Re: [Mingw-users] cc1 not found

[Mark B. <mc...@ec...>]

Keith MARSHALL wrote:

>Mark Bourne wrote, quoting Mark Mohr:
>  
>
>>>I got the same thing when I installed it on Vista.
>>>
>>>So what I did to fix it was put /mingw/libexec/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5
>>>in my PATH variable in /etc/profile file.
>>>      
>>>
>>Thanks. That fixed it (barring in error in the parameters to main!)
>>I don't remember doing that last time I installed MinGW, but that was
>>over a year ago, so maybe I did...
>>    
>>
>
>You should not need to do this, if everything is correctly installed.
>
>If you are sure everything *is* properly installed, then maybe this is
>yet another Vista issue; (how do they get away with breaking backward
>compatibility with every new release)?
>
>Vista is just too new, for us to certify it as a supported platform.
>(I use GNU/Linux from choice, and Win2K from necessity; I fervently
>hope that I *never* have to move to *any* newer M$ release).
>

I appreciate it may be a while before Vista is properly supported, and 
I'd also have preferred to stick with Win2k for a bit longer. Problem is 
my existing machine is dying and the only options now are XP and Vista. 
Since I have always disliked XP, I installed Vista on my old machine to 
see if I like it any better than XP, and check that the software I use 
actually works on it. As it is, I actually haven't found Vista too bad, 
though given the choice I'd wait a few more months for compatibility 
problems to be sorted.

>Please
>raise a bug report for this, on the project bug tracker, so we don't
>forget about it; it is unlikely to be fixed until Vista becomes more
>prevalent among our developer community.
>  
>

It seems that Danny has already patched gcc and collect2 for this 
problem (Rob pointed me at a recent thread titled "environment hosed 
during upgrade"). Do you still want a bug report raised as a reminder to 
check these (and possibly other tools for the same problem)?

Mark.