Solaris 10 Gives Error (ld: fatal: relocation error: R_386_32) w/ gcc-4.2.3

Question

I am attempting to run a build of a system known as nauticus under Solaris 10 but I am getting the following error:
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_386_32: file .rel.debug_info: section: /home/dmclaug/trees/gcctree/trunk/build-solaris-4.2.3/src-nauticus/bin/solaris/libsmftypes.o: offset: 0x23e3d6: relocation requires reference symbol
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
This system has been successfully built using gcc-3.2.3 under Solaris 10, but the error above is generated now that we have installed gcc-4.2.3. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing the problem here? Are there additional flags or switches that are required?
Some additional background on my system:
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
Sun Streaming Server Development Package for Solaris Update 4.
PackageVersion=2.0
cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86
Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 16 August 2007
isainfo -x
amd64: sse3 sse2 sse fxsr amd_3dnowx amd_3dnow amd_mmx mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu
i386: sse3 sse2 sse fxsr amd_3dnowx amd_3dnow amd_mmx mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu
isalist
amd64 pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+mmx pentium i486 i386 i86

Answer 1

The bootstrap compiler is GCC 3.4.3.
I tried Sun's assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) too and got another error (below)
I also tried bootstrapping with Sun's Studio 12 compiler but that too failed.
*$ pkginfo -x SUNWbinutils SMCbinut*
SMCbinut binutils
(x86) 2.17
SUNWbinutils binutils - GNU binutils
(i386) 11.10.0,REV=2005.01.08.01.09
*$ whence gcc*
/usr/sfw/bin/gcc
*$ gcc -v*
Reading specs from /usr/sfw/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.4.3/specs
Configured with: /builds/sfw10-gate/usr/src/cmd/gcc/gcc-3.4.3/configure prefix=/usr/sfw with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas with-gnu-as with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld without-gnu-ld enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-shared
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)
The error this time is:
/big1/usr.local.src/gcc-4.3.1/s10i/./gcc/xgcc -B/big1/usr.local.src/gcc-4.3.1/s10i/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/bin/ -B/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/include -isystem /usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/sys-include -g -fkeep-inline-functions -m64 -O2 -O2 -g -g -O2 -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -isystem ./include -fPIC -g -DHAVE_GTHR_DEFAULT -DIN_LIBGCC2 -D__GCC_FLOAT_NOT_NEEDED -I. -I. -I../../.././gcc -I../../../../gcc-4.3.1/libgcc -I../../../../gcc-4.3.1/libgcc/. -I../../../../gcc-4.3.1/libgcc/../gcc -I../../../../gcc-4.3.1/libgcc/../include -DHAVE_CC_TLS -o gcov.o -MT gcov.o -MD -MP -MF gcov.dep -DLgcov -c ../../../../gcc-4.3.1/libgcc/../gcc/libgcov.c
Assembler: libgcov.c
"/var/tmp//ccYcw90K.s", line 1936 : Syntax error
Near line: " repz cmpsb"