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Re: Binutils and GCC


Ah, good point Chris.  I've apparently been skimming this email too 
lightly lately.  No debugging necessary for this one.  Just patching! ;-)

Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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At 06:44 PM 9/18/2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:23:21PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >The best suggestion I can offer is the obvious, but I'll state it in case
> >it hasn't occurred to someone who would like to help resolve it.  Debugging
> >the Cygwin DLL is probably the most informative approach to isolating the 
> >problem.
>
>Actually, there is no Cygwin DLL debugging involved.
>
>Unless I am missing something, this is a compile time error in
>libiberty.  The fix should be extremely obvious.  Since the people
>building the tools are all apparently C programmers I am not sure why no
>one has proposed a fix yet.
>
>Actually, I've already suggested one solution which seems to have been
>ignored.
>
>Instead, people seem to be adopting the typical Microsoft user way of
>thinking: "Hmm.  1.3.3 not work.  Me downgrade to 1.3.2...  Now let me
>reboot many times...  It work! Problem am solved!"
>
>It is inconceivable (even for this mailing list) that we keep discussing
>this and none of the affected parties have bothered to look at what's
>failing.  People have apparently been stalled for days because of a
>simple C compilation error!  Wow.
>
>cgf
>
> >At 04:49 PM 9/18/2001, David T. Schneider wrote:
> >>I have managed to revert to cygwin 1.3.2 and now both the ARM cross
> >>builds and the native builds are running.  As far as I can determine,
> >>the cygwin package is the only thing different between the two
> >>environments.  Are there any suggestions on how to isolate the cause of
> >>the failures?
> >>
> >>David T. Schneider
> >>Chief Technical Officer
> >>SoC Solutions, L.L.C.
> >>
> >>  -----Original Message-----
> >>From:   Doug Johnson [mailto:finson@acm.org] 
> >>Sent:   Tuesday, September 18, 2001 2:47 AM
> >>To:     cygwin@cygwin.com
> >>Subject:        RE: Binutils and GCC 
> >>
> >>I am having a similar experience.  I built a cross compiling gcc for 
> >>W98->MIPS last week using 1.3.2.  Today I rebuilt my system from bare
> >>metal 
> >>to run W2K.  Everything else is fine, but I cannot compile binutils
> >>using 
> >>1.3.3.  I get the same error that David is getting.
> >>
> >>I have tried to revert to 1.3.2, but that doesn't work because for some 
> >>reason setup now believes that the cygwin package should be 
> >>cygwin-1.3.2-1.tar.bz2 (rather than cygwin-1.3.2-1.tar.gz, which is what
> >>I 
> >>have from my previous install).
> >>
> >>So I'm kind of toast for the moment.  Any guidance would be helpful.
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>Doug Johnson
> >>
> >>Jason Kajita  wrote:
> >>
> >> >David T. Schneider" <dschneider at socsolutions dot com> wrote:
> >> >... When I try to build the tools to compile ARM code on CygWin
> >> >following the direction supplied for building ecos I get:
> >> >/usr/src/binutils-2.10.1/libiberty/strerror.c:461: conflicting types
> >>for
> >> >`sys_errlist'
> >> >/usr/include/sys/errno.h:23: previous declaration of `sys_errlist'
> >> >when the make reaches /usr/src/binutils-2.10.1/libiberty/strerror.c
> >> >
> >> >I've also tried performing a native build for gcc-2.95.3 and gcc-3.0.1
> >> >and get the same error.  ...
> >> >
> >> >=======================================================================
> >>=
> >>>Further information on the issue:
> >>>I have believe that this problem may be related to the 1.3.3
> >>>cygwin1.dll release.  When I revert back to 1.3.2-1, I do not get the
> >>>error.
>
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