egcs-1.1.2 fails

[Billy Hutton <huttonb at digitalin-site dot com>]

Hello everyone,

I'm posting after searching the mailing archives, so I hope this hasn't
been addressed.

My machine is an old Pentium75 with 32MB of RAM and a 64MB swap file.  I
have a Slackware Linux distribution, running a 2.2.13 kernel.  I am
using gmake, and My current gcc build is shown below from 'gcc -v'

	Reading specs from 
	/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/egcs-2.91.66/specs
	gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)

I have the egcs-1.1.2.tar.gz file unpacked in /usr/local/src/egcs-1.1.2,
with egcs-g++-1.1.2.tar.gz and libstdc++-2.90.8.tar.gz expanded in the
egcs-1.1.2 source directory.

I'm also building in /usr/local/src/egcs-1.1.2.obj.  The configure script
in the source directory runs just fine and doesn't return any errors.  At
this point, I issue a 'make bootstrap' and make grinds away for about 2.25
to 2.5 hours, and I get the following error.

ltconfig: unrecognized option `--cache-file=./config.cache'
Try `ltconfig --help' for more information.
configure: error: libtool configure failed
make[1]: *** [configure-target-libstdc++] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/egcs-1.1.2.obj'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
plato:/usr/local/src/egcs-1.1.2.obj#

I've tried 'configure --cache-file=/dev/null' as I don't care if the
configuration information is saved, and I thought an absolute path might
help fix this error.  Unfortunately, I get the same results, and make
crashes with the above error message.

I've been trying to get this to compile for quite some time, and make
always fails at this point.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Billy Hutton