Just as your e-mail came in, I've discovered that myself (reading the make-output :-(). There are always so many unknowns in these (unfortunately fully unspecified) builds, one always runs around like a randomised chicken. It runs now much longer as before, so there's hope. Will it actually solve the linking problems by itself (apparently the only possibility is static linking), or does one have to add run-time linker-instructions when running gcc? I hope not (that was the major motivation to do it this way). Thanks! Oliver On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 09:37:25PM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 27 December 2010 21:35, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > > > Usually I do > > tar xjf gcc-4.4.5.tarbz2 > > tar xjf gmp-5.0.1.tar.bz2 > > ln -s ../gmp-5.0.1 gcc/gmp > > Oops, that should be > ln -s ../gmp-5.0.1 gcc-4.4.5/gmp > > but I hope it's clear what you need to do anyway.