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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:55:37 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problems building gcc-2.95.2
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In-Reply-To: <010401c09b0a$6a3f1070$9865fea9@timayum4srqln4>; from tprince@computer.org on Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:57:30PM -0800

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:57:30PM -0800, Tim Prince wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tim Prince" <tprince AT computer DOT org>
>To: "Blythe.Stephen" <Stephen DOT Blythe AT IGT DOT com>; "'Cygwin Mailing List'"
><cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:35 AM
>Subject: Re: Problems building gcc-2.95.2
>
>
>> Several interesting points were raised, which I am attempting to check
>by
>> building the standard gcc-2.95.3 myself right now.  After reading the
>> messages, I am trying ../configure
>>
>CC='/usr/bin/gcc -mwin32' --host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin 
>--pr
>> efix=/usr/local/  in an attempt to avoid going into cross compiler
>mode.  I
>> find that my --prefix is being over-ridden to the extent of building
>in
>> /usr/local/i686-pc-cygwin
>
>In the event that anyone is still interested, it's a dirty situation.
>Regardless of choice of --target and --prefix, I found that I had to
>copy all files from include/w32api into gcc-2.95.2/include, except for
>getopt.h,

I'm not sure why this is a surprise.  I've been making continual changes
to gcc's handling of include and lib paths.

Rather than using the brute force method of copying files around, I think
it makes better sense to add the appropriate bits to the gcc specs file.

cgf

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