egcs 1.1.2 i386-mingw32 bootstrap problems.

[Mumit Khan]

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