Problems linking alloca

[Jeffrey A Law]

Note, I moved this to egcs-bugs since that's the more appropriate
list.

  In message <000101bd8a11$9fe19480$0454c19d@pcoptomc1.intec.rug.ac.be>you write:
  > At first, I tried without it, but make failed on not being able to find
  > bison.
As I mentioned, this shouldn't have happened.  Do you remember what
parser file it was trying to generate?

  > So, I got the latest bison, installed it, and now make fails on
  > the alloca linking problem.
How exactly does the make fail?  Log files would be a great help.

What compiler did you use for the build.  Since it sounds like you
started a build, it failed, then you restarted it after installing
bison, how far did the first build get?  Are you sure that the same
compiler is being used for the second build that was used for the
first build.

alloca problems usually indicate that parts of the code have been
compiled with gcc and other parts with the HP compiler.

  > I don't know if the following is a relevant piece of information, but in
  > both the bison and the egcs makefile, I changed the 'prefix' install
  > directory from the default system directory to my home dir. (I don't have
  > root access, and I don't want to bother our system admin before I get egcs
  > up and running myself).
This should not effect the alloca stuff.
jeff