Re: gcc 2.95.2

[Michael Clifford <michael at eternal-bliss dot com>]

I upgraded binutils to 2.10. Again, I removed the 2.9 rpm that
redhat installed. binutils 2.10 installed from source without a
hitch, but the configure scripts from all apps I download fail
to recognize my host type. I have to manually specify it by
saying:

./configure <my options> i686-pc-linux-gnu

Where i686-pc-linux-gnu is my HOST type. Any insight? Again,
please forward to michael@eternal-bliss.com since I am not on
the list.

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 17:19:56 +0200, Jan Dvorak said:

> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:03:41AM -0700, Michael Clifford wrote:
>  > Hello everyone,
>  > 
>  > I have one question. I am running RedHat 6.1 and decided to
>  > update gcc. I downloaded gcc-2.95.2 source. 
>  > 
>  > I Then followed the install instructions to install a native
>  > compiler. From the top level directory of the tarball I did:
>  > 
>  > mkdir objdir
>  > cd objdir
>  > ./configure --prefix=/usr
>  > make bootstrap
>  > 
>  > All that was fine and well. I then removed the egcs rpms from my
>  > RH install. There were 3 of them.
>  > 
>  > I then did:
>  > make install
>  > 
>  > Everything installed without a hitch. What I do notice now is
>  > that when I run the configure script for any app, it tells me:
>  > 
>  > checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess
>  > host type; you must specify one
>  > 
>  
>  Did you upgrade binutils ? config.guess uses them to see what system you are
>  running. With new binutils, output  format has changed, so you need to
>  obtain new config.guess and replace with it the older ones. I believe that
>  nearly all aplications now had the right config.guess.
>  
>  Jan Dvorak <johnydog@go.cz>
>  
>  

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