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From:	"Chuck Meade" <chuckmeade AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject:	RE: makeinfo not built to run under win32 ?
Date:	Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:46:14 -0400
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Chris,

There is not a "makeinfo.exe" in the gcc distribution (like you
said), but one is built when building gcc *under* cygwin.  Building
gcc under cygwin produces a makeinfo.exe in your gcc build area
that is not able to run in a cygwin environment, even though the
makeinfo.exe that comes with cygwin runs properly.  

I looked at the source file makeinfo.c that is supplied with
gcc and ran some quick tests.  Function find_and_load is failing
because WIN32 is not defined when makeinfo is built.  Is the fact
that WIN32 is not defined during this build a problem with cygwin,
or with gcc?

When you say that the version on sources has a lot of extra
patches, do you mean the version of makeinfo in cygwin, or the
makeinfo source in gcc?

Thanks a lot,
Chuck

> >Thanks for the reply.  You started me looking in the right places.
> >I was not aware that there is a makeinfo.exe in the gcc-2.95.2
> >release as well as the one in cygwin's texinfo.tar.gz.  The makeinfo
> >from gcc is the one that fails, and the one in cygwin works.
> >Here's what I found, which is basically exactly what you said:
> 
> FYI, there is no 'makeinfo.exe' in the gcc release on sources.redhat.com.
> 
> I assume that you are building your own version.  The version on sources
> has *a lot* of extra patches from Mumit Khan so be advised that the
> two are not equivalent.


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