Newlib-1.8.0

[Rod Barman]

> I had exactly the same problems (except that the unknown flag is
> -mrelocatable-lib and not -mrelocatable). I believe that the cygnus
> people use a newer version of gcc which already knows these flags.
> The gas from binutils 2.8.1 knows these flags, but gcc does not pass
> them to it.

I believe one can get source for the newer GCC by downloading
beta 18 of the cygwin32 stuff.  See the cygnus homepage.  

That is how I found coldfire support for gcc although the m68k.md
required fiddling before everything would nicely compile.

--rod.

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Rod Barman, IRIS IS-6 @ Laboratory for Computational Intelligence
University of British Columbia
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