Tom, Your configure hack for detecting the host type barfs with newer EGCS versions. gcc --print-libgcc-file-name gives: /usr/local/egcs/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/egcs-2.90.21/libgcc.a For a local egcs install. Configure then explodes because it's in the wrong format. There isn't any way to override this because configure knows it's gcc so it just bombed and dies. Your sed line produces i586-pc-linux-gnu/egcs-2.90.21 Which is bad. Thanks, Jason