Re: Problem building gcc 2.95.2 under cygwin: /gcc-2.95.2/gcc/cpp

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:28:41PM +0000, Gord Wait wrote:
>The problem seems to be that the makeinfo.exe that gets built under the
>gcc install directory doesn't work under cygwin.  Two possible fixes,
>one of which I tried and it got past this error (still building gcc,
>don't know if there's more problems ahead)
>
>1.  go into the gcc source tree and hide the texinfo subdirectory, by
>renaming it to 'hide' or something, Then run ./configure; make etc....
>This is what I tried - seems to help - the install just uses the cygwin
>supplied makeinfo.exe instead.
>
>2.  copy the working makeinfo.exe from /bin/makeinfo.exe into the
>textinfo/makeifo sub directory...  don't know if this will work, can't
>see why not?
>
>Looks like my gcc compile failed farther on, while I typed in this
>email:
>
>in the part where it's trying to build in the libiberty directory, make
>complains with a *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
>
>looks like it was dealing with libiberty.a
>
>Someone else mentioned these cygwin issues had been cleaned up in gcc
>in later versions - anyone recommend a 'stable' gcc release that
>includes cygwin bug fixes?  The gcc 2.95.2 is the last 'officially
>stable' release...

I removed texinfo from the gcc source release a while ago.  It is
certainly not in the latest "stable" release -- 2.95.3-1.

cgf

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