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 Message-ID: <3B9E65B2.BA2980A6@ericsson.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:27:46 -0400 From: Joan M Friedman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Wilson CC: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables References: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B74733420473F04F@cf-bay-exch-03.cacheflow.com> <3B9E4C77.209B86D9@ericsson.com> <3B9E52DC.20502@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This turned out to be a path problem. configure worked after I removed everything from my windows-environment path that seemed unnecessary. I suspect the culprit was an environment variable called LIBS. Charles Wilson wrote: > > Check for case-sensitivity problems. IIRC, expat had some files in it > that differ only in case; this breaks badly on windows. > > --chuck > > Joan M Friedman wrote: > > > I've been searching the lists for a solution to this problem - I can > > find the problem posted, but not > > the solution. > > > > While trying to run configure for expat in cygwin, the gcc compiler > > check fails. I removed > > my previous cygwin installation (including removing all cygwin and > > cygnus registry keys and searching > > the file system for 'cyg'), emptied the recycle bin, restarted, and did > > a full clean install of the latest cygwin, > > but it still happens. I have the results of configure, gcc -v, and > > cygcheck -s -r -v below. > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/