NewLib-1.8.2 does not compile on Redhat 6.1?

[Doug Evans]

Pawan Singh writes:
 > 
 > But my target is an embedded system running a 486. Do I need to do
 > anything special for that. I thought that all the code is generally
 > compiled by default for x386, so it would work on my embedded system.

There's more to compiling code for a particular cpu than just
the instruction set!  You must pick an embedded configuration
that is supported.  Maybe i386-rtems?  i386-aout?  i386-elf?