Re: Glibc : Probem at configure glibc

[Sandeep Kumar <sandeepksinha at gmail dot com>]

On 1/7/06, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:14:02PM -0800, Sandeep Kumar wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> >
> > I am  trying to compile glibc2.3.5 on Red Hat 9.0(2.4.20-8) on a x86
> > machine with
> > binutilies 2.16.1 installed on it but i am are getting an error :
> >
> >
> > .....
> > checking for stdint.h... yes
> > checking for unistd.h... yes
> > checking for long double... yes
> > checking size of long double... 12
> > running configure fragment for sysdeps/i386/elf
> > checking for i386 TLS support... yes
> > running configure fragment for nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux
> > running configure fragment for nptl/sysdeps/pthread
> > checking for forced unwind support... no
> > configure: error: forced unwind support is required
> >
> >
> > .....
> >
> >
> > Can any body direct us how to proceed further ?
>
> Your gcc (particularly libgcc_s.so.1) is too old.
> You are much better to upgrade to a contemporary distro rather than trying
> to use selected contemporary components with 3 years old distro.
>
True , its an older one. But does it really makes a difference ?


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Regards,
Sandeep





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