Re: Building GCC under Cygwin. Please help.

["Vivin Suresh Paliath" <computer_maniac at hotmail dot com>]

Thanks for the help! It ran some more, but then it failed later on :( .
However, I subscribed to the Cygwin mailing list and they're helping me out.

Thanks for all the help!

Vivin Suresh Paliath

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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Korn" <dkorn@pixelpower.com>
To: "'Alexandre Oliva'" <aoliva@redhat.com>; "Vivin Suresh Paliath"
<computer_maniac@hotmail.com>
Cc: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:33 AM
Subject: RE: Building GCC under Cygwin. Please help.


> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:aoliva@redhat.com]
> >Sent: 30 March 2001 08:09
>
>
>
> >> This is the third time I am sending this problem in. I didn't get a
> >> response earlier. I would really appreciate any help!
> >
> >You might have better luck posting to some Cygwin-specific mailing
> >list.
>
>   But nonetheless, problems building gcc on *any* platform aren't
> offtopic here.  It's just there's more cygwin experts on cygwin lists!
>
> >> /srcdir/gcc-2.95.3/configure --prefix=/usr --with-gnu-as
> >--with-gnu-ld --enable-threads=posix 2>&1 | tee configure.out
> >
> >Did you try without the --enable-threads=posix?  I suspect that's the
> >problem.  Try just --enable-threads, so that GCC chooses the
> >appropriate threading model, if any.
>
>   And isn't --prefix=/usr a bit of a risky idea?  If your compiler turns
> out to be broken, you'll have lost all the old gcc/g++ drivers for the
> old version (the main compiler itself will be safe since it lives in a
> subdirectory of /usr/lib/ that includes the version number), which may
> make it slightly difficult to revert to the older version.
>
>   Also you need to add the flag --with-included-gettext and delete or
> rename the texinfo directory in the source distribution to get the
> .info files to build correctly.
>
>        DaveK
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