Can't build binutils cvs on cygwin: [: /flex/flex: unknown operand for example...

Christian Joensson christian.joensson@gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 11:20:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:24:36 +0000, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> > [: /flex/flex: unknown operand
> > [: /flex/flex: unknown operand
> > [: /bison/tests/bison: unknown operand
> > [: /bison/tests/bison: unknown operand
> > [: /byacc/byacc: unknown operand
> > [: /m4/m4: unknown operand
> > [: /texinfo/makeinfo/Makefile: unknown operand
> > Configuring in binutils
> > creating cache ./config.cache
> > checking for Cygwin environment... yes
> > checking for mingw32 environment... no
> > configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time
> > make: *** [configure-binutils] Error 1
> >
> > Any idea of what might be wrong?
> 
> Not really :-(
> 
> Have you tried a complete clean and rebuild ?
> 
> It sounds like the configure files might have been generated from the
> configure.in files in a way that is somehow inconsistent or incompatible
> with your environment.  Perhaps if you tried regenerating them by hand
> you might be able to fix things ?
 
well, seems to work now, don't know what went wrong, sorry for the noise...

-- 
Cheers,

/ChJ



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