Hi Richard, I began testing gcc-4.7.0 today on alpha and remembered that >=gcc-4.6 cannot build itself on alpha without passing -Wl,--no-relax. See http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5276 We (Gentoo) have work-arounds in place for a number of large projects. Can you offer any insight or assistance? Thanks, Matt