Thanks for the info , yes it is installed glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.25 There is a /usr/lib64/crti.o that is part of this package. At risk of being off topic, do you know how to ask up2date to please install the 32 bit version in parallel? I've no such problem on SuSe! Thanks, Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Haley [mailto:aph@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 21 February 2007 13:50 > To: Atwood, Robert C > Cc: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Compiling gcc 4.2 prerelease on RedHat EL4 x86-64 > > Atwood, Robert C writes: > > Hi, > > I am afraid this is a problem at the border between distro > installation > > and gcc installation, I hope someone here can shed some > light on the > > best way to proceed. > > > > I have successfully compiled the 4.2 branch on other > systems, but this > > one is giving me a catch-22 kind of problem. It's RedHat > EL4 on a AMD > > x86-64 system, I've got all the gcc- and gcc4- packages that the > > installation system provides, installed. > > > > It seems that when I configure and build, using > > ../gcc/configure --prefix=/usr/local/encap/gcc-4.2.0.0 > > --program-suffix=v42 -- > > enable-languages=c,c++,fortran > > > > Then it fails to build due to > > /usr/bin/ld: crti.o: No such file: No such file or directory > > > > In this case, it is missing the 32-bit version of crti.o. > > This is part of libc, not gcc. Is glibc-devel installed? > > Andrew. >
