GCC v/s glibc

I had configured and built GCC 3.4.4 with "--with-arch=pentium3" and was happily using it for everything till I decided to compile glibc 2.3.5 with it. The build failed with a weird assembler error message as noted in glibc bug-701. That bug however, had been been closed unceremoniously and marked a duplicate of bug-333, which itself looks unnecessarily obnoxious.

After a bit of poking around, I found out that GCC pre-defines "__i686" if "-march=pentium3" is used (see $GCC_SRC_DIR/gcc/config/i386/i386.h) and this was causing the problem with glibc (see $GLIBC_SRC_DIR/sysdeps/i386/elf/setjmp.S). So I had to explicitly use "-march=i386" with GCC to be able to compile glibc. However, "make check" still fails. I will now build and install a vanilla GCC 3.4.4 and see if that is able to properly build glibc.


By the way, glibc 2.3.5 can not be built with GCC 4.0.1, though Dan Kegel seems to have patches to enable you to do it. It can not be built with anything lower than GCC 3.2 either.


(Originally posted on Advogato.)

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