Problem with sunrpc when building GLIBC-2.1

[John T. Stapleton]

I ran into a problem late in the process of building GLIBC-2.1, during
the ``make others'' section.  In the sunrpc sub-directory, the
``rpcgen'' program is run using the new ``ld-linux.so.2'' program.
Here is the command broken into separate line to make it easier to
read:

/soft/local/glibc-2.1/elf/ld-linux.so.2					\
    --library-path /soft/local/glibc-2.1:/soft/local/glibc-2.1/math:	\
	/soft/local/glibc-2.1/elf:/soft/local/glibc-2.1/nss:		\
	/soft/local/glibc-2.1/nis:/soft/local/glibc-2.1/db2:		\
	/soft/local/glibc-2.1/rt:/soft/local/glibc-2.1/resolv:		\
	/soft/local/glibc-2.1/linuxthreads				\
    /soft/local/glibc-2.1/sunrpc/rpcgen					\
	-Y `gcc -print-file-name=cpp | sed "s|/cpp$||"` 		\
	-c rpcsvc/bootparam.x						\
	-o /soft/local/glibc-2.1/sunrpc/xbootparam.T

This is the error message that I received:

	waitpid: Operation not permitted

This is on a Redhat Linux Alpha System, distribution version 5.1
running kernel version 2.0.34.  I did configure GLIBC to use the
headers from version 2.2.3 of the kernel.  Here is the configure
command that I used.

    ../../src/glibc-2.1/configure --prefix=/usr/glibc-2.1		\
	--host=alpha-linux --with-headers=/usr/src/linux-2.2.3/include	\
	--enable-add-ons

If I run the ``rpcgen'' which came with the Redhat distribution, it
works.  I spent some time looking in various documentation and FAQ
files, but I could not find anything related to this problem.

The version of the compiler, and the tools that I built along with
the compiler are:
    compiler: egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)
    binutils: binutils-2.9.1.0.22b
    bison:    bison-1.27		[see note]
    flex:     flex-2.5.4a

Note: The bison distribution was built separately before building the
EGCS 1.1.1 release because I had a problem when I made it part of the
EGCS directory tree.  If it is part of the EGCS directory tree, then
the EGCS main Makefile defines YACC as 

	$OBJ/egcs-1.1.1/bison/bison -y -L $SRC/egcs-1.1.1/bison/

and then bison complains when trying to build flex.

Can anyone help?

John