GCC 4.3.0 compilation error

[Jim Wilson]

Wirawan Purwanto wrote:
> I tried to compile GCC 4.3.0 on a Red Hat Linux 9.0 box, it stopped at stage 1:

Compiling new gcc versions on old linux versions may not always work, 
and is unlikely to be fixed.  You are probably on your own here if you 
run into a non-trivial problem.

> ../../gcc-4.3.0/gcc/config/host-linux.c: In function `linux_gt_pch_use_address':
> ../../gcc-4.3.0/gcc/config/host-linux.c:207: `SSIZE_MAX' undeclared
> (first use in this function)

GCC is expecting SSIZE_MAX to be defined by the glibc headers, which is 
true with current versions of glibc.  Assuming ssize_t is a long, then 
SSIZE_MAX should be LONG_MAX.

Jim