Hi, Could the reason for this be that my processor is still 32-bit? I have a really old machine... Regards, Anna. On 18/04/11 18/04/11 1:45 PM, "Ian Lance Taylor" <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> configure:3166: checking whether the C compiler works >>> configure:3175: ./a.out >>> ../../../../gcc-4.6-20110408/libgcc/configure: line 3177: ./a.out: Bad CPU >>> type in executable >> >> I'm not sure what this error means - do you have a working gcc >> installed that can actually compile successfully for your system? > > This is when building libgcc. It means that the newly built gcc is > unable to build an executable which runs on the current system. An > error like "Bad CPU type" suggests a problem with the assembler or with > how gcc is invoking the assembler. I don't know enough about Darwin to > know what is happening. > > Ian
