On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Rainer Dunker wrote: > Having installed gcc (package version 3.3.3-3, cygwin.dll 1.5.10-3, > WinNT 4), I had the following problem: > > # gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: > installation problem, cannot exec > `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld': > Invalid argument > collect2: ld returned 255 exit status > > Moreover, a popup window appeared after the gcc call, saying that NTVDM > complains about an invalid instruction. > > This turned out to be a problem of the gcc installation. The directory > /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin contained these entries: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 26 Dec 27 15:11 ar.exe* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 26 Dec 27 15:11 as.exe* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 26 Dec 27 15:11 ld.exe* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 26 Dec 27 15:11 nm.exe* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 30 Dec 27 15:11 ranlib.exe* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 29 Dec 27 15:11 strip.exe* > > These are supposed to be symbolic links to the executables in the > /usr/bin directory, but - for whatever reason - the setup program did > not install them in a way that they were used as symlinks afterwards > (for example, ar.exe is a text file with contents > "!<symlink>/usr/bin/ar.exe"). So I removed them and created symlinks to > the proper executables manually; after that, the problem was gone. > > I'm posting this here because I've not yet found any hint directly > pointing from the mentioned error messages to this specific problem > cause. > > Best regards, > Rainer
Please review and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, particularly the bit about attaching (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your system. In the absense of these details, here's a guess: Did you install Cygwin on a remote share? If so, see <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC66>. BTW, it's the only entry about "symlinks" in the FAQ. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
