non-hardware SIG-11 on Linux

[Gary W. Swearingen]

I had prepared mail to report successful installation per finalinstall.html,
but decided to try building VDK which is supposed to require egcs. Got this:

"forms.cc: g++: Internal compiler error: program cc1plus got fatal signal 11"

on the first file "make" tried to compile.  I renamed the directory where I
had the egcs cc1plus installed and verified it noticed a missing file.
(I've still got old gcc installed but have PATH set to pick up egcs's stuff 
first & I've also tried messing with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.)  I've tried the stuff
at http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ and am quite sure I've got no hardware
problem. I the recent past I've compiled multiple kernels and egcs itself
without problems.  I've tried the VDK make many times and if fails at the
same place every time.  I then re-made dejagnu without any apparent problem
using egcs.

INSTALLATION:

I've got Red Hat 5.0 with many updates. egcs was compiled with gcc-2.7.2.3-8

The output of ./config.guess was: i686-pc-linux-gnu

The egcs "make -k check" went OK, I think.

I understand that the interpretation of test results is TBD, but I'll note
a couple examples of the few that looked bad in case they really are bad:

Running /usr/tools/egcs/egcs-src/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/execute/execute.exp ...
FAIL: gcc.c-torture/execute/980526-1.c execution,  -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions 
Running /usr/tools/egcs/egcs-src/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/ieee.exp ...
FAIL: gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/980619-1.c execution,  -O1 
[ several more FAILs followed ]

I also got several of these:

WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.