Re: need help compiling gcc for Windows

[Andy Howell <AndyHowell at austin dot rr dot com>]

Sheryl Canter wrote:
> If no ideas on the problem below, then at least help me to find it myself?
>
> I'm knew to Unix and can't tell exactly what is happening when I issue the
> command "make bootstrap". If I knew what files were being executed, perhaps
> I could find the problem.
>
> Someone please help??
>
>     - Sheryl
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sheryl Canter" <sheryl@permutations.com>
> To: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 5:15 PM
> Subject: Re: need help compiling gcc for Windows
>
>
> Please, somebody help me with this! I'm completely stuck.
>
> The configure is completing correctly (as far as I can tell), but the
> build didn't work. It works up to this point:
>
> ------------
> Bootstrapping the compiler
> make[1]: Entering directory `/c/gcc-objdir/gcc'
> make AR_FOR_TARGET="ar" \
>         RANLIB_FOR_TARGET="ranlib" \
>         CC="gcc" libdir=/c/gcc-3.3.1/lib LANGUAGES="c " \
>         CFLAGS="-g " MAKEINFO="makeinfo --no-split" \
>         MAKEINFOFLAGS="" COVERAGE_FLAGS=
> make[2]: Entering directory `/c/gcc-objdir/gcc'
> ./gengtype
> /c/gcc-srcdir/gcc-3.3.1/gcc/../include/ansidecl.h: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [s-gtype] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/gcc-objdir/gcc'
> make[1]: *** [stage1_build] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/gcc-objdir/gcc'
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
> ------------
>
> That file spec with the error message looks a little strange, but it
> correctly points to the file. ansidecl.h can be found here:
>
> /c/gcc-srcdir/gcc-3.3.1/include/ansidecl.h
>
> Any idea why the build didn't work? How do I correct this problem?
>
>     - Sheryl

Its been a long time since I built gcc, and never have done it on 
windows...

Is gengtype a shell script? If so, cd to /c/gcc-objdir/gcc and run:

sh -x ./gengtype

This may give some idea why it is not finding the file.

If it is an binary executable, then if you have the "strace" command, 
you could do

strace -o out ./gengtype

Look in the file 'out' to see what it doing. You could grep:

egrep 'open|stat' out

Which will show you the files that gengtype is trying to open or find 
info on (stat).

Hope this helps.

Andy