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Re: Can't build cross-assembler on CYGWIN
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: "Nick Clifton" <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Kate Romanova" <kate_romanov at yahoo dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:36:16 +0000
- Subject: Re: Can't build cross-assembler on CYGWIN
- References: <663994.67006.qm@web50903.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <496C6800.9020306@redhat.com>
Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Kate,
>
>> I need to build a cross assembler. Build and host platforms is Cygwin.
>> Target platform is
>> 64 bit Linux.
>
> One thing to check is whether you are using text-mounted filesystems or
> binary-mounted ones. You should be using binary-mounts because
> otherwise you can have all kinds of strange problems occur.
On that theme, if you're building from a tarball of binutils sources, you
must use the cygwin command-line tar utility to unpack it, and not a win32 GUI
app such as winzip or 7zip.
cheers,
DaveK