[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-4.8.3-1 (x86/x86_64)

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Wed May 28 20:58:00 GMT 2014


On 5/28/2014 1:13 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
> JonY wrote:
>> gcc-4.8.3-1 is now uploaded for both 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin. This
>> includes a patch to automatically link in the default manifest for
>> executable files.
>>
>> Known issues:
>> Cygwin 64-bit gcc-4.8.3-1 debuginfo package is missing and was not
>> generated by cygport, I am still investigating this.
>
> There seems to be a problem, at least on my machine:
>
> $ g++
> -bash: /usr/bin/g++: cannot execute binary file
> $ which g++
> /usr/bin/g++
> $ /usr/bin/g++
> -bash: /usr/bin/g++: cannot execute binary file
> $ file /usr/bin/g++
> /usr/bin/g++: PE32+ executable (console) x86-64 (stripped to external
> PDB), for MS Windows
> $ ldd /usr/bin/g++
> ldd: /usr/bin/g++: Exec format error
> $ ldd /usr/bin/g++.exe
> ldd: /usr/bin/g++.exe: Exec format error

This might be a result of the binutils problem that I reported here:

   https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00199.html

Ken


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