While in stage 1 bootstrap on Solaris 10 Sparc I see : . . . checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no Links are now set up to build a native compiler for sparc64-sun-solaris2.10. checking for exported symbols... /usr/local/build/gcc-4.8.0-RC-20130316/gcc/configure: line 27240: objdump: command not found yes checking for -rdynamic... /usr/local/build/gcc-4.8.0-RC-20130316/gcc/configure: line 27250: objdump: command not found no checking for library containing dlopen... none required checking for -fPIC -shared... yes configure: WARNING: cache variable gcc_cv_sun_ld_ver contains a newline configure: updating cache ./config.cache . . . etc etc. I would not expect objdump on Solaris as that is part of Linux binutils. Perhaps there is a better choice on Solaris to get the data needed? dc