Problems compiling cygwin from CVS - Undefined symbol
Nicholas Wourms
nwourms@netscape.net
Wed Feb 11 14:32:00 GMT 2004
bkeener wrote:
> Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>
>>local modifications or something, but I resolved the problem by deleting
>>tlsoffsets.h and forcing it to be regenerated. Once I did that, I was
>>
>
> Tried that too - but no luck yet - I'll find it - back to the basics. Thanks
> for the responses from both you and cgf. I know he's right about cockpit error
> - it's just so dang irritating that I don't know enough to track it down.
>
>
Brian,
The #1 rule of troubleshooting is you need to eliminate the possible
before you waste time on the improbable. Check your environment, make
sure there are no variables which might be accidently picked up by gcc,
gas, or ld. If all else fails there is something which will work.
We all know that, more then likely, NTFS/FAT will fragment and possibly
corrupt files if Windows crashes during a disk i/o operation. There are
times in the past where I've suspected this to be the cause of
unexplainable failures I've had. Maybe a linker script was fragmented
into oblivion or a gcc library corrupted, I don't know. You could spend
hours or days trying to track this down. But why waste time when you
could go for a more simplistic, albeit sledgehammer-like, approach:
1)Make a patch containing all of your local changes and verify that only
your local changes are in it.
2)Backup any personal settings files, etc.
3)*Completely* remove cygwin and all of its files.
4)Remove all Cygnus Solutions keys from the registry.
5)Remove all environmental vars/services from control panel.
6)Reboot.
7)Install from scratch.
8)Check out a fresh source tree from cvs and *verify* you can build it
*before* applying any local changes.
9)Reapply local mods and re-add personal files.
As one might expect, this almost always (%99.9) does the trick. If that
doesn't do it, then I might suggest you're experiencing hardware problems.
Cheers,
Nicholas
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