extremely disappointing bootstrap problems building gcc on linux :(

[Dara Hazeghi]

A couple of points.

1. gcc 3.2.X and previous could not be built within their source 
directory: ie "cd gcc-3.2.3 && ./configure && make" generally failed. 
This may account for the -lgcc_eh problem. This was unfortunately not 
well documented.

2. diff files do not apply to tarballs. Period. Diffs apply only to 
regular directories. ie tar -xzf gcc-3.2.2.tar.gz && patch -p0 -E < 
gcc-3.2.2-3.2.3.diff should work fine.

3. --enable-shared and --enable-threads are I believe the default on 
Linux. It appears that you may have found a bug in configure on gcc 
3.3. Please just do a vanilla configure without any options, and see if 
this still fails.

3.5. What version of GNU make are you using? There have been a few 
which have worked rather less than well (I recall 3.78 had significant 
issues).

4. Quite a number of people have successfully built gcc 3.3 on Linux 
(and elsewhere). If you look at 
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/buildstat.html , you'll see at least 10 
people have successfully built gcc 3.3. So while I sympathize with your 
frustration, please remember that we do not have access to your exact 
setup, we are a volunteer project, and it is very difficult to test 
every possible environment.

Thanks,

Dara