From: Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: 970901 - cross problem with libio/gen-params
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 10:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970903122707.28307A-100000@vespucci.advicom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199709031716.NAA16865@subrogation.cygnus.com>
On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> I don't know if this is the problem, but here is a potential problem
> which might cause the symptoms you are reporting.
Sounds like this is the culprit. I am trying your suggestion now.
> The current development sources of the binutils generate nm-new rather
> than nm.new. This is for easier use on Windows systems, so that we
> can generate nm-new.exe without worrying about the multiple extensions
> in nm.new.exe (it's true that nm.new.exe will work on new MS file
> systems, but it's easier to sidestep the whole issue for the benefit
> of old 8.3 file systems).
Unfortunately binutils 2.8.1 actually builds nm.new ld.new and strip.new.
:(
> The top level Makefile.in in the egcs release looks for nm-new. If
> you are using this with, e.g., binutils 2.8.1, which produces nm.new,
> then the top level Makefile.in won't find the nm program in the build
> directory. That will cause it to use nm from your path instead.
It looks like this is enought o get the build past this point.
> I don't know if this is really an egcs problem; the problem will only
> arise if you try to mix egcs with the binutils 2.8.1 release in the
> same directory tree.
This was the first egcs snapshot I could not build one-tree style with
egcs.
> When the egcs CVS server is up and running, I hope to start putting
> the development binutils releases on it as well. At that time, it
> will be possible to get a single consistent tree.
Does this mean that we will eventually be looking at egcs being a full
toolset tree?
--joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-03 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-03 10:08 Joel Sherrill
1997-09-03 10:16 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1997-09-03 10:30 ` Joel Sherrill [this message]
1997-09-03 10:33 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1997-09-03 12:07 ` Joel Sherrill
1997-09-03 13:06 ` David Bristow
1997-09-03 13:36 ` Joel Sherrill
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