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Re: egcs 1.1.2 i386-mingw32 bootstrap problems.
- To: Maarten Huisjes <maarten at emendo dot com>
- Subject: Re: egcs 1.1.2 i386-mingw32 bootstrap problems.
- From: Mumit Khan <khan at xraylith dot wisc dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 12:24:06 -0600 (CST)
- cc: egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Maarten Huisjes wrote:
> I'm trying to make a cross compiler on AIX to i386-mingw32 using egcs 1.1.2 +
> Mumit Khan patches for mingw32 (which worked fine for 1.1.1)
>
> Now when compiling libgcc1.S, it can't find the right assembler I did some
> checking and this is because it tries to locate it in:
>
> <prefix>/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.91.66/../../../../i386-mingw32/bin/as
>
> which would result in
>
> <prefix>/i386-mingw32/bin/as
>
> which is where it is BUT <prefix>/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.91.66 does
> not exist yet so it can't find ..
>
> (creating the empty dir solves the problem)
My installation instructions posted on my web page does mention this (this is
the cryptic ``cd gcc; make installdirs'' ...).
This is an unfortunate side effect of the relative pathname patches that are
not part of the standard distributions.
Regards,
Mumit