built egcs

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.LNX.3.96.980212154150.2894A-100000@mustelid.rebellion.co.uk >write:
  >  In order to get it to build, I had to set
  > GCC_EXEC_PREFIX=/usr/lib/gcc-lib, make bootstrap, watch until it failed
  > trying to make c++filt, unset GCC_EXEC_PREFIX, and then continue the make
  > process. (GCC_EXEC_PREFIX is not normally set).
  > 
  >  This is because the system original gcc has '.' in the search-path for
  > `specs' files,
Did you check your environment variables?  Odds are one of them is the
cause of "." ending up in the search path.

http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/faq.html#environ


jeff