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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:27:46 -0400
From: Joan M Friedman <joan DOT friedman AT ericsson DOT com>
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To: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler  
 cannot create executables
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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.
> >
> 
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