Missing environ definition in EGCS 1.1.1 build

[Mumit Khan]

"Michael K. Elwood" <mkelwood@mail.qsicorp.com> writes:
> I'm trying to build a EGCS 1.1.1 cross compiler for H8/300, hosted on 
> WinNT (mingw32).

Brave man! 

> When the build gets to the link for cc1.exe, it croaks, complaining 
> that _environ is undefined. I searched a bit; toplev.c and a couple 
> other files define
> 
> extern char **environ
> 
> which I assume points to a list of environment variable strings. I 
> couldn't find where environ is actually defined. Is this supposed to 
> be passed in from the environment? Where is the actual definition?
> 

This, ``extern int errno'' and a few others are causes of much grief 
in lots of software. These can be macros, and maintainers need to keep 
that in mind, especially when they're dealing with multi-threaded 
systems and/or weird ones (MS runtime qualifies for both).

You may want to take a look at my mingw patches for gdb 4.17.1.

  ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/ports/

This and other problems are fixed as well.

Regards,
Mumit

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