http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54283
--- Comment #13 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-12-19 11:58:33 UTC --- > I don't think so: even on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, when building an > i686-unknown-linux-gnu compiler with an unbundled gcc 4.4 (which does > support -static-libstdc++) where the 32-bit libstdc++.so.6 doesn't live > in /usr/lib, but only in /vol/gcc-4.4/lib, the build tools are the only > ones that don't run. Are you sure that GCC 4.4 supports -static-libstdc++? In any case, the configure script thinks that it doesn't so it disables -static-libstdc++ in stage 1 for it.