http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57059
Bug #: 57059 Summary: Host configuration of loose_warn breaks for build components for Canadian crosses Classification: Unclassified Product: gcc Version: 4.9.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: bootstrap AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: rmansfi...@qnx.com When the building a canadian cross with a build compiler that is gcc 4.6 or older, the build cannot compile the build tools as configure will detect that the cross compiler has support for -Wno-narrowing, and will try to pass it along in the BUILD_CXXFLAGS. e.g. g++ -c -DIN_GCC -DCROSS_DIRECTORY_STRUCTURE -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -W -Wall -Wno-narrowing -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_FILE -I. -Ibuild -I../../gcc -I../../gcc/build -I../../gcc/../include -I../../gcc/../libcpp/include -I../../gcc/../libdecnumber -I../../gcc/../libdecnumber/dpd -I../libdecnumber -I../../gcc/../libbacktrace \ -o build/genconstants.o ../../gcc/genconstants.c cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-narrowing" make[3]: *** [build/genconstants.o] Error 1 $ grep acx_cv_prog_cc_warning__Wnarrowing gcc/config.log acx_cv_prog_cc_warning__Wnarrowing=yes