Post install smoke test (or "Oh no not again")

["Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]" <bruadams at tycoint dot com>]

Hi,
   I just did a fresh installation of gcc on another machine and
had an "oh no not again" moment.
Attempting to compile:

int main(int argc,char** argv) {
  return 0;
} //main   

Gives the output:

gcc hello.o -o hello.exe -lstdc++
hello.o(.text+0x0):fake: multiple definition of `_mainCRTStartup'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../crt0.o(.text+0x0): first
defined he
re
hello.o(.text+0x40):fake: multiple definition of `___do_frame_init'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/crtbegin.o(.text+0x0): first defined
here
hello.o(.text+0x70):fake: multiple definition of `___do_frame_fini'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/crtbegin.o(.text+0x30): first defined
here
hello.o(.data+0x0): In function `main':
/cygdrive/c/BruceA/code/typelist/hello.cpp:4: multiple definition of
`___cygwin_
crt0_bp'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../crt0.o(.data+0x0): first
defined he
re
hello.o(.rdata+0x0): In function `main':
/cygdrive/c/BruceA/code/typelist/hello.cpp:4: multiple definition of
`___EH_FRAM
E_BEGIN__'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/crtbegin.o(.eh_frame+0x0): first defined
her
e
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [hello.exe] Error 1


I guess this means I have another corrupted installation.  
Which brings me to two questions.

1) what standard corrective actions can we suggest for "dodgey"
installations

2) what would be the appropriate way to implement a post-install smoke test.

I'd volunteer my services for 2 except that I doubt I have the time or the
familiarity
with setup to be much use in the near future.  I'm likely to remain strictly
a
consumer for the immediate future.
Anyway here is an attempt to partially answer my own questions

1) run cygcheck -c

See enclosed output.
This doesn't actually help me.
Should I try re-installing from a different mirror?

2) Presumably raw bash would be preferable to tcl or perl.
   Dos is just sick.  
   Personally I would like to use TCL because it is what I know best
   but it needs to be compatible with whatever's already being used as it
   probably ought to possible to install cygwin without TCL or perl.

   at end of gcc package installation - append gcc-smoke.sh to a list of 
   post install smoke tests to run.

   At (current) end of post install have another bash script iterate over
   the scripts in smoketest.lst or whatever and dump the output into a
   detailed postinstall log.
   Each script can generate one line (or at least minimal) error reports
   that get displayed to the user at the very end a long with a bit of
advice
   saying what to try to fix it before coming here.
   It would be good if we could associate each error with a separate piece
of
   advice but maybe that's version 2.

I can probably supply the smoke test itself, though my bash is a bit rusty
but
so probably can pretty much anyone on the list.
Is the rest of it a 5 minute job?

Regards,
	  Bruce A.


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