Installation problem with gcc 2.95

[David Korn]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pipin, Janusz [ mailto:Janusz.Pipin@nrc.ca ]
>Sent: 14 March 2001 16:11

>On my workstation I've installed Linux version 7.0 and gcc installed is
>2.96-54, however what I need is gcc version 2.95. I am getting 
>the following error messages from make bootstrap:
>
>make[2]: *** [indstream.o] Error 1
>make[2]: Leaving directory
>`/home/jpipin/gcc/gcc_object/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libio'
>make[1]: *** [all-target-libio] Error 2
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jpipin/gcc/gcc_object'
>make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2

  Unfortunately you trimmed your output too soon, and haven't shown the
actual error.  Something went wrong during the compilation of indstream.cc
but all you've shown us is the make process noticing that it went wrong
and aborting.  We need a bit more context!

  However I'll take a quick guess, because this looks like a FAQ: you are
trying to build gcc 2.95.2 on a system that has glibc 2.2 installed, and 
the error message you are getting is something like

 struct streampos used where a 'int' was expected

and you this is because glibc 2.2 is not quite backwardly compatible with
gcc 2.95.2; you will need to get the patch referred to here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#*-*-linux-gnu

and apply it to the gcc / libio sources.

       DaveK
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