Re: libio compilation failure, i386-pc-linux-gnu

[hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)]

> 
>   In message <m0xYFCA-0004ecC@ocean.lucon.org>you write:
>   > > 
>   > > Mostly stock Red Hat Linux 4.2.
>   > > The main part of the build goes OK, but the libio stuff bombs.
>   > > 
>   > > test -z "-fpic" || \
>   > >   /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/egcs-971114/gcc/xgcc
>   > > -B/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/egcs-971114/gcc/ -c -g -O2 -fno-implicit-template
>   > s
>   > > -I. -I. -nostdinc++ -D_IO_MTSAFE_IO -fpic stdstrbufs.cc -o
>   > > pic/stdstrbufs.o
>   > > stdstrbufs.cc:67: syntax error before `='
>   > > stdstrbufs.cc:67: `_IO_stdfile_0_lock' was not declared in this scope
> [ ... ]
> 
>   > Please don't specify the target name when you configure egcs unless
>   > you know exactly what you are doing. egcs will try to detect what
>   > you have if you don't specify the target name. If you do, egcs won't
>   > try. But if you don't know what's your target name in egcs's term
>   > and you provide one, egcs is screwed.
>   > 
>   > BTW, is that in INSTALL/FAQ?
> I didn't see any indication that Elliot specified a triplet at configure time,
> but I could have missed it in the first message.
> 

RedHat 4.2 shouldn't use -D_IO_MTSAFE_IO unless you tell egcs
it is xxxx-linux.


H.J.