"cannot run C compiled programs" error

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 20 April 2011 16:45, kevin diggs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Anna Ceguerra
> <anna.ceguerra@sydney.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> I tried running just gcc, and again, it has that "Bad CPU type in
>> executable" error, which makes me think gcc-4.6 on that site was not built
>> for my 32-bit mac.
>>
> Do you mean something you built with this gcc has the error. Or trying
> to run the compiler itself generates the error?
>
>> Would this count as a bug? Unless it's a configure error on my side, in
>> which case I don't know how to turn off x86_64...
>>
> Look at the --with-cpu configure options. I think one of them sets
> what the compiler generates as default. I think the compiler can be
> configured to produce either 32-bit by default (i.e. implied -m32) or
> 64-bit (i.e. implied 32-bit).

Or to get a 32-bit-only compiler just use --disable-multilib as Ian suggested.