Host OS Centos release 3.8 (i.e. the public rebuild of RHEL 3 release 8) on a 1.8GHz PentiumM laptop with 512MB RAM.
Details of existing GCC version: Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.3/configure --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-checking --prefix=/opt/gcc/gcc-3.4.3 Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.3 This was a profiled build of 4.1.1 from downloaded full source (gcc-4.1.1.tar.bz2) in a clean directory. Within the "objdir" I used the following commands. $ ../gcc-4.1.1/configure --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-checking --prefix=/opt/gcc/gcc-4.1.1 $ make profiledbootstrap There was no problem with configuring. "make" ran for around 10-15 minutes until failing with: /home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/./gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc -B/home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/./gcc -nostdinc++ -L/home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src -L/home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs -B/opt/gcc/gcc-4.1.1/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/opt/gcc/gcc-4.1.1/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /opt/gcc/gcc-4.1.1/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -isystem /opt/gcc/gcc-4.1.1/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include -shared -nostdlib /usr/lib/crti.o /home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/./gcc/crtbeginS.o .libs/bitmap_allocator.o .libs/pool_allocator.o .libs/mt_allocator.o .libs/codecvt.o .libs/compatibility.o .libs/complex_io.o .libs/ctype.o .libs/debug.o .libs/debug_list.o .libs/functexcept.o .libs/globals_locale.o .libs/globals_io.o .libs/ios.o .libs/ios_failure.o .libs/ios_init.o .libs/ios_locale.o .libs/limits.o .libs/list.o .libs/locale.o .libs/locale_init.o .libs/locale_facets.o .libs/localename.o .libs/stdexcept.o .libs/strstream.o .libs/tree.o .libs/allocator-inst.o .libs/concept-inst.o .libs/fstream-inst.o .libs/ext-inst.o .libs/ios-inst.o .libs/iostream-inst.o .libs/istream-inst.o .libs/istream.o .libs/locale-inst.o .libs/locale-misc-inst.o .libs/misc-inst.o .libs/ostream-inst.o .libs/sstream-inst.o .libs/streambuf-inst.o .libs/streambuf.o .libs/string-inst.o .libs/valarray-inst.o .libs/wlocale-inst.o .libs/wstring-inst.o .libs/atomicity.o .libs/codecvt_members.o .libs/collate_members.o .libs/ctype_members.o .libs/messages_members.o .libs/monetary_members.o .libs/numeric_members.o .libs/time_members.o .libs/basic_file.o .libs/c++locale.o -Wl,--whole-archive ../libmath/.libs/libmath.a ../libsupc++/.libs/libsupc++convenience.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -L/home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src -L/home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs -lm ../libmath/.libs/libmath.a -lm ../libsupc++/.libs/libsupc++convenience.a -lm -L/home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/./gcc -lgcc_s -lc -lgcc_s -lm -lgcc_s -lc -lgcc_s /home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/./gcc/crtendS.o /usr/lib/crtn.o -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--version-script=libstdc++-symbol.ver -Wl,-soname -Wl,libstdc++.so.6 -o .libs/libstdc++.so.6.0.8 /usr/bin/ld: BFD 2.14.90.0.4 20030523 internal error, aborting at ../../bfd/elf32-i386.c line 2377 in elf_i386_relocate_section /usr/bin/ld: Please report this bug. collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[5]: *** [libstdc++.la] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src' make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3' make[2]: *** [all-target-libstdc++-v3] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jeremy/tools/gcc/builddir' make: *** [profiledbootstrap] Error 2 -- Summary: installation with make profiledbootstrap fails Product: gcc Version: 4.1.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: blocker Priority: P3 Component: other AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: jeremy at jeremybennett dot com http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30369