From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bill Currie <bcurrie@tssc.co.nz>
To: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: i686-pc-cygwin32 build of 19980628
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 00:12:00 -0000
Message-id: <359C426E.7368@tssc.co.nz>
References: <199806301853.LAA04805@cygnus.com> <rzq90mc9oe1.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>
X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00119.html

Dave Love wrote:
> I configured --prefix, --exec-prefix and --target to match cygwin,
> having to set CC for configure to `gcc'.  It looks as though configure
> should be happy with gcc in the absence of cc, but it isn't; I haven't
> been inspired to investigate.

I've had the same problem configuring packages for DJGPP.  The problem
is there is *NO* gcc on MS systems (it's gcc.exe) and configure looks
for gcc.  I *DON'T* know about cygwin, or the NT cli, but command.com
will not execute a program unless it is *.exe, *.com or *.bat.

Bill
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