make check failure

[Dale Drummond]

I'm attempting to compile glibc-2.2.5 on my RH7.1 system.  "make check"
fails as follows:

gcc tst-iconv1.c -c -O2 -Wall -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wwrite-strings -g      -I../include -I.
-I/usr/src/glibc/glibc-build/iconv -I.. -I../libio
-I/usr/src/glibc/glibc-build -I../sysdeps/i386/elf
-I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386
-I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux
-I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/pthread -I../sysdeps/pthread
-I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix
-I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/i386/i686 -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/i386
-I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686 -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386
-I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../sysdeps/gnu -I../sysdeps/unix/common
-I../sysdeps/unix/mman -I../sysdeps/unix/inet
-I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/i386 -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv
-I../sysdeps/unix/i386 -I../sysdeps/unix -I../sysdeps/posix
-I../sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu -I../sysdeps/i386/i686 -I../sysdeps/i386/i486
-I../sysdeps/i386/fpu -I../sysdeps/i386 -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32
-I../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64
-I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 -I../sysdeps/ieee754
-I../sysdeps/generic/elf -I../sysdeps/generic   -D_LIBC_REENTRANT
-include ../include/libc-symbols.h     -o
/usr/src/glibc/glibc-build/iconv/tst-iconv1.o
make[2]: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/src/glibc/glibc-build/elf/soinit.os', needed by
`/usr/src/glibc/glibc-build/libc.so'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/glibc/glibc-2.2.5/iconv'
make[1]: *** [iconv/tests] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/glibc/glibc-2.2.5'

2.2.4 failed in an identical fashion.

address@hidden glibc-build]# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)

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