So I reinstalled glibc. The system had been working fine[*] since June,
but had not been used for doing any development.

Now the host_alias for configure was not needed. I did:

host_alias=i386-pc-linux-gnu HOST_CC=/usr/gcc3/bin/cc ./build.sh -m i386
-U tools

Ended with:

/usr/gcc3/bin/cc  -O -o nbmake *.o
nbmake: illegal argument to d option -- e
Usage: nbmake [-Beiknqrst] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-f makefile ]
            [-I directory] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable]
            [variable=value] [target ...]
nbmake: illegal argument to d option -- e
Usage: nbmake [-Beiknqrst] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-f makefile ]
...

(The above error was repeated several times.)

I wonder if that is this part from build.sh:

        MAKEFLAGS="-de -m ${TOP}/share/mk ${MAKEFLAGS}
MKOBJDIRS=${MKOBJDIRS-yes}"
        export MAKEFLAGS MACHINE MACHINE_ARCH


I will have to look more later. Good night!


(Please CC me on replies. Thank you.)

 Jeremy C. Reed

[*] It was amazingly slow though. Maybe this is related. Maybe it will be
quicker now :)