RH5.2 install failure (was Re: PostMortem: Is there a good platform for gcj?)

[Sandro Hawke]

Anthony> IIRC, you upgraded to RH 6.0.  Did you rebuild egcs after the upgrade?
Anthony> Bryce mentioned that he had to do this after his upgrade.

Yes.  Actually I went from 5.1 (where I didn't even try egcs) to 6.0,
where I tried installing egcs/libcgj for the first time.  I was unable
to get that to work, as I described earlier today (vtable problems).

Then I installed RH 5.2 on a vmware virtual system.  On that system I
had a small problem, which I mistook for a larger one.  Hearing from
you that it was really supposed to work on RH 5.2 gave me motivation
the get past the small problem, and now (phew!) it works. 

The small problem was that configuring egcs with
"--enable-languages=C,C++,java" (then make (bootstrap), make install)
does not actually result in a C++ compiler being made/installed.
Leaving out --enable-languages does, and so fixed my problem.

Now I just need to get my application to compile with it.  :-)

    -- sandro