From: bowman@montana.com (bowman) Subject: Re: "specs" related problems 4 Jan 1999 22:52:01 -0800 Message-ID: <36916A14.C3D7E5D9.cygnus.gnu-win32@montana.com> References: <1.5.4.32.19981223180758.006742d0@lola.univ-lemans.fr> Reply-To: bowman@montana.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Cygwin Oliver Brandt wrote: > > By the way: why does cygnus has a "no-cygwin"-switch and the mingw32- > include-files but not the libs??? I am not sure about the libs, but among other things, the no-cygwin switch pulls in the header files in ~/include/mingw32 rather than the cygwin headers in ~/include. I just got burnt on this. I had an older version of Mingw32 that required GCC_EXEC_PREFIX to be set. I was setting it out of sight and mind in autoexec.bat. The way the specs file is written, this caused a search of a bogus directory. gcc is silent about this error, but could find the cygwin headers and used them instead, resulting in some subtle errors. At least with cygwin-b20, there must be no GCC_EXEC_PREFIX environment variable defined for it to work correctly. Even resetting it to a null string and exporting it will not work. > > And finally a genreal guestion. What is the general syntax, possible > > options, possible values, etc. for the "specs file??? Is this documented > > somewhere??? I have a 7k file that gives some details on the various % switches, but it really isn't a very good overview. I can email it to anyone interested, but I hope someone can point to a more definitive reference. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".