> You can easily install a well tested GCC 4.5.1 from here : > > http://mirrors.med.harvard.edu/csw/unstable/ > You can hand pick what you need from here : > > http://mirrors.med.harvard.edu/csw/unstable/sparc/5.10/ > > You can use it to bootstrap forwards with. > > Dennis > Thanks Dennis! The following is a list of the parts I collected and installed ... bash-4.1.7,REV=2010.05.26-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz binutils-2.20.1,REV=2010.08.25-SunOS5.10-i386-CSW.pkg.gz common-1.8.0,REV=2010.05.01-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz dejagnu-1.5.tar.gz expect5.45.tar.gz gcc4-4.5.1,REV=2010.09.01-SunOS5.10-i386-CSW.pkg.gz gcc4corert-4.5.1,REV=2010.09.01-SunOS5.10-i386-CSW.pkg.gz gcc4g++rt-4.5.1,REV=2010.09.01-SunOS5.10-i386-CSW.pkg.gz ggettext-0.17,REV=2010.03.08-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz gsed-4.2.1,REV=2009.07.01-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz isaexec-11.11,REV=2009.12.27-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz libiconv-1.13.1,REV=2009.07.01-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz pkgutil-1.8.0,REV=2010.03.08_rev=bw-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz stl4-12.0,REV=2010.04.23-SunOS5.10-i386-CSW.pkg.gz tcl8.5.13-src.tar.gz zlib-1.2.5,REV=2010.06.10-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz gcc 4.7.2 compiled on Solaris 10 and is being run through the testsuite now ... Thanks again, Dennis, Ian, Marc. Exactly the kind of help I wanted and needed, but did not expect.