From: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: RE: can't open -lgcc 15 Dec 1996 07:04:40 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-To: ian@parti.inforum.org Original-Cc: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk, gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19961213191832.339f62c6@192.160.61.2> > At 05:05 PM 12/13/96 +0900, Colin Peters wrote: > [snipped my problem -- it's solved :) ] > >So, the *real* error is that ld can't find libgcc.a. So, search for that > file, > >and while you're at it, why not find all the lib*.a files included with > the > >distribution (they should be in two or three directories at most). Then > set an > >environment variable called LIBRARY_PATH to a list of all these > directories. > >For example, my LIBRARY_PATH is "/usr/lib:/usr/win32/lib", but my setup > is, I > >must tell you, quite different from your standard GNU or Cygnus setup. > > First of all, thank you all very much; I can compile now! :) > The problem was that although I had LIBRARY_PATH properly set in my > .bashrc, I was an idiot and didn't check that $LIBRARY_PATH actually had > the value which I gave it. It seems that for some reason bash can't > initialize the variable (although it can change its value if it is already > initialized), so > all that was needed was to set LIBRARY_PATH too foo in my autoexec.bat and > then change it in my .bashrc > > This was also neccessary for my C_INCLUDE_PATH and CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH (and > it would no doubt have saved me some embarassment had I remembered that). > Why can bash not initialize these vars? It can - from my .profile: export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/unix/include/g++ And from the prompt, 'env | grep CPLUS' gives this setting. Are you sure you are exporting the variable setting in bash? A side effect of setting a variable in autoexec.bat is that it will become an environment variable in bash. Richard -- richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".