glibc can't build on linuxppc with egcs 1.1b

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> Jack Howarth writes:

 >    Both glibc 1.99 and 2.0.95 are failing to build under egcs 1.1b
 > under linuxppc. In both cases the problem occurs in the sunrpc 
 > directory of glibc when the newly built rpcgen is run against the
 > egcs 1.1b built glibc libs. In the glibc 1.99 case at least I believe
 > bad code is generated for ld.so.1 because if I allow rpcgen to run
 > against the ld.so.1 that egcs 1.0.2 creates, the egcs 1.1 built
 > rpcgen runs fine. This bug seems like a real show stopper.

glibc 2.0.95 doesn't work AFAIK on linux/ppc.  Geoff Keating has
recently integrated patch so that linux/ppc should be working again.
If glibc 2.0.96 (not yet released) doesn't work, please report
directly to the glibc folk (mail to libc-alpha@cygnus.com).

Andreas
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