Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: "David J. Fiddes" To: "Cygwin" Subject: FW: seeing limits.h from newlib (fwd) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:57:56 +0100 Message-ID: <000601be79f4$8777a960$2a84c389@escom.fiddes-enterprises.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Hi, Anyone have any idea how Cygwin does this? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 01:24:25 -0700 From: Jeffrey A Law Reply-To: law AT cygnus DOT com To: joel AT OARcorp DOT com Cc: egcs AT egcs DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: seeing limits.h from newlib In message you write: > > Hi, > > The system limits.h for RTEMS is included with newlib. There is an > ordering problem on the build that requires a manual installation of this > file before gcc is built. If you do not do this, then the limits.h > generated by gcc does not include the system's limits.h. The Makefile.in > stanza in question is: > > # Build the version of limits.h that we will install. > xlimits.h: glimits.h limitx.h limity.h > if $(LIMITS_H_TEST) ; then \ > cat $(srcdir)/limitx.h $(srcdir)/glimits.h $(srcdir)/limity.h > > tmp-xlimits.h; \ > else \ > cat $(srcdir)/glimits.h > tmp-xlimits.h; \ > fi > mv tmp-xlimits.h xlimits.h > > I would like to come up with a way to avoid this ordering problem. It > trips every RTEMS user who tries to build the toolset without using my > script. If you simply following the standard "configure/make" > instructions, then it won't work because of this wart. Here are my ideas: > So how does cygwin deal with this since I believe it has the same problem? I'd bet it is similar to option #1 since the point of adding LIMITS_H_TEST was to help deal with some of these kinds of issues. jeff -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com