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[julian AT openit.de (Julian v. Bock)]

Hi

The recent gcc build failures are caused by two (separate?) problems
which have probably been introduced lately (after the glibc update and
the corresponding gcc-3.2 update).

1. several people report that their /usr/src/gcc-3.2 directory gets
   removed during the BUILD. if this happens, do the following:

   cd /usr/src
   tar -xzvf /var/spool/sorcery/gcc-3.2.tar.gz
   cd gcc-3.2.bld
   make bootstrap
   make install

   I did not have this problem with the latest sorcery, so this has
   probably been fixed.


2. the gcc installation aborts with an error like this:

   tar: linux: Cannot lchown to uid 0 gid 0: No such file or directory
   tar: X11: Cannot lchown to uid 0 gid 0: No such file or directory
   tar: GL: Cannot lchown to uid 0 gid 0: No such file or directory
   tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
   make[1]: *** [install-headers-tar] Error 2
   make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gcc-3.2.bld/gcc'
   make: *** [install-gcc] Error 2

   after lots of casts I tracked down this problem to installwatch.
   If you are hit by this, just do the following:

   cd /usr/src/gcc-3.2.bld
   make install

   A temporary fix is to add the following line to the BUILD script
   right before the 'make install' line:

   unset  LD_PRELOAD  &&

   You won't get complete install logs though.
   I am going to add this fix to the grimoire for now.

Julian