I actually saved the entire distribution to disk, removed the old c:/cygwin and c:/winnt/cygwin1.dll and installed with NOTHING skipped, and had the same problem.
FYI: It is installed on NT 4.0 SP 5. I have been running as Administrator. Also, I've used Cygwin for 6 years and ported dozens of applications / utilities, so I don't consider myself a novice to the Cygwin environment. Phil Smith >From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Pavel Tsekov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: Phil Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: gcc broken in 1.3.9 ? >Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:21:49 -0500 > >At 10:11 AM 2/1/2002, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > >Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > > >>At 03:47 AM 2/1/2002, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > >> > >>>Maybe you haven't installed the gcc or binutils package. To bring > >>>everything back to normal just run again the setup.exe program and > >>>make sure you select both binutils and gcc packages. If the problem > >>>still persists you have to attach the output of the failing build > >>>and send it to the list. > >>> > >>>Phil Smith wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>After installing Cygwin 1.3.9, I found I could no longer compile any >sources with gcc. I installed it on top of a Cygwin 1.3.3 installation >which I have been using for many months to build successfully port new >versions of gdb, tcl, tk and a very large set of application code. What >might be the problem ? > >> > >>Hm. Unless something is broken or there was a cockpit error, installing > >>gcc should install binutils by default via setup. Is this not the case? > > > >What if Phile left gcc in te skip state ? Well maybe I've assumed too > >much :( Still I hope he will provide the output of the build. > > >That would be helpful. Still, it's unclear how he has gcc and not binutils >if he skipped the gcc installation. More information is needed about what >he installed and didn't install and how he installed it. But this >information may prove academic. Simply rerunning setup and installing >gcc, double-checking that binutils is installed too as part of this should >be all that's necessary to resolve the problem. This is a specific >application of the very good rule of thumb "if you don't see it after the >first install, install again and make sure it's selected for installation". > > > >Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] >RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com >838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office >Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
