Now it went a little further until here: make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/benmen/mips/glibc-cvs/misc' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/benmen/mips/glibc-cvs/misc' mipsel-linux-gcc -mabi=32 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/brk.c -c -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -finline-limit=10000 -g -I../include -I. -I/home/benmen/mips/mipsel-glibc/misc -I.. -I../libio -I/home/benmen/mips/mipsel-glibc -I../sysdeps/mips/elf -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/pthread -I../sysdeps/pthread -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/mips -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32 -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../sysdeps/gnu -I../sysdeps/unix/common -I../sysdeps/unix/mman -I../sysdeps/unix/inet -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../sysdeps/unix/mips/mips32 -I../sysdeps/unix/mips -I../sysdeps/unix -I../sysdeps/posix -I../sysdeps/mips/mips32 -I../sysdeps/mips -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32 -I../sysdeps/mips/fpu -I../sysdeps/ieee754 -I../sysdeps/generic/elf -I../sysdeps/generic -nostdinc -isystem /home/benmen/mipsel/lib/gcc-lib/mipsel-linux/3.2.3/include -isystem /home/benmen/mips/kernel/mips-2.4.20/include -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include ../include/libc-symbols.h -DPIC -o /home/benmen/mips/mipsel-glibc/misc/brk.o -MD -MP -MF /home/benmen/mips/mipsel-glibc/misc/brk.o.dt as: Unbekannte Option »-O2« make[2]: *** [/home/benmen/mips/mipsel-glibc/misc/brk.o] Fehler 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/benmen/mips/glibc-cvs/misc' make[1]: *** [misc/subdir_lib] Fehler 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/benmen/mips/glibc-cvs' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 Verzeichnis: ~/mips/mipsel-glibc [benmen@linuxpc1 mipsel-glibc] I am going the try now if it works when I remove the CFLAGS="-O2 ..." from my configure line.... however it should be possible to compile it with O2 shouldn't it? regards, Ben