P.S. If you just want to build GCC from source (rather than building
the Fedora GCC package from the Fedora GCC SRPM) then the instructions
are at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/
That will not try to build java or ada, will not run the tests unless
you ask for it, and will build a multilib compiler by default.
The problem is that I wanted to build rpm, which I can use later on more
than one machine - not just on the machine I was compiling GCC on.
That said, the default Fedora packages *are* multilib, you just needed
to install libgcc.i686 as Andrew pointed out.
My major gripe is with the gcc.spec file provided by Fedora - it does
not do a good job at all.
I ended up installing more packages than the one you and Andrew were
kind enough to point out as I had a lot of dead symlinks - I wrote this
in my previous post and thought I was pretty clear on this. Installing
libgcc.i686 along with the main GCC package does NOT solve that problem.
Another issue I have (had!) is that if I wanted to build GCC to be
installed on a Fedora system using gcc.spec - provided by Fedora, no
less - I expect at the end of this process to end up with all the
necessary packages needed (x86_64 AND i686 if I select the multilib
option) for GCC to function properly and with all the functionality I
have requested/specified. I do not expect to end up with half-ars*d
installation and dead links all over the place.
If I choose to install GCC directly (without compiling it) by using
Fedora-pre-built GCC rpm, and, as you point out, if it is already a
multilib package, then I expect it to install all the dependencies
needed for it to function properly and not leave me scratching my head
wondering what the hell is going on, wouldn't you agree?
Your remaining problem
seems to be your misunderstanding that file(1) only reports 80386,
which is the correct behaviour.
Aye, I figured that one out already, thanks for pointing it out!
So you probably don't need to build GCC yourself anyway.
Aye, I've made full circle and I am still pissed off about this as I
wasted the good part of a day figuring out what on earth is going on,
which wouldn't have been the case if everything was installed properly
by Fedora in the first place...and that brings me nicely to the original
point I've made - the current package provided by Fedora isn't up to
scratch and it leaves a lot to be desired and if someone is brave enough
to compile GCC using the spec file provided by Fedora is going to be in
a world of hurt!
