Need help, ideas, getting frustrated.

[Robert Schweikert <rjschwei at mindspring dot com>]

I can not builg gcc on my system if my life dependet on it. Ontop of all
this I have random symptoms. Here are the details:

-Dual PII 450 MHz system
-RH 6.2 distribution standard except for the following:
        - Upgraded to kernel 2.2.16-3 using the following RPMS
                kernel-doc-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm ,
kernel-headers-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm, kernel-ibcs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm,
                kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm,
kernel-smp-2.2.16-3.i686.rpm, kernel-source-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm,
                kernel-utils-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
        - Upgraded to libtiff-3.5.5-2.i386.rpm
        - Upgraded to openldap-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm

Now to the random symptoms, well one symptom is constant, that is my
machine hangs completely and I have to turn of the power to get it back.

I have tried building gcc2.95 and 2.95.2 with gcc-2.91.66 (from the RH
6.2 distro) and using gcc-2.95 downloaded from RH site as package
gcc-2.95-4.i686.rpm. All attempts failed. In a few rare instances I got
an internal compiler error and the machine did not hang, but this was
not reproducible either. During my various attempts to build gcc the
machine hung while compiling lex.c, fcomplex.c, objc-act.c, function.c.
As I would really like to get away from being dependent on the mercy of
other people, i.e installing RPMS for certain things I would really like
to build the gcc compilers myself. Thus any help is appreciated.

As additional info the output from configure below.

Thanks,
Robert

Configuring for a i686-pc-linux-gnu host.
Created "Makefile" in /usr/local/gcc-2.95.2 using "mt-frag"
Configuring libiberty...
creating cache ../config.cache
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checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for sys/file.h... yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for sys/resource.h... yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking for asprintf... yes
checking for atexit... yes
checking for basename... yes
checking for bcmp... yes
checking for bcopy... yes
checking for bzero... yes
checking for calloc... yes
checking for clock... yes
checking for getcwd... yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for index... yes
checking for insque... yes
checking for memchr... yes
checking for memcmp... yes
checking for memcpy... yes
checking for memmove... yes
checking for memset... yes
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checking for putenv... yes
checking for random... yes
checking for rename... yes
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checking for sigsetmask... yes
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checking for strchr... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strncasecmp... yes
checking for strrchr... yes
checking for strstr... yes
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checking for strtol... yes
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checking for vasprintf... yes
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checking for vsprintf... yes
checking for waitpid... yes
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking for vfork.h... no
checking for working vfork... yes
checking for sys_errlist... yes
checking for sys_nerr... yes
checking for sys_siglist... yes
checking for getrusage... yes
checking for on_exit... yes
checking for psignal... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking for strsignal... yes
checking for sysconf... yes
checking for times... yes
checking for sbrk... yes
checking for gettimeofday... yes
updating cache ../config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating testsuite/Makefile
creating config.h
Configuring texinfo...
loading cache ../config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for texconfig... true
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles...
no
checking for Cygwin32 environment... no
checking for Mingw32 environment... no
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checking for sigblock... yes
checking for tputs in -lncurses... no
checking for tputs in -lcurses... no
checking for tputs in -ltermcap... no
checking for tputs in -lterminfo... no
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checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for pwd.h... yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
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checking return type of signal handlers... void
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checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
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checking for alloca... (cached) yes
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checking for memcpy... (cached) yes
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checking for strerror... (cached) yes
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checking for getpagesize... (cached) yes
checking for working mmap... yes
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checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
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checking for getcwd... (cached) yes
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checking for putenv... (cached) yes
checking for setenv... (cached) yes
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checking for strchr... (cached) yes
checking for strcasecmp... (cached) yes
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checking for __argz_stringify... yes
checking for __argz_next... yes
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checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking whether included gettext is requested... no
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for gettext in libc... yes
checking for msgfmt... no
checking whether catgets can be used... no
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checking for gmsgfmt... no
checking for xgettext... :
checking for catalogs to be installed...  de fr
updating cache ../config.cache
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creating config.h
linking ./intl/libgettext.h to intl/libintl.h
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loading cache ../config.cache
checking LIBRARY_PATH variable... ok
checking GCC_EXEC_PREFIX variable... ok
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking whether a default assembler was specified... no
checking whether a default linker was specified... no
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for flex... lex
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checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for volatile... yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
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checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether string.h and strings.h may both be included... yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... (cached) yes
checking for limits.h... (cached) yes
checking for stddef.h... yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for time.h... yes
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checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
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checking for sys/file.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/time.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/resource.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/param.h... (cached) yes
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checking for inttypes.h... yes
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checking for strerror... (cached) yes
checking for putenv... (cached) yes
checking for popen... yes
checking for bcopy... (cached) yes
checking for bzero... (cached) yes
checking for bcmp... (cached) yes
checking for index... (cached) yes
checking for rindex... (cached) yes
checking for strchr... (cached) yes
checking for strrchr... (cached) yes
checking for kill... yes
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checking for gettimeofday... (cached) yes
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checking for pid_t... (cached) yes
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checking whether calloc must be declared... no
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checking whether bcopy must be declared... no
checking whether bzero must be declared... no
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checking whether getrlimit must be declared... no
checking whether setrlimit must be declared... no
checking for sys_siglist declaration in signal.h or unistd.h... yes
checking if mkdir takes one argument... no
Using `./config/i386/i386.c' to output insns.
Using `./config/i386/i386.md' as machine description file.
Using `./config/i386/linux.h' as target machine macro file.
Using `./config/i386/xm-i386.h' as host machine macro file.
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking for working const... (cached) yes
checking for inline... (cached) inline
checking for off_t... (cached) yes
checking for size_t... (cached) yes
checking for working alloca.h... (cached) yes
checking for alloca... (cached) yes
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checking for getpagesize... (cached) yes
checking for working mmap... (cached) yes
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checking for locale.h... (cached) yes
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checking for LC_MESSAGES... (cached) yes
checking whether NLS is requested... no
checking assembler alignment features... .p2align including maximum skip

checking assembler subsection support... working .subsection -1
checking assembler instructions... filds fists
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updating cache ../config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
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creating po/Makefile.in
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creating libintl.h
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loading cache ../config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
creating ./config.status
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Robert Schweikert                      MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
rjschwei@mindspring.com                         LINUX