https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61737
--- Comment #1 from dhowells at redhat dot com <dhowells at redhat dot com> --- I needed the following change to gcc (courtesy of Nick Clifton) to get cris-gcc to build at all, even without libgcc: Index: gcc/config.gcc =================================================================== --- gcc/config.gcc +++ gcc/config.gcc @@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@ crisv32-*-linux* | cris-*-linux*) tm_file="dbxelf.h elfos.h ${tm_file} gnu-user.h linux.h glibc-stdint.h cris/linux.h" # We need to avoid using t-linux, so override default tmake_file - tmake_file="cris/t-cris cris/t-linux t-slibgcc t-linux" + tmake_file="${tmake_file} cris/t-cris cris/t-linux t-slibgcc" extra_options="${extra_options} cris/linux.opt" case $target in cris-*-*) This behaviour can be produced with the SVNREV 212237 (2014-07-02) gcc-4.9.0 compiler tarball plus one patch and then the following config: AR_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-ar \ AS_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-as \ DLLTOOL_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-dlltool \ LD_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-ld \ NM_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-nm \ OBJDUMP_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-objdump \ RANLIB_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-ranlib \ STRIP_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-strip \ WINDRES_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-windres \ WINDMC_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-windmc \ LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,relro ' \ ../gcc-4.9.0-20140702/configure --bindir=/usr/bin --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu \ --datadir=/usr/share --disable-decimal-float --disable-dependency-tracking \ --disable-gold --disable-libgomp --disable-libmudflap --disable-libquadmath \ --disable-libssp --disable-nls --disable-plugin --disable-shared \ --disable-silent-rules --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-threads \ --enable-checking= --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array \ --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-linker-build-id --enable-nls --enable-obsolete \ --enable-targets=all --exec-prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu \ --includedir=/usr/include --infodir=/usr/share/info --libexecdir=/usr/libexec \ --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --prefix=/usr \ --program-prefix=cris-linux-gnu- --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sharedstatedir=/var/lib \ --sysconfdir=/etc --target=cris-linux-gnu \ --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ \ --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-newlib --with-sysroot=/usr/cris-linux-gnu/sys-root \ --with-system-libunwind --with-system-zlib --without-headers --without-isl \ --without-cloog The binutils is: cris-linux-gnu-as -v GNU assembler version 2.24.0 (cris-linux-gnu) using BFD version version 2.24.0-4.fc20 20140613 The compiler is built with: AR_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-ar \ AS_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-as \ DLLTOOL_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-dlltool \ LD_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-ld \ NM_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-nm \ OBJDUMP_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-objdump \ RANLIB_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-ranlib \ STRIP_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-strip \ WINDRES_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-windres \ WINDMC_FOR_TARGET=/usr/bin/cris-linux-gnu-windmc \ make -C cris-linux-gnu tooldir=/usr all-gcc libgcc is built with: make -C cris-linux-gnu tooldir=/usr all-target-libgcc