Glibc : Probem at configure glibc

[Jakub Jelinek]

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.

	Jakub