The system is a Dual 800 MHz PowerPC G4 (7450) (QuickSilver) running under Darwin 8.8.0.
The command sequence is as follows: cd gcc mkdir build cd build ../configure make >make.log Periodically, the following appears: ../../gcc/config/rs6000/altivec.md:xxx: warning" operand 3 missing mode? I am assuming that the rs6000 has the same altivec as the 74xx series. Periodically, the following also apppears: Links are now set up to build a native compiler for powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0. Also, there were the following automatons: Automaton `ppc7450fp' 36 NDFA states, 75 NDFA arcs 36 DFA states, 75 DFA arcs 36 minimal DFA states, 75 minimal DFA arcs 462 all insns 5 insn equivalence classes 0 locked states 76 transition comb vector els, 180 trans table els: use simple vect 180 min delay table els, compression factor 1 Automaton `ppc8540_retire' 162 NDFA states, 876 NDFA arcs 162 DFA states, 876 DFA arcs 81 minimal DFA states, 438 minimal DFA arcs 462 all insns 8 insn equivalence classes 0 locked states 509 transition comb vector els, 648 trans table els: use simple vect 648 min delay table els, compression factor 2 After several hours, the following appeared: mkdir ppc64 later to be followed by: checking whether c compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile use '--host'. See 'config.log' for more details. make[1]: *** [configure-target-boehm-gc] error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 ~/gcc/build/powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0/ppc64/boehm-gc/configure.log is as follows: configure:2346: checking whether the C compiler works configure:2352: ./a.out ../../../../boehm-gc/configure: line 1: ./a.out: Bad CPU type in executable configure:2355: $? = 126 configure:2364: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. See `config.log' for more details. which appears to indicate that an attempt was made to run an 8540 compiled program on a 7450. This happened twice. -- Summary: The make script periodically thinks my 7450 is an 8540 Product: gcc Version: 4.1.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: boehm-gc AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: trog24 at comcast dot net GCC build triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0 GCC host triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0 GCC target triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30327