sysdeps/hppa/preconfigure has # This fragment canonicalizes the machine names for hppa variants. case "$machine" in hppa*64*) base_machine=hppa machine=hppa/hppa64 ;; hppa*) base_machine=hppa machine=hppa/hppa1.1 ;; esac But there is no hppa64 directory. -- H.J.