problem with installing binutils

[H . J . Lu]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 05:49:57PM +0200, Gerald Marewo wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I tried installing binutils 2.9.5.0.46 on linux:
> 
> 	Linux aardvark 2.0.34 #67 Thu Jun 18 17:04:10 MEST 1998 i686 unknown
> 
> and I get the following output when I run configure with
> 
> 	./configure
> 
> from the source directory:
> 
> 	configuring for a i686-pc-linux-host
			  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

config.guess thinks you have a glibc 2 base Linux. I believe I saw the
discussion on config.guess somewhere. Has config.guess been fixed?

> 	Created "Makefile" in /home/gerald/usr/local/binutils/binutils-2.9.5.0.46 using "mt-frag"
> 	Cannot find the GNU C Library minor version number
> 

You seem to have a libc5 based one. You can try

# ./configure i686-pc-linuxlibc5


H.J.