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Re: bootstrap broken on mingw
- From: "Richard Guenther" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: "Danny Smith" <dansmister at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "Weddington, Eric" <eweddington at cso dot atmel dot com>, "FX Coudert" <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>, "Gerald Pfeifer" <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, "Joerg Wunsch" <j at uriah dot heep dot sax dot de>, "GCC Development" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "Denis Chertykov" <chertykov at gmail dot com>, "Anatoly Sokolov" <aesok at post dot ru>, "Lamo, Jo Inge" <jo-inge dot lamo at atmel dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:18:46 +0100
- Subject: Re: bootstrap broken on mingw
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On Feb 20, 2008 10:15 AM, Danny Smith <dansmister@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 20, 2008 10:02 PM, Danny Smith <dansmister@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 18, 2008 10:59 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > gcc/ChangeLog:
> > > 2008-02-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
> > >
> > > PR bootstrap/35218
> > > * Makefile.in (build_file_translate): New.
> > > (gcc-vers.texi): Use it for translating $(abs_srcdir).
> > > * config.build (build_file_translate): Set to `CMD //c' on MinGW.
> > > * configure.ac (build_file_translate): Substitute it.
> > > * configure: Regenerate.
> > >
> >
> > This patch breaks native bootstrap on mingw systems that use
> > cygwin1.dll-dependent bash and development tools. As such, that would
> > be a regression against all versions of gcc since at least 2.95.3
> >
> > The ' CMD //c' (with 2 slashes preceding the switch rather than the
> > one documented for cmd by Micrsosoft) is a MSYS-ism that causes
> > problems with non-MSYS shells (including the one provided by MS in
> > its SFU package)
> >
> >
> > GCC corrently bootstaps just fine (with or without the earlier
> > abs_srcdir patch) on mingw using the cygwin bash shell, make and
> > configure. Using cygwin shell rather than the MSYS shell means that
> > DejaGnu testsuite can be run. The last time I checked this was not
> > possible. with MSYS.
> >
>
>
>
> I just noticed that this has been committed. Should I open a new bug
> report? The use of 'CMD //c' should be restricted to those systems
> that understand it.
Yes please.
Richard.