Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: michael-ring@t-online.de (Michael Ring) To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: __infinity defined twice in libcygwin.a and libm.a (Compiling perl) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:14:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Sender: 320032306730-0001@t-dialin.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id MAA18967 On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:57:44 EST, you wrote: >>From: "Fifer, Eric" >>To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com >>Subject: RE: __infinity defined twice in libcygwin.a and libm.a (Compiling >>perl) >>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:51:50 +0100 >> >> >>Michael Ring wrote: >> >I just tried to compile perl 5.6.0 (and finally succeeded) but on my >> >way I had to remove all references to libm.a from the makefiles of >> >perl because the linker complained that __infinity was defined both in >> >libm and libcygwin. >> >>libm.a should be a symlink to libcygwin.a. The -lm that Perl's >>Configure adds is somewhat of an historic artifact, however at >>least to date it has never caused any problems. > >Sound like setup wasn't used. The problem was that I did not have all 4 patches properly attached. After I applied all patches everything worked out fine and I am the happy owner of a freshly compiled perl. Thanks to all who helped, Michael Ring -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com