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Re: binutils 20021009 cvs trunk on cygwin: ld failuers
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 04:49:27PM +0200, U-D90V2D0Jchj wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:43:16PM +0200, Christian Jönsson wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 11:32:15AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:24:34PM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote:
> > > >Hmm, I don't quite follow you here.
> > > >
> > > >The PATH variable is not set by me, it's set by cygwin, right?
> > > >
> > > >The PATH contains the entry /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32 but that makes
> > > >no sense if "check_case:strict" is present in the CYGWIN variable
> > > >initialising cygwin, right?
> > >
> > > It depends on whether WINDOWS is the actual name of your directory or
> > > not. This isn't set by Cygwin, regardless. It's set by the system.
> > > If you are going to use strict case checking then it is up to you
> > > to make sure that all filenames are properly referenced. As you
> > > probably noticed, there was no "Make sure all files have proper case?"
> > > option in setup.exe. And, having the DLL actually try to figure out
> > > what case is correct would defeat the purpose of strict case checking.
> > >
> > > I always suggest against using strict case checking. It adds extra
> > > overhead and causes other problems since Windows assumes that it
> > > can be flexible with respect to filename cases.
> > >
> >
> > I can in a way understand you there, too bad it's conflicting with
> > building gcc with gcj under cygwin. see for example
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2002-09/msg00107.html
> >
> > what do you see as the "best" way ahead?
> >
>
> well, I did change the PATH now so that cases match... But, still the
> same problem...
>
> Let me ask an other question... are there any other PATHs that also might
> be affected by strict case? Such as an equivalent to LD:LIBRARY_PATH?
>
> I believe that the wanted library is perhaps the
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/user32.dll one and I'd like to test to see
> if that works then. The /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32 is inthe PATH, I can
> do a which user32.dll and it echoes that file. But how does the limker
> get to use it??
>
I'm sorry to be bothering you here, but I have now tried without strict
case checking. I still get the same results...
/usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/trunk/objdir-binutils/ld/ld-new -m i386pe
-o tmpdir/ld-partial.o -r ldgram.o ldlex.o lexsup.o ldlang.o mri.o ldctor.o
ldmain.o ldwrite.o ldexp.o ldemul.o ldver.o ldmisc.o ldfile.o
ldcref.o ei386pe.o deffilep.o pe-dll.o
/usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/trunk/objdir-binutils/ld/ld-new -m i386pe
-o tmpdir/ld1 /lib/crt0.o tmpdir/ld-partial.o ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a
./libiberty/libiberty.a ./../intl/libintl.a /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/libgcc.a
-lc /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/libgcc.a -lcygwin -luser32 -lkernel32
-ladvapi32 -lshell32 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/libgcc.a
/usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/trunk/objdir-binutils/ld/ld-new: cannot
find -luser32
FAIL: bootstrap
I am stuck, I don't understand what goes wrong here...
Any hints?
Cheers,
/ChJ
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