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Re: egcs compilation error...
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: egcs compilation error...
- From: "Timothy A. Chandler" <admin at heavywater dot net>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 17:21:39 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Jim Wilson wrote:
> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 12:59:57 -0700
> From: Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com>
> To: "Timothy A. Chandler" <admin@heavywater.net>
> Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: egcs compilation error...
>
> I think the problem here is that you have some environment variables set to
> bad values.
>
> Check all of your environment variables, especially GCC_EXEC_PREFIX,
> COMPILER_PATH, LIBRARY_PATH, and LPATH. If any of these have "." in them,
> then the egcs build could fail exactly the way you describe.
>
> I think it is a mistake to put "." in any one of these paths, since it
> will cause lots of problems trying to use one compiler to build another
> compiler.
>
> Jim
>
Ok I checked again for the . in any of my PATH env var settings and none
existed.
I did however add the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX and set it as the complete path
the gnu-cc-2.7.2.3 spec file, and egcs compiled without incident. It
still puzzles me why gcc was pulling up that ./spec file when it should
not have been.
Thank you all very much for all the help...
-Tim
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