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RE: Errors issued while building GCC


On 28 November 2007 10:29, Ankur Gupta wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am newly assigned to GNU CC work. I am using Win-xp-sp2 and Cygwin to
> build GCC. I have successfully installed the 'binutils', but while building
> GCC below errors are being issued:

  These kinds of minor issues in building or using the compiler really belong
on the gcc-help list; this list is intended for ongoing development work on
the internals of the compiler itself.  However, since you're here...

> --cut--
> ../.././gcc/config/mips/mips.md:3318:5: missing terminating " character
> ../.././gcc/config/mips/mips.md:3319: error: stray '\' in program
> ../.././gcc/config/mips/mips.md:3319: error: syntax error before "n"
> ../.././gcc/config/mips/mips.md:3321: error: stray '\' in program

  I believe you have got stray CR-LF line endings on your source code; this is
a fairly common problem on Cygwin if you use a non-Cygwin gui program such as
WinZIP etc. to unpack the GCC source archive.  If that's what you did, don't:
windows GUIs tend to want to convert LF line endings to CR-LF.  Use Cygwin's
'tar' utility to unpack the archive instead, like so

tar xvjf gcc-${ver}.tar.bz2

(or use 'tar xvzf' if you are unpacking a .tar.gz file instead).

  If it's not because you used a gui to unpack the tarball, it's probably
because you're using text-mode mountpoints; come and discuss it on the cygwin
list if so.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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