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Il 11/4/2013 6:13 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] ha scritto:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm using some recent (not the latest, though) CYGWIN release,
> and trying to build a CYGWIN snapshot (for the first time)...
>
> When I deployed the snapshot source, ran configure, then make, I saw this:
>
> checking for .preinit_array/.init_array/.fini_array support... readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
> no
>
> Does not look "good" to me, but other than the message, it does not
> seem to cause any ill side-effects, either (just as yet, at least).

it could be a side effect of the platform used to build the snapshot.
Usually it is cross-build from Linux and not built on cygwin

On my build from CVS source on cygwin I see:
checking for .preinit_array/.init_array/.fini_array support... (cached) no

>
> Is there something to worry about?  Like I said, I'm breaking new
> grounds to me, and I am not familiar with any (known) peculiarities...
>
> Thanks,

I presume no as the checking say "no" as on mine

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