Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:29:42 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Rossz <rwentwor AT advent DOT com>
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Subject: Re: More on building a cross compiler - help needed
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Rossz wrote:

> h8300-hms-gcc -O2 -fno-builtin -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall
> -Id:/legOS/include -I. -Id:/legOS/boot -c helloworld.c -o helloworld.o
> h8300-hms-gcc.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file
> or directory (ENOENT)
> make.exe: *** [helloworld.o] Error 1

If you add -v to the compiler switches, what path for cpp does it
display?

> So I copied cpp.exe from cross/h8300-hms/bin/ to cross/bin/.  This
> resulted in this:
> 
> h8300-hms-gcc -O2 -fno-builtin -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall
> -Id:/legOS/include -I. -Id:/legOS/boot -c helloworld.c -o helloworld.o
> cpp.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': Argument list too long
> (E2BIG)
> make.exe: *** [helloworld.o] Error 1

It looks like gcc doesn't recognize cpp.exe as a DJGPP program, so it
it thinks it cannot pass long command lines to it.  Any idea why would
the compiler fail to recognize cpp?  It *is* a normal DJGPP program,
isn't it?