Re: gcc-i386-gnu ( Broken Package )

[ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg (Ognyan Kulev)]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:45:06PM +0530, Naheed Vora wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I tried to cross compile mach using gcc-i386-gnu (1.7-4), but there
> were some broken links.
> 
> It tries to find cpp0 in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-gnu/2.95.3 which
> altogether does not exist. I tried to create a symbolic link
> i386-gnu/2.95.3 from i386-gnu/2.95-2 but without any success. Now I
> noticed that all the files in i386-gnu/2.95.2 were symbolic links from
> i386-linux/2.95.2. So in similar fashion I too created a symbolic from
> i386-linux/2.95-3 to i386-gnu/2.93-3. 
> 
> Shouldn't this thing be done by the gcc-i386-gnu package or else it
> should provide all those files and install in the corresponding
> directory ???

I had the same problem.  You are in the unstable Debian distribution which
uses 2.95.3 but you install 2.95.2 cross-compiler (obviously).  I fix it by
downgrading manually gcc (with wget & dpkg -i).  I don't know of a better
solution - apt can't do it :-\

Regards
-- 
Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>, "\"Programmer\""