[Mingw-users] Binutils make failure

[Kim <sol...@gm...>]

I'm attempting to build binutils 2.23.1 (downloaded here: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/binutils/) from 
the mingw shell on windows.

I installed the mgwport package (after autoconf and automake) and tried 
that first.

Kim@Kim-PC /c/binutils-2.23.1-1-mingw32-src
$ mgwport binutils-2.23.1-1.mgwport all
 >>> Preparing binutils-2.23.1-1
 >>> Unpacking source binutils-2.23.1.tar.bz2
 >>> Preparing working source directory
*** Info: applying patch binutils-2.23.1-1.mgw.patch:
patching file MINGW-PATCHES/binutils.README
*** Info: applying patch binutils-2.23.1-1.src.patch:
patching file config.rpath
 >>> Compiling binutils-2.23.1-1

It seems to freeze up at that point. Here is the mwgport log:

mgwport 0.10.6

PF = binutils-2.23.1-1
S = /c/binutils-2.23.1-1-mingw32-src/binutils-2.23.1-1/src/binutils-2.23.1
B = /c/binutils-2.23.1-1-mingw32-src/binutils-2.23.1-1/build
D = /c/binutils-2.23.1-1-mingw32-src/binutils-2.23.1-1/inst
C =
T = /c/binutils-2.23.1-1-mingw32-src/binutils-2.23.1-1/temp
CBUILD = i686-pc-mingw32
CHOST = i686-pc-mingw32
CTARGET = i686-pc-mingw32
CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -g -O2 -pipe -mms-bitfields
CPPFLAGS =
CXX = g++
CXXFLAGS = -g -O2 -pipe -mms-bitfields
F77 = gfortran
FFLAGS = -g -O2 -pipe
FC = gfortran
FCFLAGS = -g -O2 -pipe -mms-bitfields
GCJ = gcj
GCJFLAGS = -g -O2 -pipe -mms-bitfields
OBJC = gcc
OBJCFLAGS = -g -O2 -pipe -mms-bitfields
OBJCXX = g++
OBJCXXFLAGS = -g -O2 -pipe -mms-bitfields
LDFLAGS =
LIBS =
MAKEOPTS = -j1

So after that I gave up on mgwport and headed into the binutils origsrc 
directory created by mgwport and tried a manual configure and make. The 
configuration process is successful but make fails here:

C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/bin/sh.exe ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc 
-DHAVE_CONF
IG_H -I. -D__USE_MINGW_FSEEK    -I. -I. -I./../include -DHAVE_i386pe_vec 
-DHAVE
_i386pei_vec -DHAVE_bfd_elf32_i386_vec 
-DHAVE_bfd_elf32_little_generic_vec -DHAV
E_bfd_elf32_big_generic_vec  -DBINDIR='"C;C:MinGWbin"'  -W -Wall 
-Wstrict-protot
ypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -Wno-format -Werror -g -O2 
-D__USE_MINGW_ACCE
SS -MT archive.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/archive.Tpo -c -o archive.lo archive.c
Xarchive.Tpo -c -o archive.lo archive.lo
libtool: compile: warning: libobj name `archive.Tpo -c -o archive.lo 
archive.lo'
  may not contain shell special characters.
rm: invalid option -- c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -D__USE_MINGW_FSEEK -I. -I. 
-I./../in
clude -DHAVE_i386pe_vec -DHAVE_i386pei_vec -DHAVE_bfd_elf32_i386_vec 
-DHAVE_bfd_
elf32_little_generic_vec -DHAVE_bfd_elf32_big_generic_vec 
"-DBINDIR=\\C;C:MinGWb
in\" -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow 
-Wno-format -Wer
ror -g -O2 -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -MT archive.lo -MD -MP -MF 
.deps/archive.Tpo -c
-o archive.lo archive.c" -o archive.Tpo -c -o archive.lo archive.o
gcc.exe: Error: archive.o: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: There is no input file: fatal error
rm: invalid option -- c
Try `rm --help' for more information.
make[4]: *** [archive.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`c:/binutils-2.23.1-1-mingw32-src/binutils-2.23.1-1/o
rigsrc/binutils-2.23.1/bfd'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`c:/binutils-2.23.1-1-mingw32-src/binutils-2.23.1-1/o
rigsrc/binutils-2.23.1/bfd'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`c:/binutils-2.23.1-1-mingw32-src/binutils-2.23.1-1/o
rigsrc/binutils-2.23.1/bfd'
make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`c:/binutils-2.23.1-1-mingw32-src/binutils-2.23.1-1/o
rigsrc/binutils-2.23.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

It looks like a problem with forward slashes not being handled correctly 
on a switch (the "Xarchive.Tpo" part). I investigated the makefile in 
the bfd directory and this seems to be the problem part:

.c.o:
     $(COMPILE) -MT $@ -MD -MP -MF $(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo -c -o $@ $<
     $(am__mv) $(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo $(DEPDIR)/$*.Po
#    source='$<' object='$@' libtool=no \
#    DEPDIR=$(DEPDIR) $(CCDEPMODE) $(depcomp) \
#    $(COMPILE) -c $<

.c.obj:
     $(COMPILE) -MT $@ -MD -MP -MF $(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo -c -o $@ 
`$(CYGPATH_W) '$<'`
     $(am__mv) $(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo $(DEPDIR)/$*.Po
#    source='$<' object='$@' libtool=no \
#    DEPDIR=$(DEPDIR) $(CCDEPMODE) $(depcomp) \
#    $(COMPILE) -c `$(CYGPATH_W) '$<'`

.c.lo:
     $(LTCOMPILE) -MT $@ -MD -MP -MF $(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo -c -o $@ $<
     $(am__mv) $(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo $(DEPDIR)/$*.Plo
#    source='$<' object='$@' libtool=yes \
#    DEPDIR=$(DEPDIR) $(CCDEPMODE) $(depcomp) \
#    $(LTCOMPILE) -c -o $@ $<

But I don't know how to fix it.

This is my first time using mingw/make so any help is greatly appreciated.