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

[Paul-Christiaan S. <wa...@ho...>]

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

No difference in behavior between the following two:
http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/projects/gnu-win32/software/ported/
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/flex.htm

This to me is kinda weird but still...

Now for the real error, it's exactly the same as rob pollock describes =
here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3D6580856&forum_id=
=3D5119

However i now have flex and bison installed and have reconfigured but =
still get the same error, which i find peculiar. Any suggestions?

Using --prefix=3D/mingw and --disable-nls


Regards,

Crhis