Re: Illegal instruction (core dumped) on i586

[John Wehle <john@feith.com>]

>   thanks... what you are saying makes sense, but my
> main suggestion was that egcs maintainers consider
> ensuring the availability of good RPMs. This may 
> include contacting someone who can pack RPMs, or
> learning the RPM tricks or... talking to RedHat,
> whatever. Please do not consider this as "making
> binaries for every trashy system", but rather
> "ensuring the utility to major customers".

A very understandable suggestion clearly stated,
unfortunately the wording on early emails seemed
a little harsh and not as clear.

  1) The RPMs tend to quickly get very platform specific
     which means that it's a very big matrix to support.
     The gcc maintainers are concerned that good RPMs
     are available, however they expect the bulk of the
     responsibility for this to be handled by each OS vendor
     since the OS vendor knows best how to configure
     the software for their system.

  2) Since the gcc maintainers release a source code product
     which anyone can use and / or distribute (as long as the
     copyright is respected), it's difficult for them to act
     as police and prevent RPMs which are not appropriate for
     some people to be placed on ftp sites.  Keep in mind that
     they are somewhat understaffed and overworked as it is ...
     and quite frankly it's not their job.

I expect that RedHat will at some point release
a RPM which will work for you.  Unfortunately it
sounds like what you grabbed wasn't released by
RedHat for your platform.  If it's urgent that
you have the new release *now* then you can:

  1) Try random RPMs and contact whoever built
     the RPM for help.

  2) Try building gcc 2.95 from the original source
     code.  If you run into problems then follow the
     instructions for reporting a bug and someone
     probably will try to help out.

  3) Find / hire someone to help you in this endeavor.

Sorry I can't be of more help (my only RedHat development
system at the moment is 5.2 and it's awaiting a new motherboard).

-- John
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