Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Fwd: Re: [Mingw-users] aha, here is (I think) the problem with new gcc

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Danny Smith wrote:
> 
> --- Javier_González <xav...@ho...> wrote: > From:
> Javier_González <xav...@ho...>
> > To: "Danny Smith" <dan...@ya...>
> > Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] aha, here is (I think) the problem with
> > new gcc
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:48:56 +0200
> >
> > > may be right about the DIR_SEPARATOR.  Can I send you
> > > > a
> > > > > patched binary tarball with that change reverted for testing.
> > The
> > > > > change to dir separatot causes no problems on NT and does fix
> > some
> > > > > other parsing problems in C++, but if it is going to cause
> > havoc,
> > > > I'll
> > > > > get rid of. I'm limited in access to W95. I don't want to
> > unleash
> > > > more
> > > > > confusion, so I would prefer a private test-release.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway, thanks for your feedback to the list so far.
> > > >
> > > > No problem, send it over (note, if it is big (more than 256kb)
> > please
> > > > upload
> > > > it
> > > > somewhere, because i dont know if hotmail would like that mail
> > > size...
> > >
> > > I've rebuilt with default dir separator back to '\\'.  Here are the
> > > front-end exes where the break seems to be happening.  These go
> > into
> > > c:/your_mingw_root/bin.
> > >
> > > If this works, I'll try one more thing, then I'll re-release.
> > Thanks
> > > for your time.
> >
> > Yes, works perfectly =)
> > Thanks for your time doing this too
> > Feel free to send me whatever you need to test it out
> >
> > btw, why aren't make or gdb (at least make) included in the mingw
> > distribution?
> >
> > in anyway, thanks a lot!
> 
> Well, DIR_SEPARATOR is the culprit.   There may be another solution,
> but ... in the interim should I re-release, with DIR_SEPARATOR changed
> back to '\\'?  Yuck --I know there is a solution, but I need a f** w95
> machine to test it properly.  Hmm ... maybe if I sell one of the kids I
> could buy a second hand 486.
> 

I'm of the opinion that DIR_SEPARATOR isn't the culprit.  I'll have to
check this out on my Win95 at home.  The problem I'll have with that is
that I just don't have the room on the C drive.  Perhaps the removable
will have some room.

I'm of the opinion that the problem is that the constructed
GCC_EXEC_PATH doesn't contain the drive portion of the path and is
therefore not absolute but is instead relative to the current device.

I'm curious as to why Paul thinks that it has to do with the length of
the name of the directory.  This should cause problems either.

-- 
Earnie.

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