Re: bootstrap/2236: config.if (gcc 2.95.2, possibly others) pukes if it can't find gl*bc

[Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>]

The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/2236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>
To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bootstrap/2236: config.if (gcc 2.95.2, possibly others) pukes
 if it can't find gl*bc 
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:04:23 -0600 (CST)

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 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:42:40 -0800 (PST)
 From: david parsons <orc@pell.portland.or.us>
 To: bangerth@dealii.org
 Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, nobody@gcc.gnu.org,
      orc@pell.chi.il.us
 Subject: Re: bootstrap/2236: config.if (gcc 2.95.2,
      possibly others) pukes if it can't find gl*bc
 
 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.
 
     -david parsons  "I don't even use gl*bc on my systems"