The system is RHEL5.3 x86_64 folloing commands were used tar xzf gcc-4.7.2.tar.gz cd gcc-4.7.2 ./contrib/download_prerequisites cd .. mkdir objdir cd objdir $PWD/../gcc-4.7.2/configure What is the package name for 32 bit c library. I cannot disable multilib becase shared libraries support is required On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Syed Ahsan Ali Bokhari > <ahsan.pmd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Please help building gcc-4.7.2 >> >> 2/libgcc_s.so.1 && ln -s libgcc_s.so.1 32/libgcc_s.so >> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libc.so when searching for -lc >> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libc.a when searching for -lc >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc >> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status >> make[5]: *** [libgcc_s.so] Error 1 > > You need to install the 32-bit version of the C library. > > Or you need to use --disable-multilib when you run configure, to tell > GCC to not build a 32-bit version. > > Hard to say anything else without more details of what system you are > running on and what commands you ran. > > Ian