egcs 1.03 on SGI IRIX 6.4

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199806012234.SAA22130@jimma.research.att.com >you write:
  > 
  > I built egcs-1.0.3 on IRIX 6.4 using SGI's cc (mipspro version 7.2) as the
  > starting compiler; I had to remove the "-32" flag in the Makefile so that
  > all .o files would be n32.  The build completed and installed, I'll call it
  > round 1.
  > 
  > Next, I do the same thing - rebuilding egcs from scratch - with a new
  > installation directory, setting CC=gcc (the gcc build in round 1 above), I
  > then configured, built and installed the next round of gcc (call it round 2
  > ).
  > 
  > If I use round 2 gcc to compile egcs (from scratch) once again, I get an er
  > ror:
Are you trying to build in the same object directory that you originally
used when building with SGI's cc?

The configure process tests for a variety of compiler features and stores
the results into persistent files.  If you switch compilers, you can run
into trouble because the two compilers likely have different features.

jeff