On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:

> How on earth did you even get egcs BUILT on NetBSD?  At least up to a
> few snapshots after the 1.0.1 release, egcs would die on the 3rd
> build during a 'make bootstrap' (the part where it tries to build
> itself using itself).  I seem to recall the problem being in egcs's
> assembly output not being liked by our gas. [...]

You can disable the troublesome assembly by adding the line

   #define DWARF2_UNWIND_INFO 0

in gcc/config/i386/netbsd.h

This change has been in egcs-current for a while now, and will also
be present in the soon to be released egcs-1.0.2.

   /Krister