Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread sweinberger
Hi Chuck, You are right. I had to create a separate folder, which in my case I used your advice and did /usr/local/build-binutils. I also found out that the reason for my earlier problems with the make file complaining about carriage returns was because I used WinZip to expand the binutils-2.21

Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 4:17 PM, sweinberger wrote: > > > Here's your problem: binutils and gcc don't support compiling "in the >> source tree". You need to create a separate, empty build directory >> *outside* the src directory, and run configure/make in there. > > I did just that. > > I downloaded binu

Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread sweinberger
Here's your problem: binutils and gcc don't support compiling "in the > source tree". You need to create a separate, empty build directory > *outside* the src directory, and run configure/make in there. I did just that. I downloaded binutils-2.21 and expanded everything into a new empty folder

Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 3:32 PM, sweinberger wrote: > Cygwin is supposed to provide an isolated environment totally shielding > applications that run on the inside from even knowing that a Windows > anything exists. I don't know where you got that idea. It's perfectly fine to use w32api functions in combin