gcc Causes Segmentation Faults and Core dumps on RedHat 6.1

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 20, 2000, "Colin Vander Veen" <colinvv@vvanet.com> wrote:

> I have installed RedHat 6.1 on 3 different machines with the same
> result. If I type "gcc" I immediately get a segmentation fault and I
> core dump. [...] I have installed binary RPMs from the CD and other
> FTP sites, including yours.  Attached is a copy of a core dump.

A core file is usually useless except when one gets access to the same
machine.

Could it be that the RPMs you've got were built assuming a different
version of libc, or assuming a different target architecture (say,
i686, if you have a i586)?

I suggest that you start gcc under gdb and try to find out why it is
crashing.

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