bootstrap/3758: GCC-3.0 doesn't build under cygwin / Bad diagnostic reporting

[david dot abrahams at rcn dot com]

>Number:         3758
>Category:       bootstrap
>Synopsis:       GCC-3.0 doesn't build under cygwin / Bad diagnostic reporting
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 21 10:46:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Abrahams
>Release:        GCC-3.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
Cygwin
>Description:
GCC-3.0 doesn't build under Cygwin out of the box. After running configure, you must patch line 224 of install.sh to add the .exe extension as follows:

 dsttmp=$dstdir/#inst.$$#.exe
                         ^^^^

A better patch could probably be made which detects Cygwin and automatically makes this adjustment, but I don't know how to do that.

One other fact, which probably has no specific relevance to Cygwin: if you install gcc using --with-prefix=... (so that you don't disturb your existing 2.95.x installation), you get an advisory about the requirements for linking. This advisory is generated by a section of ltmain.sh starting at
line 4892. Unfortunately, it comes in the middle of a huge amount of other make output which is probably best ignored. I installed GCC-3.0 twice before I noticed the advisory, and by the time installation was finished it had scrolled out of my buffer and was lost forever. I noticed enough to see that I could add "-L/usr/lib" to get things to link. If anyone knows how I can recover the complete information I'd love to know it. In any case I think it should be considered a bug that important advisories don't come at the end of the make process.

-Dave
>How-To-Repeat:
Download gcc-3.0
configure using --with-prefix=/usr/local/gcc-3.0
make bootstrap
make install
>Fix:

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