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Removing binutils appears to have solved this problem. it also seems that the with-gnu-<blah> was a red herring - I misunderstood what the options were for. Thanks again, David > ---------- > From: David Edelsohn > Sent: 19 March 1999 18:46 > To: BASS David > Subject: Re: Failure to compile egcs-1.1.2 > > >>>>> BASS David writes: > > BASS> Sorry, I thought I'd made it clear that the same thing happened > BASS> both with and without ~user/local/bin in my path. > > Yes, you said that ~user/local/bin was not in your user path, but > that you configured with --prefix=~user/local . If GCC will be installed > in ~user/local/bin then configure or Makefile might look there for other > tools even if they are not in your PATH before invoking Make. I do not > know for sure, but I would not be surprised if configure tries to be too > smart. > > David >