[Bug fortran/39971] kinds.h fails at building libgfortran

[kargl at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #3 from kargl at gcc dot gnu dot org  2009-04-30 16:35 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Change Severity to normal.  Fortran bugs are never major.
> > 
> > AFAIK, there will be no further releases from the gcc-4.1.x branch,
> > so it is highly unlikely that this bug will be fixed.  gcc-4.4.0
> > was released a week or so ago.  Try using it.  You'll find that 
> > gfortran in 4.4.0 is much, much, much, better than the compiler in
> > 4.1.2 (a two year old piece of software).
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the quick replay.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have just tried with gcc-4.4.0 and it gives a similar error.
> Now I used:
>  /home2/gdb/local/src/gcc-4.4.0/configure --prefix=/home2/gdb/local/gcc-4.4.0
> --enable-languages=c,fortran --with-as=/home2/gdb/local/binutils-2.18/bin/as
> --with-ld=/home2/gdb/local/binutils-2.18/bin/ld
> 
> I copied gmp-4.2.4 and and mpfr-2.4.1 within the source, so as to build
> everything together. Also tried with other versions of gmp, mpfr and binutils
> getting always the same error.
> 

If 4.4.0 doesn't build on your i686-pc-linux-gnu system, then something
is definitely broken but it's not gfortran.  Do you have an older version
of MPFR or GMP installed in /usr/local?  This can sometimes cause problems.
What happens if you use the system's ld and as?


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