On 6/16/2010 01:37, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > 2010/6/15 JonY<[email protected]> > >> On 6/15/2010 21:49, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: >> >>> Hmm, I think /mingw/bin or where your mingw-w64 toolchain bindir is should >>>> always be before MSYS's bindir, and that "." will certainly cause trouble >>>> with GCC's build system. >>>> >>>> >>> That's exactly why I said MSYS is special... and I don't know what will >>> break if I try to fix it. I still find it very odd that GMP configure even >>> knows about the name "link", because no mingw toolchain even has such a >>> thing. Shouldn't the script use ld or something else for its tests? >>> >>> >> IIRC MSYS post installs sets mingw/bin before MSYS bins, not after, and >> there was never a "." in my MSYS, never a good idea on anything resembling >> UNIX. >> >> Are you sure its a vanilla install? >> > > I downloaded all MSYS packages, extracted them to the same dir, and > double-clicked msys.bat. Then I did "sh /postinstall/pi.sh" and "y" "y" > "m:/development/mingw64". It was pleased to not find "make" and said > everything was set up. > > But: path *order* is okay, /usr/local/bin points to /local/bin and is empty > (until you put something in there yourself), then /mingw/bin, then /bin, so > mingw/bin is before MSYS bin. The "." comes from the /etc/profile file, > which explicitely prepends this to the rest of the path on line 19/21. I > just noticed Earnie's justification: > # My decision to add a . to the PATH and as the first item in the path list > # is to mimick the Win32 method of finding executables. > > This still has nothing to do with the configure script even looking for a > "link" command IMHO. >
OK, but I still cannot understand how it can fail. That "." in PATH is a recipe for failure especially if you want to build GCC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
