Help building gcc 2.97 (Snapsot 20010205)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 15, 2001, Ramanand V Mandayam <mandayrv@nb.conexant.com> wrote:

> I immediately ran into some problems with the makefile not being able
> to compile the libstdc++v3.

Without more details, it's really hard to tell what the problem is.

> After going through the installation manual 
> a couple of times I noticed that I absolutely need an installation of 
> gcc 2.96 (?) or better to be able to get gcc 2.97 to even compile.

>From where did you get this idea?  Oh, from the old libstdc++-v3
installation manual, from the time in which it was still a separate
project?  That's no longer true.  When you build libstdc++-v3 as part
of the GCC build, it'll use the new version of GCC.

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