[Bug c++/12413] New: 'symbol already defined' when building ICU 2.6 with Cygwin

["ron_hylton at hotmail dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12413

           Summary: 'symbol already defined' when building ICU 2.6 with
                    Cygwin
           Product: gcc
           Version: 3.3.1
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: c++
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: ron_hylton at hotmail dot com
                CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
GCC target triplet: i686-pc-cygwin

When building ICU 2.6 from http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/ using Cygwin on 
Windows 2000 I get the error:
strmatch.s:1914: Error: symbol `_N' is already defined
This code compiles under Visual Studio 7.1 & Comeau 4.3.

Details:  

$ c++ -v -save-temps -D_REENTRANT -I. -I../common -D_REENTRANT -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-DU_I18N_IMPLEMENTATION  -c -DPIC  -Wall -o strmatch.o strmatch.cpp
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/specs
Configured with: /netrel/src/gcc-3.3.1-1/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,
java --enable-libgcj --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --wi
thout-included-gettext --enable-interpreter --enable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-v
ersion-specific-runtime-libs --enable-shared --build=i686-pc-linux --host=i686-p
c-cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/
etc --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/nonexistent/include --libexecdir=/usr/sbin
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.1 (cygming special)
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/cc1plus.exe -E -D__GNUG__=3 -quiet -v -I.
 -I../common -D__GNUC__=3 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=3 -D__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__=1 -D__CYGWIN3
2__ -D__CYGWIN__ -Dunix -D__unix__ -D__unix -idirafter /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-
cygwin/3.3.1/../../../../include/w32api -idirafter /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygw
in/3.3.1/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/../../include/w32api -D_REENTRANT -D_REE
NTRANT -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DU_I18N_IMPLEMENTATION -DPIC strmatch.cpp -Wall strmatch
.ii
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/local/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/include"
ignoring duplicate directory "/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/lib/../../include/w32api"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 .
 ../common
 /usr/include/c++/3.3.1
 /usr/include/c++/3.3.1/i686-pc-cygwin
 /usr/include/c++/3.3.1/backward
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/include
 /usr/include
 /usr/include/w32api
End of search list.
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/cc1plus.exe -fpreprocessed strmatch.ii -q
uiet -dumpbase strmatch.cpp -auxbase-strip strmatch.o -Wall -version -o strmatch
.s
GNU C++ version 3.3.1 (cygming special) (i686-pc-cygwin)
        compiled by GNU C version 3.3.1 (cygming special).
GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=64 --param ggc-min-heapsize=65410
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe --t
raditional-format -o strmatch.o strmatch.s
strmatch.s: Assembler messages:
strmatch.s:1914: Error: symbol `_N' is already defined

I have a .ii file which I can hopefully attach once the bug is posted.