http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45806
Summary: gcc build failure Product: gcc Version: 4.5.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: other AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: te...@chem.gu.se Host: i686-pc-linux-gnu Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu I find it hard to believe this is actually a gcc bug, but I'm reporting it anyway because I don't know what else to do. make for 4.5.1 fails on i686 with Ubuntu 8.04. I configure with: ../gcc-4.5.1/configure --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran After some make progress, I hit this: make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/tjf/InstallTrees/gcc-4.5.1-build/gcc' Checking multilib configuration for libgcc... Configuring stage 1 in i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc configure: loading cache ./config.cache checking for --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs... no checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for gawk... mawk checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... ar checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-lipo... lipo checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm... /home/tjf/InstallTrees/gcc-4.5.1-build/./gcc/nm checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... ranlib checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... strip checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... /home/tjf/InstallTrees/gcc-4.5.1-build/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/tjf/InstallTrees/gcc-4.5.1-build/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -isystem /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/tjf/InstallTrees/gcc-4.5.1-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc': configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details. make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tjf/InstallTrees/gcc-4.5.1-build' make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tjf/InstallTrees/gcc-4.5.1-build' make: *** [all] Error 2 The gcc that's currently running is: gfortran -v Using built-in specs. Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-4.4-20100323/configure --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.4 20100323 (prerelease) (GCC) uname -a gives Linux rscpc28 2.6.24-28-generic #1 SMP Thu Sep 16 15:01:14 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux What on Earth is going on here?