------- Comment #19 from lucier at math dot purdue dot edu 2008-12-29 01:30 ------- Maybe you could offer a few more details; I just tried
% cat ../../mainline/build-and-check-gcc-64-32 #!/bin/tcsh /bin/rm -rf *; ../../mainline/configure CC='/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -mcpu=970 -m64' --build=powerpc64-apple-darwin9.6.0 --host=powerpc64-apple-darwin9.6.0 --target=powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0 --with-gmp-include=/sw/include/ --with-gmp-lib=/sw/lib/ppc64 --with-mpfr-include=/sw/include/ --with-mpfr-lib=/sw/lib/ppc64 --prefix=/pkgs/gcc-4.4.0-64-32 --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr --with-system-zlib; make -j 4 BOOT_LDFLAGS='-Wl,-search_paths_first' >& build.log && (make install) && (make -k -j 8 check RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board 'unix{-mcpu=970/-m64}'" >& check.log ; make mail-report.log) (make bootstrap isn't even available) and ended up with checking for powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0-gcc... /Users/lucier/programs/gcc/objdirs/mainline/./gcc/xgcc -B/Users/lucier/programs/gcc/objdirs/mainline/./gcc/ -B/pkgs/gcc-4.4.0-64-32/powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0/bin/ -B/pkgs/gcc-4.4.0-64-32/powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0/lib/ -isystem /pkgs/gcc-4.4.0-64-32/powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0/include -isystem /pkgs/gcc-4.4.0-64-32/powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0/sys-include checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/Users/lucier/programs/gcc/objdirs/mainline/powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0/libgcc': configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details. while config.log gives configure:2611: /Users/lucier/programs/gcc/objdirs/mainline/./gcc/xgcc -B/Users/lucier/programs/gcc/objdirs/mainline/./gcc/ -B/pkgs/gcc-4.4.0-64-32/powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0/bin/ -B/pkgs/gcc-4.4.0-64-32/powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0/lib/ -isystem /pkgs/gcc-4.4.0-64-32/powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0/include -isystem /pkgs/gcc-4.4.0-64-32/powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0/sys-include -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5 /Users/lucier/programs/gcc/objdirs/mainline/./gcc/as: line 76: exec: : not found configure:2614: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | | #define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU C Runtime Library" | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libgcc" | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.0" | #define PACKAGE_STRING "GNU C Runtime Library 1.0" | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "" | /* end confdefs.h. */ | | int | main () | { | | ; | return 0; | } configure:2627: error: in `/Users/lucier/programs/gcc/objdirs/mainline/powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0/libgcc': configure:2630: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details. It appears to be looking for a special as. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26814