Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/05/14/14:50:03
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:52:10PM -0400, Bill C. Riemers wrote:
>>I was wondering if you knew something I didn't. :-) I didn't remember
>>any solution to this problem but with my aging brain that is
>>unsurprising.
>>
>>IIRC, the real problem here was in binutils. There was no way to get
>>ld to stop searching /usr/lib.
>
>I do not believe this is the real problem. If it was, then the
>configure script would also find libjpeg.a from /usr/lib .... The only
>library it finds that it shouldn't is libm.a.
I maintain binutils. I know what the problem is. If 'gcc -mno-cygwin'
could be made to never search /usr/lib that would solve many -mno-cygwin
problems. I expended considerable effort trying to ensure that gcc does
not search /usr/include/mingw for header files and does not include
/usr/lib on the command file when calling ld or collect2. I never got
around to doing the same thing for ld, though. ld knows about /usr/lib
"implicitly".
>While I believe creating an empty libm.a would solve this particular
>problem, doing that inside the an autoconf macro is definitely the wrong
>place for that solution.
I was not suggesting doing this in an autoconf macro. Do it once and
forget about it.
>Especially, since this might break the build if later the bug is fixed
>in mingw, or a libm.a is added as part of mingw. If that type of hack
>is neccissary it should be done in the gcc-mingw postinstall script.
If libm.a is added to the mingw-runtime release it will overwrite your
empty file. There isn't any mingw bug here. mingw is allowed to not
have a libm.a file. gcc/ld just shouldn't be finding cygwin's libm.a.
The suggestion was to get you up and running. It was intended to be a
quick fix. Since it would have taken ten seconds to type and involved
no code changes at all, I thought it was a clear win. Obviously you
think differently, so I'll bow out of this discussion now since I
have nothing further to add.
cgf
>For a configure script it looks like I can change AC_CHECK_LIB(m,sqrt) to:
>
>AC_CHECK_LIB(msvcrt,sqrt,AC_CHECK_LIB(msvcp60,mbrlen),AC_CHECK_LIB(m,sqrt))
>I can both avoid the problem of bogus libm.a detection, and avoid using
>msvcp60 under cygwin builds.
>
>The only problem remaining, is I'm not certain if I should use msvcrt,
>msvcrt20 or msvcrt40, since I do not know what the difference is between
>these libraries.
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