* IainS wrote on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:28:58PM CEST: > On 24 Aug 2009, at 19:52, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40950
> That seems to be it, and the cure is to add --enable-stage1-languages=c,c++ > (as per the bugreport). > > In fact, it seems to effect both Darwin8 & 9 when building in-tree > GMP (so possibly others too). > > The problem appeared between 148251 and 151057 (yeah, a big gap I > know.. busy with other things). > > Note that I haven't changed the GMP - so the fail *is* as a result > of some aspect of the gcc build process changing. > presumably, most likely the upgrade in auto* tools. No. The bug report is from before the autotools upgrade. The issue comes from the switch to use C++ as a bootstrap compiler. I'd guess r148889, ./: * configure.ac: Add --enable-build-with-cxx. When set, add c++ to boot_languages. [...] Cheers, Ralf