I have had a report of i386 darwin10 failing to build gcc 4.4.6 in fink which I've reproduced myself. The failure looks quite odd...
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./libiberty.a /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/lib/`/sw/src/fink.build/gcc44-4.4.6-1001/darwin_objdir/./gcc/xgcc -B/sw/src/fink.build/gcc44-4.4.6-1001/darwin_objdir/./gcc/ -B/sw/lib/gcc4.4/i386-apple-darwin10.8.0/bin/ -B/sw/lib/gcc4.4/i386-apple-darwin10.8.0/lib/ -isystem /sw/lib/gcc4.4/i386-apple-darwin10.8.0/include -isystem /sw/lib/gcc4.4/i386-apple-darwin10.8.0/sys-include -g -O2 -print-multi-os-directory`/./libiberty.an mkdir /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/share/locale/zh_TW mkdir /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libssp.0.dylib /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/lib/x86_64/libssp.0.dylib libtool: install: (cd /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/lib/x86_64 && { ln -s -f libssp.0.dylib libssp.dylib || { rm -f libssp.dylib && ln -s libssp.0.dylib libssp.dylib; }; }) libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libssp.lai /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/lib/x86_64/libssp.la libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libssp.a /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/lib/x86_64/libssp.a ( cd /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/lib/`gcc -g -O2 -print-multi-os-directory` ; chmod 644 ./libiberty.an ;ranlib ./libiberty.an ) libtool: install: chmod 644 /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/lib/x86_64/libssp.a ranlib: file: ./libiberty.an is not an archive libtool: install: ranlib -c /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/lib/x86_64/libssp.a make[2]: *** [install_to_libdir] Error 1 make[1]: *** [install-libiberty] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... and only occurs with parallel builds. Is it possible that the command... /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./libiberty.a /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/lib/`/sw/src/fink.build/gcc44-4.4.6-1001/darwin_objdir/./gcc/xgcc -B/sw/src/fink.build/gcc44-4.4.6-1001/darwin_objdir/./gcc/ -B/sw/lib/gcc4.4/i386-apple-darwin10.8.0/bin/ -B/sw/lib/gcc4.4/i386-apple-darwin10.8.0/lib/ -isystem /sw/lib/gcc4.4/i386-apple-darwin10.8.0/include -isystem /sw/lib/gcc4.4/i386-apple-darwin10.8.0/sys-include -g -O2 -print-multi-os-directory`/./libiberty.an could be in a race condition with the later command... ( cd /sw/src/fink.build/root-gcc44-4.4.6-1001/sw/lib/gcc4.4/lib/`gcc -g -O2 -print-multi-os-directory` ; chmod 644 ./libiberty.an ;ranlib ./libiberty.an ) if so what can be done about this. So far the only work around I've found is to use the --disable-java-multilib patch ala redhat which seems to cause this issue to go latant again. Any ideas? Jack