gcc-4.6.0 breaks

[Bill Cunningham]

Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>>>     My gcc-4.6.0 compilation after compiling for quite some time
>>>> decided to
>>>> break with an error to stderr of something like not recognized
>>>> object files.
>>>> I am compiling with gcc-3.3.6. This can sure be nerve racking. Does
>>>> anyone know what this means?
>>>>
>>>
>>> How would anyone even begin to help with this email content ?
>>>
>>> Okay, so let's see, so you're running Debian Linux on a DEC alpha
>>> and you are trying to bootstrap GCC 4.6.0 while using GCC 3.3.6 with
>>> binutils maybe maybe not and your configure line was black magic
>>> while facing east with a dead cat under a rising moon ?
>>>
>>> My guess is that you need to face west.
>>>
>>> Try again with some content please !
>>
>>     I didn't get a log of stderr. I wish I had it turned on now. I'm
>> using an old RH 9 for the i686 and binutils-2.21 along with
>> gcc-3.3.6. I have have
>> gmp mpfc and mpc all installed and I am using make-3.82. I was rather
>> surprised when it broke. If I try again I will get a stderr log.
>>
>
> Can you just login remotely with an xterm or better yet fire up screen
> with session logging and then go to a fresh clean directory. Then
> let's try a boot strap again and this time everything gets logged.
>
> wdyt ?

    Nope. Don't have X on my system. Never installed it and removed what few 
directories were left. I have xfree86 binaries but they are kind of old and 
want an even newer glibc than I have I believe. But I can still get errors 
logged with the shell.

Bill