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Re: AW: i386 PC target
- To: Jörg Rapka <joerg dot rapka at duagon dot com>
- Subject: Re: AW: [ECOS] i386 PC target
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:44:22 +0100
- CC: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, John Dallaway <jld at redhat dot co dot uk>, Robert Erskine <roberte at redhat dot co dot uk>
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <NDBBKEBGMLIMMPMJHHFDEEHECCAA.joerg.rapka@duagon.com>
Jörg Rapka wrote:
>
> I discover the problem during the build process of eCos.
> I tried to compile a simple demo application with the following command
> and got the same error:
> i386-elf-gcc -c demo.c
>
> Then I checked once again the mounting of the root directory ('/') under
> Cygwin and it was still set to binary. After I change the the mount to
> textmode the build process was successful.
> It seems, that there is always the same error reasons (to build the
> development
> tools, the root directory must also be mounted in textmode).
This is useful feedback - we need to either provide a technical solution
that allows binary mount points to be used, or update our documentation to
say that binary mount points must not be used, along with a description of
how to avoid them.
John and Robert, take note :-).
Jifl
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