On Wed, 28 Feb 1996 23:06:49 +0000 
 "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org> wrote:

 > > NO!  Everything will *not* be fine!
 > 
 > Umm,  It was you that told me this Jason :-)

Umm .. I'm pretty sure it's not, but whatever :-)

 > > cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc
 > > make
 > > [ build pukes on libgcc ]
 > > (cd cc; make install)
 > > (cd cc1; make install)
 > > (cd cc1obj; make install)
 > > (cd cc1plus; make install)
 > > (cd cpp; make install)
 > > (cd g++; make install)
 > > (cd libgcc; make; make install)
 > > (cd libobjc; make; make install)
 > > 
 > > *then* everything will be fine.
 > > 
 > How is this different from what I've said ?

With the procedure you posted (cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc; make install; 
cd /usr/src/; make), you would:

	- fail to install gcc, because libgcc.a didn't exist,
	- if it did install, you'd be building binaries with
	  mismatched gcc/libgcc.a

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