Why glibc configure complains gcc version?

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I downloaded glibc 2.3.1 source code and tried compiling it, the compilation failed saying gcc and make are too old:

../glibc-2.3.1_src/configure  --prefix=/home/user/download/glibc-2.3.1/install

checking version of gcc... 9.4.0, bad
checking for gnumake... no
checking for gmake... no
checking for make... make
checking version of make... 4.2.1, bad
configure: error:
*** These critical programs are missing or too old: gcc make
*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.

This is odd as INSTALL says gcc needs to be 3.2 or newer. Yet you can see from the above message that gcc is 9.4.

You see what is wrong? How to fix it?

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your specified glibc is ancient, released 20 years ago

2002-10-10 GLIBC 2.3.1

glibc probably has some problem recognizing or parsing versions from make and gcc that new (or the flags used to get the versions of make and gcc changed along the way)...

you are probably looking for 2020-02-01 GLIBC 2.31

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