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: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:44:12 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: Problem building gcc 2.95.2 under cygwin: /gcc-2.95.2/gcc/cpp Message-ID: <20010330194412.G31805@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from Gord_Wait@spectrumsignal.com on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:28:41PM +0000 On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:28:41PM +0000, Gord Wait wrote: >The problem seems to be that the makeinfo.exe that gets built under the >gcc install directory doesn't work under cygwin. Two possible fixes, >one of which I tried and it got past this error (still building gcc, >don't know if there's more problems ahead) > >1. go into the gcc source tree and hide the texinfo subdirectory, by >renaming it to 'hide' or something, Then run ./configure; make etc.... >This is what I tried - seems to help - the install just uses the cygwin >supplied makeinfo.exe instead. > >2. copy the working makeinfo.exe from /bin/makeinfo.exe into the >textinfo/makeifo sub directory... don't know if this will work, can't >see why not? > >Looks like my gcc compile failed farther on, while I typed in this >email: > >in the part where it's trying to build in the libiberty directory, make >complains with a *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. > >looks like it was dealing with libiberty.a > >Someone else mentioned these cygwin issues had been cleaned up in gcc >in later versions - anyone recommend a 'stable' gcc release that >includes cygwin bug fixes? The gcc 2.95.2 is the last 'officially >stable' release... I removed texinfo from the gcc source release a while ago. It is certainly not in the latest "stable" release -- 2.95.3-1. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple