The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/6877; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Benoit Hudson To: Dara Hazeghi Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, bh@techhouse.org Subject: Re: bootstrap/6877: need to manually make libiberty Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 09:52:46 -0400 This has been cleared up elsewhere: the answer is that if you make install before running make bootstrap it starts compiling some stuff and then dies with the aforementioned error. The documentation is quite clear that you should do make bootstrap make install It would likely be easy but perhaps subtly wrong to have the rule install: bootstrap IIRC this was discussed on gcc-bugs. -- BenoƮt