Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20051007114721.02ac66e0@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:48:20 -0400 To: Joost Kraaijeveld , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Using cygwin with W2K in VMWare on Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp? In-Reply-To: <1128665959.20665.42.camel@Panoramix> References: <1128580106.3655.244.camel@Panoramix> <20051006141536.GA17445@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <1128611033.20665.7.camel@Panoramix> <6.2.1.2.0.20051006121509.0397c5a8@pop.prospeed.net> <1128660024.20665.12.camel@Panoramix> <4346015C.7C0C1720@dessent.net> <1128665959.20665.42.camel@Panoramix> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:19 AM 10/7/2005, you wrote: >On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 22:02 -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >> I seriously doubt that vmware has anything to do with it. You need to >> figure out why ld cannot be executed. Try -v. > >I have checked all the paths in the output and they exist. All >executables that are called seem to respond to running the executable >with --version *except* "as" and "ld". > >1. /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe shows nothing. >2. /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld >shows a message box about an error in a 16-bits MS-DOS subsystem (in >Dutch) saying that the NTVDM-CPU encountered an invalid instruction. > >Inspecting that directory shows that all files (ar.exe, as.exe, ld.exe, >nm.exe, ranlib.exe and strip.exe) are only 26 bytes big (are they >actually symlinks?). Running /usr/bin/ld works OK. > >If the files are symlinks than the remarks about symlinks on Samba >shares would apply (can anyone confirm or deny that: I do not have any >Windows machine to check it?) . But I have enabled the symlink stuff >from the FAQs (map system = yes and create mask = 0775).... > >So are the files >in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ >actually symlinks? Yes, they are symlinks. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/