bootstrap/2236: config.if (gcc 2.95.2, possibly others) pukes if it can't find gl*bc

[Joseph S. Myers]

The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/2236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: david parsons <orc@pell.portland.or.us>
Cc: <bangerth@dealii.org>,  <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>,  <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>, 
     <orc@pell.chi.il.us>
Subject: Re: bootstrap/2236: config.if (gcc 2.95.2, possibly others) pukes
 if it can't find gl*bc
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:34:02 +0000 (GMT)

 On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, david parsons wrote:
 
 > bangerth@dealii.org wrote:
 > > 
 > > Synopsis: config.if (gcc 2.95.2, possibly others) pukes if it can't find gl*bc
 > > 
 > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > > State-Changed-By: bangerth
 > > State-Changed-When: Tue Nov 19 07:58:44 2002
 > > State-Changed-Why:
 > >     This is a rather old bootstrap error. Can you say whether this
 > >     still happens with newer versions of gcc?
 > 
 >     Yes.
 > 
 > orc@pell$ CC="cc -baout" ./configure
 > Configuring for a i686-pc-linux-gnuaout host.
 > Created "Makefile" in /home/orc/gcc-3.2 using "mt-frag"
 > Cannot find the GNU C library minor version number.
 
 Note that CVS mainline includes fixes needed for libc5 (and probably also
 libc4) which aren't on the 3.2 branch, so is probably a more appropriate
 base to work from on this.
 
 -- 
 Joseph S. Myers
 jsm28@cam.ac.uk