Signal 11 building 19990623 on Linux 2.2.5

[Jeffrey A Law]

  > I have for a continuosly failed to build various snapshots of egcs on an
  > Intel (Celereon 400) Linux system (Red Hat 5.2, both plain and later
  > upgraded to kernel 2.2.5-15.)
  > 
  > Just to make sure I am not doing something wrong:
  > I unpack the egcs-core to /opt/egcs,
  > I make /opt/egcsbuild and /opt/egcsoutput dirs.
  > I go to the /opt/egcsbuild dir.
  > I type ../egcs/configure --prefix==/opt/egcsoutput --enable-threads==posix
  > 
  > This works.
  > I type make bootstrap.
  > The process starts, but invariably ends in the /opt/egcsbuild/gcc directory
  > :
  > echo "int xxy_us_dummy;" >tmp-dum.c
  > ./xgcc -B./ -B/opt/egcsoutput/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin
  > -I/opt/egcsoutput/i686-pc-linux/gnu/include -S tmp-dum.c
  > xgcc: Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 11
This would tend to indicate that whatever compiler you used to build egcs
mis-compiled cpp.


Running gdb on "cpp" might tell you something useful.

jeff