Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/12/28/14:13:27
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Rainer Dunker wrote:
> Having installed gcc (package version 3.3.3-3, cygwin.dll 1.5.10-3,
> WinNT 4), I had the following problem:
>
> # gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: installation problem, cannot exec `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld': Invalid argument
> collect2: ld returned 255 exit status
>
> Moreover, a popup window appeared after the gcc call, saying that NTVDM
> complains about an invalid instruction.
>
> This turned out to be a problem of the gcc installation. The directory
> /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin contained these entries:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 26 Dec 27 15:11 ar.exe*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 26 Dec 27 15:11 as.exe*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 26 Dec 27 15:11 ld.exe*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 26 Dec 27 15:11 nm.exe*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 30 Dec 27 15:11 ranlib.exe*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 myname mkgroup_ 29 Dec 27 15:11 strip.exe*
>
> These are supposed to be symbolic links to the executables in the
> /usr/bin directory, but - for whatever reason - the setup program did
> not install them in a way that they were used as symlinks afterwards
> (for example, ar.exe is a text file with contents
> "!<symlink>/usr/bin/ar.exe"). So I removed them and created symlinks to
> the proper executables manually; after that, the problem was gone.
>
> I'm posting this here because I've not yet found any hint directly
> pointing from the mentioned error messages to this specific problem
> cause.
>
> Best regards,
> Rainer
Please review and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, particularly the bit about attaching
(as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr" on
your system. In the absense of these details, here's a guess:
Did you install Cygwin on a remote share? If so, see
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC66>. BTW, it's the only entry about
"symlinks" in the FAQ.
Igor
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