http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55566
--- Comment #12 from Gary Funck <gary at intrepid dot com> 2012-12-03 17:24:03 UTC --- (In reply to comment #10) > Thanks for the experiment. I think that you just need to always bootstrap the > compiler (i.e. don't pass --disable-bootstrap) since it's precisely designed > to > avoid this kind of problems. For cross-compilers, the trick is to bootstrap a > native compiler and use it to build them. Thanks. I can confirm that a full bootstrap using the system installed /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/g++ compilers with default compilation switches was able to build gcc and g++ without issue. Case closed.