I started out wrong - filing a bug report https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63714 - when the base error is mine. Reading, but not understanding the instructions. I have gotten much further, but am still stumped. Perhaps the make compare pass will never work, more likely I am still doing something wrong. I was assuming that binutils objdump and/or objcopy are used in the compare process. If so, there are in the PATH variable, but do not seem to be succeeding. Is there a simplified test I can do to see if the make compare part of the build will ever succeed? Other suggestions welcome! Michael