it is confusing, this problem has something to do with kernel's version when i switch to kernel 2.6.32.8, this compilation process succeed. without update glibc. Ian Lance Taylor-3 wrote: > > thinke365 <thinke365@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> after nearly 3 hours building process, it failed finally. >> the error message is shown as follows: >> >> libtool: compile: >> /root/dsk/upload/gcc-4.4.3/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/xgcc >> -B/root/dsk/upload/gcc-4.4.3/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/ >> -B/tools//i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/tools//i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ >> -isystem >> /tools//i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -isystem >> /tools//i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. >> -I../.././libgfortran -I. -iquote../.././libgfortran/io >> -I../.././libgfortran/../gcc -I../.././libgfortran/../gcc/config >> -I../../host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -std=gnu99 -Wall >> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wextra >> -Wwrite-strings -fcx-fortran-rules -g -O2 -MT unix.lo -MD -MP -MF >> .deps/unix.Tpo -c ../.././libgfortran/io/unix.c -fPIC -DPIC -o >> .libs/unix.o >> /tmp/cctY54rM.s: Assembler messages: >> /tmp/cctY54rM.s:5535: Error: symbol `fstatat64' is already defined >> // what's wrong? >> /tmp/cctY54rM.s:5576: Error: symbol `fstat64' is already defined >> /tmp/cctY54rM.s:5613: Error: symbol `lstat64' is already defined >> /tmp/cctY54rM.s:5650: Error: symbol `stat64' is already defined >> >> My build environment: Centos 5.3 , gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat >> 4.1.2-44) > > I suspec that the problem is due to the change in the handling of > "extern inline" functions in GNU99 mode. This issue is fixed in newer > versions of glibc, but I don't really recommend trying to install a > newer version of glibc. The fixincludes program is supposed to work > around the problem, but perhaps that is not working for some reason. > Please file a bug report about this. Thanks. > > Unless you need to use Fortran, you can probably avoid the problem by > using --enable-languages=c,c++. > > Ian > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Failed-to-build-gcc-4.4.3%2C-what%27s-wrong-tp27633615p27714090.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.