Perhaps a gcc guru will take pity on me and explain what's going on here? I know, theoretically, the answer is in the source code somewhere, but since I've never read gcc source code before, I'd probably just end up horribly confused.
Below, gcc-search-dirs.sh is a script which calls "gcc -print-search-dirs", splits the output of the libraries section one-per-line, and then either flags the dir as nonexistant, or canonicalizes it by doing "cd $dir && pwd". As you can see, gcc tries to search many nonexistant pathes, and makes no mention of /lib/w32api, which it *does* search for libraries Help?!? Thanks, Max. max@POMELLO [~] $ ./gcc-search-dirs.sh /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2 NONEXISTANT: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/ NONEXISTANT: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/i686-pc-c ygwin/3.2/ NONEXISTANT: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/ NONEXISTANT: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/ /usr/lib NONEXISTANT: /lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/ /lib NONEXISTANT: /usr/lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/ /usr/lib max@POMELLO [~] $ ./gcc-search-dirs.sh -mno-cygwin /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.2 NONEXISTANT: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.2/ NONEXISTANT: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.2/../../../../i686-pc-mingw32/lib/i686-pc -mingw32/3.2/ /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib NONEXISTANT: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.2/../../../i686-pc-mingw32/3.2/ /usr/lib NONEXISTANT: /lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.2/ /lib NONEXISTANT: /usr/lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.2/ /usr/lib -- 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/
