Jonathan, Thanks for your swift reply. You say ISl and Cloog are not needed, but that was how my build started, and configure gave the "not supported" error just after checking for ISL: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... checking how to compare bootstrapped objects... cmp --ignore-initial=16 $$f1 $$f2 checking for objdir... .libs checking for version 0.10 of ISL... no checking for version 0.11 of ISL... no checking for version 0.12 of ISL... no *** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories: ld gas gprof (Any other directories should still work fine.) ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So there seems to be some other reason why ld and as will not build. The earlier checks listed by configure do not seem to indicate problems, so I am not clear what is needed. (The output from configure with and without isl and cloog source directories was the same up to this point, as included at the end of my message of 8 Jun 2015.) If configure has carried out other checks after the version of ISL and before the "not supported" error then it has not identified what. Thanks, Ellis Thomas On 8 Jun 2015, at 19:13, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ISL and cloog are not needed for binutils, and are optional for GCC. If they're causing problems just don't use them. > >