build of glibc-2.1.1 using gcc-2.9.5

[Gordon Neal]

Greetings,
I can't build/configure glibc-2.1.1 using gcc-2.9.5. I get the following
messages:
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking sysdep dirs... sysdeps/i386/elf
linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux linuxthreads/sysdeps/pthread
linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix
linuxthreads/sysdeps/i386/i686 linuxthreads/sysdeps/i386 crypt/sysdeps/unix
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux sysdeps/gnu sysdeps/unix/common sysdeps/unix/mman
sysdeps/unix/inet sysdeps/unix/sysv/i386 sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/i386
sysdeps/unix sysdeps/posix sysdeps/i386/i686 sysdeps/i386/i486
sysdeps/libm-i387/i686 sysdeps/i386/fpu sysdeps/libm-i387 sysdeps/i386
sysdeps/wordsize-32 sysdeps/ieee754 sysdeps/libm-ieee754 sysdeps/generic/elf
sysdeps/generic
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking version of gcc... 2.95, bad
checking for make... make
checking version of make... 3.77, ok
checking for msgfmt... msgfmt
checking version of msgfmt... 0.10.35, ok
checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
checking version of makeinfo... 3.12, ok
configure: error:
*** Some critical program is missing or too old.
*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.

Is there a work-around for this or do I have to use an older version of gcc?
Thanks
Gordon
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