Robert, If your drive has developed bad blocks, you will get all sorts of oddities in building gcc42. I ran into that with one of the two drives in my AppleRAID mirror earlier in the year. You should try erasing the drive in Disk Utility with zeroing of the data. If the drive is SATA or IDE, this will force it to purge out those bad blocks. Also if you have access to TechTool Deluxe (which Apple distributes free to AppleCare owners), you can use it to check for bad blocks afterwards (to make sure they really have been spared out). Jack
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