Re: Egcs 1.1b Compile fail on Redhat 5.0

["Adam C. Powell, IV" <adam powell nist gov>]

Christoph Zens wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Gavin wrote:
>
> > egcs is compiling now ..
> >
> > i got 2.9.1 from my nearest gnu mirror site. and that seems to fix the
> > problem.
> > before i had 2.8.x
> > 2.9.1  compiled ok on the alpha.
>
> I´m stuck with this too. Unfortunately, the "ld" from the new binutils
> fails to produce dynamically linked executables. They just dump core.
> (This is on a libc5 system)

This is probably because of ld.so problems.  See below.

> >From what I understand, /lib/ld.so.1 is broken but every recent ld.so
> comes without alpha support:
>
> gcc    -c -o lddstub.o lddstub.S
> lddstub.S:19: #error Only know how to support i386, m68k and sparc
> architectures
>
> So what? This can´t be true. A shared object loader just for three CPUs?

ld.so only functions on those three architectures.  Get rid of it.  Alpha
uses glibc, which comes with ld.so, ldd, etc.  (I made this mistake too.
:-)

Zeen,

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