While looking to see that my daily build on an older i686 machine was still working, I discover this. The failure started on 12-7-2009. This is with trunk updated daily. The machine is running fedora 8.
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... /home/jerry/gcc/objdir/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/jerry/gcc/objdir/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/gfortran/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/local/gfortran/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/gfortran/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -isystem /usr/local/gfortran/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/jerry/gcc/objdir/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/jerry/gcc/objdir' make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/gcc/objdir' make: *** [all] Error 2 -- Summary: configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile Product: gcc Version: 4.5.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: bootstrap AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org GCC host triplet: i686-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42727