[Mingw-users] Bug report.

[Sternbach, W. [IT] <wil...@ss...>]

Hello,

I've encountered what I believe is a bug with the
MSYS 1.1 gcc compiler version 2.95.3.6.

gcc does not process wildcards correctly:

gcc -c mapm*.c

The above line should compile the programs which
begin with mapm and have the ".c" suffix.
(Example: mapmadd.c, mapm_cpi.c, mapm_div.c, etc)

It does seem to attempt to compile each program separately,
but it gives you hundreds of compiler errors when the code
should compile perfectly.

But, it works if you code each program on a separate line like:
gcc -c mapmadd.c
gcc -c mapm_cpi.c
gcc -c mapm_div.c

I ran into this bug when attempting to compile a wonderful set
of "C" programs from Michael Ring which do arbitrary precision
math.  I used his bat file which contained gcc -c mapm*.c and
I ran into this problem.

This "gcc -c mapm*.c" syntax works on all other compilers, including:
1) Unix gcc compiler,
2) gcc port for the Microsoft windows created by D.J. Delorie
   and available at www.delorie.com/djgpp
3) All Microsoft and Borland compilers.
4) Sun Microsystems's compiler.

If anyone wishes to make a patch for this, it would be helpful
in making our mingw version 2.95.3.6 compiler able to compile
software and build software you download from the internet
successfully like other compilers.

- Bill