I've been using gcc3 for some time, and decided to move to gcc4. I did not remove gcc3. I tried running a configure script for a personal project, specifying CXX=g++-4. The script failed, because g++-4 didn't produce an executable when presented with conftest.cpp. It also didn't bother with an error message. I tried my own simple cpp file, and I tried invoking i686-pc-cygwin-g++-4.exe instead of g++-4, but I couldn't get it to produce an executable, or an error message. It also wouldn't produce an object file with -c.
I went to my other machine, which is much newer and faster than the problem machine, thinking that I could figure out the problem that much faster. I installed gcc4 just as I did on the problem machine, and tried to compile a simple cpp file. It worked! For the most part, the installations on these two machines are the same, so I was baffled. One difference is that I run distccd on the newer machine and use distcc on the problem machine. So I reinstalled distcc on the problem machine. I again invoked i686-pc-cygwin-g++-4.exe to compile the simple cpp file, and it worked! My configure script now works, and _most_ of my project compiles. So I wonder, what might've been the problem, and why would reinstalling distcc fix it? -- 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/
