Compiling under MSYS

[Bidski]

Hi all,

I ended up resolving this problem. I got an email one morning from the 
mingw-w64 group about an updated MSYS package, so I downloaded that and 
everything worked fine.

I ended up running into some other problems (un-related to BinUtils I think) 
later on down the road and that coupled with some other things forced me to 
use a pre-compiled package (TDM-GCC).

"Dave Korn" <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
> - could your computer have some memory or other hardware fault?  Might be
> worth running http://www.memtest.org/ on it overnight and seeing if 
> anything
> shows up.

Might give this a run anyways, should be interesting to see what comes up.

> - do you have any other gnu/unix tools on your computer?  Make sure 
> there's
> nothing like Cygwin, ActiveState perl or python, gnuwin32, MKS or SFU in 
> your
> PATH during the build if so.

The only other tools I had was a mingw32 build which is what I was using to 
compile BinUtils for the cross-compiler.

> - finally, what if any security software do you have installed?

I do have Norton 360 installed and while that was giving me some problems 
(Apparently a.exe is a bad name for a program as far as Norton is concerned) 
once I had excluded my mingw and MSYS directories from scans I didnt see any 
more problems from Norton. I think I have 1 or 2 other programs on that 
BLODA list installed on my system but I do not think they are the cause of 
any problems I have had.

Thanks everyone for all of your help.

Regards
Bidski