re: today's git does not compile

[Susan Cragin]

> Try switching from -O2 to -O1 with
>  configure CFLAGS="-g -O1"
> and rebuild.  Does that help?

Yes. That works.
> Regardless of whether that gets you past the problem,
> please file a bug in launchpad against gcc-4.5.
> Ideally they'd want you to run with -save-temps and give
> them a copy of pen.i.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.5/+bug/704633
Here's the bug. 
I 
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gccintro_36.html

Dan, I can't work the -save-temps option. All three give me "no input files."
/wine-git$ gcc -save-temps
/wine-git$ gcc -save-temps=cwd (or =obj) 
gcc: no input files