From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hannes.Loeffler@uibk.ac dot@(Hannes Löffler)
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Trouble with genattr and 1.0.2 under linux
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 00:46:00 -0000
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Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:

>   In message <199803271627.KAA28661@bierstadt.unl.edu>you write:
>   > 
>   > I'm trying to build 1.0.2 under linux (libc ver 5, kernel ver 2.0.31).
>   > 
>   > I have encountered a couple of problems.  
>   > 
>   > 1) configure can't guess what kind of system I have.  I supplied
>   >    "i586-pc-linux" and that seemed to make it happy.  However I suspect
>   >    my other problem is related to a bad configuration.
>   >    
>   > 2) During the build, I get errors when it tries to use genattr and
>   >    cpp.  Both errors are the same:
>   >    
>   >      make[2]: Entering directory /usr/dist/src/egcs-build/gcc'
>   >      ./genattr ../../egcs-1.0.2/gcc/config/i386/i386.md > tmp-attr.h
>   >      /bin/sh: ./genattr: No such file or directory
>   >      
>   >   But oddly enough genattr does exist:
>   >   
>   >     [root@bierstadt egcs-build]# ls -l egcs-build/gcc/genattr
>   >     -rwx------ 1 root root 69587 Mar 27 10:05 egcs-build/gcc/genattr
> We've seen this before, but hell if I can remember what the problem
> was.  Might a problem with the dynamic linker, libraries or something
> like that.
> 
> jeff

I had a similar problem recently when compiling gcc 2.7.2.3 on Linux/Alpha. A
strings on genattr revealed that genattr tries to start /lib/ld.so.1 which my
system doesn't have (RedHat 5.0 with ld-2.0.7.so).