checkinstall won't work w/ my fedora core 1

[Tim Wunder]

I've spent a little time trying to resolve my one problem issue with FC1, 
checkinstall failing. I've installed checkinstall via RPM that was built for 
fedora core 1, so it seems that this should work.  A post of the problem to 
the checkinstall users list about a month ago resulted in no help. Hopefully 
one of the superior minds on this list will be able to provide me with a 
clue.
OK, here's what happens:
# checkinstall -R

checkinstall 1.5.3, Copyright 2001 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
           This software is released under the GNU GPL.



Installing with "make install"...

========================= Installation results ===========================
/bin/sh: relocation error: /usr/lib/installwatch.so: undefined symbol: 
__builtin_va_start

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

I ran checkinstall with the highest debug level thusly:
# checkinstall -d2 -R

checkinstall 1.5.3, Copyright 2001 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
           This software is released under the GNU GPL.


debug: Setting umask => 0022
debug: The temporary directory is: [ /var/tmp/aPVfaYnfmhEFBrWJXDnm ]


Installing with "make install"...

========================= Installation results ===========================
/bin/sh: relocation error: /usr/lib/installwatch.so: undefined symbol: 
__builtin_va_start

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.


A google search on "undefined symbol: __builtin_va_start" resulted in a lot of 
gcc-related stuff, none of which made any sense to me. (Other than to 
indicate that __builtin_va_start was a pretty common, basic symbol.)

Anybody care to suggest a path to troubleshooting this?

Thanks, 
Tim

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