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I am trying to build libc-5.4.44.  `make depend' gets hundreds of errors
like

../../include/stdlib.h:34: stddef.h: No such file or directory

stddef.h is not in libc-5.4.44.tar.gz.  I looked in
libc-5.4.38.bin.tar.gz and libc-5.4.44.bin.tar.gz and didn't find it
there either.  

Where is stddef.h supposed to come from?  I do have the correct link
from /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux:

% ls -ld /usr/include/linux
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           28 Feb  1 09:25 /usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux

And stddef.h thus appears at /usr/include/linux/stddef.h:

% ls -l /usr/include/linux/stddef.h
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin           243 Dec  1  1993 /usr/include/linux/stddef.h

Should there be a link from /usr/include/stddef.h to
/usr/include/linux/stddef.h?  Or a /usr/include/stddef.h that itself
includes /usr/include/linux/stddef.h?

% uname -sr
Linux 2.0.33
% gcc --version
2.7.2.3

I recently installed:

binutils-2.8.1.0.15.bin.tar.gz
gcc-2.7.2.3.bin.tar.gz
ld.so-1.9.5.tar.gz
libc-5.4.38.bin.tar.gz
libg++-2.7.2.8.bin.tar.gz

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|> I am trying to build libc-5.4.44.  `make depend' gets hundreds of errors
|> like

|> ../../include/stdlib.h:34: stddef.h: No such file or directory

|> stddef.h is not in libc-5.4.44.tar.gz.  I looked in
|> libc-5.4.38.bin.tar.gz and libc-5.4.44.bin.tar.gz and didn't find it
|> there either.  

|> Where is stddef.h supposed to come from?

stddef.h is a compiler internal header, and is supposed to come from
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/*/2.7.2.3/include.

|> Should there be a link from /usr/include/stddef.h to
|> /usr/include/linux/stddef.h?  Or a /usr/include/stddef.h that itself
|> includes /usr/include/linux/stddef.h?

None of them.

|> I recently installed:

|> gcc-2.7.2.3.bin.tar.gz

You didn't install that correctly.

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Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something

The compiler internal headers from gcc-2.7.2.3.bin.tar.gz (non-glibc
version) get installed in
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1/2.7.2.3/include.  I get it,
`gnulibc1', as opposed to gnulibc2.

The configure dialog of libc-5.4.44 starts with:

    More than one Linux targets found:
            i486-linux i486-linuxaout i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1
    "i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1" is chosen.

I was seeing this, thinking it was wrong (`no I don't want the gnulibc
(2) version'), and then manually telling it to compile for `i486-linux'
instead.  I guess what it is really saying here is `I found the compiler
internal headers in these three directories, which do you want to use?'
When I just let it use the defaults, it didn't have a problem finding
stddef.h.

The install instructions from
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC/release.gcc-2.7.2.3 are:

        gzip -dc gcc-2.7.2.3.bin.tar.gz | tar xvvf -

There's not a lot to go wrong with this.  Well you have to guess to cd
to `/' first but I got that right.

Thanks for the information.  Soon I will have a libm.a.  Next stop
Mozilla.