egcs-19981109 libiberty re-configure failure

[tprince@cat.e-mail.com]

On 2 platforms so far (Irix6.4 and cygwin-b19) I have had "make
bootstrap-lean" go successfully through make compare and
then fail the 4th examination of the working of xgcc while
re-configuring in libiberty, like so:

......
checking for sys/time.h...  (cached) yes
checking whether the C compiler (<build-directory>/gcc/xgcc
-B<build-directory>/gcc/  -B<install-prefix>/<host-prefix>/bin/ -g
-O2) works ... no
......C compiler cannot create executables
make: ***[configure-target-libiberty] Error 1

where the directory <install-prefix>/<host-prefix>/bin has never
been created by this or any previous snapshot build.  What's with
this 2nd -B specification and what's meant to be there?
Dr. Timothy C. Prince
Consulting Engineer
Solar Turbines, a Caterpillar Company
alternate e-mail: tprince@computer.org

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