From: Luke D. <cod...@ho...> - 2002-06-05 05:15:11
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Atterer" <min...@li...> To: "mingw-users" <Min...@li...> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Potato Chips (cut) > > However, I can confirm that LIBRARY_PATH is broken for mingw 1.1. It > can only contain one path; as soon as it contains a ':', it doesn't > work anymore. gcc -v shows that the path is not split at the ':' - > presumably a broken attempt at allowing "C:\foo" style paths. It is a successful attempt at allowing driver letters in LIBRARY_PATH, because paths must be separated by semicolons ';' like the system PATH. It couldn't handle drive letters AND use a colon separator. > > A workaround is to export CC='gcc -Lfirstdir -Lseconddir' before > configuring (for autoconf-managed software), or a small wrapper script > for gcc and g++. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > -- > __ _ > |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: > | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 > ¯ '` ¯ > Luke Dunstan |