problem with genattr on i386-pc-linux-gnulibc

[Matthew D. Langston]

I received the following error when building egcs-1.0
on a PentiumII running vanilla RedHat 4.2 Linux.

*** Begin error message ***
stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/  -DIN_GCC    -O2 -g -O2  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -o genattr \
 genattr.o rtl.o ` case "obstack.o" in ?*) echo obstack.o ;; esac ` ` case "" in ?*) echo  ;; esac ` ` case "" in ?*) echo  ;; esac ` 
./genattr ./config/i386/i386.md > tmp-attr.h
/bin/sh: ./genattr: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [stamp-attr] Error 126
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/work/projects/rpm/BUILD/egcs-1.0/gcc'
make[1]: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/work/projects/rpm/BUILD/egcs-1.0/gcc'
make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
*** End error message ***

I configured and built egcs-1.0 *in the egcs-1.0
source directory* as follows:

  langston@seto$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared i386-pc-linux-gnulibc
  langston@seto$ make bootstrap-lean

However, egcs-1.0 builds absolutely fine when I don't
pass `configure' a target name (which, in my case,
defaults to `i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1').

I am building RedHat RPMs of egcs-1.0 for my site, so
I must pass the `i386' target type to configure.

Also, since I am building RedHat RPMs, I must build
egcs-1.0 in the source directory.  This is contrary to
the advice given at
http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/install/configure.html , but
since I am building RPMs I have no choice but to build
in the source directory.

Can anyone offer insight into this problem?

--
Matt Langston
SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU