Fwd: Segfaulting with Ubuntu

I'm running in a few x86 virtual Linux machines.  I'm trying to build
dietlibc-0.32 on them.

I was able to compile dietlibc-0.32 with gcc-4.4.0 (in TinyCore Linux 2.8) :

	$ gcc -v
	Using built-in specs.
	Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
	Configured with: ../gcc-4.4.0/configure --prefix=/usr/local
--libexecdir=/usr/local/lib --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
--enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-c99 --enable-long-long
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-multilib
--disable-libstdcxx-pch
	Thread model: posix
	gcc version 4.4.0 (GCC for Cross-LFS 4.4.0.20090703)


Now I'd like to try compiling it on Ubuntu-9.04, which comes with the
following version of gcc:

	$ gcc -v
	Using built-in specs.
	Target: i486-linux-gnu
	Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu
4.3.3-5ubuntu4'
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.3 --program-suffix=-4.3
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc
--enable-mpfr --enable-targets=all --with-tune=generic
--enable-checking=release --build=i486-linux-gnu --host=i486-linux-gnu
--target=i486-linux-gnu
	Thread model: posix
	gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4)

However, dietlibc refuses to compile with this compiler.  A few
minutes into the make process, I get a segfault :

	$ make
	...
	...
	bin-i386/diet gcc -D__dietlibc__ -pipe -nostdinc -Os
-fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=1 -falign-jumps=1
-falign-loops=1 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -W -Wall -Wextra
-Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
-Wno-switch -Wno-unused -Wredundant-decls -o bin-i386/elftrunc
contrib/elftrunc.c
	make: *** [bin-i386/elftrunc] Segmentation fault

The same thing happens in Ubuntu 9.10, after trying several different
pre-packaged versions of gcc. This seems to happen regardless of gcc
version.  It also seems to happen regardless of dietlibc version.

I was, on the other hand, able to compile dietlibc using a
cross-compiler made from uClinux :

	$ gcc -v
	Target: i686-unknown-linux
	Configured with:
/home/firmware-1e52d09f49d6/build/temp-i686/gcc-core/configure
--prefix=/home/firmware-1e52d09f49d6/build/cross-compiler-i686
--host=i686-walrus-linux --target=i686-unknown-linux
--enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-long-long --enable-c99
--disable-shared --disable-threads --disable-nls --disable-multilib
--enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-sjlj-exceptions
--program-prefix=i686-
	Thread model: single
	gcc version 4.1.2


Ubuntu seems to be doing something to their gcc that is making the
dietlibc build break.   Does anyone know why this is happening?
Should I just stop trying to use pre-packaged versions of gcc?  I
would like to understand this problem so that I can move on without
wondering if I'm dong something wrong.

Thanks, if anyone's listening!