Subject: Re: g77 -mno-cygwin failed
From: Teun Burgers <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], Igor Pechtchanski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:12:19 +0200

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> "g77 -mno-cygwin" will most likely call
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw/3.3.1/f771.exe, which should be part of the
> "gcc-mingw" package.  Unfortunately, "gcc-mingw" uses a weird packaging
> scheme (a tarball inside a tarball), so you couldn't have used the package
> search page to find that out.  Judging by the size of the tarball in the
> latest "gcc-mingw-20030911-2" package (1.3M) vs. the one in 20020817-5
> (2.1M), some files may be missing in the new version.

There is a softlink missing in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.3.1 and
hence missing in gcc-mingw-3.3.1-20030804.tar
Making this softlink from within this subdir fixes the problem:

ln -s ../../i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/f771.exe f771.exe

Teun

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