Problem building binutils

[David J. Fiddes]

Hi,

> Actually, I did two things: I replaced sh.exe with bash.exe, and I
> made sure any patched files had the UNIX EOL by re-writing them with
> CodeWright.  I re-ran "configure" and "make all install" and it all
> worked.

Great. Binutils should be the easy bit. Getting EGCS to build is usually the
harder step.


> Next, of course, is gcc.  Your FAQ discusses egcs, but I had read
> previously in Cygnus' egcs site that Cygwin was not supported, so I
> downloaded gcc 2.8.1.  I followed your suggestions (e.g., removing
> the objc directory and linking the newlib and libgloss directories)
> and ran configure, which seemed to work, but "make cross" (or "make
> all install" for that matter) tries to run autoconf, which I don't
> seem to have.

gcc-2.8.x is bad news for embedded cross-compilers. EGCS does a much better
job and is the standard compiler for both RTEMS and eCos real-time operating
systems.

Dave


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