Trying to build gcc from src package

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Richard Copley wrote:
> 
>> I want to be able to recompile the gcc-3.4.1 so that I can work out a
>> kludge for the problem I've been having - that is, programs compiled
>> with '-mno-cygwin -fprofile-arcs' can't open the output file to write
>> the arc-profiling data. I'm having a lot of trouble.
>>
>> What I want to know is, given a working XP box and a fresh install of
>> every cygwin binary package (except mhash, whose install script
>> crashes) plus the gcc-3.4.1-core source package, is it possible to
>> follow the instructions in the accompanying README file and end up
>> with a working compiler? The number and variety of difficulties I'm
>> encountering suggest it's not something I should be trying to do.
> 
> 
> It should work as it works for me when I compiled gcc to release it as a 
> package.  However, my environment settings may be special, I don't know.
> 
> Have you tried it like I wrote in the README?  Are you getting errors?
> 
> Well, I never tried to build just the core without building the other
> parts at the same time, so there may be bugs in the script I used.

The MinGW parts of the compiler are from mingw.org, not compiled by me.


Gerrit
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