Illegal instruction (core dumped) on i586

[Joe Buck]

>  
>        I had a very troublesome morning today, partly due to negligence
>   of various people, apparently including egcs maintainers etc.

Nonsense.  Your troubles are because of your own action and no one else's.

>    First, I
>   wanted to upgrade egcs to gcc-2.95 on my RedHat-6.0 system. You probably
>   know that things come in "RPM"s for RedHat (a way to install stuff), but
>   nothing was announced on teh RedHat mailing lists or egcs.cygnus.com

That's because the RPMs you installed were not produced or approved by
either the GCC (formerly EGCS) team nor by Red Hat.  Some random person
made them.  That's why they are in the "contrib" directory.  Anyone who
installs such things does so entirely at his or her own risk.

If the RPMs are defective, you can ask Red Hat to remove them if you like.

>   I suggest that egcs maintainers take care of RPMs for gcc-2.95
>   and (a) announce all necessary RPMs and the install sequence on
>   their site, (b) dub the announcement through RedHat RPM lists

Sorry, no.  The GCC team produces a portable compiler for many operating
systems.  It will not do RPMs customized for Red Hat.  That's Red Hat's
job.  Go bug them.

The GCC team does not work for you, and is under no obligation to honor
your demands.  Throwing around offensive language like "negligence"
only makes it less likely that anyone will help you.

The GCC team provides a source distribution only.  You can download it
and compile it yourself if you wish.  If you lack the expertise to do
this, then wait for Red Hat to do it, or hire someone to do it for you.