On May 10, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Maxim Koltsov wrote: >> gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48) >> $ ld -v >> GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.6-14.el5 20061020 > > It seems a bit too old, or too patched. Can you try installing newer > gcc? 4.2 series must me sufficient, i think. If repositories for your > distro doesn't have it, you can try installing it by hand, or emerge > =gcc-4.2 && emerge binutils && emerge =gcc-4.2, but the latter > probably won't work.
I managed to get the bootstrap procedure moving along by installing an older version of binutils. I'm continuing to build my prefix area with that change. But I took a look, and CentOS 5.5 provides gcc 4.4.4 in its 'base' repository as the 'gcc44' package, so maybe that would have worked. If I get a chance later I can try the prefix bootstrap again and see if binutils compiles with that.
