Prerelease is not a treat on ia64 (at least older ia64 systems)

[H. J. Lu]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:37:59AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:10:15PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > The first GCC 3.4.3 release candidate is available here:
> > 
> >    ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/prerelease-3.4.3-20041031/
> > 
> > I'm unlikely to hold up the 3.4.3 release for anything less than a 
> > serious regression from 3.4.2; the primary goal is simply to release the 
> > bug fixes that have been accumulated since 3.4.2.
> 
> Just got a failure.
> 
> This release will not bootstrap on an ia64 system running Red Hat
> AW 2.1, because of the (known) libunwind problem.
> 
> The genmodes program is built by the stage 1 compiler, and then fails
> to run, because while a libunsind.so.7 was also built, it is not on
> the path.  So, we get
> 
> ./genmodes -h > tmp-modes.h
> ./genmodes: error while loading shared libraries: libunwind.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

See

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17464


H.J.