gcc/configure failures

[Zack Weinberg]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:14:02PM -0500, Tony Kimball wrote:
> 
> On RedHat 7, 
> 
> ../gcc/configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr/local/pkgs/gcc --enable-shared --enable-languages=c++,java
> 
> results in
> 
> checking number of bits in a byte... failed
> configure: error: cannot determine number of bits in a byte
> Configure in /home/anon/objdir/gcc failed, exiting.
> 
> and has done for several days running now.

You should never have hit that test; Redhat 7 ought to have a C89
compliant <limits.h>.  But it should work, anyway.

Please post the config.log found in /home/anon/objdir/gcc.

zw