stage1 builds but stage2 fails

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message <19980909120745.J702@vaxerdec.dyn.ml.org>you write:
  > The following will reproduce an error that I get compiling egcs-1.1b on
  > a Linux box with glibc-2.0.6, binutils-2.9.1, and egcs-1.0.3a (on an
  > AMD-K6):
  > 
  > 	cd <toplevel>
  > 	make distclean
  > 	cd gcc
  > 	./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-threads=posix \
  > 		--enable-checking
  > 	make LANGUAGES=c
  > 	make stage1
  > 	make CC="stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/" CFLAGS="-g -O2"
  > 
  > The error produced is:
  > 
  > 	stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -c  -DIN_GCC    -g -O2  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
  > 	-I. -I. -I./config stor-layout.c
  > 	stor-layout.c: In function `layout_decl':
  > 	stor-layout.c:272: expr.c:4981: Expect expression, have
  > 	'error_mark'
  > 
  > Have I done something wrong? I hear of only success in the mailing
  > lists.
--enable-checking has detected an inconsistency.  Most folks don't build with
it since most folks don't plan on debugging the compiler :-)

jeff