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From: [e-mail] (Steven David Gribble)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: gcc 2.3.1 install problems
Date: 14 Dec 1992 16:26:17 -0800
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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I've been trying to install the binaries for gcc 2.3.1, but haven't had much
luck.  Firstly, after having downloaded the archive from either wuarchive
or jagubox, my system will successfully uncompress it, but will claim that
the tar archive is corrupt.  To remedy this, I uncompressed and untar'ed the
archive on a different UNIX system, and then painfully downloaded these
extracted files one by one.

Now, when I try to follow the instructions in the INSTALL.aux file, I get some
serious problems when I try to follow step 5 ("run fixcrts").  Using the
command 'sh fixcrts' yields the following results:

Usage: cp f1 f2; or cp [ -r ] f1 ... fn d2
fixcrts: 506 Memory fault - core dumped
cmp: cannot open /usr/local/Gnu/lib/gcc/aux/2.1/crt0.o
Fixed crt0.o
fixcrts: 516 Memory fault - core dumped
cmp: cannot open /usr/local/Gnu/lib/gcc/aux/2.1/crt1.o
Fixed crt1.o
fixcrts: 526 Memory fault - core dumped
cmp: cannot open /usr/local/Gnu/lib/gcc/aux/2.1/crt2.o
etc..

However, even if this fixcrts doesn't work, gcc should still be somewhat
functional.  Trying to compile anything again results in a core dump.

Do I need the 2.1 binaries installed before attempting to install 2.3.1?

Any help is appreciated..

Thanks,
Steve Gribble
[e-mail]