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, 4 May 2001 12:59:18 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: Cygwin Users Subject: Re: odd symlinks in binutils-20010425-1 Message-ID: <20010504125918.A18262@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin Users References: <20010504115138.A53588@enteract.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20010504115138.A53588@enteract.com>; from fred@ontosys.com on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:51:38AM -0500 On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:51:38AM -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote: >I just upgraded to DLL 1.3.1 and all the "latest" packages concurrent >with that (except for postgresql, which I'm building from source). >That upgrade seemed to go OK, but now when I build postgres I get >errors like this: > > /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe: not found > >That file is a symlink to >"/cygnus/netrel/inst/binutils-20010425-1/usr/bin/ld.exe", which is a >bogus path on my machine. I see that the binutils-20010425-1.tar.gz >archive has exactly that symlink, along with similar ones in the same >directory. Is this a bad distribution, Yes. The latest version of binutils is binutils-20010425-2. It was updated on 2001-04-26. If you don't have this version then something went wrong somewhere. Possibly you need to use another mirror. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple