RE: Building GCC under Cygwin. Please help.

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:aoliva@redhat.com]
>Sent: 30 March 2001 08:09



>> This is the third time I am sending this problem in. I didn't get a
>> response earlier. I would really appreciate any help!
>
>You might have better luck posting to some Cygwin-specific mailing
>list.

  But nonetheless, problems building gcc on *any* platform aren't
offtopic here.  It's just there's more cygwin experts on cygwin lists!

>> /srcdir/gcc-2.95.3/configure --prefix=/usr --with-gnu-as 
>--with-gnu-ld --enable-threads=posix 2>&1 | tee configure.out
>
>Did you try without the --enable-threads=posix?  I suspect that's the
>problem.  Try just --enable-threads, so that GCC chooses the
>appropriate threading model, if any.

  And isn't --prefix=/usr a bit of a risky idea?  If your compiler turns
out to be broken, you'll have lost all the old gcc/g++ drivers for the
old version (the main compiler itself will be safe since it lives in a
subdirectory of /usr/lib/ that includes the version number), which may
make it slightly difficult to revert to the older version.

  Also you need to add the flag --with-included-gettext and delete or
rename the texinfo directory in the source distribution to get the
.info files to build correctly.

       DaveK
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