Repost: since when is gcc-2.96 insufficient to build gcc?

[David Wuertele <dave-gnus at bfnet dot com>]

Got no reply previously, anyone know the answer?

I want to use crosstool to build gcc-3.3.3 on a system that only has
gcc-2.96.  Is this impossible?

Dave

Me> target: mipsel
Me> crosstool:  0.28-rc31;  gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2
Me> 
Me> While crosstool was running configure on gcc-3.3.3, I got this:
Me> 
Me>   + /home/targets/crosstool-0.28-rc31/build/mipsel-abcd-linux-gnu/gcc-3.3.3-glibc-2.3.2/glibc-2.3.2/configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=mipsel-abcd-linux-gnu --without-cvs --disable-sanity-checks --with-headers=/home/targets/mipsel-abcd-linux-gnu/gcc-3.3.3-glibc-2.3.2/mipsel-abcd-linux-gnu/include --enable-hacker-mode
Me>   checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
Me>   checking host system type... mipsel-abcd-linux-gnu
Me>   checking sysdep dirs... sysdeps/mips/elf sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux sysdeps/gnu sysdeps/unix/common sysdeps/unix/mman sysdeps/unix/inet sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/mips sysdeps/unix sysdeps/posix sysdeps/mips/mipsel sysdeps/mips/fpu sysdeps/mips sysdeps/wordsize-32 sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 sysdeps/ieee754 sysdeps/generic/elf sysdeps/generic
Me>   checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
Me>   checking whether ln -s works... yes
Me>   checking for pwd... /bin/pwd
Me>   checking for mipsel-abcd-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc
Me>   checking version of gcc... 2.96, bad
Me>   checking for gnumake... no
Me>   checking for gmake... gmake
Me>   checking version of gmake... 3.80, ok
Me>   configure: error:
Me>   *** These critical programs are missing or too old: gcc
Me>   *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.
Me> 
Me> I'd rather not chuck 2.96 on this system since I depend on it for some
Me> other projects.  What version of gcc started complaining about 2.96?
Me> Seems dumb to me since gcc is a two-stage compile, why should they
Me> care what the first stage was compiled with?
Me> 
Me> What version of gcc should I revert to so that I can compile it with
Me> 2.96?


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