Yeah, gcc is giving us our own share of problems as well. However, after much work (and a couple of e-mails from a friend inside Sun) we found out that there's a patch that seems to be somewhat messing up the gcc install. The patch is included in Sun 8 and recent patching on Sun 7 can induce similar problems. So getting the most recent patches is a must (there should be some for March 2001; they're good).

Also, when you run the configure, you have to do some explicit things. Mainly, do not have gnu binutils installed or linked into the gcc directory. Make sure flex and bison are installed or linked into the gcc directory. Then you flag no gnu-ld or gnu-as. In the end the command we ran looked like:

# ../gcc-obj/configure --prefix=/some/dir --without-gnu-ld --without-g
+nu-as
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After that it's simply a matter of running the subsequent make's (bootstrap, check, install). We used the Sun Workshop Compilers and gnu make if that makes a difference.

i realize this is completely off topic, but the research is probably useful to more than just our machines...

HTH,
jynx