problems compiling current cygwin cvs release

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:08:56PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:10:00AM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>2. On linking the cygwin dll the following file is used from the libiberty:
>>	/home/habacker/src/cvs.cygwin.com/build/libiberty/strsignal.o
>>
>>If one configure libiberty for using with ld the function strsignal()
>>isn't defined, because configure finds a defined strsignal.  If
>>libiberty is shared between cygwin an ld/binutils, than there is a
>>problem.  ???
>
>Your build area is screwed up.  cygwin is not supposed to share a libiberty with
>'ld'.  If you have cygwin in the same build area as 'ld' then the layout should
>look something like this:
>
>build/
>  bfd/
>  binutils/
>  ld/
   libiberty/		# There is a libiberty here that 'ld' should be using
>  i686-pc-cygwin/
>    libiberty/		# This is the "target" libiberty used by winsup
>    newlib/
>    winsup/

cgf