Re: gcc -mno-cygwin fails

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 05:09:40PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Gregory schrieb:
>
>
>> Following up with recent problems noted about g77 -mno-cygwin, 
>> the same problem occurs for gcc.
>
>> I am using the newest packages:  gcc-3.3.1-2, gcc-mingw-20030911-2
>
>> $ gcc foo.c
>> $ gcc -mno-cygwin foo.c
>> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
>> $ 
>
>Make some symlinks in the directory:
>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw/3.3.1/
>to all the executables in this directory:
>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/

PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS!

If there is a problem in the packaging then we fix the packaging.  We don't
give advice on how to work around the packaging.

Cheesh.

In this case, it seems like the gcc-mingw package wasn't actually installed.
If standard problem reporting procedures had been employed (attaching cygcheck
output), we would know this for sure.

cgf

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