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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, lgh013@dma.isg.mot.com wrote: >Hi, > >First of all, my apologies for sending the "subscribe" command to the >wrong address. That was stupid of me. > >Secondly, I need help with compiling/installing egcs1.1.2 on slackware >linux. > >I'm not a newbie to egcs. At present, I have egcs/pgcc 1.0.2 installed >on my machine. The compilation for this went flawlessly. I followed >the same procedure for the 1.1.x series, but have run into several >stumbling blocks. > >In short, `make bootstrap' aborts halfway through, complaining that a >variety of header files are not found. I'll post details later, but >what I need to know for now is: is this a known/solveable problem for >slackware/libc5 systems? If not, I guess I can save myself the trouble >of expending any more effort trying to compile it. > I never met problems building egcs-1.1 and later on Slackware Linux (except some small ones about a month ago when I upgraded from libc-5.4.46 to glibc-2.1 but these problems doesn't matter here). I'm using in Linux practically only gcc and egcs binaries I have built on my system beginning from gcc-2.8.1 about a year ago. But without additional info it's impossible to say anything about Your problems. One more thing some days ago Slackware-current were upgraded to egcs-1.1.1 So You can try to download binary package Andris