building binutils on cygwin(win-98)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:40:45AM -0400, vadraj kulkarni wrote:
>I am facing a problem during configuring binutils program on
>cygwin(win-98).
>
>I wanted some info regarding compilation of insight on cygwin on
>windows-98 platform.  I am trying to compile binutils-2.13(infact for
>that matter other versions too) on windows-98.  I am not at all able to
>comple the ../configure.  It gives an assertion error after displaying
>below message.
>
>"Checking for working autoheader..."
>
>If i ignore above message, it hangs after below message.
>
>"Finding the maximum length of commandline..."
>
>Sometimes i don't get above message.  At that time, application will
>hang after displaying belowmessage
>
>"Checking whether to build static lib.....yes"

Welcome to Windows 98.  There's not much you can do if the underlying
"OS" is buggy.

cgf