gcc4.0 executable fails to run with this error...

[Dhruv Matani]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 09:06, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> >root/gcc/gcc-4.0-20040919
> 
> Update your sources, and be careful about mixing old + current object
> files at the moment. (ie, don't.)  

I never do that, but since you have mentioned it, I shall be
ultra-carefull.

> You are trying to link code compiled
> with older versions of __mt_alloc with a current (post 2004-10-05)
> library.

The problem was with the binutils being very old on my system. Paolo had
told me about this long time ago, but I just recently got the latest
binutils. I thought that I had updated them, but it turned out that I
hadn't. So updating them did the trick!

> 
> -benjamin
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