This is what I get after some minutes of elaboration: stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/usr/i686-mandrake-linux/bin/ -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wtraditional -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -pedantic -Wno-long-long -O2 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -s -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../gcc -I../../gcc/config -I../../gcc/../include -c insn-recog.c insn-recog.c: In function `recog_17': insn-recog.c:20921: Internal error: Segmentation fault. Please submit a full bug report. See <URL:https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/> for instructions. make[2]: *** [insn-recog.o] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/gcc-2.95.2/obj-i686-mandrake-linux/gcc' make[1]: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/gcc-2.95.2/obj-i686-mandrake-linux/gcc' make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2 Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7019 (%build) Maybe useful? Claudio.