In message < Pine.LNX.3.96.980204194332.6033D-100000@galaxy.lca.uevora.pt >you write: > does it exist a list of the messages printed during the egcs tests? When you run the egcs testsuite it sends "interesting" messages to stdout. You can get more details by looking at the .sum and .log files ie gcc/testsuite/gcc.log and gcc/testsuite/gcc.sum jeff