NTVDM error - summary

[Andreas Hadler]

High,

I've encountered NTVDM illegal instruction message boxes when building
an powerpc-eabi crosscompiler during "checking for ANSI C header
files..." while "Configuring in powerpc-eabi/libiberty" for the full
blown gcc.

Samrobb thankworthy pointed me to

 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/2002-01/msg00067.html

I used the second tip of this message, and changed the value of cmdline
under the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WOW in
the registry to something slightly different, just to avoid NT starting
NTVDM, with regtool.

This cured the symptom. The build runs smooth and flawless. The
resulting gcc seems to be identical to the one generated with the NTVDM
message boxes, except of timestamping etc.

Hope, this helps.

Kind regards,
   Andreas Hadler

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