What's the deal with ld and cygwin32??

["Fernando D. Mato Mira" <matomira at acm dot org>]

Hello,

  `configure' of binutils takes a HUGE time because everytime it goes
`checking for ld used by GCC' it takes a LONG time just to figure out
`ld is not GNU ld' (??!!). But at least it works. When I configure gdb,
it just refuses to use it. Any ideas?

bash-2.02$ echo $PATH
/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin:/usr/local/i686-pc-cygwin32/bin:/usr/local/i586-pc
-cygwin32/bin:/usr/local/bin:/WINNT/system32:/WINNT:/programfiles/devstudio/shar
edide/bin/ide:/programfiles/devstudio/sharedide/bin:/programfiles/devstudio/vc/b
in:/Program Files/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.0-b62/i386-pc-win32://F/matomira/win/RogueWav
e/workspaces/WINNT4/MSVC50/15s/lib

Thanks in advance,

Fernando D. Mato Mira                                                        
Real-Time SW Engineering & Networking
Advanced Systems Engineering Division                                                               
CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique 
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