Hi, Sometime ago I got the "emulate" message while compiling. The problem is that gcc was configured for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0, and later was run on an alpha-dec-osf4.0. So check that you are running on one version of alpha, or use 'configure --host=alpha-dec-osf4.0' so that gcc can be used for both alpha and alphaev56. Regards, Weiwen