> If GNU as in your PATH, --with-gnu-as is sufficient; otherwise, you > need to > use --with-as=/usr/local/bin/gas (and --with-gnu-as is superfluous). > > I suspect that GNU ld is in your PATH and conflicts with > --without-gnu-ld, so > you need to remove it from your PATH or use --with-ld=[...]. ah ha .. well I want to use the Sun provided linker as there were long standing problems with GNU ld in the Solaris world. Not sure if I can dig up the bugs but /usr/ccs/bin/ld is supposed to work perfectly. The assembler however is another matter and I will try your changes. dc ps: thank you once again