Re: Trouble building current CVS libc on RH9

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

sean@xenadyne.com wrote:
> I'm trying to build an October 22 CVS checkout of libc,
> because I want to do some tests on current NPTL ...
>
> /home/sean/Glibc/Current/build
> $ ../libc/configure --with-tls --enable-add-ons=nptl --disable-profile --prefix=/home/sean/gnu 
>
>
> Problem 1: configure fails in libc/nptl/sysdeps/pthread/configure,
> due to "error: CFI directive support in assembler is required".
> I upgraded to binutils 2.13.92 and this did not currect the error.
> Is this actually an autoconf problem?

You're the fifth person to run into this; people started hitting this
in July.  I suspect updating to binutils-2.14.90.0.5 would help, though I
haven't tried this at all myself yet.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/binutils-2.14.90.0.5.tar.bz2
- Dan

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