From: bafio@dist.unige.it (Fabio Vignoli) Subject: Re: Problems with mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 !!! 28 Jan 1998 18:27:00 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden Cc: GNU-Win32 list , Colin Peters > > You wrote "I shall assume `C:\MINGW32' but another location should be > > fine", but it seems that it's not, I tried another directory and gcc > > couldn't find the "specs" file in the ...gcc-lib/... > > > I cannot reproduce this, even when the compiler is executed from a > different drive. > 1) Did you preserve the trailing slash in GCC_EXEC_PREFIX ? > 2) You did replace all `C:\MINGW32' with your alternative path, right? 1) Yes, I paied attention for that. 2) I suppose yes, maybe the problem is in the pathname with double quotes: I installed the packages in the directory. Just to joke: try in a MSDOS shell on windows NT : cd Program Files (it works) cd "Program Files" (it works) dir Program Files (DOES NOT WORK!!!) dir "Program Files" (it works) Does anybody can tell me why? > The problem is an old version of `jam'. > > It uses GCC's former `-dll' option, which has been renamed to `-mdll'. > So, instead of building a DLL, GCC will try to link a .EXE, and fail > miserably. Thanks, I'll try to compile it by hand ... Bye, Fabio -----------------------------ooooO*O*Ooooo--------------------------- Fabio Vignoli o o (e-mail: bafio@dist.unige.it) http://www-dsp.com.dist.unige.it/ ^ ( vignoli@ebi.it) DIST University of GENOVA `-' ( tel ++39.10.3532803) PGP fingerprint = E4 44 95 92 3B 23 2F 77 5D 15 44 9B 46 E6 8B B5 -----------------------------ooooO*O*Ooooo--------------------------- - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".