Can't build cross-assembler on CYGWIN

[Dave Korn]

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