Gentlemen : So after a pile of noises made I was ableto finally posts ome sort of result : http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2012-11/msg01367.html Not exactly what I was hoping for but it seems to be a step in the right direction. Notice that I gave up on the --disable-multilib option and did embrace the --disable-nls which allowed stage 1 to complete. Not too sure what to make of all those failures with g++ or gcc for that matter. Everything else was flawless. My builds on old old Solaris 8 are still going .. no end in sight yet. Dennis