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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:46:00 -0000
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
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To: david parsons <orc@pell.portland.or.us>
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Subject: Re: bootstrap/2236: config.if (gcc 2.95.2, possibly others) pukes
 if it can't find gl*bc
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On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, david parsons wrote:

> bangerth@dealii.org wrote:
> > 
> > Synopsis: config.if (gcc 2.95.2, possibly others) pukes if it can't find gl*bc
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> > State-Changed-By: bangerth
> > State-Changed-When: Tue Nov 19 07:58:44 2002
> > State-Changed-Why:
> >     This is a rather old bootstrap error. Can you say whether this
> >     still happens with newer versions of gcc?
> 
>     Yes.
> 
> orc@pell$ CC="cc -baout" ./configure
> Configuring for a i686-pc-linux-gnuaout host.
> Created "Makefile" in /home/orc/gcc-3.2 using "mt-frag"
> Cannot find the GNU C library minor version number.

Note that CVS mainline includes fixes needed for libc5 (and probably also
libc4) which aren't on the 3.2 branch, so is probably a more appropriate
base to work from on this.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk