Hi, > I don't have much time this morning as I'm leaving in a few minutes, > but I wanted to point you to a (non-english) blog someone put together > explaining how they were able to compile the tools: > > http://matias.archlinux-br.org/archives/63 > I'm the owner of this blog. Let me explain in English what I'm saying there. GCC 4.3.x generates a (perhaps meaningless) warning when building gas. But, by default, warnings are being treated as errors, and building fails. This can be solved by applying the following patch: Index: build/scripts/build_cross_tools_gcc4 =================================================================== --- build/scripts/build_cross_tools_gcc4 (revisão 26896) +++ build/scripts/build_cross_tools_gcc4 (cópia de trabalho) @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ cd $binutilsObjDir CFLAGS="-O2" CXXFLAGS="-O2" $binutilsSourceDir/configure \ --prefix=$installDir --target=$haikuMachine --disable-nls \ - --disable-shared || exit 1 + --disable-shared --disable-werror || exit 1 $make || exit 1 $make install || exit 1 Best regards, Paulo Matias