as: unrecognized option `-Qy'

I am following linuxfromscratch. While compiling as in chapter 6.14

/sources/gcc-build/gcc/xgcc -B/sources/gcc-build/gcc/
-B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem
/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -isystem
/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include -O2 -DIN_GCC -W -Wall
-Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wold-style-definition -isystem ./include -I. -I.
-I../../gcc-3.4.3/gcc -I../../gcc-3.4.3/gcc/.
-I../../gcc-3.4.3/gcc/../include -g0 -finhibit-size-directive
-fno-inline-functions -fno-exceptions -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss
-fno-unit-at-a-time -fno-omit-frame-pointer \
-c ../../gcc-3.4.3/gcc/crtstuff.c -DCRT_BEGIN \
-o crtbegin.o
as: unrecognized option `-Qy'
make[1]: *** [crtbegin.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/gcc-build/gcc'
make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2

help me to solve this.

thanks in advance

Regards,
Saravanan

On 3 May 2006 21:13:12 -0700, suzuki.babu@gmail.com
<suzuki.babu@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am following linuxfromscratch. While compiling as in chapter 6.14
>
> /sources/gcc-build/gcc/xgcc -B/sources/gcc-build/gcc/
> -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem
> /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -isystem
> /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include -O2 -DIN_GCC -W -Wall
> -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wold-style-definition -isystem ./include -I. -I.
> -I../../gcc-3.4.3/gcc -I../../gcc-3.4.3/gcc/.
> -I../../gcc-3.4.3/gcc/../include -g0 -finhibit-size-directive
> -fno-inline-functions -fno-exceptions -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss
> -fno-unit-at-a-time -fno-omit-frame-pointer \
> -c ../../gcc-3.4.3/gcc/crtstuff.c -DCRT_BEGIN \
> -o crtbegin.o
> as: unrecognized option `-Qy'
> make[1]: *** [crtbegin.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/gcc-build/gcc'
> make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2
>
> help me to solve this.
>
Look for -Qy in the makefile and change it to something that as
recognizes; or upgrade gcc and binutils to the latest versions.
On my system, Ubuntu 5.10, as version 2.1.6, "as --help" says -Q is
ignored.

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