Compiling GCC 4.8.5 on Fedora 25 ( GCC 6.2 )

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 10 November 2016 at 18:44, Matthew Sellers wrote:
> This did not work ( changing config options ) but I looked at the
> output of configure for clues and noticed checks for libstdc++-static
> libs -- once I installed these the build succeeds and fails upon
> removal of the package.  I also see that the cc1 binary built during
> bootstrap does not dynamically link to libstdc++ -- problem solved!
> Is this expected at all?

I'm surprised by it, that's all I can say.

I'm now seeing the same problem building 4.9.4 on F24. so I'll try
removing the libstdc++-static package.