Question about egcs-1.1.1 & glibc-2.0.10x (fwd)

[Franz Sirl]

At 13:17 10.12.98 , Alex Buell wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>Forgive me for posting this, but I needed to know.  I'e been testing
>egcs-1.1.1 with glibc-2.0.105 & glibc-2.0.106. Both builds of glibc failed
>at the exact _same_ place with a missing CPP preprocessor. The place where
>it occured was in sunrpc.
>
>Has anyone _actually_ succeeded in building glibc using the egcs-1.1.1
>compiler? 

Yes, built 105 and just building 106.
Your problem is that the glibc sunrpc stuff only checks for cpp in $PATH or
/lib/cpp. My opinion is that GNU stuff should also try to use "gcc -E", but
for now do "ln -sf /usr/lib/gcc-lib/(your platform code)/egcs-2.91.60/cpp
/lib/cpp".

Franz.