On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:53:23AM +0100, Marc Recht wrote:
> >I saw the same thing yesterday.  I rebuilt libtool-base and all was fine.
> I tried that first. But it the error remains the same... :-/

this is a result of toolchain/24593: -current cannot compile c++ programs.
The recent split of the exception handling routines of libgcc.a into
libgcc_eh.a seems not to completely work yet.
Therefore libtool's configure cannot run a certain test program and a string
remains empty. 

A workaround is to combine the two libraries again, so you have the state
from before:
cd `mktemp -d libgcc`
ar xo /usr/lib/libgcc.a
ar xo /usr/lib/libgcc_eh.a
ar cru libgcc.a *.o
cp libgcc.a /usr/lib/libgcc.a


Michael