Linux Intel Requirements to Build egcs

[Joe Buck]

> I also had the same problems trying to build egcs on PPro ander RedHat 4.2.
> The problem is following: gcc from RedHat distribution (2.7.2.1) has ./ in
> the path where it searches for specs file - so it takes this file from
> gcc subdirectory in egcs when make enter this subdirectory . It seems to me
> that gcc 2.7.2.1 couldn't understand correctly some information from this
> file (may be due to some information about i686 CPU) and passes incorrect
> options to cpp.

I did not see this symptom (on Red Hat 4.2).  My builds work OK.
Could you post the output that you got?  (The exact error messsages,
not just an interpretation of what went wrong).