970910

[Joe Buck]

Aaron Jackson writes:

> I tried to build the 970910 snapshot on my DEC 3000 running Digital Unix
> 2.0 by doing 'make distclean' './configure' 'make bootstrap' and it died
> (see below) while building second stage fortran.  CC was gcc2.7.2.3with
> g770.5.21.

...
> if true; then /usr/local/alpha-dec-osf2.0/bin/ranlib ../../libf2c.a;  else true; 
> fi
> sh: /usr/local/alpha-dec-osf2.0/bin/ranlib: not found

It looks like "configure" has found an invalid ranlib for some reason.
(I presume /usr/local/alpha-dec-osf2.0/bin is on your path).  Perhaps
that dummy ranlib used to exist on your system and is no longer present.

I've occasionally had trouble with stale data in config.cache, especially
in the Fortran stuff.