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  I just got the gnu gcc-2.2.2 distribution from uunet and have been
having a couple of small problems compiling it.  Essentially, the enquire
program locks up after outputting  (from enquire -f)  :

  /* Minimum int x such that 10**x is a normalised float */
#define FLT_MIN_10_EXP (-37)

  I've tried all types of compiles for enquire.c, using the stock ISC 3.0
cc, gcc 2.1, various and sundry options, all to no avail.

  The system was configured with  "configure --target=i386-*-isc"
and a regular  "make LANGUAGES=c"  was run.  Everything ran fine until
the "enquire -f" line was run, then it just sat there.

  We don't have Bison installed, but the c-parse.? and cexp.? files are
dated thusly :

-rw-r--r--   1 deano    staff     123479 Jun 13 22:34 c-parse.c
-r--r--r--   1 deano    staff       1524 Jun 10 00:29 c-parse.gperf
-rw-r--r--   1 deano    staff       1129 Jun 13 22:34 c-parse.h
-rw-r--r--   1 deano    staff      76645 Sep  7 18:33 c-parse.o
-r--r--r--   1 deano    staff      49231 Jun 10 00:25 c-parse.y
-rw-r--r--   1 deano    staff      46446 Mar 28 15:38 cexp.c
-rw-r--r--   1 deano    staff      21213 Sep  7 18:33 cexp.o
-rw-r--r--   1 deano    staff      20138 Feb 13  1992 cexp.y

  I noticed a similar situation when compiling perl 4.035 (also from
uunet).  When running Configure, the "try.c" program that checks to see
if the C compiler can cast weird floats to unsigned would lock up the
same way.

  Does this sound familiar to anyone ?  Has anyone built gcc 2.2.2 (or
perl 4.035) under ISC 3.0 ?  We got perl compiled ok, and it seems to
work fine, passed the "make tests" run, but what's the deal with these
lockups ?

  Please mail me directly as we don't get this group regularly ... thanks
for any help in advance ...

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