Jay K <jay.krell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > My question is though, has anyone considered altering things so that > this can be easily constructed without recompiling the same code so > many times? Yes, it's been considered. It's just hard, and few people would benefit. > gmp/mpfr/mpc seems particularly expensive to recompile so many times. > I've taken to not doing that, at least when host and build aren't > varying and only target is. If you want to build for several targets, then don't put those libraries in the gcc source code. Instead, configure them (with --disable-shared), make them, and install them separately, and pass appropriate --with options when you configure gcc. Ian