unknown type name __locale_ ( while building gcc for powerpc)

I am trying to build gcc 4.3-74 for powerpc using cross compilation. I used the following configure command to configure the make file.

./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=powerpc-linux --host=powerpc-linux --with-gmp=/xxx/include --with-gmp-include=/xxx/include --with-gmp-lib=/xxx/lib

configuration is done successfully, but when I do a make, it failed with the following message

In file included from ../.././libiberty/floatformat.c:31:0:
/usr/include/string.h:548:5: error: unknown type name â€˜__locale_tâ€™
     __locale_t __loc)
     ^
/usr/include/string.h:552:18: error: unknown type name â€˜__locale_tâ€™

It seems like it is not fetching the right header file for powerpc.

I had similar issue with building binutils when I did configure without option --host=powerpc-linux. As soon as I used an option --host=powerpc-linux in configure, the same error is gone in case of binutils.

Solution

In my case, it was using some pretty old compiler for compilation. This old compiler was set to PATH variable in my user profile. Hence when I was executing gcc, it was executing old one and it resulted in this error.

I removed PATH setting in my user profile. Now when I run gcc, it is executing the latest gcc. The problem is solved now.