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Re: Glibc : Probem at configure glibc
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Sandeep Kumar <sandeepksinha at gmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 06:44:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: Glibc : Probem at configure glibc
- References: <37d33d830601072114qeb72c6fh7fc507d51885ca2f@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
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