[Mingw-users] Re: Bootstrap gcc-4.1.0 with Ada

[Douglas C. <tc...@se...>]

Rolf Ebert wrote:

> According to gcc PR24382 I provide the absolute path to ld when running
> configure.
>
> ../gcc-4.1.0/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,ada --disable-nls
> --disable-fixincludes --enable-threads=win32 --host=mingw32
> --build=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --with-ld=/mingw/bin/ld
> --with-as=/mingw/bin/as
>
> Then I had to patch gcc/Makefile.in.  If not, the gcc build cannot find
> libiberty.a although I don't build in the source directory:
>
> around line 80 in gcc/Makefile.in
>
> # ifeq ($(host_subdir),.)
> build_objdir := ../$(build_subdir)
> # else
> # build_objdir := ../../$(build_subdir)
> # endif
>
> When building the Ada tools the make process cannot find the assembler (or
> is it something else?) even though I provide also an absolute path to as.

[...]

> Has anybody seen this problem before? Any hints how to solve it?

I have encountered a similar problem.
Try providing complete paths in configure, something like:

--with-ld=c:/mingw/bin/ld  \
--with-as=c:/mingw/bin/as

Doug