On 27 January 2011 20:10, Paul van Hoven wrote: > I now created the following directory structure (outside the source > directory): > > The build directory > /Users/toom/Downloads/gcc-4.3.5/obj-gcc-4.3.5 > The source directory > /Users/toom/Downloads/gcc-4.3.5/gcc-4.3.5 > > Then in obj-gcc-4.3.5 I ran the following commands > ../gcc-4.3.5/configure --prefix=/Users/toom/gcc4.3.5/ > --with-mpfr=/Users/toom/gcc4.3.5/requiredLibs/mpfr-3.0.0/ > --with-gmp=/Users/toom/gcc4.3.5/requiredLibs/gmp-5.0.1/ > make bootstrap > > I still get the same error message > checking whether ln -s works... yes > checking for i386-apple-darwin10.6.0-gcc... > /Users/toom/Downloads/gcc-4.3.5/obj-gcc-4.3.5/./gcc/xgcc > -B/Users/toom/Downloads/gcc-4.3.5/obj-gcc-4.3.5/./gcc/ > -B/Users/toom/gcc4.3.5//i386-apple-darwin10.6.0/bin/ > -B/Users/toom/gcc4.3.5//i386-apple-darwin10.6.0/lib/ -isystem > /Users/toom/gcc4.3.5//i386-apple-darwin10.6.0/include -isystem > /Users/toom/gcc4.3.5//i386-apple-darwin10.6.0/sys-include > checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: cannot compute > suffix of object files: cannot compile > See `config.log' for more details. > make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 > make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 Have you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or done something equivalent so that the runtime linker can find libgmp.so and libmpfr.so?