At 02:19 AM 10/7/2005, you wrote: >On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 22:02 -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >> I seriously doubt that vmware has anything to do with it. You need to >> figure out why ld cannot be executed. Try -v. > >I have checked all the paths in the output and they exist. All >executables that are called seem to respond to running the executable >with --version *except* "as" and "ld". > >1. /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe >shows nothing. >2. /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld >shows a message box about an error in a 16-bits MS-DOS subsystem (in >Dutch) saying that the NTVDM-CPU encountered an invalid instruction. > >Inspecting that directory shows that all files (ar.exe, as.exe, ld.exe, >nm.exe, ranlib.exe and strip.exe) are only 26 bytes big (are they >actually symlinks?). Running /usr/bin/ld works OK. > >If the files are symlinks than the remarks about symlinks on Samba >shares would apply (can anyone confirm or deny that: I do not have any >Windows machine to check it?) . But I have enabled the symlink stuff >from the FAQs (map system = yes and create mask = 0775).... > >So are the files >in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ >actually symlinks?
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