[Mingw-msys] Re: [Sorry]

[Prof A. O. <Afr...@bi...>]

On 4 Mar 2002 at 13:23, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> "Prof. A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)" wrote:
> > 
> > On 4 Mar 2002 at 7:42, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > > Understand.  I'm not sure what went wrong with the build.  There is
> > > a bug where -DSOMEMACRO=1 isn't working.  I don't know how that got
> > > past me.  Hope to have a snapshot fix today.
> > 
> > Further to my post to the list. It seems that the real problem is in
> > the new sed.exe and mv.exe and perhaps sh.exe. I untarred v1.0.5
> > again, and overwrote only those three executables with the ones from
> > v1.0.4, and everything is okay (I built gcc 2.95.3-6 (mingw special)
> > and gpc with no problem). So, it seems that the problem is not in the
> > msys DLL at all.
> > 
> 
> I don't understand why that would help.  The sed.exe and mv.exe are the
> same binaries as for 1.0.4.  The sh.exe is an upgrade to bash-2.05a from
> Cygwin with __CYGWIN__ defined.  I did that to get rid of the
> /etc/profile errors with \r\n line endings.

I narrowed it down further, and only overwrote the new sh.exe with the 
old sh.exe. That solves all problems. So there you have it - sh.exe is 
the culprit.

> I'm glad to hear though that you had success in building gcc and gpc.

It is great not to have to use a cross compiler anymore ...

Best regards, The Chief
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Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 
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