From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-10-16T19:48:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby compilation problems

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, S R Chansarkar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 	Following is the gcc version being used.
>
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> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
> gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)

That is likely to be the problem.  I remember this: 2.96 should
never have been released.
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html
You should be using 2.95.3 or 3.3.1 -- I gather (anecdotal, limited
experience) that 3.[23].* are pretty stable.  I found on Solaris
that I needed 3.2.2 to build 1.8.0, 2.95.3 would not cope.

> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Regards and best wishes.
> Shailesh.

        Hugh