Components to install on RedHat 5.0 ?

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> Hi alltogether,
> 
> I just switched a running RedHat Linux 4.2 system with the
> egcs system to a freshly insalled RedHat Linux 5.0 system.
> 
> Now, I admit I am too stuck in work to dig myself down
> into all the changes 5.0 brought to me, but I am assuming
> I would like to continue developing with the new glibc2 now.
> 
> In order to compile the newest egcs snapshot, I did the 
> following:
> 
> (1) out-of-the-box install of RedHat 5.0
> (2) installed binutils-2.8.1.0.19.bin.tar.gz
> (3) untar'd and compiled egcs-980115.tar.gz
> 
> so now I have 
> gcc --version
> egcs-2.91.04 980115 (gcc-2.8.0 release)
> 
> Is this thing now using the new glibc2 thing? I am not
> so sure yet. I was wondering what the 

# gcc -v foo.c
# ldd a.out

will tell you what you are using.

> binutils-2.8.1.0.19-glibc.bin.tar.gz was good for, but

Fix a few bugs for EH.

> I assume that would help when using the gcc 2.7.2
> to compile egcs with the glibc2 library? So what I
> did was use gcc 2.7.2 with the old libc to compile
> the new egcs?
> 
> Hmmm, I admit I am pretty clueless here, maybe someone can
> give me a hint as to what exactly I did (and maybe what I 
> *really* would want to do instead, if that wasn't right) :)
> 
> By the way, I understand egcs uses its own libstdc++,
> what else would installing 
> 
> libg++-2.8.1-980119.tar.gz
> libg++-2.8.0b6.6-2.8.1-980119.diff.gz
> 

There is a README.libg++ in the tar file.


H.J.