problem with genattr on i386-pc-linux-gnulibc

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 3485B0DB.D3249E62@SLAC.Stanford.EDU >you write:
  > 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
Hmmm, this does not look like a problem with egcs -- it looks more
like a system error of some kind.

  >   langston@seto$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared i386-pc-li
  > nux-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').
You should never have to provide a target name for native builds;
if rpms are requiring that, then the rpms need to be fixed.

  > Can anyone offer insight into this problem?
Avoid the rpms and just build egcs without them.

jeff