problem with installing binutils

[Franz Sirl]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 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?

See the thread starting at
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-06/msg00208.html

Bruce, do you now finally believe that your patch breaks things and doesn't 
fix anything? Please revert your wrong patch! Actually the config maintainer 
should revert it ASAP, so we can synchronize binutils/gcc/etc again.

Your patch breaks major GNU applications working fine for years, just to help 
broken installations with a missing gcc->cc symlink.

Franz.