>> checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in >> `/abuild/aj/gcc-tst/powerpc64-suse-linux-gnu/libgcc': >> configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile >> See `config.log' for more details.
This is the friendly way the GCC build process reports that the compiler built during the previous stage does not work. In other words, -Wl,--relax allowed cc1 to link, but the resulting executable does not run. David