Re: [Mingw-users] Precompiled flex hangs when in /bin and binutils compile error

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

<quote who="Paul-Christiaan Spruijtenburg">
> Hello,
>
> While trying to compile binutils under msys my make of the binutils hangs
> on the flex part. I have identified the problem as flex hanging when
> trying to flex conftest.l, where conftest.l is made as follows.
>
> cat >conftest.l <<_ACEOF
> %%
> %%
> _ACEOF
>
> Any file will do actually..
> It expects input or something of the sort and does not return.
>
> Putting the flex executable in /bin within msys hangs, however copy it to
> my /mingw/bin (fstab to mingw directory elsewhere on drive) it works
> perfectly
>

The behavior you describe is expected.

See: /doc/msys/*

See also: http://www.mingw.org and http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/

Earnie

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