Trouble building 1.0

[Simon Kinahan]

Hi,

I downloaded the complete source distribution of EGCS a few days ago,
and I cannot make the thing build. 

I ran the configure script with --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local/egcs
and it detected my system type as i586-linux-glibc1, which I guess is
right as I have libc.so.5.4.23 set up.

The build goes wrong part way through stage 2 when it tries to build
configure-target-libio. Whenever it tries this make fails with error 127
with the following output:

make[1]: Leaving directory `/big/home/simon/egcs-1.0/texinfo'
make[1]: Entering directory `/big/home/simon/egcs-1.0/gcc'
if [ -f libgcc2.ready ] ; then \
        true; \
else \
        touch libgcc2.ready; \
fi
case "c proto gcov  c++ f77 objc" in \
*f77*) top=`pwd`; \
  cd f/runtime && make \
    GCC_FOR_TARGET="`case '/big/home/simon/egcs-1.0/gcc/xgcc
-B/big/home/simogcs-1.0/gcc/' in \
     './xgcc -B./') echo ${top}/xgcc -B${top}/;; \
     *) echo '/big/home/simon/egcs-1.0/gcc/xgcc
-B/big/home/simon/egcs-1.0/gc;; esac`" \
    GCC_FLAGS="" CROSS="" AR_FLAGS="rc" AR="ar" BISON="bison"
BISONFLAGS="" C
gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2" X_CFLAGS="" LDFLAGS="" LEX="flex" LEXFLAGS=""
MAKEINFO="g/home/simon/egcs-1.0/texinfo/makeinfo/makeinfo "
MAKEINFOFLAGS="" RANLIB="rab" RANLIB_TEST="[ -f /usr/bin/ranlib -o -f
/bin/ranlib ]" SHELL="/bin/sh" exerefix="/usr/local/egcs"
prefix="/usr/local/egcs" tooldir="/usr/local/egcs/i58c-linux-gnulibc1"
bindir="/usr/local/egcs/bin"
libsubdir="/usr/local/egcs/libc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/egcs-2.90.21"
\
    all ;; \
esac
make[2]: Entering directory `/big/home/simon/egcs-1.0/gcc/f/runtime'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/big/home/simon/egcs-1.0/gcc/f/runtime'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/big/home/simon/egcs-1.0/gcc'
make: *** [configure-target-libio] Error 127

I haven't had much luck trying to figure out what the Makefile is doing,
but I attached an strace to the make process and it seems to execute 
egcs-1.0/gcc/xgcc -B/big/home/simon/egcs-1.0/gcc/ --print-multi-lib
and compare libraries/libio/tmpmulti.out using cmp with
libraries/libio/multilib.out
just before it fails.

Could someone point me towards the problem ?

Thanks

Simon

PS. EGCS looks great. Thanks for the hard work.