host gcc is running your target assembler, which is a peculiar failure mode. Ian