On Feb 11 21:37, Peter Foley wrote: > I've submitted a fix for a problem I came across while trying to build a > Linux-hosted Cygwin cross compiler. Autoconf fails in the cygwin and > cygserver directories because the bootstrap compiler cannot link. This patch > works around this by defining GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES, which causes autoconf to > skip tests that involve linking. > > Note: I submitted a previous patch that included this change, however only > part of that patch was applied (the removal of AC_ALLOCA) so I am > resubmitting the GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES part of the patch.
Why is that necessary? There are no tests left which try to build executables. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
