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 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:03:24 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: libuser32.a left out of latest Cygwin distro? Message-ID: <20010206150324.C9005@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3A7FFCFE.D2B7816F@yahoo.com> <3A800005.1996.417E11C@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3A800005.1996.417E11C@localhost>; from soren@wonderstorm.com on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:45:41PM -0500 On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:45:41PM -0500, soren@wonderstorm.com wrote: >On 6 Feb 2001, at 8:32, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >> soren@wonderstorm.com wrote: >> >> > Hello Cygwin maintainers, >> > >> > Did libuser32.a inadvetantly get omitted from the very latest Cygwin >> > distro [Win32API or whatever part?] (I just updated using >> > "setup.exe" this pm, and re-ran a build that formerly had no such >> > dependency troubles; and got a failure from ld.exe that it could not >> > find "-luser32". I confirmed by searching that libuser32.a wasn't >> > present). >> >> What is the output of `gcc -v'? The library now lives in >> /usr/lib/w32api/ and the specs have been modified to find it there. >> If you've upgraded the w32api without upgrading gcc then you're likely >> to run into this problem. > >A canny guess. Well, my gcc is >Reading specs from /bin/../lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.2-7/specs >gcc version 2.95.2-7 19991024 (cygwin experimental) > >I had unexplainable errors twice, partway thru downloading >packages using the `setup.exe' system, and I tried finally to ONLY >update a couple of things. That might well be how it happened -- I >might have skipped gcc but ordered w32api to go thru. > >.. shoot! The gcc I just updated using setup placed libuser32.a >back in /usr/lib! I used the franken.de ftp server bec the US server >was unresponsive. What the heck is going on ... musical libs ... > Now gcc -v sez: >Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.2-6/specs >gcc version 2.95.2-6 19991024 (cygwin experimental) Actually I have never moved the w32api libs to their own directory, so this is correct. The w32api header files *are* in their own directory, however. You have downloaded an older gcc, though, as you've surmised. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple