In 2014 there was a query about i686-w64-mingw32-gcc in the case that
/usr/bin was not on the PATH, and the responses then said that the issue
would be fixed in the next release.
I got bitten now because when I use ssh to execute a command on a remote
cygwin64 system /bin gets on PATH but /usr/bin does not. The use case is
that the Windows10/cygwin setup is in a virtualbox VM, and the cygwin was
only installed with the components I needed for my use of it.
This shows ssh from the Ubuntu64 host to the Windows10/cygwin64 host with
PATH set up in a somewhat minimal manner.
ssh -p 18664 localhost echo \$PATH
/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/Users/cyg_server/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps
Now here are some examples that start with a very basic "hello world"
program in C (main() only contains a call to printf) in a variety of ways
run from a cygwin64 shell on a Windows machine
acn1@panamint ~ i686-w64-mingw32-gcc hello.c -o hello
compilation locally goes without fuxx
acn1@panamint ~ /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc hello.c -o hello
specifically invoking the compiler from /usr/bin is OK
acn1@panamint ~ /bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc hello.c -o hello
/tmp/cck2N9Nc.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/cck2N9Nc.s:12: Error: invalid instruction suffix for `push'
specifically invoking the compiler from /bin fails in a way that I
believe probably relates to confusion between 32 and 64-bit assembly
code.
acn1@panamint ~ ssh localhost i686-w64-mingw32-gcc hello.c -o hello
/tmp/ccK5oXEh.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccK5oXEh.s:12: Error: invalid instruction suffix for `push'
Remote executtion of the compiler via ssh will not have /usr/bin on
PATH and fails.
acn1@panamint ~ ssh localhost "PATH=/usr/bin:\$PATH; i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
hello.c -o hello"
If I explicitly put /usr/bin back on PATH then the compilation is
OK again.
Having uncovered this as an apparent root of problems that I was having I
can now make my scripts use this final recipe and so I can make progress
again, but this feels pretty odd and somewhat unsatisfactory... and maybe
some others will get caught by it?
So so far as I am conncerned now I have a fix this is no longer urgent,
but it is perhaps best reported.
Arthur Norman
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