Looney Toon tries his hand at something slightly more complexthan straight Fortran 77

[Toon Moene]

[ ... describing failure when trying to combine egcs-980402-CVS with
      binutils-2.8.1.0.23 ... ]

I wrote:

>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> 0x1555555e3e8 in fixup ()
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0x1555555e3e8 in fixup ()
>> #1  0x1555555e688 in _dl_runtime_resolve ()
> (gdb) quit
>>
>> What does this mean (if anything) ?

Richard Henderson replied:

>  It means that, due to bugs in older versions of binutils,
>  it is not as simple as it ought to be to upgrade from
>  2.7.0.2 (shipped with RH4.x) to 2.8.1.x.
>
>  The best solution is to upgrade to RH 5.0.  If it is
>  absolutely required that the machine stay at RH 4.2, I
>  may be able to provide replacement RPMs.

Hmmm, as I noted before, this isn't *my* machine ... could you name  
the RPMs (and whether they can be installed by Someone Of Little  
Privilege) ?

>> Do I also need to upgrade to glibc-2 (shudder) ?  How does one do  
>> that, as a nobody ?

> You don't.  You have to be root to upgrade.

OK, that's out - then.

Thanks,
Toon.