glibc compilation woes

From: Nicholas J. Little (njl_at_denn.home.net)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:53:32 +0100

Is this the correct place to post this kind of query? If not, sorry to
bother you--directions please?

I have been trying to compile glibc-2.1.2 for my i386 laptop. I
downloaded the necessary packages from the gnu ftp site. Read the FAQ,
INSTALL and README files... checked software versions:
make 3.80
gcc 3.3.3...
binutils 2.15.90...
makeinfo 4.6

The requirements listed in the FAQ are:
make 3.75 or 3.77 (or later i presume)
gcc 2.8.1
binutils 2.9.1.0.15
makeinfo 4.6

I figure from this that i have the needed versions installed of all the
packages however when i try to run configure it fails with this output:

checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking version of gcc... 3.3.3, bad
checking for make... make
checking version of make... v. ?.??, bad
checking for msgfmt... msgfmt
checking version of msgfmt... 0.14.1, ok
checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
checking version of makeinfo... 4.6, bad
configure: error:
*** Some critical program is missing or too old.
*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.

I'm at a loss, i'm running Fedora Core 2.
Many thanks.

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