error compiling egcs-1.1.2

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.LNX.3.96.990316225633.32559A-100000@localhost >you write:
  > 
  > On 17 Mar 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
  > 
  > > On Mar 17, 1999, Valient Gough <vgough@pobox.com> wrote:
  > > 
  > > > Egcs-1.1.2 doesn't seem able to compile itself correctly.
  > > 
  > > > On the build of stage3, it fails with:
  > > 
  > > > xgcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
  > > > make[2]: *** [unprotoize.o] Error 1
  > > 
  > > Is this problem repeatable?  Even if you start from the beginning?  If
  > > not, you've got a hardware problem.  I, for one, was able to bootstrap
  > > egcs 1.1.2 on 8 different platforms, one of which is GNU/Linux/x86.
  > 
  > 
  > Yes, like I said, I got exactly the same problem on exactly the same file
  > using egcs-1.1.1 to bootstrap (2 tries, once with CCFLAGS = -O2 -g, once
  > with CCFLAGS = -g), and also using gcc-2.7.2.3 (CCFLAGS = -g) to
  > bootstrap.  I started from the beginning (I removed the egcs-1.1.2
  > directory and untarred from the original archive before each test).
What's odd is nobody else seems to be having this problem.

So there's something different about your setup.

What C library are you using?

jeff